If you’re okay with killing time, it’s not scarce enough. Time is scarce, life is short, and as the grains of sand slip through the hourglass, so does the precious gift of time. Once gone, it disappea
Every year on Fishtown Analytics’ birthday (July 1), I take a moment toreflect back on the past 12 months. After oneyear in business, I wasrelieved that Fishtown Analytics was still alive and showing
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Every year a few thousand startups are incubated in Silicon Valley. Few of them will succeed; the rest will decay or outright fail. Yet there always seems to be room for one more billion-dollar compan
March 10, 2016 Published by Igor Maravić Whenever a user performs an action in the Spotify client—such as listening to a song or searching for an artist—a small piece of information, an event, is sent
Spotify’s Event Delivery – The Road to the Cloud (Part II) March 3, 2016 Published by Igor Maravić Whenever a user performs an action in the Spotify client—such as listening to a song or searching for
Spotify’s Event Delivery – The Road to the Cloud (Part I) February 25, 2016 Published by Igor Maravić Whenever a user performs an action in the Spotify client—such as listening to a song or searching
Hi, Welcome to BIG, a newsletter about the politics of monopoly. If you’d like to sign up, you can do so here . Or just read on… Today I’m going to write about how private equity is reacting to the pa
Despite existing in an era with the highest living standards in the history of mankind, despite having easy access to most of our material needs, recent polls have revealed that we modern people are m
The Development of the C Language* Dennis M. Ritchie Bell Labs/Lucent Technologies Murray Hill, NJ 07974 USA dmr@bell-labs.com ABSTRACT The C programming language was devised in the early 1970s as a s
Ten years from now, what seismic change will we reflect back on and think, “well that was pretty obvious, in retrospect”? Debt is going to finally come to the tech industry. We can hate it, we can cri
Good Product Team / Bad Product Team NOTE: My friend and colleague Jeff Patton is the author of a book on the general topic of User Stories and especially the technique of Story Mapping. I was asked t
Published in Both Sides of the Table · 7 min read · Apr 20, 2010 -- I recently did a post for startups on understanding sales people . A few people have asked me to try and define the perfect startup