Here goes a grand experiment: Announcing Simoncoin: world's first individual altcoin. Launching in January: http://t.co/WrUlGdWEjT

Applying the 80/20 principle to your personal life - I approve: http://t.co/lbFd5Mtb46

“The Year We Broke Everything” by @monteiro https://t.co/HgzJIF01eY

If you ask employees when they started to notice that something was wrong at Fab, they will usually mention the bike locks. The bright orange locks appeared suddenly, affixed to the office doors of senior executives. “This was a company that prided itself on openness,” says one former staffer. “You…

An Introduction To Full-Stack JavaScript http://t.co/8n5UlydqGt

Editor's note: The following is the personal story of David Raether, a former comedy writer for the sitcom Roseanne who later became homeless. It is adapted from his memoir, "Tell Me Something, She Said." On Christmas Day, 2001, I sat down at my Yamaha G2 grand piano, set up my metronome, and opened…

This post was originally published on the Thoughtbot blog. A Product Design Sprint is a 5-phase exercise which uses design thinking to reduce the inherent risks in successfully bringing products to market. We’ve done six product design sprints so far and have made them a default part of our…

It’s now been a few weeks since Square Cash was available to the public, with much talk surrounding the use of e-mail as a service and concerns of security . However, I have yet to see anyone talk about how Cash actually moves money around, which I think is actually one of the most interesting…

We think it's important that our designers code, but @tarngerine went above and beyond by learning Objective-C: https://t.co/Rv7Xy2oNvw

How PayPal is being revolutionized by Node.js and Lean UX http://t.co/rZIxSsyocm

How Square Cash was designed http://t.co/E1fDG1JLlB

“The Next Major Media Company Will Be A Technology Platform” https://t.co/ScXjNqykLw – Thanks to @anildash @ev @ftrain and @katelaurielee!

Published October 25, 2013 in Programming Writing a modern web app these days can sometimes feel like a tedious process; frameworks, boilerplates, abstractions, dependency management, build processes..the list of requirements for a front-end workflow appears to grow each year. What if however, you…

I get a sinking feeling in my gut reading this: http://t.co/3RL3v9qb7K

Another one of our brilliant people: “Nick Santos Brings Paper to Life”: https://t.co/LQQ7vhaUSi

The Aha! Moments That Made Paul Graham’s Y Combinator Possible In the summer of 1995, Paul Graham heard a story on the radio promoting the endless possibilities of online commerce, which at the time hardly existed. The promotion came from Netscape, which was trying to drum up interest in its…

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/megagoosey Cups of Water Companies, Strategies & Disruption Tactics My partner Reid has a fun metaphor he uses when he’s describing how companies think about their core strategies (which don’t change very much). He says that he thinks about a company’s strategy as a cup…

tanj on flickr Your Crack Is in the Mail Why did it take the FBI so long to shut down Silk Road? On the Silk Road website , every drug you can think of — and a dizzying number of others, too — have been on open sale for years, from crack, heroin, and LSD, to a new generation of “research chemicals”…

When we asked New York writer and programmer Marco Arment to speak at XOXO, he was still developing Instapaper and The Magazine, and Tumblr was an independent startup. Since then, he sold The Magazine to Glenn Fleishman, Instapaper to Betaworks, and Tumblr sold to Yahoo in a billion-dollar deal. One…

Dorsey’s tastes—minimalist design, severe diets—mirror the Twitter aesthetic. “Constraint inspires creativity,” he says. Credit Illustration by Hellovon Jack Dorsey, the tech entrepreneur, takes the No. 1 bus to work, and he likes to catch the 7:06. It carries him nearly from one side of San…

all of us in 2011, at my high school grad party “So, Where Are You From?” Alas, the dreaded question. I am not shy; in fact, one of my favorite pastimes is meeting new people. But the beginning of any relationship is an awkward one, two step, and neither of us is Ciara . When I’m in a large group of…

This is such great writing. "Inside the Apple Store: Product Launch." - http://t.co/dOh3PLnxyX

Great case study: "How Google Taught Itself Good Design" - http://t.co/vNiVGoKV2G

HTML5 Article experience by the HTML5 Hub and Intel Inside a darkened conference room in the Miami Beach Holiday Inn, America’s most badass hackers are going to war – working their laptops between swigs of Bawls energy drink as Bassnectar booms in the background. A black guy with a soul patch…

One of Steve Jobs’ biggest heroes is Edwin Land, the inventor of Polaroid. Former Apple CEO John Sculley describes a meeting they had years ago and how both Land and Jobs felt that products existed all along — they just needed to discover them. Dr Land was saying: “I could see what the Polaroid…

Let’s cut the crap. Life is short, you have less time than you think, and there are no baby unicorns coming to save you. So rather than doling out craptastic advice to you about Making!! It!! To!! The!! Top!!™, let me humbly ask: do you want to have a year that matters — or do you want to spend…

Muut Blog Courtney Couch • 2013-08-26 The realtime magic behind Muut and how we deliver all your instant notifications. Muut was built from the ground up as a 100% realtime system. We bubble up events and listen to events throughout our infrastructure and deliver events to users within a couple…

My first boss at Bell Labs had a habit of yelling. While he was an equal-opportunity yeller, when he shouted at me in my first department meeting, I got up, told him when he wanted to talk, not yell, I’d be in my office and walked out. I was 20 years old, just out of undergrad, and sitting among a…

It’s a humid evening at the Shaw Theatre in Euston, London, and the audience gathered for the live recording of Radio 4’s series The Museum of Curiosity is still taking off jackets and constructing makeshift fans as two nervous producers come on stage. Their warm-up suffers because the audience is,…

There are three popular explanations for the clear under-representation of women in management, namely: (1) they are not capable; (2) they are not interested; (3) they are both interested and capable but unable to break the glass-ceiling: an invisible career barrier, based on prejudiced stereotypes,…

Spotify shares new data on how songs are becoming hits in the digital age http://t.co/419r6RVVZh