‘We Are Hunted’ Co-Founder Stephen Phillips On Music Discovery And More http://t.co/K8sjWNjs by @thealbumproject

Portrait Of A Dropout: Twitpic CTO Steve Corona http://t.co/2dvrEz9c

Y Combinator's Secret Weapon: http://t.co/OhQUxJq1

The Jeff Bezos School of Long-Term Thinking :: Tips :: 99U http://t.co/EqzkdtOL

Interesting idea from @LayerVault: "With progressive reduction, the UI adapts to the user’s proficiency." http://t.co/U7X17wBk

“@nicharry: Fantastic article. RT @danmartell: Ecommerce is a slog -- what's your angle? /by @fdestin http://t.co/Fvj35KTL” <~ brilliant

How http://t.co/4wGqw8bm Works - Business Insider http://t.co/sznEuM2g

Designers Will Code Should designers code? It's an important conversation for our field, but the reality is that most designers can't and don't code as part of their regular process. We could argue about theoretical ideals, but technology is on the cusp of rendering the whole debate irrelevant. This…

True RT @Inc: Rules For Success from @HuffingtonPost editor-in-chief Arianna Huffington http://t.co/wci85mLJ via @issielapowsky @ariannahuff

“@newsycombinator: Intensive Decompression: Brain Reset by Sleeping in Nature http://t.co/C1Sh78XR” @Jwomers

Max Levchin talks about data, sensors and the plan for his new startup(s) (@om / GigaOM) http://t.co/uryw8Mt1 http://t.co/wFAqXYQI

“Let’s start with a distinction that should be obvious but is often overlooked: not every newly founded company is a startup. Millions of companies are started every year in the US. Only a tiny fraction are startups.” - Paul Graham, Startup=Growth Tech startups are hard. Building a company that…

Elucidating keynote from Max Levchin on more effective resource utilization going into the future. http://t.co/j324vOlG

A cube at Google’s global headquarters in Mountain View, Calif. Courtesy Google. A few years ago, Google’s human resources department noticed a problem: A lot of women were leaving the company. Like the majority of Silicon Valley software firms, Google is staffed mostly by men, and executives have…

“We can’t spare developer time right now.” That’s what you’ll hear if you ask a startup why they aren’t tracking their funnels, why they aren’t sending drip-email campaigns, or why they haven’t installed live-chat. Even services like Intercom or Customer.io that are practically guaranteed to…

There’s a lot of talk about how important details are. But what’s often left out of the discussion is timing. Details and timing are intimately related. God, the devil, beauty, perfection, precision – these aren’t the only things you’ll find in the details. You’ll also find stagnation, disagreement,…

How technologies like Google Glass and detecting people's emotional states step over “The Creepy Line”: http://t.co/X9ZAqBjS

A little old now, but one of the best start-up essays I've read. http://t.co/3XpxUsfY

★ What users really care about http://t.co/loR0kt2O

It’s curious how Apple’s hardware and software have taken such divergent paths. Looking at iOS hardware and software separately, one might think they were produced by different companies. The drop-shadows and textures of iOS stand in sharp contrast to the clean lines and invisible seams of Apple’s…

True… to *solve* a problem you first need a *problem*. RT @elezea: Startups, failure, and focusing on customer problems http://t.co/lyT5Gxi3

No Fitbit Or Fuelband Necessary․ The Moves App Tracks Your Steps From The iPhone․ http://t.co/2xiehiBy by @kimmaicutler

As we’ve scaled Instagram to an ever-growing number of active users, Postgres has continued to be our solid foundation and the canonical data storage for most of the data created by our users. While less than a year ago , we blogged about how we “stored a lot of data” at Instagram at 90 likes per…

I know a few 'managers' that need to watch this... "Why work doesn't happen at work: http://t.co/FU4A2JrX"

Seven publishing trends that will define 2013 http://t.co/2kb09Ok2 via @pandodaily

Fascinating overview of typeface readability research: "The Serif Readability Myth" - http://t.co/aJmw8nvu

“@azeem: Who really wins if Rocket goes public? http://t.co/rH6iilfh - great work by @bobbiejohnson”

A metric ton of good insights: “91 Point Checklist for eCommerce Conversion Optimization” - http://t.co/Y0RS78Zr /via @jcolman

Background Ok, let me get started by assuring you that I don’t have bed bugs. In fact, I spend most of my waking hours finding ways to kill them. Really, I just talked to a customer who was crying non-stop and sleeping in her bathtub. Looking back, I never saw myself as the leader of a startup with…

It’s 12:20 p.m. and I’m 19 stories high in a Bangkok hotel, settling down to the start of what was meant to be an 11 a.m. conference. I nurse a Singha beer and look around at a motley bunch of co-attendees: mostly single men in their twenties and thirties, wearing flip-flops or Converse sneakers,…