Make Peace with Your Unlived Life
We all contain multitudes.
CEO interview series: Michael Seibel on leadership attributes in successful startup leaders
Explore a glimpse into how M. Seibel thinks about leadership attributes and some contrarian views that may be at the heart of how he picks great companies.
Stream David Bowie's Complete Discography in a 19-Hour Playlist: From His V
Every artist copies; Bowie was at his best when he stole from the best, as this 19-hour playlist shows.
Jupyter Notebook Extensions
How to get the most from the notebook environment
Right product, right time, right location: Quantifying the semiconductor su
A new metric can help companies pinpoint performance issues on the semiconductor supply chain.
Shape-shifting origami could lead to better radio antennas
A special kind of origami folding called Miura Ori could help make antennas that can block out certain radio frequencies or next-gen cloaking tech.
The Secret Baby Catchers of Alabama
They work in hotel rooms, Airbnbs and used RVs just over the state line, so women can give birth on their own terms.
How to Think Better
Being able to think clearly is not easy. Working memory is limited, making thinking harder. Luckily, there's a tool to expand and improve your thinking.
‘It’s their moat’: How Shopify built an $800 million partner ecosystem
Shopify is partnering with a network of more than 20,000 app developers and agency partners to build profitable businesses.
Writing copy for landing pages
Write copy that delights visitors, persuades prospects, and wins customers.
Top Python Libraries in 2018 in Data Science, Deep Learning, Machine Learning - KDnuggets
Here are the top 15 Python libraries across Data Science, Data Visualization. Deep Learning, and Machine Learning.
5 Pricing Resolutions for 2019
Pricing is a good place to make a few critical resolutions for businesses. Learn the 5 resolutions as you shape your pricing strategy for 2019.
Stoicism As A Way Of Life
If you’re interested in using the ideas from Stoicism as a way of life, feel free to listen to my podcast series called Practicing Stoicism.
I read 1,182 emergency room bills this year. Here’s what I learned.
A $5,571 bill to sit in a waiting room, $238 eyedrops, and a $60 ibuprofen tell the story of how emergency room visits are squeezing patients.
Pain Points - Studio Fellow
Dear designers/marketers (and innocent person reading this note), So, you’re doing customer interviews and user research, good for you! You’ve joined the fold of responsible, empathetic, and effective product design and marketing professionals. But you sound like a robot when…
Rice Pilaf With Cinnamon And Golden Raisins Recipe - Genius Kitchen
This is an adaptation on a recipe that was emailed to me. The original recipe was from The New Family Cookbook for People with Diabetes. It goes wel
The Yoda of Silicon Valley (Published 2018)
Donald Knuth, master of algorithms, reflects on 50 years of his opus-in-progress, “The Art of Computer Programming.”
My Dad's Friendship With Charles Barkley
How a cat litter scientist from Iowa ended up in an NBA star’s inner circle.
The Bleeding Edge: a terrifying, enraging look at the corrupt, deadly world
Prior to 1976, the FDA did not regulate medical implants, and so shoddy and even deadly devices proliferated, inserted into Americans' body. When the FDA finally decided to regulate implants,…
A Professional Safecracker Reveals His Craft - The Atlantic
Charlie Santore sees Los Angeles from the inside, by breaking into safes whose owners can no longer unlock them.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the power of ‘difficult women’
The Notorious R.B.G.'s influence on American politics and modern culture has been an inspiration for women in the United States and throughout the world.
Tarrare: The Medical Marvel Who Could Eat Anything — And Did
"The dogs and cats fled in terror at his aspect, as if they had anticipated the kind of fate he was preparing for them."
http://precisionagricultu.re/how-machine-learning-is-gradually-changing-mod
In praise of parasites
They worm into snails and infect the brains of fish. They’ve also found their way into Kevin Lafferty’s heart. He sees them as beautiful examples of sophisticated evolution, and as keys to ecosystem balance.
