University of California–Irvine psychologist and law professor Elizabeth Loftus can make you remember things you never experienced. Hoang Xuan Pham From repressed memories to faulty eyewitness testimony, psychologist Elizabeth Loftus of the University of California–Irvine, has made her name working…

Entrance of Camp Six, Guantanamo Bay No One Reads Kafka in Gitmo Passing Time in the World’s Most Notorious Prison A Jamaican love song plays at Guantanamo Bay’s tiki bar. The woman cries that she will wait for her man forever. I drink my beer and think of Zin, the wife of British detainee Shaker…

Startups ruin you http://t.co/Q7nyBe2nBj

From the collegehumor parody Put away the haterade. Photo filters are here to stay—and they even serve a good purpose. It’s easy to pour the hate on Instagram. Or Hipstamatic, Camera 360, Line Camera, any of the bazillion photo filter apps out there. Great, say the camera snobs. Now we have millions…

Epic and Medium step together into longform experiment http://t.co/g3p7wHSk2m

"@PandoDaily: News sites are looking more like tablet apps every day, and that's a good thing http://t.co/iAQeYyX5ZK" by me

Flickr.com/caribb Boarding Pass Redesign Taking another look at one of the worst offenders of information design Airports are not enjoyable places to be. Long distance travel is not a tonne of fun. Badly designed boarding passes are annoying. Seriously annoying. The boarding pass is essential for…

Twitter Co-Founder Evan Williams has an ambitious new plan: to shift our daily reading habits away from consuming incremental news bites and towards engaging with enlightened ideas curated by an intelligent algorithm. Ordinarily, such a goal would seem utopian, were it not for the fact that Williams…

Elon Musk, the South Africa-born entrepreneur, recently unveiled his proposals for the Hyperloop , a groundbreaking high-speed transportation system. The technology community has become accustomed to Musk pushing the boundaries. His name is also attached to Paypal, SpaceX, Tesla and Solar City, and…

September 10, 2013 Go Long One of our most common mistakes as entrepreneurs is short-term thinking: “How do I make a cheap landing page to validate today’s business idea?” “How can I get traffic to this ‘business’ I started last week? I’m considering buying an expensive banner ad.” “I’ve been trying…

Image: Influx Productions / Getty Images Far from being the measure of disgrace it once was, failure now seems to be a sort of badge of honor. But underlying many popular Silicon Valley failure clichés is entrepreneurs’ belief that “starting companies these days is akin to doing research in the…

Disclosure: This story covers Paul Carr, who is a regular PandoDaily contributor and a friend of the company. It also quotes Andrew Anker, who is chairman of PandoDaily’s board and an investor in PandoDaily. On September 5, NSFWCorp founder and editor-in-chief Paul Carr sent an email to the…

Svbtle: The Crescendo of Music Tech http://t.co/Gv0pau9V07 by @brackin

Great profile (and insight into Foursquare's future): "Will Foursquare CEO Dennis Crowley Finally Get It Right?" - http://t.co/sT3UCDpKnH

APIs are becoming more and more commonplace, and more necessary for businesses of any kind to extend their offerings. Along with this proliferation, comes confusion and misinformation among those who have a need to understand APIs at a basic level, but aren't developers or technical in any way. This…

How I learned to build products people care about http://t.co/78XLze4rxD Really honored to be writing a column at Fast Company Labs.

Via Google Images The Next Great Social Network Will Not Put Relationships First Why It Will Be More Like Reddit Seconds after my laptop screen comes to life, I am uncerimoniously swept into my Facebook news feed once again. The promoted Expedia post featuring the top search result for Las Vegas on…

Learn by doing: 3 ways running a business makes you a better PM http://t.co/J6578odHLr by @kivestu

Inside the surprising master plan of John Borthwick http://t.co/1ODXfeJ8st

Enjoyed this: "The World of Black-Ops Reputation Management" http://t.co/9FE82sD186 (via @RianVDM) #Longreads

July 9, 2013 Stay in the building. I sit at my hotel at night, I think of something that’s funny, then I go get a pen and I write it down. Or if the pen’s too far away, I have to convince myself that what I thought of ain’t funny. Mitch Hedberg This post is inspired by Startup Edition , in response…

July 26, 2013 What Philz Coffee Can Teach Us About Product Design This is an expansion of my piece published on PandoDaily . I love Philz Coffee. Since I moved to San Francisco nearly three years ago, it’s become part of my routine, my go-to weekend workspace. Hundreds of cups later, I’ve noticed…

Nice, succinct definition: “A Product Manager’s Job” — https://t.co/gKzAtkBEpk

This paper was originally written in 2010 for a Corporate Innovation class at Kellogg; please forgive any formatting errors carried over in the conversion from PDF, as well as the excessive footnotes! Apple’s unbroken string of success seems to suggest it is impervious to the Innovator’s Dilemma.…

1. INNOVATION, NOT INSTANT PERFECTION. "There are two different types of programmers. Some like to code for months or even years, and hope they will have built the perfect product. That's castle building. Companies work this way, too. Apple is great at it. If you get it right and you've built just…

The Architecture Twitter Uses to Deal with 150M Active Users, 300K QPS, a 22 MB/S Firehose, and Send Tweets in Under 5 Seconds Monday, July 8, 2013 at 8:54AM Toy solutions solving Twitter’s “problems” are a favorite scalability trope. Everybody has this idea that Twitter is easy. With a little…

A few weeks ago, I attended a PGA golf tournament. You might think watching golf is boring, but I beg to differ: professional golf tournaments offer a chance to witness firsthand one of the amazing athletic feats in the world. If an ordinary weekend golfer made ten great shots in a row, that might…

http://www.flickr.com/photos/dacotahsgirl/531633365/ I love side projects. They let you learn new things, have fun and experiment. Unlike a typical day job, you get to be in control . You get to do what you want to do. No clients. No managers. No bureaucracy. And you get to ship your own product.…

Walk to the back of Building 18, on the edge of Facebook’s new headquarters in Menlo Park, California, and you’ll find the remnants of The Battle Cave. Today, this room is just another stretch of open office space, where rows of Facebookers work on who-knows-what. But if you look to your right, at…

★ On adding product features, and Instagram’s pivot into complexity: http://t.co/mjAGO47MKt

Why We Should Rethink the Eight-Hour Workday http://t.co/KTuTvFqyLD

Based in San Francisco, Human is a stealthy fitness startup founded by Renato Valdes Olmos of Cardcloud and Paul Veugen of Usabilla . Launching soon with a self-titled app, Human’s goal is to make the ‘quantified self’ trend accessible to people who aren’t athletes or data geeks — the mainstream.…