Editor’s Note: Nir Eyal blogs about the intersection of psychology, technology, and business at NirAndFar.com. Sangeet Paul Choudary analyzes business models for network businesses at Platformed.info. Follow Sangeet on Twitter at @sanguit and Nir at @nireyal. If there is one altar at which Silicon…

For me, the amount of email that arrives is inversely proportionate to my amount of free time. This means the less time I have to read mail, the more mail that arrives. Greater minds than mine have attempted to tackle this unfortunate time management situation, so I’m going to keep it simple. You…

Und dann lese ich nachts um vier einen Artikel, wie den hier von Kati , die erst einmal brav vorneweg schickt, dass es ihr natürlich besser geht, als jemand, der in Burkani Faso lebt, die sich aber trotzdem beschwert. Irgendwo, bei irgendwem. Und ich denke: Scheiße, das geht so nicht. Doch nicht…

She got a big booty so I call her Big Booty. —2 Chainz,  Birthday Song The other day, a friend of mine asked me whether CEOs were born or made. I said, “That’s kind of like asking if Jolly Ranchers are grown or made. CEO is a very unnatural job.” After saying it and seeing the surprised look on his…

By Dialika Krahe in Otjivero, Namibia It sounds like a communist utopia, but a basic income program pioneered by German aid workers has helped alleviate poverty in a Nambian village. Crime is down and children can finally attend school. Only the local white farmers are unhappy. The full, red…

Every year, nearly $100 billion is invested in biomedical research in the US, all of it aimed at teasing apart the invisible bits of the body.Photo: Mauricio Alejo On November 30, 2006, executives at Pfizer—the largest pharmaceutical company in the world—held a meeting with investors at the firm’s…

Heute hatte ich den bisher anrührendsten Moment in meinem Leben. http://t.co/pJKe5FrH

Corruption Corruption Some probably see Sweden as a country where proper due process of law prevails, or at least exists. Others would very much like to see Sweden as such a country. One thing that this country has shown is, that when the interests of its establishment are threatened, all the…

Ähnlich wie das kommunistische Gespenst Ende des 19Jh., geht die Idee des Grundeinkommens heute in ganz Europa um. Die Bekanntheit, die es momentan in Deutschland genießt, hängt zum großen Teil damit zusammen, dass die Piratenpartei das bedingungslose Grundeinkommen seit 2011 in ihr Parteiprogramm…

"Emils Geburt": http://t.co/rpfABf7E

Fascinating read on movie studios forcing Hollywood to abandon 35mm film and the analog-digital transition: http://t.co/J9t2TpU4

One afternoon last August, at a hospital on the outskirts of Los Angeles, a former beauty queen named Emma Coronel gave birth to a pair of heiresses. The twins, who were delivered at 3:50 and 3:51, respectively, stand to inherit some share of a fortune that Forbes estimates is worth a billion…

Ausgabe 03/2012 - Schwerpunkt Relevanz Was wichtig ist? Da fragen wir doch einfach unseren Rechner. Der Mathematiker Gunter Dueck bezweifelt allerdings, dass uns das weiterbringt. brand eins: Herr Dueck, Daten sind heute das, was das Öl für die Industriegesellschaft war - ein Rohstoff, ohne den…

I like pasta. I’d like to help people make better pasta. It pains me to think about all the poorly prepared pasta being served and eaten in America. My advice will focus on plain old store-bought dried pasta. Nothing fancy. You’ve probably made some yourself. I’m specifically not talking about…

Spaces Man

  I just gave a presentation on 42Floors to 150 people.  It went well. I was really proud of:  1) our team, 2) our product and 3) the way we were able to present it.  It was as if we were telling people about it in our living room, but there just happened to be 150 people there.  Afterwards, several…

March 29, 2012 As I posted previously, I have been debating former TSA Administrator Kip Hawley on the Economist website. I didn’t bother reposting my opening statement and rebuttal, because — even though I thought I did a really good job with them — they were largely things I’ve said before. In my…

(Vorwarnung: Wenn Sie lange Texte nicht mögen, sollten Sie jetzt aufhören zu lesen. Das nachfolgende ist eine Keynote, die ich auf der Crossmedia-Konferenz in Magdeburg gehalten habe. Passt aber thematisch sehr schön hier her.) *** Irgendwann in den letzten Monaten hatte der TV-Moderator Thomas…

Before Shin crawled through that electric fence and ran off into the snow, no one born in a North Korean political prison camp had ever escaped. As far as can be determined, Shin is still the only one to do so.

