Month: December 2018

Completely unsurprising, and yet utterly terrifying.

Amy Zegart and Kevin Childs: In the past year, Google executives, citing ethical concerns, have canceled an artificial-intelligence project with the Pentagon and refused to even bid on the Defense Department’s Project JEDI, a desperately needed $10 billion IT-improvement program. While stiff-arming Washington, Google has been embracing Beijing, helping the Chinese government develop a more […]

Jack Nicas and Karen Weise reporting: “Every day as a C.E.O., you have employees coming to you saying, ‘I don’t make enough to buy a house for my family,’ and you already feel like you are paying through the nose,” said Glenn Kelman, chief executive of Redfin, the real estate site based in Seattle. “Almost […]

This was a lot of fun/work putting together. It’s quite interesting to imagine you have no clothes and you are rebuilding from scratch. We actually wrote these independently, but they came out very similar in areas. My post on this comes Monday. In the mean time, check out how Steve would rebuild his wardrobe.

These are the best duffels I tested this year, and the best I have ever used.

Why are packable briefcases not a thing companies make?

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Jon Evans: Let me reiterate: to write elegant software, you must keep both the macro and the micro vision in your mind simultaneously while working. JIRA is good at managing micro pieces. But you need something else for the macro. (And no, a clickable prototype isn’t enough; those are important, but they too require descriptive […]

Solid read. It is pretty clear that most ‘health’ apps are far more concerned with engagement than with help. Though I suspect most genuinely start off by wanting to help. There’s long been a trend with Nicholas Felton at the top of that, about logging your life to analyze the data. I call bullshit. Most […]

Randomly selecting things from a text file.

The DuckDuckGo blog: Private browsing mode and being logged out of Google offered very little filter bubble protection. These tactics simply do not provide the anonymity most people expect. In fact, it’s simply not possible to use Google search and avoid its filter bubble. Ultimately: We often hear of confusion that private browsing mode enables […]

Gabe Weatherhead: I’ve spent my entire career working with PDFs as reference material. I have thousands of documents and many, many notes. I feel like I spent my life doing it all wrong. LiquidText is an indispensable tool for any researcher or student. Such a killer app. If I still worked in real estate it […]

A purpose built rucking boot, you knew it was coming.

Wherein I manage to talk about backpacks and how they got me in shape.

My new alarm clock.

Out today, I had it in pre-order myself on Apple Books. Really enjoyed the first novel in the series and have been looking forward to reading this one too.

It’s my new RSS.

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Some key lessons I learned to manage my stress and get a good nights sleep.