Alex Honnold once told me that somewhere in his van, hidden amongst the hundreds of pages of training logs and route journals, he has a list of life goals. On top of that list there are two letters, “
“And then I said anyone not willing to break their backs working for me was a tourist!” If you want to understand why so many startups become infected with unhealthy work habits, or outright workaholi
Steven Yang quit his job at Google in the summer of 2011 to build the products he felt the world needed: a line of reasonably priced accessories that would be better than the ones you could buy from A
Students at Newton Bateman Elementary School in Chicago use Google-powered laptops and Google education apps for classwork. More than half the nation’s primary- and secondary-school students — more th
The first bear appeared in town one morning in late August. It was a little after eight, and Nikolai, an elderly pensioner, had just come out to walk his cat. He joined a neighbor on a wooden bench ou
We made up the weekend the same way we made up the week. The earth actually does rotate around the sun once a year, taking about 365.25 days. The sun truly rises and sets over twenty-four hours. But t
Hackers Came, but the French Were Prepared President-elect Emmanuel Macron at a rally at the Louvre on Sunday evening. His digital team began to notice “high quality” phishing mails in December. Credi
Why did this man travel 200 miles to die here? By Jon Manel The discovery Time / Date: 10:47 Saturday 12 December Incident Log 936: Man found deceased, approximate age 65 to 75 Location: Beauty spot,
The ghost rope snaked over the lip of Keyhole Canyon’s third and final rappel. At first, Kaden Anderson thought it meant that there was a group ahead of his party, but when he called down no one answe
One summer day I got into a rented powerboat with two friends, the photographers Mark Klett and Byron Wolfe, and we went up Dungeon Canyon to see what we could see of what had, until half a century ag
AUSTIN — It was the winter of 1997 and Alex Jones couldn’t stop getting punched in the face. Out on the cracked asphalt of Austin Public Access Television’s parking lot, under the sprawling Texas live
Lots of engineering teams (including ours) use Slack to manage their software development process. We were curious: exactly how do these teams use Slack to keep their work focused and ship stuff faste
Web startups are made out of two things: people and code. The people make the code, and the code makes the people rich. Code is like a poem; it has to follow certain structural requirements, and yet o
Editor’s note : Last weekend was the latest edition of my favorite journalism conference, the International Symposium on Online Journalism in Austin. You can catch up on what you missed through these
Credit... Illustration by T.S. Abe for The New York Times Uber’s C.E.O. Plays With Fire Travis Kalanick’s drive to win in life has led to a pattern of risk-taking that has at times put his ride-hailin
This post is an attempt to reduce the number of times I need to explain things in Stack Overflow comments. You may well be reading it via a link from Stack Overflow – I intend to refer to this post fr
Introduction It’s increasingly obvious that the old, linear, three-tier architecture model is obsolete. A Gartner Summit track description Learn faster. Dig deeper. See farther. Join the O'Reilly onli
I changed the murder weapon to a baseball bat, because I didn’t want to be sued by the Skakels. I also changed the family makeup a bit and gave some Kennedy touches to the Skakels, whom I called the B
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Last year, a strange self-driving car was released onto the quiet roads of Monmouth County, New Jersey. The experimental vehicle, developed by researchers at the chip maker Nvidia, didn’t look differe
D ouglas Coupland has always been one of the sharpest critics of the modern workplace. His literary works – such as Generation X, JPod and Microserfs – revolve around smart and creative young people w
In February 2006, Jeff Han gave a demo of an experimental 'multitouch' interface, as a 'TED' talk. I've embedded the video below. Watching this today, the things he shows seems pretty banal - every $5
July 23, 2015 was the eve of Joseph Lloyd Keller’s 19th birthday. The Cleveland, Tennessee, native had been spending the summer between his freshman and sophomore years at Cleveland State Community Co
Many executives ask me what artificial intelligence can do. They want to know how it will disrupt their industry and how they can use it to reinvent their own companies. But lately the media has somet
Canadian endurance runner Gary Robbins had been running—which is to say, sliding, clawing, and bushwhacking, with a bit of sleep-deprived hallucination thrown in—through the unforgiving outback of Fro
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To Be a Genius, Think Like a 94-Year-Old John Goodenough, who at 94 has filed a patent application on a new kind of battery. Credit... Kayana Szymczak for The New York Times In 1946, a 23-year-old Arm
Early the morning of August 21, 2013, six densely populated neighborhoods in Syria “were jolted awake by a series of explosions, followed by an oozing blanket of suffocating gas,” the Washington Post
How Uber Uses Psychological Tricks to Push Its Drivers’ Buttons The company has undertaken an extraordinary experiment in behavioral science to subtly entice an independent work force to maximize its
A focus on drug offenders and private prisons can distract from the larger problem. Illustration by Ben Wiseman Reformers are famously prey to the fanaticism of reform. A sense of indignation and a go
This guide is a sampling of what will be available in my upcoming book: The Ultimate Guide to Chatbots . If you enjoy this article, you should consider signing up for the book’s waitlist . The incredi
There are two foundational technology changes rolling through the car industry at the moment; electric and autonomy. Electric is happening right now, largely as a consequence of falling battery prices
Chris Dixon opened a truly wonderful piece in the Atlantic entitled How Aristotle Created the Computer like this: The history of computers is often told as a history of objects, from the abacus to the
The first cocktail party at Barack Obama’s new office last month was certainly more casual than any he had hosted in recent years. The wine bore a random assortment of labels, as if assembled potluck-
5 min read · Mar 8, 2017 -- Psst! Hey…You know there’s a simple way to get engineers to build what you want, and as a bonus you can call it “agile”…Shh! Try to keep this technique quiet. You see it’s
Spiders are quite literally all around us. A recent entomological survey of North Carolina homes turned up spiders in 100 percent of them, including 68 percent of bathrooms and more than three-quarter
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Illness narratives usually have startling beginnings—the fall at the supermarket, the lump discovered in the abdomen, the doctor’s call. Not mine. I got sick the way Hemingway says you go broke: “grad
Years ago I had coffee with a friend who ran a startup. He had just turned 40. His father was ill, his back was sore, and he found himself overwhelmed by life. “Don’t laugh at me,” he said, “but I was
For more AI news and analysis, sign up to my newsletter here . 9 min read · Jan 16, 2017 -- Distilling a generally-accepted definition of what qualifies as artificial intelligence (AI) has become a re