January 2016 Life is short, as everyone knows. When I was a kid I used to wonderabout this. Is life actually short, or are we really complainingabout its finiteness? Would we be just as likely to feel
Published in We Support · 4 min read · Dec 28, 2015 -- A few weeks ago, I read Lulu Cheng’s post on the technical clout needed to “level up” as a product manager and Merci Victoria Grace’s post callin
Can a UI affect our interpretation of others? Published in UX Collective · 6 min read · Jan 12, 2016 -- It started with an offhand remark from a friend as she grimaced at her phone: “What a novel. ” S
{intro: start} Ash Hathaway Dec 16, 2015 · 6 min read Chances are if you work in tech you know what it’s like for your work to not be understood by the vast majority of people. Odd acronyms like API, OKR, or CRM, funny words like SCRUM and backlog, and titles like dev evangelist usually take a bit…
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I’ve been reading a paper [] written two decades ago, which itself is an account of events two decades before that . It is Alan Kay nominally writing about the history of a programming language called
Anne Libby Jan 1, 2016 Happy New Year! Thank you, Fred, and everyone else at the bar. (Shout out to William and Shana, too.) awaldstein Jan 1, 2016 And back at ya Anne! fredwilson Jan 1, 2016 the mode
nominally apples. And in retrospect, it was crap. [] But when I went looking for alternatives to fill this void, I foundpractically nothing. There was no Internet then. The only placeto look was in th
Things I’ve Learned You don’t have to drink to have fun What a shocker! As someone who’s been drinking since his senior year of high school (sorry mom, we weren’t just “hanging out” in the basement),
As a PM at Facebook, I’m about to take advantage of our incredible 4-month paternity leave to bond with my new baby girl. While I’m away I want to use the time — in the rare spare moments between feed
Instant TodoMVC demo (please use Chrome Desktop for now!), source Uses bottle-service library to implement self-rewriting Open your favorite web application, even a simple TodoMVC would work.Let it lo
Published in Praxis · 26 min read · Oct 3, 2015 -- By Tiago Forte of Forte Labs This post was republished on the Evernote blog . To learn more, check out our online bootcamp on Personal Knowledge Mana
I joke with my graduate students they need to get as many technical skills as possible as PhD students because the moment they graduate it’s a slow decline into obsolescence. And of course by “joke” I
Idle Words > Talks > Web Design: The First 100 Years This is the expanded version of a talk I gave on September 9, 2014 , at the HOW Interactive Design conference in Washington, DC. Designers! I am a
We have had all these innovations and have always found new things for people to work on. This is the Lump of Labor fallacy all over again. You are a Luddite! What makes you think this time is differe
A Tale of CSS and Why Parts of Medium Sometimes Disappear Published in Medium Engineering · 7 min read · Dec 4, 2015 -- Yes, this is the kind of story that starts by quoting the W3C’s CSS 2.1 Specific
Probably the single best thing to happen to me in my career was having had Kellan placed in charge of me. I stuck around long enough to see Kellan’s technical decisionmaking start to bear fruit. I lea
Scientists have sequenced the entire genome of the tardigrade , AKA the water bear, for the first time. And their results suggest that this weird little creature has the most foreign genes of any anim
When I go online, I feel like one of B F Skinner’s white Carneaux pigeons. Those pigeons spent the pivotal hours of their lives in boxes, obsessively pecking small pieces of Plexiglas. In doing so, th
The Simple Sabotage Field Manual, declassified in the 1970s. (Photo: Joe Loong/Flickr ) When you think of Allied espionage, you might imagine disguised explosives, wiretaps, bat bombs , or other drama
People say “this is a Manhattan Project, this an Apollo Project”. Sorry, those are science projects. Fusion is a Manhattan Project or an Apollo Project... The rest of this is more like retooling for W
Shivon Zilis Contributor Shivon Zilis is an investor at Bloomberg Beta . I’ve been laser-focused on machine intelligence in the past few years. I’ve talked to hundreds of entrepreneurs, researchers an
Choose to Be Grateful. It Will Make You Happier. Credit... Carson Ellis TWENTY-FOUR years ago this month, my wife and I married in Barcelona, Spain. Two weeks after our wedding, flush with internation
In 20 years, the Web might complete its shift from liberator to oppressor. It’s up to us to prevent that. Jennifer Stisa Granick Aug 17, 2015 · Unlisted Earlier this month Jennifer Granick was the keynote speaker at Black Hat 2015 . This is a modified version of the speech she delivered. A video of…
“Macaw provides the same flexibility as your favorite image editor but also writes semantic HTML and remarkably succinct CSS,” claim the soon-to-be-released software’s creators. We’re a mite skeptical
On the rise of UI-less apps and why you should care about them as a designer. Published in The Startup · 8 min read · Nov 13, 2015 -- A couple of months ago, I shared with my friends how I think apps
Benjamin Brandall Contributor Benjamin Brandall is a content crafter for Process Street . I’m not much of a designer. In fact, I’m awful at it. I am, however, interested in how it’s done. I read and write plenty about customer success; along the way, (somehow) I found Samuel Hulick’s site…
I found some notes I’d written at the start of this notebook, a few months old. I used to campaign in Cambridge for more Fairtrade coffee and chocolate. That was a “closed” tactic, as opposed to an “o
Published in From the WTF? Economy to the Next Economy · 4 min read · Nov 19, 2015 -- I attended The O’Reilly Next:Economy Conference in San Francisco last week as a speaker and a delegate. As I liste
Not many years ago, the idea of having a computer broadly answer questions asked in plain English seemed like science fiction. But when we released Wolfram|Alpha in 2009 one of the big surprises (not
Earlier this year I read Yuval Noah Harari’s book, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind . It is, without a doubt, one of the most amazing, eye-opening, mind-expanding books I’ve ever read. I’ve wante
I. Omens Last year, a curious nonfiction book became a Times best-seller: a dense meditation on artificial intelligence by the philosopher Nick Bostrom, who holds an appointment at Oxford. Titled “Sup
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One of the hardest things to do in technology is disrupt yourself. But we’re trying our darndest, and have some cool news to introduce today. When I took on the responsibility of CEO of Automattic Jan
Fill your ears with insights from great designers and developers. form input user research forms ux design content-first conversational As designers of interactive media, we’re often faced with the ta
Strategy and service design Hatching plans, working out what will make things better for your audience by getting to know them. See related projects – Research – Insight – Data analysis – Process maps Hacking advertising Making sure the right people find what you’ve created. Discovery is tough, but…
Welcome to a journey into the future. I’ll ask you to enter into a thought experiment. We’ll venture ten to fifteen years into the future and try and make sense of it. I’m here to discuss the internet
For web development to grow as a craft and as an industry, we have to follow the money. Without money the craft becomes a hobby and unmaintained software begins to rot . But which money? And still the
[ Trigger warning: Death, pain, suffering, sadness ] I. Some people, having completed the traditional forms of empty speculation – “What do you want to be when you grow up?”, “If you could bang any ce
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