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The big ideas: What Is Power? Why Fiction Trumps Truth We humans know more truths than any species on earth. Yet we also believe the most falsehoods. Mr. Harari
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Apple’s ecosystem is massive. Approximately a billion people are using more than 1.4 billion Apple devices. Even as iPhone sales decline, Apple is bringing tens of millions of new people into its ecos
At WWDC 2019, Apple showed it's truly transforming into a privacy-as-a-service company with its single sign-on service and iOS 13's camera and location updates (@etherington / TechCrunch)
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Last week Dan wrote about macOS Monterey’s new Network Quality Tool , which lets you quickly get a sense of your local network speed from the command line. If you’re a user of ambient Mac menu bar uti
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Data has long been lauded as a competitive moat for companies, and that narrative’s been further hyped with the recent wave of AI startups. Network effects have been similarly promoted as a defensible
The Experiencing Self vs. the Remembering Self May 2, 2014 Daniel Kahneman, in his paradigm-shifting and international best-selling book Thinking, Fast and Slow , refers to the experiencing self and t
In my book I discussed the fact that investing is inherently an exercise in regret minimization: Everything about the investment process is a series of
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In a huge room somewhere near Apple's glistening new campus, highly advanced machines are heating, cooling, pushing, shocking and otherwise abusing chips. Those
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If there is a new tech cold war, it is one with shots fired over a decade ago, largely by China. The questions going forward are about both leverage and values.
There’ve been a bunch of leaks about iOS 13, nearly all from Guilherme Rambo at 9to5Mac and Mark Gurman at Bloomberg . But one thing we don’t know yet — and I emphasize yet , because leaks often sprin
The following is a detailed write-up of a popular productivity talk delivered by Scott Hanselman . Visit his blog, hanselman.com , for more productivity tips.
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Annual percentage rate, or APR, reflects the true cost of borrowing. Mortgage APR includes the interest rate, points and fees charged by the lender. APR is higher than the interest rate because it enc
Over the years, David Sparks has published a wide collection of “Field Guides” for various apps and platforms, including OmniFocus , Siri Shortcuts, and much more. Today, Sparks is out with his latest
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In conducting a test of significance or hypothesis test, there are two numbers that are easy to get confused. These numbers are easily confused because they are both numbers between zero and one, and are both probabilities. One number is called the p-value of the test…
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Hypothesis testing involves the careful construction of two statements: the null hypothesis and the alternative hypothesis. These hypotheses can look very similar but are actually different.
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Twitter’s CEO, Jack Dorsey, doesn’t eat for 22 hours of the day, and sometimes not at all. Over the weekend he tweeted that he’d been “playing with fasting for some time,” regularly eating all of his
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