This morning, just like every Monday morning, 75 million Spotify users received a great new mixtape: 30 songs that feel like a gift from a music-loving friend, who might once have made a cassette tape
Adam Pisoni recently joined Responsive.org, a new movement dedicated to helping companies become more agile, adaptive and empowering. Previously, he co-founded and served as CTO of Yammer. Facing a rapidly changing world, companies are waking up to the fact that they need to become more Responsive…
You can’t fake good leadership Published in Be Yourself · 5 min read · Dec 22, 2013 -- I spent 20 years in the Air Force. I served in some key leadership positions and watched the performance of many,
I t was a death as intensely private as the mourning was public. David Bowie was cremated this week in New York without fuss or fanfare, following an illness he managed to conceal from the world. Not
On a foggy morning last February, Jelani Irving rode his bike in the darkness just before sunrise. He was returning to his home in Brooklyn’s Crown Heights neighborhood after finishing a shift driving
Subscribe Permissions and PDF In 2007, Irdeto B.V., a Netherlands-based developer of security software for digital media providers, was eager to increase its market share in the Asian market. The comp
Graphics by Ritchie King and Ella Koeze FLINT, Mich. — As I walked into Jackie Pemberton’s petite white house in the southeast corner of Flint, she apologized for the mess (there wasn’t one) and offer
tom crabtree (manual) interview designboom recently spoke to tom crabtree, founder of manual in san francisco about their work. DB: please could you tell about your background and why you decided to f
There are no obvious signs of distress at the lavish San Francisco headquarters of the cloud storage company Dropbox, where on any given day, its hallways bustle with upbeat, well-compensated tech wor
It “can be quite painful to discover how hooked we’ve become to our digital lives,” David M. Levy writes in “Mindful Tech.” PHOTOGRAPH BY OLIVER MUNDAY Last month, shortly before five in the afternoon
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The governments of Australia , Germany , the UK and the US are destroying your privacy. Some people don’t see the problem… “I have nothing to hide, so why should I care?” It doesn’t matter if you have
Published in Design at Meta · 7 min read · Jan 4, 2016 -- Read the full post and more over on my personal blog at tannerc.com . Critique is an important part of any design process, whether you work wi
“Wake up kids. We’ve got the dreamer’s disease.” – You get what you give, New Radicals Ahhh… the Dreamer’s Disease. Almost narcotic-like when you catch it, and while nearly impossible to kick, it isn’t necessarily a bad thing. This “disease” if you will, has given rise to titans such as Microsoft ,…
After 5 years, the time has come. This is my last week as Etsy’s CTO. Five years ago I joined a tiny site, with a struggling software product. I wasn’t sure how long I’d stay. I was coming off 5 inten
This is a post about Medium, which is a fascinating company partly because it has a lot of money, and partly because its leadership team first brought you Blogger (the first really successful blogging
Justin Kan Follow Nov 14, 2016 · 4 min read January 7, 2016 When I first heard about Snapchat, it sounded like a toy. That should have been the first warning. Exploding photos, good for sexting. I tried it, mostly for industry research purposes, found the UI confusing, saw I had very few friends…
nominally apples. And in retrospect, it was crap. [] But when I went looking for alternatives to fill this void, I found practically nothing. There was no Internet then. The only place to look was in the chain bookstore in our local shopping mall. [] There I found a copy of The Atlantic. I wish I…
Foursquare accurately predicted iPhone sales by analyzing foot traffic to Apple stores around the country. Foursquare One of the top-rated pizza places in Brooklyn on Foursquare is called Lucali. Adve
People write a lot about the emotional rollercoaster of startups. Turns out, that roller coaster doesn’t slow down after year 1, 2, or 3. I know firsthand that the metaphor doesn’t go away after you h
Gjinovefa Merxira after her operation. Credit... Paolo Pellegrin/Magnum, for The New York Times Feature The Terrible Beauty of Brain Surgery A witness in an operating room where the patients are consc
Smugness and happy talk about sustainability aren’t working anymore. Chris Collins is a 32-year-old Web developer and photographer who lives in Oregon, just outside Portland. He and his wife are consc
I almost got fired once. My friend, and CTO at the time, Dustin Moskovitz pulled me into a room onemorning. He told me I would no longer be working on News Feed, which wassurprising because at the tim
Search Annals of Gastronomy January 12, 2003 Although a grandparent who arrives on the scene after the birth of a child is traditionally pictured cooking dinner for sleep-deprived parents or stuffing the freezer with casseroles, I can tell you that these days it's mostly takeout. That is not simply…
It’s funny because it’s been on my mind lately Having a dope beat, dope idea. Sixteen bars ain’t enough! How the f*ck can I squeeze my whole life into a 16 bar verse? —Rick Ross, Sixteen After I wrote
There’s a big problem in social media right now. Poke, a Facebook app, lets people send messages that self-destruct after a few seconds. It’s boring. A crucial and indispensable source of news and inf
In early 2013 , Kevin Lynch accepted a job offer from Apple. Funny thing about the offer: It didn’t say what he would be doing. So intense is Apple’s secrecy that all Lynch knew was his vague title, v
At his firm, Andreessen Horowitz, the venture capitalist routinely lays out “what will happen in the next ten, twenty, thirty years.” Photograph by Joe Pugliese On a bright October morning, Suhail Dos
Several weeks after my 30-day experiment ended, I left town for a monthlong vacation. Here was an opportunity to focus my limited willpower on a single goal: liberating myself from the Internet in an attempt to regain control of my attention.
Image via Nuno Cru z Published in Praxis · 15 min read · Nov 16, 2015 -- By Tiago Forte of Forte Labs At the end of 2014 I received an email informing me that I had read over a million words in the ‘r
For months, privacy advocates have asked Congress to kill or reform the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act, a bill that they say hides new government surveillance mechanisms in the guise of securit
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“Mark is fixing stuff.” I’m killing time in the Frank Gehry–designed Building 20, whose signature feature is its soaring 434,000 square feet of open space, the latest addition to Facebook’s campus in Menlo Park, California . A PR handler is explaining why CEO Mark Zuckerberg is running slightly…
Organizational culture Our traditional obsessions—success, taking action, fitting in, and relying on experts—undermine continuous improvement. From the Magazine (November 2015) Yuko Shimizu Summary. For any enterprise to be competitive, continuous learning and improvement are key—but not always easy…
In the year 1930, John Maynard Keynes predicted that, by century's end, technology would have advanced sufficiently that countries like Great Britain or the United States would have achieved a 15-hour
Late October '14 I woke up driving an eighteen-wheeler 60 miles per hour through a field east of Amarillo, Texas. My partner was screaming as he bounced around in the back; he had just woken up, too.
Uber launched a new product last month. It soared slightly under the press tech radar, because, alas, it did not involve puppies . Nor did it involve kittens . Nor pitching an investor in the back of a sedan . The new product is called UberEvents. It's a simple concept: It allows an event host to…
8 min read · Nov 29, 2015 -- I live in New York City or “the broken website everyone uses” as @xuhulk coined. Some days it is a truly marvelous place and other days, a marvel that anyone can even live
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