David Hieatt recently drafted a few internal principles he uses to create a culture of “Deep Work” at his company, Hiut Denim . The idea of Deep Work was famously coined by Cal Newport . Number one on David’s list is: “Protect you from meetings.” As he framed it to his team: “Most meetings are the…

Take a deep breath. Feel the wave of nitrogen, oxygen and carbon dioxide press against the bounds of your ribcage and swell your lungs. Exhale. Repeat. Before consciously inhaling, you probably weren’t thinking about breathing at all. The respiratory system is somewhat unique to our bodies in that…

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Jan 23rd 2020 W HO WOULD dream of starting a travelling circus at the dawn of the 21st century? Who would brave mud, late-night pull-downs, rats in the straw-bales, leaky caravans, temperamental animals, lack of loos, lack of baths, unless they had been born to it? Who would put up with, and then…

Dec 18th 2019 GULANGYU AND GUANGZHOU O NE LOVE story began in the 1930s, on a road of magnificent Western-style villas on the tiny Chinese island of Gulangyu. Cai Pijie, a lad in his 20s, walked daily past the open window of a young lady he had admired from afar. She regularly practised the piano,…

We are more aware than ever before. More aware of victims of violence, or a natural disaster. More aware of insane wealth or grinding poverty. It gets beamed to us, regularly. We’re even more often exposed to social hijinks, sports stars or business moguls. We’re aware that people run a marathon, or…

Jan 11th 2020 Editor’s note (January 9th 2020): After this article was published, American media reported intelligence assessments that Ukrainian International Airlines’ Boeing passenger jet which crashed outside Tehran on January 8th had been brought down by Iranian anti-aircraft missiles, not…

When I joined Postlight as an engineer last year, my first task was a big one: Rewrite the Readability Parser API. For those unfamiliar with the Readability Parser, it was the API that powered the popular Readability read-it-later app, along with many other services and apps across the web. The…

Jan 13th 2020 IN THE 1950s Havana glowed with colour. Its hotels and bars, casinos and cabarets—many of them owned by American mobsters—catered to the world’s rich and famous. More than 140 cinemas bore incandescent signs, each one measuring up to ten metres across. Shops shone with swirling bands…

The secret to achieving excellence is disarmingly simple. You might not like it, though. Asked about how to help creative types excel, Entertainment executive Barry Diller, the chairman of IAC, recently told Fast Company , “Put them to work … It’s process. It’s one [foot] in front of the other.” In…

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Confession time: my first ever blog was on Blogger and I still write on it. It’s private with only four souls ever being given access over its ~14 year history. No one has access currently and the 653 posts represent my young heart out in the ether. Unfortunately, the posts only go back to 2009 as I…

Jan 16th 2020 A House in the Mountains. By Caroline Moorehead. Harper; 415 pages; $29.99. Chatto & Windus; £20. T HEY CAME , Caroline Moorehead writes, in red sweaters and red scarves. Some were old, others virtually children. They sang resistance songs and knelt among the tombstones as the coffins…

The Prophet was written in 1923 by Lebanese-American poet/artist Khalil Gibran. Proving that there is no connection between cost and value, it’s currently only $0.99 on Amazon and it’s not hard to find a copy online. It’s a beautiful work, but we wanted to particularly highlight the chapter on work,…

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From our Obsession Being Human We’ve never been as connected, or as isolated. On a blustery March day five years ago, I locked arms with my mother and walked into a church in Maplewood, New Jersey to bury my brother. Bagpipes played “Amazing Grace.” I remember shivering and worrying: that my dad…

This story is from October 22, 2017 Powai power couple on losing friends and becoming 'Iron Man' Kaushik Mukherjee poses for a photo with Vineeta Singh. He likes his coffee hot. She likes it cold. He is a planner. She goes with the flow. He swims every chance he gets. She is a runner who has…

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When a company is young, with few products and fewer customers, the phone doesn’t ring and customer service is a lonely job. As more customers arrive, each one is made a promise: we’ll be here when you need us. Add more products, and each one carries an interaction load as well. Add shareholders,…

