21 min read · Nov 6, 2017 -- I’m James Bridle . I’m a writer and artist concerned with technology and culture. I usually write on my own blog, but frankly I don’t want what I’m talking about here anyw
Complicated process like sailing a boat require well oiled teams to operate technology. Recruiting a team requires automation so you can keep your eyes on the horizon. Modern technology has empowered
A few hundred messaging enthusiasts expand my perspective. Published in Chatbots Magazine · 8 min read · Mar 29, 2017 -- Last week at Jeff Keni Pulver ’s Monage conference in San Jose, I was fortunate
Published in Towards Data Science · 5 min read · Jul 25, 2017 -- In this post, I will try to explain a method of machine learning called Evolving Neural Networks through Augmenting Topologies (NEAT).
R. Ian Lloyd/Masterfile/Corbis The United States has debated immigration since the country's founding, and the Statue of Liberty—a potent symbol for immigrants—is often invoked as an argument for why
O ne day last summer, around noon, I called Athena, a 13-year-old who lives in Houston, Texas. She answered her phone—she’s had an iPhone since she was 11—sounding as if she’d just woken up. We chatte
We live in a tumultuous time in American history. The 2008 financial crisis and all its hardships was the catalyst that tipped us into this age of uncertainty. It marked the start of a generation-long era of secular upheaval that will continue to run its course over the next decade or so. This is…
According to a recent UC-Davis report, mindfulness training triples students’ ability to focus and participate in class activities . In recent years, this sort of validating research has helped push m
This is part four of a seven-part series examining the rising (or falling) living standards of successive U.S. generations. Read part one here . Boomers (born 1943-60) today comprise 65 million adults mostly in their 50s and 60s. As a social generation, in my opinion, Boomers are a bit older than…
In 2013, Foursquare co-founder Dennis Crowley walked into a bakery and bought a cake. Almond, with meringue on top. It was sweet—but the milestone was sweeter. For more than a decade—since his grad sc
Outcome from a study originally designed in 1984 stretching over an 18 year period, based on concern that running was likely to accelerate OA due to repetitive trauma to the joints (Chakravarty et al,
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It's finally adrift. When the Larsen C Ice Shelf calved yesterday, it sent one of the largest icebergs ever recorded slipping into a sea frosted with smaller chunks of ice. It marked the end of a decadeslong splintering first seen by satellites in the 1960s. The crack stayed small for years until,…
Jeff Hawkins is best known for bringing us the Palm Pilot, but he’s working on something that could be much, much bigger. For the past several years, Hawkins has been studying how the human brain func
A recent ad for Bank of America stated "Life is Mobile. So is your bank." B. of A. isn’t selling their product—they’re selling their customer experience. You could even say that customer experience is
Below is an excerpt from Mark Yuskos quartlery outlook. Read the full piece on the Morgan Creek website . The first time I heard the name Babson was in 1980 when I was a senior in high school in Weston, Connecticut (serendipitous given some of the themes of this letter and coinciding with Reagan’s…
Journal Reports: Healthcare A study finds promising results from ‘pink noise’ By Bonnie Miller Rubin June 25, 2017 10:05 pm ET After pink noise was delivered in short bursts during sleep, older people
2013-08-04 The pop culture view of startups is that they’re all about coming up with a great product idea. After the eureka moment, the outcome is preordained. This neglects the years of toil that ent
It was only last week that we saw a new AI unicorn birthed alongside speculation that this AI unicorn had also confidentially filed for an IPO. This led us to pontificate a bit about how AI is not the
9 min read · Jun 1, 2017 -- It is a wonderful accident of history that the internet and web were created as open platforms that anyone — users, developers, organizations — could access equally. Among
Patricia Brown couldn't prove her identity. On a Saturday morning in May last year, she rushed into the basement of Washington's Foundry United Methodist Church, frantic that she would miss its I.D. M
Tokens are early today, but will transform technology tomorrow. Published in news.earn.com · 11 min read · May 27, 2017 -- The exponential rise of non-Bitcoin tokens prior to the coming correction. Da
HTTP as the underlying protocol of the web allows for decentralized publishing. Anyone can operate a web server and publish their own content. And anybody with a web browser can access that content (s
JimHirshfield Dec 13, 2016 Very interesting. How about investing in a startup that uses AI to invest in startups? Then you and partners can retire. fredwilson Dec 13, 2016 There are some people workin
5 min read · Jun 27, 2017 -- Tokens are selling at valuations which imply they’ll have millions of users. But can the blockchain support it? If not, how far away are we? Requirements to building scale
Below you’ll find the complete, unedited transcript of Naval Ravikant’s Q&A on The Tim Ferriss Show . This episode is a follow up to Naval’s wildly popular first appearance on The Tim Ferriss Show , e
When Reid Hoffman — who is rightly called “the Oracle of Silicon Valley” by many tech giants — returned to the podcast , I figured it would be popular, but it exploded. Many of you have asked for the
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Reflecting on the ritualization of creativity, Bukowski famously scoffed that “air and light and time and space have nothing to do with.” Samuel Johnson similarly contended that “a man may write at an
Constant interruptions are the bane of life in today’s open-plan offices . And a Swedish-Swiss industrial engineering company, ABB, says it has a solution: It has given some of its employees a kind of
Business Management Management & Careers Some bosses pushing back against open floor plan By Vanessa Fuhrmans May 22, 2017 5:30 am ET Steelcase CEO Jim Keane, right, in his prototype office pod, where
Chimpwithcans May 22, 2017 This exact thought struck me when watching your interview video from a couple days ago. These interviews we see with you don’t give us readers much that is new. They rather
Photo: Christophe Vorlet Updated May 26, 2017 5:23 pm ET You may already trust algorithms, or mathematical formulas that reduce the need for human judgment, more than you realize. Commercial airliners
My Three Favorite Exercpts from Marc 1. Was Pets.com a bad idea? Barry: “Pets.com didn’t make any sense.” Marc: Being the classic example, right? So it’s actually really striking. All those ideas are
Charles Lindbergh in Germany, in 1937. Philip Roth’s novel “The Plot Against America” imagines the aviator’s election to the Presidency in 1940 and the widespread persecution of Jews that follows. PHO
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