After a much-discussed hiatus that lasted for two decades, Terrence Malick returned to filmmaking with the highly praised anti-war epic called The Thin Red Line , and as the critics and film lovers around the globe competed to express their acclaim for the powerful cinematic poem that proved Malick…

Over the past few weeks I have presented to you an alternative filter for understanding your world. I make no claim that this filter is a true version of reality, if such a thing even exits. I offer this filter for entertainment only. The fun is seeing how well it fits the data and predicts the…

Filed in Research Summary by on April 22, 2018 Note: This special Weather West article focuses on new peer-reviewed scientific research that my colleagues and I recently published in Nature Climate Change . Overview: small shift in average precipitation, but big increase in extremes Previous studies…

Texas has 4 of the 11 largest cities in the United States and they are all within driving distance of each other. Texas is the most promising technology investment opportunity in the United States and Capital Factory is going to turbocharge it. Already the 10th largest economy in the world, there is…

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Science writer Gary Taubes has a knack for subverting conventional wisdom. Sixteen years ago, he published a groundbreaking feature article in The New York Times Magazine arguing that decades' worth of government-approved nutritional advice was flat-out wrong, ideologically motivated, and…

Much has been written about employee motivation and retention. It’s written by folks who actively use words like motivation and retention and generally don’t have a clue about the daily necessity of keeping your team professionally content because they’ve either never done the work or have forgotten…

[Capitalism] encourages and requires fierce individualism, self-interested disregard for the other, and resentment of arrangements into which one deposits more than he or she withdraws. As a business-savvy friend once remarked: Nobody gets rich off of bilateral transactions where everybody knows…

In memory of Essena O’Neill’s internet career. How time flies: It’s been one year since Essena O’Neill abruptly and very publicly announced she’d be leaving social media for good. Essena who? I am glad you asked. Essena O’Neill was the then-19-year-old Australian model, Instagram star, and…

Illustration: Carmen Segovia When 14-year-old Brian O’Neill of Washington, D.C., wanted to find out what his friends had been up to over summer vacation, he did something radical: He asked them. Unlike most kids his age, Brian isn’t on social media. He doesn’t scroll through his friends’ Instagram…

A screenshot I captured on Musical.ly. My daughter is ten. She wants me to get Musical.ly on my phone so she can make funny lip-sync videos. Everyone has it, she whines, even the kid whose mom is an FBI agent/social worker/pediatrician/nun. Wow. Well. In that case… I download the app while she’s at…

Doug Chayka I first got news of the school shooting in Parkland, Fla., via an alert on my watch. Even though I had turned off news notifications months ago, the biggest news still somehow finds a way to slip through. But for much of the next 24 hours after that alert, I heard almost nothing about…

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California Governor Jerry Brown took office in 2011 with a $27 billion deficit and drastically slashed spending. In 2012, he staked his governorship on a tax increase that voters approved that year and reauthorized in 2016. Photo: max whittaker/Reuters LOS ANGELES—California Gov. Jerry Brown appears…

There’s always at least one kid in tears, as they huddle under their desks in the dark. Still Beth Manias, an early-elementary literacy teacher outside of Seattle, tries to act upbeat and relaxed. “I have them whisper about their favorite candy, dinner, books, movies—whatever, as a distraction,”…

Jay Simons, 45, is the president of Atlassian, the enterprise software company that went public in 2015 and has since doubled its market value to more than $12 billion. In his 10 years at the company, he has risen from vice president of sales and marketing to overseeing all revenue-generating…

“We were far from perfect” in seeing problems that were around the corner, said Peter Thiel, a Facebook board member, in his Manhattan apartment. Andrew White for The New York Times Peter Thiel is Silicon Valley’s homegrown Cassandra. He warned for years that the big tech companies were arrogant and…

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Congrats on your 1,500 LinkedIn connections. But did they help you snag a job? Weak online connections on job sites and social networking sites are no match for “strong connections” — i.e., close friends and family members with whom you communicate at least once a month — when it comes to landing a…

