The Hidden Story of the North’s Victory in the Civil War

Roger Lowenstein’s “Ways and Means” offers a fresh perspective on the Civil War by explaining the importance of financing.

Set “Non-Goals” and Build a Product Strategy Stack — Lessons For Product Le

Ravi Mehta, former CPO at Tinder & Product Exec at TripAdvisor, shares his framework for crafting a crisp product strategy for startups — a 5-step system called the "Product Strategy Stack." He also makes the case for setting "non-goals" and using an alternative to OKRs.

These ‘Saint Javelin’ stickers raised $470,000 for Ukraine aid in a week

A Canadian filmmaker has raised thousands of dollars to help Ukrainian refugees by selling missile launcher-themed stickers.

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Twitter Wants to Reinvent Itself, by Merging the Old With the New (Published 2022)

The company is undertaking a far-reaching effort to change how it works. For some, it is an echo of their early idealism and a vision for what the internet could have been.

The Boom-Bust Cycle in Commodities

The commodities are so cyclical.

This Is Peak Subscription

Forking over another $5 a month is getting pretty old.

How Sugar Affects the Brain, According to a Neuroscience Expert

Not surprisingly, you need sugar to function—but cravings are actually a result of too much.

Revolución on the Cookie Factory Floor

The new owner of Argentina’s de facto national treat stopped paying his majority-female workforce — so they seized control of the entire operation.

Bringing Home Braden: The extraordinary ‘rescue’ of a fallen California fir

In the midst of the 2018 Ferguson Fire in Northern California, a young bulldozer driver tumbled to his death trying to cut a fire break to protect his friends and his neighbors. Despite flames and dangerous terrain, his fellow firefighters were determined to do whatever it took…

Atomic Habits of Desire - by Luke Burgis

A dialogue of books: James Clear's "Atomic Habits" and "Wanting"

Asset2Vec: Turning 3D Objects into Vectors and Back

How we used NeRF to embed our entire 3D object catalogue to a shared latent space, and what it means for the future of graphics

Armored Assault Possum – Put On The Day

Get your laughs with our 'Armored Assault Possum' shirt, available in military green, white, and charcoal gray. Perfect for those who love a good twist! And yes, technically it's "opossum."

Stand up to bullies. Chase them out of office. Buy and read banned books.

— Bitter Southerner (@BitterSouth)

Interpretable Machine Learning using SHAP — theory and applications

Introduction

Cheat Sheet 💻

— Elitsa Krumova (@Eli_Krumova)

The rise, fall and potential resurrection of a coffee brewing legend

Bonavita was one of the first to make a good affordable at-home automatic drip coffee machine. Recent legal battles put its future in limbo.

The Craft of Artisanal Computer Manufacturing

Stefany Allaire has carved a niche in small-batch, retro-inspired computers

Introducing TorchRec, a library for modern production recommendation system

We are excited to announce TorchRec, a PyTorch domain library for Recommendation Systems. This new library provides common sparsity and parallelism primitives, enabling researchers to build state-of-the-art personalization models and deploy them in production.

10 Tips for Cultivating Creativity, From the Director of the Lifelong Kindergarten Group at MIT

The challenge is not how to “teach creativity” to children, but rather how to create a fertile environment in which their creativity will take root, grow, and flourish.

Tearing Down the Pricing of Dollar Shave Club and Gillette

This week we teardown the pricing of Dollar Shave Club and Gillette. Will Dollar Shave Club win out by taking over the bathroom, or can Gillette fight back with over 100 years of brand awareness? We find out in this week's Pricing Page Teardown.

How Hip-Hop Is Becoming the Oldies (Published 2015)

Part demographic inevitability, part data-driven corporate genius.

814 ‘Search Field’ Design Examples – Baymard Institute

The slippery slope of in product messaging

Instead of adding a sign, solve the problem

https://blog.mobile-patterns.com/practical-ux-design-tips-for-startups-and-teams-on-a-budget-fac58299984b

Leaks | GoodUI

Interactive: The secret to hotel room design is part art, part science

There’s more than meets the eye to room design

A UX leader reveals his favorite design frameworks and tools

🗝 The Keyring // 001

Using interactions to shape user behavior patterns

Facebook Messenger: Long Press to Swipe

Awesome Package Design Blogs to Inspire Your Work

If you’re a creative entrepreneur who understands the power of branding in your packaging design, you’re already

321 ‘Image Gallery Overlay’ Design Examples – Baymard Institute

650 ‘Billing Address’ Design Examples – Baymard Institute

BooksAndOtherExternalResources – FFmpeg

How to Learn the Trick of Confidence

Can ‘confidence-whisperer’ Nate Zinsser help Jamie Waters boost his wavering self-belief?

How Heinz uses a fake number to keep its brand timeless | CNN Business

Heinz has been linked to the number 57 for more than a century. The company’s “57 varieties” slogan was a key part of its early strategy to attract consumers. It’s still featured on Heinz ketchup bottles today and is central to the brand’s identity.

The Hidden Cost of Touchscreens

In 2012 I tried out a brand new luxury vehicle at a automotive conference. It was a minimalist European model, and nothing seemed out of…

843 ‘Account Selection’ Design Examples – Baymard Institute

A short history of door handles | Apollo Magazine

Door handles can be the first and only part of a building we touch, but their design is all too often an afterthought, writes Edwin Heathcote

The Weird Science Behind Chain Restaurant Menus

I was a corporate restaurant consultant. Here’s how the sausage gets made.

Annotation Is Now a Web Standard : Hypothesis

Over the years, many have tried to bring us web annotations. On 23 February 2017, things took a giant leap forward when the W3C, the standards body for the web, standardized annotation. Yesterday, on February 23, things took a giant leap forward when the W3C, the standards body…

Autocomplete as an interface

the real reason zsh beats bash • how I got twice as fast in python • autocompleting all the things • maximizing user-interface bandwidth

Patterns | GoodUI

Reflections from a designer turned product manager: 6 unexpected differences

Two years ago, I transitioned from design to product management (PM). After 10 years as a designer, from interning to managing a team, I…

Deceptive Patterns - Types of Deceptive Pattern

From "sneaking" to "forced action", explore the various types of deceptive patterns used by companies to mislead and trick users, and gain insights on how to protect yourself.

The UX of LEGO Interface Panels

LEGO interface panels are beautiful, iconic, and great for learning interface design basics. I bought 52 of them from BrickLink to explore the design, layout and organisation of complex interfaces.

342 Mobile ‘Search Field’ Examples – Baymard Institute

Figma Crash Course

Deep dives into powerful Figma features. Skip the basics and learn prototyping, auto-layout, systems, and illustration with your instructor, Pablo Stanley.

Beautiful Reasons

Towards New Aesthetics for Data Narratives

Commercial Property Search: Find Any Asset in Any Market

The Secret Behind JD.com’s Super Fast Delivery | by JD Smart Supply Chain |

The Inventory Allocation Perspection