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August 15, 2013
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Neuroskeptic: Why (And How) To Write Less
I said a couple of times during my recent trip to UPenn that "Most writing is too long" . People seemed to nod appreciatively at this, so here’s some more on that topic… Most writing is too long and the most common reason is that it’s not written for the reader’s benefit . Readers want the…
August 14, 2013
August 13, 2013
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Lottery Winner Jack Whittaker’s Losing Ticket
Jack Whittaker, a 55-year-old contractor from Scott Depot, W. Va., had worked his way up from backcountry poverty to build a water-and-sewer-pipe business that employed over 100 people. He was a millionaire several times over. But when he awoke at 5:45 a.m. on Christmas morning in 2002, everything…
August 12, 2013
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Google finds its design voice on iOS – The Next Web
From the beginning, Google’s design sensibilities on the web and Android have been unique. Whether you were a fan of the spare, utilitarian feel of products like Search or not, you knew when you were looking at something built by Google. To a degree, that’s still very true. Android apps built by the…
August 11, 2013
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The Shaker Design Philosophy – Bokardo
I love this design philosophy of the Shakers…goes for designing anything. “Don’t make something unless it is both necessary and useful; but if it is both necessary and useful, don’t hesitate to make it beautiful.” The Shaker design philosophy is one of prioritization: their main priority is to be…
August 10, 2013
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Photography’s Third Act | Dustin Curtis
Photography’s Third Act
http://t.co/uwlmwz5L
(Some of my thoughts about Snapchat, Instagram, and photo sharing.)
August 9, 2013
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The Unified Tarantino Film Theory and Django Unchained | Underwire | Wired.com
Recent Top Stories: The Unified Tarantino Film Theory and Django Unchained http://t.co/BJKAlKAB
August 8, 2013
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Redrawing the Tree of Life – Phenomena
In 1837, Charles Darwin scribbled a simple tree in a notebook and scrawled above it, “I think.” That little doodle represented a big idea: that species were descended from common ancestors. They looked different from each other today thanks to the differences that evolved after their lineages split.…
August 7, 2013
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What does randomness look like? | Empirical Zeal
On 13 June 1944, a week after the allied invasion of Normandy, a loud buzzing sound rattled through the skies of battle-worn London. The source of the sound was a newly developed German instrument of war, the V-1 flying bomb. A precursor to the cruise missile, the V-1 was a self-propelled flying…
August 6, 2013
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How to Get Startup Ideas
Want to start a startup? Get funded by Y Combinator . November 2012 The way to get startup ideas is not to try to think of startupideas. It’s to look for problems, preferably problems you haveyourself. The very best startup ideas tend to have three things in common:they’re something the founders…
August 5, 2013
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The Web We Lost – Anil Dash
Update: A few months after this piece was published, I was invited by Harvard’s Berkman Center to speak about this topic in more detail. Though the final talk is an hour long, it offers much more insight into the topic, and I hope you’ll give it a look. The tech industry and its press have treated…
August 4, 2013
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» Napster, Udacity, and the Academy Clay Shirky
Shirky on the disruption in education: "we’re probably going to screw this up as badly as the music people did" http://t.co/IzeYZCnX
August 3, 2013
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The Mysterious Influence of One Human Mind | TDG – Science, Magick, Myth and History
The Mysterious Influence of One Human Mind: Mapping the Occult City “STUDENTS of history find a continuous chain of reference to the mysterious influence of one human mind over that of others. In the earliest records, traditions and legends may be found reference to the general belief that it was…
August 2, 2013
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Show Me Your Badge – NYTimes.com
AT the end of “Fundamentals of Atomic Force Microscopy,” a short online course offered by Purdue University, students who score at least 60 percent on the final exam will receive an e-mail with a file attached. It will contain a picture of a blue-and-white circle, roughly one inch in diameter,…
August 1, 2013
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Comment: The world is silent while atheists are persecuted
By Andrew Copson Today is International Human Rights Day and, as with all international days, it’s being used as the hook for new announcements and initiatives by governments and NGOs all over the world. This year the human right to freedom of belief is particularly in the spotlight. The Foreign…
July 31, 2013
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Google’s Lost Social Network – BuzzFeed Mobile
This post originally ran in December of 2012. Today, Google Reader, the eight-year-old RSS reader that became an industry standard, has been given a funeral date : July 1st, 2013. “We launched Google Reader in 2005 in an effort to make it easy for people to discover and keep tabs on their favorite…
