If you want to please someone with a gift, it’s unlikely that you’ll succeed by buying them a pretty good version of the item in question, even if it’s a great value. Better, the research suggests tha
Words Alif Ibrahim — Date 15 October 2019 Reading Time 3 minute read Work Digital There was a period, somewhere in the mid-to-late 2000s, where the internet was in peak adolescence, somewhere between
The walls of the Central Intelligence Agency’s original headquarters, in Langley, Virginia, contain more than thirty miles of four-inch steel tubing. The tubes were installed in the early nineteen-six
If you asked any intelligent trainer or strength coach to list the top 5 exercises the majority of the population should be doing, pull ups and/or chin ups (or lat pull-downs) will usually be on every
Dec 14th 2019 NEW YORK W HEN “SESAME STREET” first aired on November 10th, 1969, the first indication that this was no ordinary neighbourhood was when the eight-foot-two-inch yellow-feathered Big Bird
In USVwe speak a lot about our investment thesis . The USV thesis is a set of ideas that has guided our investing through the years. It’s a tool we use to help ourselves understand what to search for,
Who’s Spreading Disinformation in U.K. Election? You Might Be Surprised Foreign meddling was once the most feared source of online deception before critical elections. Now, some candidates themselves
You might expect a training program devised by the Hanson brothers, Keith and Kevin, to be a little different than the usual rehashing of principles and schedules. Given the success of athletes from the Hansons-Brooks Distance Project, you wouldn’t be surprised if it was effective, too. And if you…
Dec 12th 2019 P ICTURE A LECTURE session at a business school and you probably envisage students gazing at screens filled with equations and acronyms. What you might not expect is choristers attemptin
sigmaalgebra Dec 10, 2019 Ah, borrowed from the deliberately “idiosyncratic syntax” of the C programming language, one step down for a man, one giant disaster for mankind!Just GOTTA get rid of that C
Photo Jen A. Miller nearing Mile 20 of the New Jersey Marathon in Long Branch, N.J. Credit Mary Miller Before runners cross the start line of the New Jersey Marathon, they hear two things: the bugle c
Why? Because I miss Google Reader. Because WordPress.com Reader is a good early product in an under-served market, but wasting its potential due to muddled positioning. Because a successful Reader will provide a valuable service to both consumers and publishers, and provide WordPress.com a marketing…
Who are you, and what do you do? Hi, I'm Andy Baio (aka @waxpancake ). I'm a writer, coder, and the co-organizer/curator of XOXO, an annual festival in Portland, Oregon about artists and creators who
Before you make a big decision, walk around the block. If it’s raining out, take the dog for a run. End the meeting a few minutes early and go for a stroll with the team. Instead of an afternoon snack
Dec 7th 2019 O F THE WISDOM taught in kindergartens, few commandments combine moral balance and practical propriety better than the instruction to clear up your own mess. As with messy toddlers, so wi
Dec 7th 2019 S ILICON CHIPS have lonely lives. They are born together, often as tens of thousands of identical siblings a few millimetres across, on a single wafer the size of an old-fashioned vinyl r
On the top of many apartment buildings (and on a hill in many towns) you’ll find a water tower, a large wooden or metal container holding tons of water. Why bother? It turns out that a pump that slowl
Nov 28th 2019 COPENHAGEN AND NEW YORK F OR A SO-CALLED ghetto, Mjolnerparken seems rather pleasant. The public-housing complex in Copenhagen contains well-tended playgrounds full of cavorting children
Nov 28th 2019 E IGHT TIMES Raymond Poulidor stood on the podium at the end of the Tour de France, soaked in sweat, exhausted and smiling his big gap-toothed smile. He was just never on the top step. I
As a kid, I definitely favored Sesame Street over Mr. Rogers. Don’t forget that Captain Kangaroo was part of that time too. I found Mr. Rogers’s old school like something out of another era. As you ca
Steve Jobs Never Wanted Us to Use Our iPhones Like This The devices have become our constant companions. This was not the plan. Jan. 25, 2019 Credit... Zak Tebbal By Mr. Newport is a computer scientis
Nov 28th 2019 W HEN IT COMES to sexual behaviour, the animal kingdom is a broad church. Its members indulge in a wide variety of activities, including with creatures of the same sex. Flying foxes gath
Nov 28th 2019 O N NOVEMBER 9TH 2018 a Piper Dakota light aircraft flying over Iowa broadcast a distress call. The pilot seemed to have suffered a heart attack. One of the other three people on board,
Categories Books Ryan Holiday’s newest book, Stillness Is The Key , came out at the beginning of October. I ended up with two copies and thought I’d read it over the weekend after they showed up at my
The flawed theory is that A+ students become good leaders. There’s no reason to think that this should be true. Doing well on tests, paying attention to what’s being asked, being diligent in short-ter
Alex Poots is the founding chief executive and artistic director of the Shed . He is a delightful human being and intensely passionate about the arts. He lives, breathes, sleeps and thinks about how t
Tags dystopia Categories Personal Amy and I have been watching The Handmade’s Tale. Simultaneously, I’ve been listening to the book on Audible while running. Last night I said, “The Hulu adaptation of
Ba-bum . The heart of a blue whale, diving off the coast of California, has just contracted. The beat took about two seconds to finish, and pushed dozens of gallons of blood through the arteries of th
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