Remember when Wikipedia was a joke? In its first decade of life, the website appeared in as many punch lines as headlines. The Office 's Michael Scott called it “the best thing ever,” because “anyone
Twelve Million Phones, One Dataset, Zero Privacy Every minute of every day, everywhere on the planet, dozens of companies — largely unregulated, little scrutinized — are logging the movements of tens
“Left but not woke” is the Bernie Sanders brand. If anybody failed to recognize it before, nobody can miss it now. Last week, the mega-podcaster Joe Rogan endorsed Sanders. The Sanders campaign tweete
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 podcasting, with some observations on ho
Last week Jason Snell published his annual Six Colors Apple Report Card for 2019 . This year 65 voters (hand-selected by Snell) graded Apple in 12 areas. I was one of them, and, like last year , thoug
The new Fantastical. Over six years after the debut of the second major iteration of Fantastical – version 2.0 for iPhone, which I reviewed in October 2013 – Flexibits is introducing a new version of
Note : This story has not been updated since 2020. It’s time for our annual look back on Apple’s performance during the past year, as seen through the eyes of writers, editors, developers, podcasters,
Ten years ago today, Steve Jobs introduced the iPad on stage at the Yerba Buena theater in San Francisco . It surprised everyone, in several ways. Some expected a touchscreen Mac with a stylus. Some e
E very morning of my Joe Rogan experience began the same way Joe Rogan begins his: with the mushroom coffee. It’s a pour-and-stir powder made from lion’s mane and chaga—“two rock-star mushrooms,” acco
Subscribing to YouTube Channels With RSS ⇥ eggfreckles.net Thomas Brand: For most people watching the occasional stupid video isn’t that big of a problem because people tell Google who they are
Developer Chris Wetherell built Twitter’s retweet button. And he regrets what he did to this day. “We might have just handed a 4-year-old a loaded weapon,” Wetherell recalled thinking as he watched th
Buccaneers quarterback Jameis Winston led the NFL in passing with a franchise-record 5,109 yards. He was also second in the NFL in passing touchdowns with a career-high 33 in 2019 – also a Tampa Bay r
What should you do for your end-of-the-year review with an employee? Use this one-on-one meeting template. With December upon us (already!), many managers have been asking me if I have a one-on-one me
Update: A few months after this piece was published, I was invited by Harvard’s Berkman Center to speak about this topic in more detail. Though the final talk is an hour long, it offers much more insi
Apple entered the 2010s just as the iPhone began to explode in popularity. The iPhone became the most successful consumer product, ever. Sales surged for another five years and still make up a majorit
Democracy depends on the consent of the losers. For most of the 20th century, parties and candidates in the United States have competed in elections with the understanding that electoral defeats are n
W e’re living through the most profound transformation in our information environment since Johannes Gutenberg’s invention of printing in circa 1439. And the problem with living through a revolution i
Nitpicking ‘The Rise of Skywalker’ to Death Published in 500ish · 12 min read · Dec 26, 2019 -- Warning: If you have not yet seen The Rise of Skywalker do not read this post. There be spoilers. Read i
Do this instead. Here are 6 ways to motivate your team that doesn’t undermine their intrinsic employee motivation that they already have. “ I need to figure out how to motivate my employees.” When was
EL PASO, Texas — Offensive coordinator Kendal Briles and defensive coordinator Harlon Barnett were the first two Florida State assistants to learn they wouldn’t be retained by coach Mike Norvell. The
Björn Block hurries out of the Ikea Museum and heads toward the company’s headquarters. His stride is surprisingly quick — faster than mine, considering I’ve just scarfed down a substantial plate of m
John : The process of picking the MacStories Selects awards is simple. During the past year as we used and reviewed hundreds of apps, Federico, Ryan, and I kept a shared note in Apple Notes with a lis
Dan Evans In 2012, Jürgen Klopp got a hair transplant. This is far from unusual in the world of European men’s soccer; Inter Milan manager Antonio Conte’s resodded noggin has long been an object of fa
Published in UX Collective · 20 min read · Dec 20, 2019 -- Q uick-fire question; what is the single most important and widely used feature in a phone — asides from texting and instant messaging friend
The Internet Has Lost Its Joy ⇥ gen.medium.com Alex Balk , in the Awl in 2015: I have previously shared with you Balk’s Law (“Everything you hate about The Internet is actually everything you ha
A few weeks ago on my podcast , speculating on the tentpole features for this year’s new iPhones, I said that “iCamera” would be a far more apt name than “iPhone”. MG Siegler, writing about Apple’s ev
When I covered the updated Shortcuts app in my iOS and iPadOS 13 review earlier this year, I argued how, thanks to parameters, Shortcuts actions provided by third-party apps could become native featur
Article Hero Image Reddit It seems little went right for NeXT and certainly nothing remains of this once promising company — except that it is the reason Apple survives and it's how the web began. App
For big tech platforms, this was the year when violating users’ privacy got expensive. But did it get expensive enough? In July, Facebook agreed to pay $5 billion to settle charges that it had misled
The first day of public hearings into the impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump included an explosive revelation . William B. Taylor Jr., the senior American diplomat in Ukraine, tied Trump ev
“It is now too late to stop a future collapse of our societies because of climate change.” These are not the words of a tinfoil hat-donning survivalist. This is from a paper delivered by a senior sust
Photo from kozorog / Getty Images . I am bone of the bone of them that live in trailer homes. I grew up next to Tiffany ‘Pennsatucky’ Doggett, the hostile former drug addict from the prison TV drama O
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Suppose that the biblical story of Creation were true: God created the universe in six days, including all the laws of physics and all the physical constants that apply throughout the universe. Now im
People May 16, 2017 How stack ranking corrupts culture, at Uber and Beyond Henrik-Jan van der Pol CEO, Perdoo 5 minute read 4.5(40) In this article Creating a meritocratic workplace where decisions ab
Rendering: Patrick White P resident Donald Trump is not much of a humorist, yet he never tires of joking that he might not leave office. Toasting Chinese President Xi Jinping at Mar-a-Lago in March 20
Today, Willie Taggart was fired by Florida State , meaning the Seminoles are now looking for a head coach for the second time in three years, and the third in over 40. The writers of TN are discussing
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