Upcycling is a 21st century term, coined by Cradle to Cradle authors William McDonough and Michael Braungart, but the idea of turning waste into useful products came to life brilliantly in 1963 with the Heineken WOBO (world bottle). Envisioned by beer brewer Alfred Heineken and designed by Dutch…

INCIDENTAL COMICS Words and Pictures by Grant Snider Saturday, March 21, 2020 I drew this comic in 2017. Reposting as a reminder to myself to stay hopeful. Email This BlogThis! Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Share to Pinterest Older Post Home Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) What Color Is…

Mar 21st 2020 I T WAS THE best of times; it was the worst of times. That was the beginning of a book he had heard about somewhere. He didn’t remember which one. Or perhaps it was “It was the worst of times, it was the best of times.” Either way, it described exactly the months he had spent when he…

How the Kop became the Kop By Michael Walker Nov 4, 2019 When it came to burying the dead, they discovered 70 of the British had been killed by a bullet to the right temple. In the stinging African sun, soldiers had been shielding their eyes, looking away, while Boer snipers took aim. The heat had…

Mar 12th 2020 Footprints: In Search of Future Fossils. By David Farrier. Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 320 pages; $28. Fourth Estate; £16.99. T HE BLASTS flung debris into the sky and rucked the sea-floor like a rug. The flash from the largest—which, at 15 megatons, was 1,000 times stronger than the…

Mikhail Botvinnik and the Invention of Modern Chess Training March 15th, 2020 · One comment Former world chess champion Mikhail Botvinnik helped build the Soviet’s dominant chess system. His pupils included Anatoly Karpov, Garry Kasparov and Vladimir Kramnik: all world champions as well. According…

Health Why outbreaks like coronavirus spread exponentially, and how to “flatten the curve” By Harry Stevens Graphics reporter Email Bio Follow After the first case of covid-19 , the disease caused by the new strain of coronavirus, was announced in the United States, reports of further infections…

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31+ Epsilon Theory PDF Download (paid subscription required): The Elton/Hootie Line We’re talking about things that are going to change the world and change the way people listen to music and that’s not going to happen with people blogging on the internet…There’s too much technology available. I’m…

Mar 12th 2020 P ANDEMICS ARE the inevitable attendants of economic progress. Interconnected trade networks and teeming cities have made societies both richer and more vulnerable, from the empires of antiquity to the integrated global economy of the present. The effects of covid-19 will be very…

Mar 12th 2020 M ARCH IS WHEN the clocks change in the northern hemisphere. Spring is sprung, tulip bulbs put forth shoots and garden proprietors think about hiring. Anders Holch Povlsen, a Danish clothing billionaire, is advertising for a head gardener for his Aldourie Estate along the shores of…

INCIDENTAL COMICS Words and Pictures by Grant Snider Monday, March 2, 2020 Inspired by DELIGHT by J.B. Priestley and THE BOOK OF DELIGHTS by Ross Gay, I'm starting a new series on things that bring me joy. I plan to draw these until I reach 365 panels, or until my delight runs out. Newer Post Older…

More Evidence of Facebook’s Negative Impact March 10th, 2020 · Be the first to comment Last week, I wrote about a paper appearing in the American Economic Review that conducted a randomized trial to measure the personal impact of deactivating Facebook. A few days later, a different study was…

Mar 5th 2020 TALLINN B Y 1927 PEOPLE began to descend on North-Tammsaare, a farm deep in the Estonian countryside. They asked the farmer, August Hansen, to show them the spot where Juss hanged himself, or where Kroot had given birth. Hansen was surprised, and sometimes annoyed: Juss and Kroot did…

Mar 5th 2020 BOSTON AND HOUSTON Editor’s note (March 5th 2020): This article has been updated to note that Elizabeth Warren has ended her candidacy. O NLY A FEW days ago the Democratic primary looked like a re-run of the 2016 Republican contest that launched Donald Trump. The field was crowded and…

Mar 4th 2020 IN 1920 America granted women the constitutional right to vote. A century on, women still face frustrating barriers to equality. To mark International Women’s Day on March 8th, The Economist has updated its glass-ceiling index, which ranks 29 countries on ten indicators of equality for…

Mar 5th 2020 PENRITH B ENEATH THE junction where Hobgrumble Gill meets Swindale Beck in the Lake District of Cumbria is a suspended valley that has been farmed, against all the odds, for centuries. Today just one active farm remains. Crumbling buildings and 47km of stone walls that climb right up to…

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Often, we choose to be selfish because we feel insufficiency. “I don’t have that much, how can I possibly share it?” The insecurity that comes from feeling like our foundation is weak or our future is uncertain can cloud our instinct to be generous. Like a drowning person, we cling ever tighter to…

If you’re a busy startup founder, you’re likely delegating the task of scheduling key meetings about things you want/need to your admin. This is a mistake. That’s because the dialog you have in setting up the meeting is actually the first part of your meeting, not some clerical task. Treat it this…

