So I got fired from GitHub two weeks ago. This is the tweet I wrote afterwards while walking to lunch: The last half-decade meant everything to me. Was a hell of a gig.Thanks, GitHub. — Zach Holman (@holman) February 20, 2015 I left it ambiguous because I wasn’t sure what to think about it all at…

Do a search on SoundCloud for “ Turn Down for What ” and you get over 500 results, most of which are unofficial remixes done in a laundry list of styles: trap, reggae, hardstyle, bhangra. Given the track’s popularity, and SoundCloud’s enormous community of bedroom hip-hop and EDM producers , it’s no…

Streaming services, most notably Spotify , use what could be called a pari-mutuel royalty system: All the money collected goes into a big pool, Spotify takes its 30 percent off the top, and whatever is left is distributed to artists based on their share of overall plays. Spotify explains how it all…

Interesting article that I can relate to, from @RianVDM on manager/designer roles and career progression: http://t.co/CtvzXYEXxw

A few months ago we bought a new digital camera, all the better to take pictures of our new spawned process . My wife, who was in charge of this purchase, dutifully unboxed the camera, installed the batteries, and began testing it out for the first time. Like so many electronic gadgets, it came…

A Less Long, More Connected Medium I love a professionally reported 17-minute article about an important and surprising topic. Or a 10-minute technical mystery by a professional designer. And who doesn’t enjoy a 91-minute interview between a media entrepreneur and a journalist? High-production…

This is a very shortsummary with lots left out—here is the long version: http://startupclass.samaltman.com You should start with an idea, not a company. When it’s just an idea or project, the stakesare lower and you’re more willing to entertain outlandish-sounding butpotentially huge ideas. The best…

If there’s one thing Pandora has in spades, it’s songs. But if there’s one other thing the music streaming platform has in spades, it’s data on more than 250 million users, none of whom should have the same experiences, according to Jack Krawczyk, the director of product management at Pandora.…

A popular strategy for bootstrapping networks is what I like to call “come for the tool, stay for the network.” The idea is to initially attract users with a single-player tool and then, over time, get them to participate in a network. The tool helps get to initial critical mass. The network creates…