Among the most riveting mysteries of human history are those posed by vanished civilizations. Everyone who has seen the abandoned buildings of the Khmer, the Maya, or the Anasazi is immediately moved to ask the same question: Why did the societies that erected those structures disappear? Their…

Every political structure, every organization, every relationship has at least one. The topic, that once you bring it up, must be addressed. An argument so existential that it cannot be left alone. An argument that gets to the crux of the matter, one that’s so fraught everything else pales in…

Jan 2nd 2020 ATHENS A S EVERY AMERICAN knows, democracies need a means to deal with office-holders whose behaviour seems so terrible that they simply have to go. Modern states have impeachment; ancient Athens had ostracism, a gloriously simple device that gave voters the annual right to impose a…

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Atomic Grouping An atomic group is a group that, when the regex engine exits from it, automatically throws away all backtracking positions remembered by any tokens inside the group. Atomic groups are non-capturing. The syntax is (?> group ) . Lookaround groups are also atomic. Atomic grouping is…

Consider the regular expression ( x + x + ) + y . Before you scream in horror and say this contrived example should be written as x x + y to match exactly the same without those terribly nested quantifiers: just assume that each “x” represents something more complex, with certain strings being…

Almost nine years ago, Cloudflare was a tiny company and I was a customer not an employee. Cloudflare had launched a month earlier and one day alerting told me that my little site, jgc.org , didn’t seem to have working DNS any more. Cloudflare had pushed out a change to its use of Protocol Buffers…

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb Aug 14, 2016 · 27 min read (Chapter from Skin in the Game ) How Europe will eat Halal — Why you don’t have to smoke in the smoking section — Your food choices on the fall of the Saudi king –How to prevent a friend from working too hard –Omar Sharif ‘s conversion — How to make a…

May 24, 2011: [Follow Me on Twitter] “ Don’t you know that you are a shooting star, And all the world will love you just as long, As long as you are.” — Paul Rodgers, Shooting Star With the IPO market now blown wide-open, and the media completely infatuated with frothy trades in the bubbly late…

N cuti Gatwa is a decade older than he’s supposed to be. Well, a decade older than Eric Effiong, the exuberant schoolkid he plays on Netflix’s Sex Education . “One boy on set was born in the year 2000,” says the 27-year-old, a look of cartoonish horror on his face. “And I said, ‘This is absolutely…

At the end of the year, there are so many lists and conversations about resolutions, change, and of course, we are moving into a new decade. This popped into my feed on 12/30. Pope Francis urged us to talk to each other during meals instead of using our phones, per Reuters . Jesus, Mary and Joseph “…

Being vulnerable is not a choice. It’s a reality of living. What we do with that vulnerability can either open doors to deeper connection, or throw up walls that stifle growth and fulfillment. *** Vulnerability: the quality or state of being exposed to the possibility of being attacked or harmed,…

Ernest Hemingway as photographed for the 1940 edition of For Whom the Bell Tolls The iceberg theory or theory of omission is a writing technique coined by American writer Ernest Hemingway. As a young journalist, Hemingway had to focus his newspaper reports on immediate events, with very little…

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I t is only a mug of strongly brewed tea, but, after the morning I have had, it feels like the nectar of the gods. On the fourth day of my coast-to-coast walk across northern England, I had so far trudged through seven miles of waterlogged fields, edging slowly past cows and taking detours to avoid…

Bay Curious 9 min Jan 2 Walking around San Francisco and Oakland, you're likely to come across a grid of vault lights on the sidewalk. ( Mike /flickr) All over the city you can see glass squares and circles in big grid patterns covering a few feet of sidewalk. Sometimes the glass is clear, but often…

MELBOURNE (Reuters) - The bushfires ravaging Australia are generating so much heat that they are creating their own weather systems including dry lighting storms and fire tornadoes. The sky glows orange as surrounding wildfires close in on the town of Mallacoota, Victoria, Australia, January 4,…