How America’s Oldest Gun Maker Went Bankrupt: A Financial Engineering Mystery (Published 2019)

When a secretive private equity firm bought Remington, sales were strong and the future bright. A decade later, the company couldn’t escape its debts.

Playing with model trains and calling it graph theory

You’ve probably played with model trains, for instance with something like the Brio set shown below.1 And if you’ve built a layout with a model train set, yo...

How to Create a Great Team Culture (and Why It Matters) - ACM Queue

As leader of the team, you have significant influence over your team

Why is RV design so boring?

Some begin high and end low, others boldly swoop into half circles and curves; but somehow, on RVs big and small, decorative swoops are the go-to design element of choice.

Giannis Antetokounmpo Is the Pride of a Greece That Shunned Him (Published 2019)

As the son of African immigrants, Antetokounmpo was unwelcome in Athens. Then he showed promise as a basketball star.

Deepfakes for good

These entrepreneurs are playing with fire.

She Hunted History’s Worst Arms Dealers. Now She’s Taking on Rhino Poachers

Kathi Lynn Austin is on a global chase to stop the flow of guns threatening to wipe the rhinoceros off the face of the Earth.

Marcus Aurelius: 3 Rules For Life

The Emperor-Philosopher Marcus Aurelius, once the most powerful man on earth, was also a practitioner of Stoicism. He had 3 rules for life.

How I draw figures for my mathematical lecture notes using Inkscape

In my previous blog post, I explained how I take lecture notes using Vim and LaTeX. In this post, I’ll talk about how I draw figures for my notes using Inkscape and about my custom shortcut manager.Some examples First, let me show you some examples of figures…

The Raisin Situation (Published 2019)

One man wanted to change the raisin industry for the better. He got more than he bargained for.

The North Star Approach to Goal Setting

This approach radically improves your chances of success.

What Seven Years at Airbnb Taught Me About Building a Business

Create strong culture, stay laser-focused on problems, and set wildly ambitious goals

The Psychology of Writing and the Cognitive Science of the Perfect Daily Routine

How work schedules, rituals, and writing environments affect the amount and quality of time invested in trying to write.

The 3 most effective ways to build trust as a leader

Based on data from 597 people, the best ways to build trust as a leader aren’t what you think they are. How do you build trust as a leader? The answer seems intuitive enough. For many of us, …

Why are so many people getting rare cancers in this small Georgia town?

After multiple rare cancers have been diagnosed in Waycross, Georgia, the city grapples with a profound question: What if the industries that gave us life are killing us?

Why Isn’t Hulu Better?

When Hulu was launched, in 2008, it had the backing of three major motion-picture studios—21st Century Fox, NBC Universal, and Walt Disney Studios/ABC Television. The service seemed poised to dominate video distribution online—but today it ranks only 8th among streaming…

Just a Spoonful of Siouxsie

Surviving seventh grade with a practically perfect punk nanny.

A Dispatch From the Fast-Paced, Makeshift World of High-End Catering

The unsung heroes of the food world battle against time and chaos, cooking haute cuisine over lit cans of Sterno in the gloomy back hallways of New York's civic landmarks.

The Wild Carnival at the Heart of Skiing’s Most Dangerous Race

The punishing Hahnenkamm downhill brings street-party revelry to a medieval town in the Tyrolean Alps, Nick Paumgarten writes.

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The Best 'I Don't Know the Answer' Jeopardy! Answers

A photo essay of delight and despair

The Anatomy of a Great Decision

Making better decisions is one of the best skills we can develop. Good decisions save time, money, and stress. Here, we break down what makes a good decision and what we can do to improve our decision-making processes.

32 incredibly useful things you didn't know Google Sheets could do

Ahead of Its Time, Behind the Curve: Why Evernote Failed to Realize Its Pot

Evernote has been plagued by a series of managerial missteps and failed product launches. The company’s future is far from certain.

kognise/water.css: A drop-in collection of CSS styles to make simple websites just a little nicer

A drop-in collection of CSS styles to make simple websites just a little nicer - kognise/water.css

Hustle As Strategy

In a world where there are no secrets, where innovations are quickly imitated or become obsolete, the theory of competitive advantage may have had its day. Realistically, ask yourself, If all your competitors gave their strategic plans to each other, would it really make a…

Mystery Alaska

Tracing the origins of humanity in the Alaskan wilderness.

