The Charisma Effect

How to bend people to your will.

Front-end technologies

The front-end is everything involved with what the user sees, including design and some languages like HTML and CSS.

7 eCommerce trends to watch in 2020 and beyond

The Hardest Part About Learning Hard Things

It may never get any easier, but it’s always worth it.

A 2020 guide to smart discounting

Polly Wong, managing partner at Belardi Wong, offers tips for crafting customer offers while avoiding discount fatigue and harm to the bottom line.

Best Technology Posts of 2019

Technology changes faster than the blink of an eye which is why we share the latest tech gear we can find and now we're sharing this year's most popular.

‘Would You Be Willing?’: Words to Turn a Conversation Around (and Those to Avoid)

Choose your words carefully and you can get someone to change their mind, or see you in a new light.

One Brain, Two Bionic Arms

This man is learning to move two prosthetic arms directly, by thought alone

The Elements of Good Judgment

Judgment—the ability to combine personal qualities with relevant knowledge and experience to form opinions and make decisions—is “the core of exemplary leadership,” according to Noel Tichy and Warren Bennis (the authors of Judgment: How Winning Leaders Make Great Calls). It is…

How to Be Lucky

It pays to imagine your life is on a winning streak.

ritchieng/the-incredible-pytorch: The Incredible PyTorch: a curated list of tutorials, papers, projects, communities and more relating to…

The Incredible PyTorch: a curated list of tutorials, papers, projects, communities and more relating to PyTorch. - GitHub - ritchieng/the-incredible-pytorch: The Incredible PyTorch: a curated list...

The Linley Group - Tomahawk 4 Switch First to 25.6Tbps

The authoritative information platform to the semiconductor industry.

Bizcoder - Optimizing for the Speed of Light

You might be wondering what on earth I am talking about but this is something I see API developers getting confused about regularly.

Brian Piercy on LinkedIn: The Surprising Value of Obvious Insights

"...Google's people analytics experts had been studying how to onboard new hires effectively. They came back with a list of tips. Here’s the one that jumped…

I moved my sites from Google Kubernetes Engine to Netlify and saved $1000 /

Miss Girard’s Christmas Gift

When her former student was found wandering the streets a decade after she’d last seen him, Michell Girard immediately agreed to take him in. Then she decided to do far more, including give him the Christmas he’d never had.

Pricing algorithms can learn to collude with each other to raise prices

If you shop on Amazon, an algorithm rather than a human probably set the price of the service or item you bought. Pricing algorithms have become ubiquitous in online retail as automated systems have grown increasingly affordable and easy to implement. But while companies like…

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A Green Beret’s Journey to Blockchain and Crypto

Former U.S. Army Green Beret and a16z crypto deal partner, Alex Pruden served in Iraq, Afghanistan, Kuwait, and Turkey. During this time, he saw first-hand that underlying the Syrian refugee crisis, the rise of radical extremism, and other global conflicts was a lack of trusted…

A Navy Seal's Semester at Yale, at Age 52

How to use returns to build customer loyalty

Returns are on the rise – here’s what you can do to make it your competitive advantage.

Everyone Thinks They’re Managing by Outcomes. Here’s How to Actually Do it.

Have you heard? My new book Continuous Discovery Habits is now available. Get the product trio's guide to a structured and sustainable approach to continuous discovery. Last month, I spoke […]

Distance calculation in Ruby using RGeo

22K subscribers in the rubyonrails community. Everything RoR! Ruby on Rails, often simply Rails, is an open source web application framework which…

How interchangeable parts revolutionised the way things are made

One man's desire to create the perfect gun profoundly changed manufacturing.

The Ultimate List of Free SEO Tools

Interested in seeing if your SEO efforts are paying off? We've curated a list of the best free SEO tools to help you determine where your site stands.

The Definitive Guide to User Onboarding: Part One

Welcome to the largest collection of Product-Led Growth articles, videos, and podcasts all in one place. Whether you're looking for advice on product-led growth, sales, marketing or onboarding, we have it all. Let's turn your product into a powerful growth engine today.