July 30, 2013
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Review: Asana—Breaking Open the Cage | UX Magazine
When Asana was announced, founder Dustin Moskovitz posed this problem: No matter how enthusiastically a company or team may adopt project management software (e.g. Basecamp, SharePoint, Pivotal Tracker), and no matter how purpose-built, how feature-laden it may be, the users inevitably end up…
July 29, 2013
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Continuous Discovery
HOME Services Product Marketing Technology User Experience Public Workshops Articles Clients Resources Company Team Manifesto Contact Us Posted by marty cagan on October 24, 2012 I have written recently about how product teams do product discovery in parallel with product delivery . I have also…
July 28, 2013
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Seth’s Blog: The cycle of customers who care
Organizations that grow start by selling their services and products to people who care. These organizations are staffed by people who care making something that demands "caring-about" for people who have chosen to care. It can be colored shoelaces or vinyl records or handmade medicine balls. These…
July 27, 2013
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Alan Sepinwall on the origins of ‘Lost’ – Grantland
T he story of Lost makes no sense. And by that I don’t mean the story on the show — though this is the point where you can feel free to insert jokes about the numbers, the outrigger shootout, or the reasons why Walt was “special” — but the story of how Lost itself got made. The creation of Lost…
July 26, 2013
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American Giant hoodie: This is the greatest sweatshirt known to man.
Can the American Giant hoodie revolutionize "Made in the USA"? Courtesy American Giant. Early in October, I got a call from Bayard Winthrop, an entrepreneur who claimed to have created the world’s best hooded sweatshirt. Because I found this claim amusing—who sets out to make the world’s best…
July 25, 2013
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How ‘Gamification’ Can Make Your Customer Service Worse | Wired Enterprise | Wired.com
Image: Flickr/ MoreSatisfyingPhotos.com Abusive customers. Low pay. Tuberculosis infections . Customer support can be a miserable job. Software makers have long promised to improve the life of customer support reps, and now they’re at it again. This time, they want to turn customer support into a…
July 24, 2013
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How Kanban visualisations and conversations enable process improvement « Benjamin Mitchell’s Blog
"The #kanban board showed us that our behaviour wasn’t producing the goals we wanted." Visualize! (@benjaminm) http://t.co/ZvyXzCHm
July 23, 2013
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Masayoshi Son, Softbank Prepare for New Battle – WSJ.com
In Japan, Masayoshi Son is known as the eccentric Internet billionaire who upended the country’s telecom industry. In the U.S., he is about to become the cash-strapped underdog who picked a fight with two corporate giants—AT&T Inc. and Verizon Wireless. "It’s like the poor kids fighting against the…
July 22, 2013
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Why Do Great Ideas Take So Long to Spread?
Just because a new fact or idea seems right, doesn’t mean it will spread like wildfire. Evolution, hand washing in hospitals, the inevitability that personal computers were the future of technology — none of these ideas were accepted immediately, even though they seem obvious today. Change takes…
July 21, 2013
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New World Order: is the UN about to take control of the internet? | The Verge
The future of the web will be decided in a dark room by UN politicians and authoritarian governments — at least according to Google and some other opponents of the International Telecommunication Union’s plan to reform its 25-year-old guidelines. Leaked documents have shown that ITU members are…
July 20, 2013
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Scaling Support for 2 Million Users | MailChimp Email Marketing Blog
[Foreword from Ben]: MailChimp has more than 2 million users and is currently growing at roughly 6,000 users per day. This growth curve started back in 2009 when we launched our freemium plan. Here’s what I mean: That’s a graph taken from Joe’s post about our infrastructure . This kind of rapid…
July 19, 2013
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All content is marketing | The Intercom Blog
Everything you write should be crafted with the intention of selling, educating, or increasing customer loyalty. The phrase “Content Marketing” describes marketing by attracting potential customers with content that interests them. All content should have that goal however, not just the stuff…
July 18, 2013
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Pruning: Making room for something new by Jason Fried of 37signals
This past spring we decided to prune our product line. We stepped back, took inventory, reviewed how things were growing, considered which products mattered most to us, thought about which direction we wanted to go, talked about what we were proud of, and made some decisions. This process reminded…
July 17, 2013
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Deciding if a product feature is worth the effort
Deciding if a product feature is worth the effort from Neil Hunt, Chief Product Officer at Netflix http://t.co/XnuvbHEG via @elezea