The biggest startup ideas are terrifying. And not just because they'd be a lot of work. The biggest ideas seem to threaten your identity: you wonder if you'd have enough ambition to carry them through.

From Atlantic Unbound:Interviews: "Introverts of the World, Unite!" (February 14, 2006) A conversation with Jonathan Rauch, the author who—thanks to an astonishingly popular essay in the March 2003 Atlantic—may have unwittingly touched off an Introverts' Rights revolution.Follow-up: The Introversy…

Über die Enteignung der Kindheit und die Verstaatlichung der Familie. Eine Streitschrift von Norbert Blüm. Der ehemalige Bundesarbeitsminister Norbert Blüm Die Wissensgesellschaft gilt als der Inbegriff des Fortschritts. In der Wissensgesellschaft findet der Homo sapiens scheinbar sein…

The Power of weak Links http://t.co/PbhIqrJW via @hnshah

I think there’s a striking difference between when you start out working toward a dream and when it’s actually gotten off the ground; when it’s moved from a nebulous sketch on a folded up napkin, to a fully operating vision that now has a life of its own.

Und dann vermisst du am Schluss, ganz am Ende, nur noch den, der für einige oft der war, mit dem man am wenigsten angeben konnte. Der mit den meisten falsch getroffenen Entscheidungen. Der auf nichts zurückblicken und eigentlich auch auf nichts hoffen konnte. Der irgendwen belogen und irgendwen…

56 notes A lot has been written on the process of joining a startup, and I’ve written a bit on the topic. Less is written about what to do once you join. Truth is, that’s when the fun starts, and it’s important to optimize your experience from day one. There are a few things I wish someone had told…

Du sollst wissen, dass Du mehr bist als die Summe deiner Leistungen. Du sollst wissen, warum es manche Deiner Freundinnen nicht schaffen werden, warum ihre Stühle irgendwann leer bleiben werden. Du sollst wissen, dass Depression keine Kinderkrankheit ist. Du sollst wissen, dass die…

Perhaps the ultimate freedom is the freedom to be one's self. But in the traditional workplace, authenticity is often neither condoned nor rewarded. As free agents around the country told me their stories, they repeatedly used the language of disguise and concealment to describe their previous jobs.…

Now is a great time to be an internet entrepreneur. While much of the global economy sputters, tech companies post growth numbers other industries haven't seen in years. Their success hasn't gone unnoticed, and the pace of tech-company creation has quickened. There's more than me-tooism going on. It…

Afghanistan-Einsatz "Ich hatte noch nie so sehr das Gefühl, Steuergelder zu verschwenden" Herlinde Koelbl 01.12.2011 - 07:00 ZEIT Magazin, 01.12.2011 Nr. 49 Zehn junge Männer erzählen, wie es ist, in den Krieg zu ziehen. Unsere Autorin traf sie vor dem Ausrücken in Bayern und besuchte sie am Ende…

US citizens of all political persuasions are still reeling from images of unparallelled police brutality in a coordinated crackdown against peaceful OWS protesters in cities across the nation this past week. An elderly woman was pepper-sprayed in the face; the scene of unresisting, supine students…

Der Abend beim Italiener, zu sechst, geht als gelungen durch, wenn zum Absacker, Sambuca, die eingefleischten Lesben Olé, wie fahrn inn Puff nach Barceloonah poltern, olé olé! (Ich hatte ein Loch im T-Shirt, oben an der Schulter.) * Es sind ja nicht die Sätze, die vor Kraft kaum laufen können und…

Ernst ist da. Und ich werde mich ihm widmen. Jetzt, wo mein Studium endlich vorbei ist, kann ich mich genau jenem Ernst widmen, auf den ich die letzten vier Jahre angeblich vorbereitet wurde. Wenn ich alle Lehranstalten zusammenzähle, zu deren Besuch ich gesellschaftlich verpflichtet war, sind es…

Groupon's long journey from flailing startup to multi-billion-dollar Wall Street obsession has played out like an opera, with subplots involving orgiastic young sales reps, brutal German managers, a puppet-master chairman, and amazing levels of greed. Business Insider's Nicholas Carlson went behind…

When you look at the corporate glass towers, co-working warehouses and small businesses around the world, the current model of how work is being organized starts to fail, accelerated by the recent economic crisis. The notion of having to fit into mutually non-sustainable long-term relationships…

„Let me just begin by saying there are two sides to every story and this is my side …the right one.“ - Olive Penderghast, Easy A Für alle, die gerade erst zugeschaltet haben, gestern Abend hat Kollege mspro auf Twitkrit zu einer Spendenaktion für mich aufgerufen, das Ziel sind horrende 2500€ für…