The Curious Tale of the Salish Sea Feet

To date, 21 disembodied feet have washed up on the shores of Seattle's Salish Sea. What at first looked like the work of a serial killer turned out to be something even more unsettling: A message from the ocean about who we are.

The amazing rise — and shocking fall — of Indiana's caviar king

An Ohio River sting sends Indiana's caviar king to prison, as wildlife officials crack down on greed to save one of North America's oldest species.

People, Products, and Epiphanies – Google Design – Medium

How a user-first culture led to a decade of eureka moments at Google UX

The mathematics and Intuitions of Principal Component Analysis (PCA) Using

As data scientists or Machine learning experts, we are faced with tonnes of columns of data to extract insight from, among these features…

The future of news is conversation in small groups with trusted voices | TechCrunch

I feel like I get my news like I pick sushi plates off a passing boat. I sit down, the news streams by and I pick the articles I like. But I’ve been stuck at the sushi boat bar of news for too long.

Designing a RESTful API with Python and Flask - miguelgrinberg.com

In recent years REST (REpresentational State Transfer) has emerged as the standard architectural design for web services and web APIs.In this article I'm going to show you how easy it is to create a…

From the archives: Inside the exclusive team dinners that have built the Spurs' dynasty

Over the past 20 years, Gregg Popovich has sliced an exclusive culinary trail across America -- all for a singular purpose. This is the story of his legendary team dinners, and how they have served as a pillar of the Spurs' decadeslong dynasty.

Applied Category Theory | Mathematics | MIT OpenCourseWare

Category theory is a relatively new branch of mathematics that has transformed much of pure math research. The technical advance is that category theory provides a framework in which to organize formal systems and by which to translate between them, allowing one to transfer…

The Truth About the Scooter Economy — An Insider’s Perspective

There is a story arc of the electric scooter market that took the world by storm in 2018, was second-guessed late in the year and has…

Making the Fogg Behavior Model actionable

Whether you are helping your users establish habits, engage in something new or unknown, onboard, or just want to motivate your users into giving your product a try, the Fogg Behavior Model can guide you.

I wanted to write a book, but ended up with a card deck

One of my life goals is to publish a book about how to build great products. I hope to help others learn from my hard-earned lessons to get ahead of the game. Ultimately, I want to help product builders to kick ass at what they love to do.

How to identify a body: the Marchioness disaster and my life in forensic pa

The long read: In my career, I have investigated many of the UK’s worst disasters. Few cases were as harrowing as the sinking of the Marchioness in 1989, which left scores dead and almost impossible to identify

Where Grizzly Bears and Hobby Farmers Come Face to Face

Human hunters moved north into what would become Montana on the heels of the receding ice, coming into the Mission Valley when the land was yet raw and studded with erratics. Only the first scrim o…

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A 2019 guide to Human Pose Estimation with Deep Learning

Policy Gradient Algorithms

“The Big Error Was That She Was Caught”: The Untold Story Behind the Mysterious Disappearance of Fan Bingbing, the World’s Biggest Movie…

She vanished without a trace last year. But it was what happened next that sent a shudder through the Chinese film industry.

Using Mathematics to Repair a Masterpiece | Quanta Magazine

The author shows how new mathematical techniques can be used to revitalize a 650-year-old work of art.

Talking to Python from JavaScript (and Back Again!)

Something a lot of beginners struggle with is the concept of passing data between different programmi...

The Case for Optimizing Image Performance

For ecommerce, pictures can showcase products, inspire customers, and boost conversion rates. For web performance, however, pictures can hurt page load

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Dog rescued after it's found swimming 135 MILES out at sea

The female brown Aspin was found drifting in the Gulf of Thailand on Friday. It is unknown whether the dog swam the astonishing distance from the shore, or jumped off a boat at sea.

Q: Why was it so hard to take a picture of a black hole? What are we even looking at?

Physicist: Black holes and space are both black, so there’s that. But while black holes tend to be very small, space is bonkers big and filled with just enough stuff to give astronomers thin…