Command Line | Graphviz

DOT rendering programs and utilities.

Introduction to TCP and Sockets

codecrafters-io/build-your-own-x: Master programming by recreating your favorite technologies from scratch.

Master programming by recreating your favorite technologies from scratch. - codecrafters-io/build-your-own-x

Small, Sharp Tools

A few words on the Unix philosophy of building small programs that do one thing well, and compose for comprehensive functionality.

Welcome | Handbook of Graphs and Networks in People Analytics

A technical manual of graphs, networks and their applications in the people and social sciences

An Introduction to Multithreading in Node.js

Let's dive into multithreading and how to use worker threads in Node.

Things I wish everyone knew about Git (Part II)

From the highly eclectic blog of Mark Dominus

How Paper Catalogs Remain Relevant in a Digital Age

Whether or not you should pursue a catalog strategy is a question that deserves significant thought. As digital marketing becomes more complex, it may make a lot of sense to send out correctly designed catalogs to the right customers. For e-commerce retailers without physical…

Inside the Mind-Boggling World of the Antiquities Theft Task Force

You can't make this shit up

What’s So Funny? The Science of Why We Laugh

Psychologists, neuroscientists and philosophers are trying to understand humor.

New Air-Gap Attack Uses SATA Cable as an Antenna to Transfer Radio Signals

Researchers demonstrated a new Air-Gap attack, dubbed SATAn, in which attackers can use SATA cable as a wireless antenna to transmit radio signals.

The Case for Bad Coffee

Lately, something has changed. Lately, I've been reacting to fancy coffee the same way a child reacts to an accidental sip of red wine mistaken for grape juice. I don't know when it happened, but I've devolved into an unexpected love affair with bad coffee. It's not just instant…

Quiet People in Meetings Are Incredible

Knowing when not to talk is an art.

Be the Most Persuasive Person in the Room: 9 Things Highly Influential People Always Do, According to Science

Sometimes facts, logic, and reasoning aren't enough. Here's how the most persuasive people make a great argument even more convincing.

Medium

“” is published by Gabriel Weinberg.

https://betterhumans.coach.me/how-to-sell-anything-aristotle-and-the-ancient-art-of-persuasion-bc53c6c27ea6%23.698izxj5b

Medium

I became an engineering leader accidentally. I now realize that this taught me the single most important thing about leadership. Effective…

https://betterhumans.coach.me/cognitive-bias-cheat-sheet-55a472476b18%23.k5omhqka6

Medium

A Checklist of eCommerce Tactics

Free Online Guide - What drives online purchases? And how can you apply this information to boost conversions?

How to Seize Attention with the Secrets of a Sideshow Barker

Step right up!

How Great Leaders Respond to Negative Criticism in the Digital Age

Corporate leadership today is more public than ever before thanks to digital communication and the web. The status quo has been upended by the ease with

Tribal Leadership: The Key To Building Great Teams

Have you ever wondered about internal organization dynamics and why some groups of people (who aren’t on the same team) are more successful than others? Why different “tribes” inside the organization seem to be at war with one another lowering performance in increasing politics?…

Medium

How To Pay Attention 20 Ways To Win The War Against Seeing [Addendum, December 2019: If you like this piece, which was published in 2014, please check out the related (but even better!) book The Art …

Getting Your Product Into the Habit Zone

Companies utilize the Habit Zone to create user habits and influence user behavior. By creating habits, products become a part of users’ lives and minds.

The Nine Primary Tactics Used to Influence Others

The Primary Tactics Used to Influence Others —The number one thing to understand about influence is that people make decisions for their reasons, not yours.

Loyalists vs Mercenaries

One of the things that entrepreneurs, founders, and CEOs obsess over is holding onto their team. When I propose some sort of difficult decision to a CEO, I am often met with the response “the team will freak out and we will lose them.” And I understand where this emotion comes…

Product Leadership Rules to Live By From My Experience at Pandora

Pandora's VP of Product Jack Krawczyk offers the six tactics you need to lead product managers.

Harvard's Sendhil Mullainathan on behavior and poverty | Harvard Magazine

A behavioral economist’s fresh perspectives on poverty

https://measureofdoubt.com/2017/02/05/which-cognitive-bias-is-making-nfl-coaches-predictable/

Medium

Unintuitive Things I’ve Learned about Management (Part 1) I first started managing people seven years ago, three years after I graduated and got my first design job. At the time, I was woefully …

Use the "But You Are Free" Technique to Persuade Anyone

There are lots of techniques for becoming more persuasive , but perhaps the simplest, most practical technique is the But You Are Free me

Get your work recognized: write a brag document

how-to-get-promoted-based-on-merit-rather-than-hubris

This is how to compete and win on a biased playing field.

Why The Haters are Wrong About Growth Hacking

There’s an article making the rounds in tech circles titled “Growth Hacking is Bull” written by Muhammad Saleem. I’d like to make the case that the article is wrong. I’d strongly encourage you to…

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Neil Patel's Digital Marketing Blog

Your #1 resource for digital marketing tips, trends, and strategy to help you build a successful online business.

The 11 Risks VCs Evaluate by @ttunguz

Though the industry is called venture capital, the goal of a VC isn’t to maximize every risk. Instead, we try to understand all the risks a business might face and weigh those risks with the reward - the exit. Here are the major risks that I typically review when a startup…

Defining Churn Rate (no really, this actually requires an entire blog post) - Shopify

If you go to three different analysts looking for a definition of "churn rate," they will all agree that it's an important metric and that the definition is self evident. Then they will go ahead and give you three different definitions. And as they share their definitions with…

Running Marketing Experiments with Purpose

Over the past few years, marketing on the web has become way too much fun. I remember trying to figure out what “hits” on awstats [http://awstats.sourceforge.net/] meant in high school, and I distinctly can recall how disappointed I was when I found out the true meaning…

The Greatest Word of Mouth Follow-up Question... Ever!

Word of mouth is powerful... but this follow-up question allows you to harness that power to supercharge your marketing. Use it wisely and carefully.

21 management things I learned at Imgur

It’s terribly difficult to manage unmotivated people. Make your job easier and don’t.

Why You Can't Settle For The "Minimum" In Your Minimum Viable Product

Many startups scramble to create a "minimum viable product," or MVP, to get a version of their product to market quickly for testing. It’s a great way to cost-effectively test a website or app with real users. But be careful, if your MVP is too minimalist, it could torpedo your…

A New Approach to Feature Requests

A few months ago, I got this email from a customer: It would be wonderful if there was a way to tag/assign forwarded emails to specific task lists within client projects. The “email forwards” secti…

How Two Companies Hooked Customers On Products They Rarely Use

Not every business needs to have habit-forming products. Here's how two companies hooked customers and formed habits with products they rarely used.

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The secret tricks hidden inside restaurant menus

Great thought and effort go into creating restaurant menus – and there are some very powerful psychological tricks employed to make you choose.

3 Email Lead Capture Hacks to Get More Customers

When it comes to email lead capture, you can just acquire email addresses, or you can acquire real contacts that you can turn into leads. Context is key.

How Package Designers Use Science to Influence Your Subconscious Mind

How do you sell shoppers on duck, a product that’s served in many restaurants but that many people do not feel comfortable cooking at home?