Who are you, and what do you do? Hi there, internet! I'm Katherine Cox-Buday , and I'm a writer, computer scientist, and mother. I'm currently working at DigitalOcean on software that helps us manage our fleet of servers. I'm also author of " Concurrency in Go ", and a few unpublished novels. When I…

Feb 29th 2020 U NTIL ABOUT the third week of January, only a few pharmaceutical executives, drug-safety inspectors and dogged China hawks cared that a large share of the world’s supply of antibiotics depends on a handful of Chinese factories. These include a cluster in Inner Mongolia, a northern…

Feb 22nd 2020 THE WORLD’S biggest carnival celebration came to life in Rio de Janeiro on February 21st. The annual festival, traditionally a time to indulge in food, drink and other earthly pleasures before the Lenten fast, will attract around 5m revellers to the streets of Brazil’s second-largest…

If life is a game, how do you play it? The answer will have a huge impact on your choices, your satisfaction, and how you achieve success . *** James Carse, the Director of Religious Studies at New York University, wrote a book, Finite and Infinite Games , that explores the difference between…

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Write a thing . Briefly celebrate that you brought this thing into the universe. Don’t celebrate by hitting publish. This done thing is only 50% done. Walk away from it. Get it completely out of your head. Your goal is to forget that you wrote this thing. Days later. Print it out and read the thing…

For five hundred years, a fellowship was understood, Tolkien-style, to be a collection of humans engaged in mutual support. [ Definition ] It’s hard to imagine something more reassuring, challenging and productive, all at once. To be part of an organized fellowship is a responsibility and also the…

A year and a half ago, I snagged two disposable cameras. I sent one to a someone I was getting to know as she embarked on building a new home in Salt Lake City and I kept one for myself as I headed off to return to San Diego. In the letter that accompanied the disposable camera, I explained how I…

(Note: This was written in 2016. I recently — in late 2019 — wrote a post about some things I've learned since then .) I’ve used the term *Feature Factory *at a couple conference talks over the past two years. I started using the term when a software developer friend complained that he was “just…

Feb 18th 2020 SEATTLE IN 1990, A year into the journey to Jupiter of an American spacecraft called Galileo , Carl Sagan, a well-known astronomer, turned the probe’s instruments back towards Earth. He wanted to find out whether it was possible to detect evidence of life on the planet from a distance.…

I sat down with Matt Mullenweg, the founder and CEO of WordPress' parent company, Automattic , for an extended interview in March, just ahead of the company's $160 million financing round a month later, which valued the company at $1.16 billion . (Apologies for posting this so long after the fact.)…

This article includes interviews with WordPress creator Matt Mullenweg; management guru Scott Berkun; WordPress historian Siobhan McKeown; early WordPress.org contributor Rich Bowen; and former WordPress CEO Toni Schneider. Every morning at 7 a.m., Matt Mullenweg wakes up in Houston, Texas, and…

Cate Huston , our illustrious mobile lead here at Automattic, was recently interviewed by GitPrime on how to create momentum while onboarding an engineering new hire. The entire interview is nicely summarized in the article tagline: You get only one chance at a first impression — your hiring and…

This past week, I received an email from someone that was interested in working at Automattic. This person had found me on LinkedIn and asked if he could ask me a few questions. After taking a look at the questions, I thought it’d be nice to go ahead and publish the questions and answers on my site…

Remote workers are giving our calcified attitudes about collaboration and office culture a much-needed shake-up. They're just as-- if not more --productive than co-located workers, and enjoy a high level of job satisfaction and general well-being to boot. But let's face it: not everybody has what it…

Feb 15th 2020 PARIS T HE FRENCH foreign minister, Jean-Yves Le Drian, is a man of few words and many air miles. When he does comment, it is usually to deplore events in Syria, say, or Iran. But on February 9th the minister let his inner passion get the better of him. The reason? An emoji. “The…

I have been investing in developer tools since the earliest days of my VC career. The first investment I led in the late 80s was a financing that provided the funds to acquire a programming editor called Brief . It was a text-based editor for PCs. That investment worked out but we didn’t make a lot…

Introducing All-in-One Android POS for small businesses and merchant partners Paytm Follow Feb 4 · 3 min read As India continues to take strides towards the digital future with accelerated growth in digital payments, we are proud to launch our All-in-One Android POS device for small businesses and…

Credit: Flickr / Adriane Dizon I spend more time than I thought I would thinking about technical interviews lately, because something I’ve been doing is conducting technical interviews for a few startups including Glowforge ( they’re hiring! ). Since March I’ve done ~36 interviews. Designing hiring…

How can Automattic consistently hire the best people without ever having a single voice conversation? Let’s face it, hiring is tough. When you ask startup founders what their biggest challenge is, hiring is one of the most common answers you’ll hear. It’s hard enough when you have an office and can…