Written By Mark Manson Filed Under Happiness Listen to this article 00:00 00:00 I f you have to try to be cool, you will never be cool. If you have to try to be happy, then you will never be happy. Pe
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How the Race for Private Funding is Tarnishing the Future of the Food Delivery Space Innovation in the restaurant industry is taking place at a fast and furious pace. It is now even easier for people to get the high quality food they want, when they want it, due to efficiencies driven by digital…
A bog. Difficult to traverse but an ecological necessity. Published in HackerNoon.com · 6 min read · Nov 4, 2015 -- Technical debt is a commonly misunderstood term. It’s often put like this: Technical
T hree comics sat around a café table in the chilly atrium of the Minneapolis Convention Center, talking about how to create the cleanest possible set. “Don’t do what’s in your gut,” Zoltan Kaszas sai
(Photo: MikeDotta/Shutterstock) (Photo: MikeDotta/Shutterstock) For more than two decades policymakers have struggled with the twin challenges of stagnant household incomes and sluggish job growth. Data from the Department of Labor shows that real median incomes are down 7.2 percent since the turn…
Elizabeth Warren was one of the key architects in the U.S. government’s response to the financial crisis. In her memoir, A Fighting Chance , Warren draws our attention to the troubling reality of high
“The store is kind of like a big giant product.” At Fast Company ’s Innovation Festival in New York, Angela Ahrendts, Apple’s senior vice president for retail and online stores, discussed with editor at large Rick Tetzeli the customer experience beyond selling products, uniting Apple’s online and…
T he rope swing looked inviting. Photos of it on Airbnb brought my family to the cottage in Texas. Hanging from a tree as casually as baggy jeans, the swing was the essence of leisure, of Southern hos
Sunday night my daughter was moaning and rocking back and forth in her chair wrestling with a question staring back at her on the computer screen. “What is the greatest challenge you’ve faced in your
After a friend passed last week, I was forced to reflect on the matter of how our personal and confidential digital data would be passed on and entrusted to others in case something unexpected happened to my wife and I. Original approach I maintain a 256-bit AES encrypted disk image that contains a…
Is That Cappuccino You’re Drinking Really a Cappuccino? Cappuccino, the onetime king of specialty coffee drinks, is having a bit of an identity crisis. Credit... Daniel Krieger for The New York Times
Share Share Vote Reddit Get a ride at the tap of a button; it’s as simple as transportation gets. But what looks simple on Uber’s frontend actually consists of complex architecture and services on the backend, including sophisticated routing and matching algorithms that direct cars to people and…
6 min read · Nov 5, 2015 -- Over the last decade, I have consumed about as much political research as anyone in the world. And good political research, like good business research, yields the most ins
Mere months before Yahoo’s $1.1 billion acquisition turned him into an overnight media sensation, David Karp recounted the creation of Tumblr at the South by Southwest Interactive conference in March 2013. “I wanted that presence myself. I wanted an identity to be proud of,” he told the capacity…
The tiny village of Meliandou, nestled in the Forest Region of southern Guinea, has begun to see flashes of the outside world. A Messi soccer jersey, three sizes too big, on a little boy. A down parka
If you hang around technology companies long enough, you or someone you know may experience “burnout” – a state of emotional exhaustion, doubt and cynicism. Burnout can turn productive employees into
The Inside Story of Apple’s New iMacs Retina displays, rechargeable input devices, a force touch trackpad, and more power. Not bad for a truck. Published in Backchannel · 15 min read · Oct 13, 2015 --
The philosophy of great customer service 2014-06-29 I was honestly surprised that my company, CD Baby, was such a runaway success.But I was even more surprised to find out why. CD Baby had lots of pow
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I have this theory. I haven’t been able to prove it, but the evidence is racking up, so I wanted to share it with you. It goes like this: The larger the distance between people who build a product and
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Education Life How to Live Wisely Credit... James Yang for The New York Times Imagine you are Dean for a Day. What is one actionable change you would implement to enhance the college experience on cam
There’s a scene in “ The Fires of Autumn ,” Irene Nemirovsky’s novel set in 1920s France, in which a young war widow named Therese thinks she is being courted for marriage by her childhood friend Bern
I’d love to get a beer each time I hear a story about management imposing a change on teams and facing strong resistance. It would be like an almost unlimited source of that decent beverage. Literally
It’s a balmy night in Manhattan’s financial district, and at a sports bar called Stout, everyone is Tindering. The tables are filled with young women and men who’ve been chasing money and deals on Wal
Age 13: when amazing truly happens. There are few life milestones as mentally bananas for a human male as being a seventh-grader. This is true for a number of physiological reasons, but also because i
He has some art to show you Published in Human Parts · 2 min read · Aug 10, 2015 -- Photo by Jacob Ufkes on Unsplash T he Fuckboy, in his current form, aims for the night, aims for the break, goals to
It’s one thing to create a great looking product that’s easy to use. It’s another to create a great experience that continues to improve, delight, and expand in scope over time. The first is user expe
It was the first week of April, 2015, and New York’s Chelsea Market, typically packed with hordes of noisy tourists, was quiet. It was close to midnight, but five stories above, things were tense. The
Published in Ford’s Sensorium · 4 min read · Mar 7, 2015 -- I realized that my digital life was getting too complex, so I turned off chat. Then I removed myself from a bunch of Slacks. I filtered a nu
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The first thing I saw when I walked into Amazon's Phoenix warehouse was a man riding on a giant tricycle. Behind him, yellow plastic tubs the size of office recycling bins whizzed by on a conveyor bel
The “PayPal Mafia” is no mafia at all. It’s a diaspora. “Basically, we were kicked out of our homeland and they burned down our temple. So, we were scattered to the four corners of the globe, and we h
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From Seeing Through the Illusion: Understanding Apple’s Mastery of the Media , a profile examining Apple’s PR strategy: Unlike Microsoft, Samsung, Adobe, cellular carriers, or Wal-Mart-sized corporati
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