"Day one" by @mwichary https://t.co/q7YpToBmxS

Behind The Invention: The mophie Juice Pack How a failure of a product became the kleenex of backup power. mophie/google If you ever see me smirk a bit when I board a flight, it’s not because I enjoy being locked in a metal tube for hours on end- but rather because it’s impossible to look around and…

“Design with Sketch” by @MengTo https://t.co/rP7NiHZXIw

(Elizabeth Tenety/The Washington Post) Online retailer Zappos has long been known to do things its own way. The customer-service obsessed company calls its executives “ monkeys ,” has staffers ring cowbells to greet guests, and offers new employees cash to quit as a way to test their loyalty. The…

"The Ultimate Guide to Bootstrapping" -> http://t.co/L1g84SdXDr

worthwhile read. "Most of Bitcoin’s critics are making a category error" http://t.co/Sfi75wenwJ

“Coin Is Pulling a Netflix” by @thatguyBG https://t.co/p0Id8KVgRh

"The Technical Lead / Product Manager Dialectic" by @haxor http://t.co/WsO7xkO8ib

A fascinating look at Netflix's 76,897 (often bizarre) micro-genres: "How Netflix Reverse Engineered Hollywood" — http://t.co/rrHn08BOdl

The tech behind the new http://t.co/nkz1ub2gTe redesign http://t.co/LRtNobj1bN

nice thoughtful post RT @jrlevine: Something I've been thinking about for a while… Remember The Frontier http://t.co/wOZQxNyONB

How HipChat Stores and Indexes Billions of Messages Using ElasticSearch and Redis Monday, January 6, 2014 at 8:54AM This article is from an interview with Zuhaib Siddique , a production engineer at HipChat , makers of group chat and IM for teams. HipChat started in an unusual space, one you might…

"I've selected ideas b/c they attracted people I want to work with & spend a part of my life with." YES. @zachklein http://t.co/2OEdsXlH7a

"The open-office trap" http://t.co/iIdfqYBZgT (@spolsky has been arguing this for ages http://t.co/F6Q0LzI2A1)

“Work From Home? Do it Better.” by @JoelleSteiniger https://t.co/W8bVSVyB4X

It might surprise you to learn that South Africa’s biggest corporation doesn’t mine the earth for diamonds, gold or silver. It doesn’t extract oil, or even produce beer. Rather, the biggest company headquartered on South African soil is an internet company. And its remarkable history tells you as…

Finding Product-Market Fit, or Building 15 Startups in 21 Months: https://t.co/swrFGmiqtU by @mecolalu cc @500Startups

Techbrats Goldberg, Shih and Gopman do not represent the tech industry http://t.co/vtkCzkwKEF

"My generation doesn't care about knowing how the web works, as long as someone else is making it work." - https://t.co/VcqZNpC6TA

“How to make more work this year” by @austinkleon https://t.co/WB2DejZ0ft

Meet the workspace designer for Dropbox, Instagram, and other internet startups - Quartz http://t.co/svNGfm8Vy5

A look behind Uber, and the history of taxis and black cars http://t.co/PuR48dJ5Pg

You could say Chris Fry has a pretty big job. As Twitter’s senior vice president of engineering, he’s the guy who makes sure the trains — or rather, tweets — run on time. He’s responsible for managing the roughly 1000-plus engineers who make up half the company working on Twitter’s site reliability,…

Everyone in the next 10 - 20 years will have their own altcoin (or derivative of it). I’ll have a simoncoin. In what sounds like an odd turn of events, recently launched dogecoin made me think deeply of how we ascribe value. Due to the ease of launching currencies (thanks to Bitcoin), it was…

Keen to try this out. “Project Hubs: A Home Base for Design Projects” — http://t.co/T6H3E91tsx

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Excited this guy is designing @medium now: “Designing Products That Scale” by @bradhaynes https://t.co/KPmulDMudW

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer speaks at the opening of the Microsoft Center Berlin on Nov. 7, 2013. Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer speaks at the Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit on Oct. 17, 2013, in Washington, D.C. Photo by Ballmer by Adam Berry/Getty Images; Photo of Mayer by Paul Morigi/Getty Images for…

200 Things [Great article on minimalist lifestyle] | http://t.co/IhcGqXCBHb

“The Last Re-Org You’ll Ever Do” by @aarondignan https://t.co/2eCxKrXkLK

iPHone prototype/ jimabeles FLICKR CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 The Birth of the iPhone Excerpt from ‘Jony Ive: The Genius Behind Apple’s Greatest Products’ One morning in late 2003, just before the launch of the iPod Mini, Apple’s senior vice president of design Jony Ive and his team gathered for a bi-weekly…

.@nmanekia5 on what it's like to work at Medium: https://t.co/tt37LKwdi4 <3