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Preface by Brian Balfour: I rarely accept guest posts on this blog, but this opportunity was too good to pass up. A couple months ago Tal Raviv (Growth PM @ Patreon) sent me a short email - "Brian, th
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Hype’s How We Work series focuses on how successful southeastern tech companies are developing authentic work cultures. 2017 might as well have been the year of MailChimp — the email marketing company
Given that coordination and communication swamp all other costs in modern software development it is a pressing area to invest in, especially as your team scales . I use a framework of a Small Number
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A few years ago, I decided I wanted to learn to play the drums. I've always loved the drums. Whenever I listen to music, I hear the drums first. I can listen to a great jazz drummer like Art Blakey fo
neuroscience How the Brain Creates a Timeline of the Past February 12, 2019 The brain can’t directly encode the passage of time, but recent work hints at a workaround for putting timestamps on memorie
A few days back I read an article about how Bitcoin’s price can be sufficiently explained by Metcalfe’s law. As you read through the post, resist the temptation to click the links to learn more about
Read Stephen Wolfram’s Reddit AMA about this essay » The Pursuit of Productivity I’m a person who’s only satisfied if I feel I’m being productive. I like figuring things out. I like making things. And
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This article is by Dave Girouard , CEO of personal finance startup Upstart , and former President of Google Enterprise Apps. He’s well known for building Google’s enterprise apps division into a $1B+
How is software developed at Amazon? Monday, March 4, 2019 at 9:03AM How is software developed at Amazon? Get a couple of prime pizzas delivered and watch this excellent interview with Ken Exner, GM o
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It's a beautiful day in his neighborhood, and Ben Chestnut is thinking about pain. Late-afternoon sun is shining on Atlanta's BeltLine, an abandoned train track converted into a green pedestrian path.
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Photo by Content Pixie on Unsplash John Allspaw has a great tweet on problem discovery: I’ve always loved the tweet, but I only recently noticed the paper he cites in the thread. It’s called “ The Art
This is a transcript of the bonus material at the end of the giant How to Get Rich episode. Nivi: A common question we get: “How do I find the time to start investing in myself? I have a job.” You hav
In order to preserve nihilism as a meaningful concept, it's necessary to distinguish it from pessimism, cynicism, and apathy. Nihilism is one of those concepts that we are all pretty sure we know the
A couple of years ago, I got really interested in pu’er tea—a kind of fermented tea produced in China—which can sell for thousands of dollars. I tried some, liked it, read about its history, and then…
In 1998 Eric S. Raymond published an epochal game-changing book called The Cathedral and the Bazaar . in it he laid the foundations, methodology and aims for the open source movement. Before Raymond,
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February 2020 What should an essay be? Many people would say persuasive. That'swhat a lot of us were taught essays should be. But I think we canaim for something more ambitious: that an essay should b
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When I wrote An Elegant Puzzle , I wanted to document some of the structured ways I’d learned to foster inclusion within engineering organizations, and that topic surfaced in a number of sections, inc
March 2005 (In the processof answering an email, I accidentally wrote a tiny essay about writing.I usually spend weeks on an essay. This one took 67 minutes—23of writing, and 44 of rewriting.) I think
Nothing will change your future trajectory like your habits. We all have goals, big or small, things we want to achieve within a certain time frame. Maybe you want to make a million dollars by the tim
Rich Sutton July 9, 2016 John McCarthy long ago gave one of the best definitions:"Intelligence is the computational part of the ability to achieve goalsin the world”. That is pretty straightforward an
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The Leviathan II whale-watching ship capsized last October, killing six. For the first time, the survivors and rescuers recount how the tragedy unfolded. By Nancy Macdonald Christian Barchfeld was tum
It was the most radical computer dream of the hacker era. Ted Nelson's Xanadu project was supposed to be the universal, democratic hypertext library that would help human life evolve into an entirely
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Face ID as the Replacement for Touch ID Apple made this decision well over a year ago. Perhaps the fundamental goal of iPhone X was to get as close as they could to an edge-to-edge display. No chin wh
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