Robert De Niro, left, and Val Kilmer in 'Heat.' Michael Man's classic 1995 crime thriller celebrates its 20th anniversary today. Credit: Photofest Michael Mann has been a driving creative force behind plenty of groundbreaking cops-and-robbers tales over the past 40 years, from TV’s "MTV cops" show…

Zendesk recently celebrated its 10 year anniversary . I wanted to observe the occasion by interviewing Alexander Aghassipour , one of the three co-founders of Zendesk. Mikkel has given many interviews over the years and wrote about the company’s amazing journey in his book Startupland — but…

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In a new study, people who ate lots of vegetables and whole foods rather than processed ones lost weight without worrying about calories or portion size. Andrew Scrivani for The New York Times Anyone who has ever been on a diet knows that the standard prescription for weight loss is to reduce the…

Bear Market Of 2018 The Real Bear Is Still Coming Remaining Bullish For Now Rebalancing Suggestions Sector & Market Analysis 401k Plan Manager Follow Us On: Twitter , Facebook , Linked-In , Sound Cloud, Seeking Alpha The Bear Market Of 2018 Let’s start with where we left off last weekend:…

What does it take to raise capital, in SaaS, in 2018? (3/3) In the first part of this series I shared the quantitative data that I collected in my recent survey among more than 60 SaaS investors. Part two focused on answers to the question about the top Top 3 things investors are looking for when…

What does it take to raise capital, in SaaS, in 2018? (2/3) UPDATE: The 2018 napkin has been published. You can download (and upvote ;-) ) it here: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/saas-funding-napkin-2018 In the first part of this series I shared the quantitative data that I collected in my recent…

UPDATE: The 2018 napkin has been published. You can download (and upvote ;-) ) it here: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/saas-funding-napkin-2018 About two years ago I thought about the question of what it takes to raise capital, in SaaS, in 2016 and tried to give an answer that would fit on the…

Venture capitalist Peter Thiel stood on the stage of Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland during the Republican National Convention in July 2016. Mr. Thiel, who recently said he is leaving Silicon Valley for Los Angeles, is one of many who have made or are making that change, partly because of…

It is 4am. The world is fast asleep. The sun has many miles to go. It has not yet reached the Pacific. I will speak these words in silence. I will speak them in the serenity of darkness. Before the world begins to take shape. For once it takes shape, Everything Changes. Once it takes shape, man…

One of the biggest challenges in building SMB SaaS companies is distribution. There are so many small businesses out there. How do you reach them? And how do you reach them profitably? There are several SMB platforms that serve up a large audience of small businesses to their ecosystem. Whether it’s…

A&Q is a special series that inverts the classic Q&A , taking some of the most frequently posed solutions to pressing matters of policy and exploring their complexity. In the early 1990s, U.S. crime rates had been on a steep upward climb since the Lyndon B. Johnson presidency. The crack-cocaine…

Wonkblog June 29, 2016 at 12:33 PM The percent of American households owning guns is at a near-40 year low in the latest CBS News poll released this month . According to the survey, which was conducted among 1,001 Americans in the aftermath of the Orlando nightclub shooting, 36 percent of U.S.…

April 18, 2013: April 18, 2013: In a casino, the term “rake” refers to the commission that the house earns for operating a poker game. With each hand, a small percentage of the pot is scraped off by the dealer, which in essence becomes the “revenue” for the casino. While casinos use the term “rake,”…

Rory O’Driscoll Contributor Rory O’Driscoll is a partner at Scale Venture Partners . More posts by this contributor: Tech Valuations In 2016: The End Of The Line For Sloppy Growth “How fast do I need to be growing to be interesting to a venture investor?” This is a question we get asked all the time…

Last week, investors received a “warning shot” about the dangers of “passive indexing.” While the idea of “passive indexing” sounds harmless enough, we have spilled a lot of ink on this site digging into the relative dangers of it. The biggest risk to investors is when “passive indexers” turn into…

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