The Ugly History of Beautiful Things: Orchids

Sometimes a flower is just a flower, and sometimes it's a powerful vehicle for giving free rein to our worst colonialist and misogynist impulses.

vumaasha/Atlas: Atlas: A Dataset and Benchmark for E-commerce Clothing Prod

Atlas: A Dataset and Benchmark for E-commerce Clothing Product Categorization - vumaasha/Atlas

Sheet Best

Turn your Google Sheets into a REST API. Build websites, widgets, apps, prototypes, and tons more. Leave the backend to us.

C++ Ecosystem: Compilers, IDEs, Tools, Testing and More

To write a professional C++ application, you not only need a basic text editor and a compiler. You require some more tooling. In this blog post, you’ll see a broad list of tools that make C++ programming possible: compilers, IDEs, debuggers and other. Last Update: 14th October…

Writing is Thinking: Learning to Write with Confidence

Learning to write is learning to think, because writing is thinking. They are two peas in a powerful pod. This article goes over my writing process, focused on minimizing the activation energy to get started.

How Rituals of Pain Help Heal

A new study reveals how ceremonies involving physical suffering can be invaluable tools for building resilience and coping skills.

Out of Water

The sea of simpler songs only the drowned and the fish know to sing.

Three Big Things: The Most Important Forces Shaping the World · Collaborati

An irony of studying history is that we often know exactly how a story ends, but have no idea where…

The Secret to Shopping in Used Bookstores

Summer is a good season for bookstores. As the weather warms, more foot traffic passes by on the street. Front doors can be left open to entice wander-ins. The relaxed flow of summer reading lends …

Why language is humanity's greatest invention | David Peterson

Civilization rests upon the existence of language, says language creator David Peterson. In a talk that's equal parts passionate and hilarious, he shows how studying, preserving and inventing new languages helps us understand our collective humanity -- and gives a quick lesson…

Scale Heaven

Queens of Infamy: Njinga - Longreads

The Portuguese colonizers of West Central Africa learned it the hard way: you mess with the Queen of Ndongo and Matamba at your own peril.

Know Your Data: Part 1 - KDnuggets

This article will introduce the different type of data sets, data object and attributes.

Tasks

Open Source Alternative for Zapier

n8n is a free and source-available workflow automation tool

I've Built Multiple Growth Teams. Here's Why I Won't Do It Again. | CXL

Big success. Bigger failure. And lots of lessons. Learn why building a growth team may be a multi-million dollar mistake.

BLUF: The Military Standard That Can Make Your Writing More Powerful - Anim

BLUF is a military communications acronym—it stands for “bottom line up front”—that’s designed to enforce speed and clarity in reports and emails.

Twitter analysis: identifying a propaganda bot network

Conducting a Twitter network analysis uncovers a widespread bot network targeting West Papua with pro-Indonesian Government content on major social platforms.

8 Things to Consider When Building Managed Marketplace Companies - Andreess

There might be no more beloved image of the American entrepreneurial spirit than that of neighborhood kids who open a sidewalk lemonade stand on a hot summer day. With a little bit of “capital” from their parents — lemons, water, sugar, a card table, some markers and paper —…

An End to End Introduction to GANs using Keras - MLWhiz

I bet most of us have seen a lot of AI-generated people faces in recent times, be it in papers or blogs. We have reached a stage where it is becoming increasingly difficult to distinguish between actual human faces and faces that are generated by Artificial Intelligence. In this…

Beginner's Guide to Product-Qualified Leads

Unleash the power of Product Qualified Leads to skyrocket your SaaS business growth. Learn to identify, nurture, and convert PQLs now with our guide.

The Myth of Commoditized Excellence - Barry Hawkins

When we learn new things from grappling with problems, it is natural for us to want to share those learnings with others, in hopes that they will face similar challenges with less of a struggle. How do those well-intended new ideas so often evolve into movements that seem to…

How to Get Rich Without Being Lucky - Naval Ravikant

There is no fixed way of getting rich for anyone. Check out 29 useful tips of how to get rich without being lucky shared by Naval Ravikant.

Encore by The Specials

Encore by The Specials album reviews & Metacritic score: The first full-length studio release in nearly 18 years for the reformed British ska-punk band sees the return of Terry Hall to the line-up....