Here’s a test you might enjoy: rate these scenarios on a number scale, ranging from 1 for mild discomfort to 7 for outrageous distress. Scenario 1: you’re flicking through news websites, as you do every morning. Today, however, you’re behind schedule and have only 15 minutes to read articles,…
27 Oct 2016 In a previous post, I wrote that startups are collections of risks , and that the best way to make progress on a company (and to get higher valuations from investors) is to address the biggest risks as quickly and thoroughly as possible. But how do you actually mitigate different types…
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Ron Burgundy attempts to answer the question, “What in the hell is diversity?” Evan Angostini/Getty Images Anchorman is one of my favorite movies. Part of the film’s enduring value lies in its many qu
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On Monday night, Slate’s Franklin Foer published a story that’s been circulating through the dark web and various newsrooms since summertime, an enormous, eyebrow-raising claim that Donald Trump uses
Any time you talk about money, you risk sounding like a jerk. I’m going to take that risk in this post. I’ll start out by talking about a couple ways I shot myself in the foot financially and what I learned as a result. Your mileage may vary. Before we start, you might want to review this financial…
I speed along highway 99, the asphalt bleary under the high scorching sun. I’m heading to Kingsburg to speak with farmers about one of the worst recorded droughts in California history. I’m running la
I’ve heard a lot of ridiculous statements: “I’m sure we’ll find parking.” “I’ll just check Facebook for five minutes.” “I’ll skip dessert.” But perhaps the most absurd is the adage: “If you’re a renter, you’re throwing money away.” Bulls**t. You’ve heard those statements, right? “I’m sick of…
Long Banks, governments, credit card companies and fintech evangelists all want us to believe a cashless future is inevitable and good. But this isn't a frictionless utopia says Brett Scott, and it's
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Most Hasidic Jews I've spoken to in Brooklyn about kapparot , the annual pre-Yom Kippur chicken slaughter ritual, say the same thing about what happens to the meat: it goes to charity. Given the chall
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“We felt like the People’s Liberation Army, with basic rifles, and we were bombed by airplanes and missiles.” Cheng Wei, founder and chief executive officer of Didi. Photographer: Ka Xiaoxi for Bloomberg Businessweek At the Beijing offices of the ride-hailing startup Didi, many employees refer to…
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This story appears in the October 4, 2016 issue of Forbes. Back in October of 2011, when Uber was still a tiny company beginning to expand beyond the San Francisco area, it sent an e-mail to its custo
Eric Draper/George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum Journalist Garrett M. Graff ( @vermontgmg ) is the author of The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11 , and a former editor of POLI
Say there's a murder. Blood everywhere, a dead guy on the floor. The cops come in with their yellow tape, chalk line, the little booties, cameras, swabs, the fingerprint dust. One of them finds a gun
Everything was going great until you showed up. You see me across the crowded room, make your way over, and start talking at me. And you don’t stop. You are a Democrat, an outspoken atheist, and a foodie. You like to say “Science!” in a weird, self-congratulatory way. You wear jeans during the day,…
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A conversation with Marc LaFountain, Tumblr’s first employee. Employee #1 is a series of interviews focused on sharing the often untold stories of early employees at tech companies. Marc LaFountain wa
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When others looked at Uber’s aggressive expansion around the world and wondered if the super-unicorn wasn’t going too fast or taking too little care, one imagines the founders of Otto looked on with much approval. Before January, this startup specializing in outfitting commercial trucks with…
It all started at a small academic get-together in Whistler, British Columbia. The topic was speech recognition, and whether a new and unproven approach to machine intelligence---something called deep
On July 30, 2014, Siri had a brain transplant. Three years earlier, Apple had been the first major tech company to integrate a smart assistant into its operating system. Siri was the company’s adaptat
Fantasists and zealots can be found on both sides of the debate over guns in America. On the one hand, many gun-rights advocates reject even the most sensible restrictions on the sale of weapons to th
Fast Company : Let’s start talking about Maps. How are you developing Maps, and how broadly might it apply as Apple looks ahead? Eddy Cue, SVP of Internet software and services: The first thing to know about Maps is there’s no one developing maps in a significant way except us and Google. There’s…
Eddy Cue doesn’t look like a man in the midst of his toughest year in decades. Sporting an untucked apricot camp shirt and blue jeans over camouflage socks and a pair of blue leather racing shoes from Germany, Apple ‘s SVP of Internet software and services pulls up a chair at one of the…
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