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Epizone AI: Outside the Code Stack Best Thing Since Sliced Bread? Public Intelligence The Unpredicted The Self-Domesticated Ape The Handoff to Bots 50 Years of Travel Tips 101 Additional Advices Type 2 Growth Rights / Responsibilities The Scarcity of the Long-Term Hill-Making vs Hill-Climbing Future…
The WWDC 2021 keynote made it ever clearer Apple is building the components of a metaverse substrate in the open. This isn’t their first year — WWDC 2019 was where they first pulled back the curtain.
Long touted as a health food, grapefruit has a dark side. Illustrations by Stella Murphy In 1989, David Bailey, a researcher in the field of clinical pharmacology (the study of how drugs affect humans), accidentally stumbled on perhaps the biggest discovery of his career, in his lab in London,…
Translations: Chinese Russian For the past few weeks, I’ve been implementing emoji support for Skija. I thought it might be fun sharing a few nitty-gritty details of how this “biggest innovation in human communication since the invention of the letter 🅰️” works under the hood. Warning: some emoji…
Every so often I read an essay that I end up thinking about, and citing in conversation, over and over again. Here’s my index of all the ones of those I can remember! I’ll try to keep it up to date as I think of more. Nelson Elhage, Computers can be understood. The attitude embodied in this essay is…
Tick tock. Morning. Sit down at the desk. Hit the spacebar and wake up the displays. Calendar first. What is happening today, and how do I need to prepare? Any last-minute edits? Conflicts? New meeting additions to the day? Ok, which meetings are unfamiliar? Look at attendees—map names to the…
Lenny Rachitsky 8 min read· Apr 23, 2019 -- Zoom image will be displayed Taken at one of my all-time favorite Airbnb’s in Joshua Tree The Buddha would have made an excellent product manager. He was obsessed with solving people’s problems, he summarized his ideas into handy lists, and he developed…
In the 1975 classic 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover Paul Simon croons: The problem is all inside your head, she said to me The answer is easy if you take it logically I'd like to help you in your struggle
After many years of the question “Why Iowa?” being the opening haha of countless meetings when it is regularly confused with Idaho, this question largely fell out of my life until very recently. These days, I hear it most from startup founders. It’s not a customer, partner, or investors. During…
We are capable of incredible feats, but they won’t come without focused effort, consistent feedback, and expert guidance. Jason Shen 13 min read· May 31, 2017 -- Zoom image will be displayed A Photo By Dominik Scythe In 2008, Malcolm Gladwell published his third nonfiction book, Outliers: The Story…
My Morning Routine for Energy—in Just 8 Minutes I’ve taken all the guesswork out of doing a morning routine that’s guaranteed to get you off to a great start Tony Stubblebine 5 min read· Aug 11, 2020 -- Zoom image will be displayed Illustration by bsd555. It’s worth doing a little vision work about…
If the proximate purpose of technology is to reduce scarcity, the ultimate purpose of technology is to eliminate mortality. At first that sounds crazy. But let's start with the premise: is the proximate purpose of technology to reduce scarcity? Think about how a breakthrough is described: faster,…
Obviously we’re going to talk about this today: Ok, so. Up until this year, I would’ve told you that there are two general kinds of financial bubbles. The first kind of bubble is where everyone believes the future will be like the present. Think credit bubbles and real estate; think 2007-2008, where…
Maya Sariahmed The runner’s high is often held up as a lure for reluctant exercisers, described in terms that can strain credulity. In 1855, Scottish philosopher Alexander Bain described the pleasure of a fast walk or run as “a species of mechanical intoxication” that produces an exhilaration akin…
For once, fiction authors can stop reading here, this one is for technical writers! Working Copy is a Git client for iPad and iPhone, and because Ulysses version 19 allows embedding external folders on iOS, both apps now work great together. Git is a popular version control system for projects where…
I love NPR. Our family listens to Up First every morning during breakfast & KCUR every evening when we cook dinner. We’re proud contributors. Last year, I built a simple macOS App that lets you stream your favorite NPR station from your menubar. We’re going to recreate that. At the end of this…
How I think about Code Management Mar 25, 2020 · 7 min read · 5,467 views You might have the worst codebase in the world. It was written by people who had no standards or didn’t care about code quality. Here my POV: I bet you don’t have a problem with code quality. Not even with technical debt. Your…
Here are the 50 ideas that changed my life. These are my guiding principles and the light of my intellectual life. All of them will help you think better, and I hope they inspire curiosity. 1. Inversion: Avoiding stupidity is easier than trying to be brilliant. Instead of asking, “How can I help my…
Leah Silber 16 min read· Aug 9, 2017 -- The crew over at Tilde started the year with a new somewhat uncommon policy: new parents (mothers or fathers) could bring their immobile infants to work with them. Your new little one was (is!) welcome to tag along to work until six months, or until they start…
