The One Quality Every Startup Needs to Survive [http://firstround.com/article/Asanas-Justin-Rosenstein-on-the-One-Quality-Every-Startup-Needs-to-Survive] : > He had stumbled upon that one, critical missing ingredient — an ingredient that Rosenstein and Asana’s leadership have accepted as key to their success: Clarity. Whatever you call it, establishing the clear “why” and making sure

Why Augur? [http://apatterns.tumblr.com/post/77365429971/augur-maxtb-launch]: apatterns [http://apatterns.tumblr.com/post/77365429971/augur-maxtb-launch]: > PR has become a much maligned industry. And perhaps there’s some fairness to the criticism. Over the last 100 years, its “two-way street” origin decayed into something designed to match broadcast

Like it or not, Dungeon Keeper is the future of LCD gaming [https://medium.com/p/676cdc67b5ab]: By me: “There has been a lot of fuss about the new ‘free-to-play’ Dungeon Keeper on iOS and Android. For much of the gaming community, it’s a new watermark for how the

The Graph That Changed Jon Bell [https://medium.com/launching-ux-launchpad/385ff833f9c8]

Quantum Dots: Band name or display technology? [http://www.displaymate.com/Display_Technology_2014.htm]: > Quantum Dots Quantum Dots provide an amazing super high technology performance enhancement for LCDs through a unique application of Quantum Physics. By incorporating them within the Backlight the LCDs then produce highly saturated primary

HARDWARE REVIEW: APPLE WEIGHS IN WITH MACINTOSH [http://www.nytimes.com/1984/01/24/science/personal-computers-hardware-review-apple-weighs-in-with-macintosh.html] : > The roughly 17-pound Macintosh comes in a square bushel-basket-size canvas tote bag with an oversized zipper. The preproduction version I saw did not sport the Apple-with-a-bite logo. The addition of this emblem

It’s a great time to be a techy [http://ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2014/1/28/ecosystem-maths]: Nothing is settled on mobile. I have no idea what it will mean in 5 years time to say that I ‘installed’ an ‘app’ on an ‘Android’ ‘smartphone’. All of those terms could

“We’re Just Flipping Through Index Cards” [http://www.marco.org/2014/01/21/roderick-cmd-space]: > When a Marvin Gaye record came out 40 years ago, presumably, you went and spent your record-buying allowance on it, and you brought it home and listened to it exclusively for 2 weeks. It

Don’t Glorify Startup Failure [http://www.instigatorblog.com/dont-glorify-startup-failure/2014/01/23/]: And the counterpoint, from Ben Yoskovitz: “But we should also be careful about glorifying startup failure. There’s nothing awesome about it. The entrepreneurs that fail are not heroes or celebrities. They are special–because they’re

14 Startup Post-mortems [http://ryanhoover.me/post/74229429351/14-startup-postmortems]: I think you learn more from failure, both in details and its looming possibility, than endless success stories. Well worth a read, even if you aren’t of the startup world.

How can I accelerate my personal growth? [http://www.quora.com/permalink/KwQqyaPOr]: You’ll have to click through for the graph but hopefully this makes sense. I’ve never seen a better summary of how I feel about working life. > Choose “anxiety-driven growth” over “boredom-driven growth“. For Csikszentmihalyi,

Mobile to the Future (or Max’s idea of “cloud screens”) [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4r4vbV-2fSM]: A good watch but while he’s keen on mobile being the next big channel, I think I’d just call it something like “cloud screens” now. Convergence is most obvious in

We Didn’t Eat the Marshmallow. The Marshmallow Ate Us. [http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/12/magazine/we-didnt-eat-the-marshmallow-the-marshmallow-ate-us.html] : A fun but interesting analysis of the old Marshmallow/ instant gratification test. > We want the instant gratification of an easy answer. We want to hear that character traits can

The reality of digital newsrooms: ‘copy thrown online with a photo’ [http://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2014/jan/14/newspapers-digital-media] : > A young journalist who read the Fleet Street memories of Brian MacArthur (here) and Phil Moger (here) wants to make clear that it isn’t only veterans who

Some of what we did at Danger [https://medium.com/tech-talk/d823af31f7c]: > The company was called Danger, the platform was called hiptop, and what follows is an account of our early days, and a list of some of the “modern” technologies we shipped years before you could buy an

Casinos’ (and Facebook’s) worrying knack for consumer manipulation [http://timharford.com/2014/01/casinos-worrying-knack-for-consumer-manipulation/] : > Now consider addiction by design. What is not understood about modern slot machines – certainly not by the UK’s Labour party, which recently tried to spark a moral panic on the subject – is that

The Buffett Formula — How To Get Smarter [http://www.farnamstreetblog.com/2013/05/the-buffett-formula-how-to-get-smarter/] : > How to get smarter: Read. A lot. Warren Buffett says, “I just sit in my office and read all day.” What does that mean? He estimates that he spends 80% of his working day reading

The biggest shocker of 2013? That it really is a wonderful world [http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/coffeehouse/2013/12/we-dont-want-to-believe-it-but-things-really-are-getting-better/] : > Next year marks a millennium since the sermon given by Archbishop Wulfstan in York where he declared that “the world is in a rush and is getting close

The Builder’s High [http://randsinrepose.com/archives/the-builders-high/]: > What’s the last thing you built when you got that high? You know that high I’m talking about? It’s staring at a thing that you brought into the world because you decided it needed to exist. For

Pizza Packaging Has Come a Long Way… [http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2013/12/an_evolution_of_innovative_technologically_advanced_pizza_boxes.html] : > Children tend to think of it as a little white dollhouse table, but the white plastic tripod inside your pizza box has an important

Almost Human: The Surreal, Cyborg Future of Telemarketing [http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/12/almost-human-the-surreal-cyborg-future-of-telemarketing/282537/] : > Let’s just put it out there: This a creepy system. On the Internet, no one may know you’re a dog, but on the phone? It just seems wrong. What

The NSA: An Inside View [http://lorensr.me/nsa-an-inside-view.html]: > Many are concerned about the NSA listening to their phone calls and reading their email messages. I believe that most should not be very concerned because most are not sending email to intelligence targets. Email that isn’t related

Facebook Wants to Be a Newspaper. [http://allthingsd.com/20131210/facebook-wants-to-be-a-newspaper-facebook-users-have-their-own-ideas/] : > Teams explored a number of user interface and product mock-ups with this idealized form of user behavior in mind. It was all housed under an umbrella project broadly blanketed under the term “Reader” (an initiative that was widely

Facebook Wants to Know Why You’re Self-Censoring Your Posts [http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2013/12/facebook_self_censorship_what_happens_to_the_posts_you_don_t_publish.html] : > In their article, Das and Kramer claim to only send back information to Facebook that indicates

Gaming Made Me: Charlie Brooker [http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2013/07/15/gaming-made-me-charlie-brooker-part-1/] : > It’s one of the best stories that I’ve seen in games, but there is still a ridiculous amount of just non-stop peril that’s slightly divorced from the story and I know there’s