By now, everyone is tired of hearing about the iPad, but the negative responses are so perfectly misguided that it would be wrong to waste this opportunity. Even better, we can look back at the 2001 iPod launch and see the exact same mistakes. But this isn't about the iPad or the iPod -- it's about…
It seems many people are breathing some relief, and I’m not sure why. An epidemic curve has a relatively predictable upslope and once the peak is reached, the back slope can also be predicted. We have
There’s a beat writer that covers the dilapidated Cleveland Browns on The Athletic that does these sort of rapid-fire recap stories in list form. The lists are filled with general thoughts that aren’t exactly woven into a cohesive story with a narrative. It’s an easy and fun read that can include…
Hello, and welcome to a free monthly edition of my newsletter. I’m Lenny , and each week I tackle reader questions about product, growth, working with humans, and anything else that’s stressing you ou
Over the long term, the future is decided by optimists Kevin Kelly About Futurism Cool Tools Art Archives Moving hay on a lake high in a snow-covered Himalayan valley of Kashmir, from Vanishing Asia About YEAR 2025 — My project for this year is to outline a scenario for the next 100 years that is…
While most startups default to selling equity to investors as their primary option to survive or scale, less than 1% of businesses ever raise venture capital. We’ve long believed that financial litera
Superorganizers Square’s Restaurant Product Lead on integrating career and family 🔒 April 16, 2020 ♥ 16 As soon as he woke up, Kevin Yien knew something had to change. He had fallen asleep mid-sentenc
TL;DR: Touching the mouse is often bad for productivity. Do it as little as possible or not at all. I am a designer by trade, extremely lazy, and I never studied computer science or did any sort of programming in college. I did study Studio Art. I might talk about some technical things, but I’m just…
When couples meet once a week for an hour, it drastically improves their relationship. Est. reading time: 5 min. Leo Tolstoy’s book Anna Karenina begins, “Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” Dr. Gottman’s four decades of research tells a different story.…
Credit...Philip Montgomery for The New York Times Forced to shutter Prune, I’ve been revisiting my original dreams for it — and wondering if there will still be a place for it in the New York of the future. Credit...Philip Montgomery for The New York Times By Published April 23, 2020Updated June 15,…
But, I got lucky. Canada has public health care, and I have a good family doctor. She helped me work out a plan for getting better. (I also paid for a therapist, which was massively helpful). But once I started feeling better emotionally, I had to face my financial situation. It was bleak. I needed…
Some founders are conspicuously absent. This a theme of The Great Google Revolt, Twitter Owner Wants Full-Time CEO, and Larry and Sergey say goodbye. Page and Brin’s Google was a historical triumph. But there’s little that feels triumphant about their sudden departure. The heat turned up on Google,…
It’s like Showa, someone said to me. The kids — them being out and about and free. Out in the streets and parks, out of school, weekdays and weekends alike. Showa, the era that ran from 1926 to 1989 and is usually what you think of if you think of retro and Japan. The post-war years when the…
Engineering managementTechMedia Published in Career hacking Jan 14, 2020 6 mins author Hannah H. KimFreelance writer Michael Lopp has worked at software companies in the San Francisco Bay area since 1988. During his career, he has managed rapidly growing engineering teams at Netscape, Apple,…
I’ve wanted to write about this subject for quite some time and only today decided to finally sit down with no distractions. I put my phone aside and tuned into Spotify’s “focus” playlist. At long las
It can be hard to keep up with side projects, and when you get around to working on them, the last thing you want is worrying about meta-work like.. “how did I deploy this again? scp the folder somewh
When I launched my SPECIAL PROJECTS (“Explorers Club” on launch; name changed mid-2020) membership program in January of 2019, I did so with crippling trepidation. So much trepidation that I never once announced it on Twitter or Instagram out of a certain shame. I only announced it in my…
Zoom image will be displayed Carl Grossberg Playing chicken with the limits of technology Drew Breunig 6 min read· Feb 3, 2020 -- Spend enough time thinking about the technology business and you’ll inevitably acquire a mental metaphor for the rhythms and cycles you observe. A specific book or…
Awesome Indie Resources to help independent developers make money. Making money from your own code has never been easier, but it's still hard. Here, I try to curate a list of resources to help everyone interested in making money from their digital products get inspired and give it a try. Be it…
Dan Romero I often get introduced to people looking to make the jump into startups and Silicon Valley. This is the reading list I send them. It’s not meant to be comprehensive. Rather, it’s meant to be a primer for many of the popular concepts and jargon you will hear working at a startup. If you…
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