30 Behaviors That Will Make You Unstoppable In 2019
“Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.” — Oscar Wilde
The Swiss Army Knife of Hashmaps
A while back, there was a discussion comparing the performance of using the hashbrown crate (based on Google’s SwissTable implementation1) in the Rust compiler. In the last RustFest, Amanieu was experimenting on integrating his crate into stdlib, which turned out to have some…
How Timeboxing Works and Why It Will Make You More Productive
In a recent survey of 100 productivity hacks, timeboxing — migrating to-do lists into calendars — was ranked the most useful. Timeboxing can give you a much greater sense of control over your workday. You decide what to do and when to do it, block out all distractions for that…
“Looking for Elvis”: An Oral History of Saddam Hussein's Capture
In early 2003, long on confidence and short on foresight, the United States invaded Iraq and sent its despot into hiding. Fifteen years ago this month, we found him. (And that’s when our real challenges began.) Here, the harrowing story of Saddam Hussein’s capture, as told by…
The Unlikely New Generation of Unabomber Acolytes
Ted Kaczynski’s letters from jail.
Inside Sun Noodle, the Secret Weapon of America's Best Ramen Shops - Eater
There were only about three or four ramen shops on Oahu when Hidehito Uki founded Sun Noodle in 1981. Ramen in America was pretty much just a cup of noodles you cooked in the microwave. Uki — who...
Brittney Griner and Diana Taurasi opted to play in Russia both for money an
Unlikely comrades Diana Taurasi and Brittney Griner play overseas for the money. As it turns out, they also simplify their lives.
An Archive of 800 Imaginative Propaganda Maps Designed to Shape Opinions &
We tend to take a very special interest in archives and maps on this site—and especially in archives of maps. Yet it is rare, if not unheard of, to discover a map archive in which every single entry repays attention.
A Guide to Custom Elements for React Developers
I had to build a UI recently and (for the first time in a long while) I didn't have the option of using React.js, which is my preferred solution for UI these
The 65 Best Songs of 2018
One-off collaborations, movie soundtracks and internet upstarts provided some of the most exciting music this year.
Syria’s Last Bastion of Freedom
Amid the brutal civil war, a town fought off the regime and the fundamentalists—and dared to hold an election. Can its experiment in democracy survive?
https://www.rbth.com/longreads/jackals/
Op-Ed | How Premium Mediocre Conquered Fashion
Brands are giving the masses the illusion that they are consuming luxury, when in reality they are doing nothing of the sort, argues Eugene Rabkin.
Four Techniques for Outlier Detection
There are many techniques to detect and optionally remove outliers from a dataset. In this blog post, we show an implementation in KNIME Analytics Platform of four of the most frequently used - traditional and novel - techniques for outlier detection.
Mr Wu
‘A middle-aged woman in teddy bear-spangled pajamas came hurtling down on a flatbed tricycle.’ Pallavi Aiyar returns to China.
The Woman Who Outruns the Men, 200 Miles at a Time
Courtney Dauwalter specializes in extremely long races. But her success in winning them has opened a debate about how men’s innate strength advantages apply to endurance sports.
What 8 Years as a Marine Taught Me About Being a Leader
For the first eight years of my career I was in the U.S.
Ansel Adams’ pictures of Los Angeles recall an era of war factories and 10-cent hot dogs
We’ve all seen Ansel Adams’ luscious black-and-white images of Yosemite. Lesser known are his pictures of life in World War II-era Los…
Inner Workings of Product Management at Product Led Growth Companies
Product is at the epicenter of everything a product led growth (PLG) company does. So how does the product organization and its PMs need to adapt? Find out here.
Horns Down should become college football’s universal hand signal
It offends rich people who don’t like fun, and what’s more fun than that?
“I Don’t Want to Shoot You, Brother”
In 2016, a West Virginia police officer came upon a young man in distress who asked the officer to shoot him. The officer didn’t. A few minutes, another officer did. Only one of them lost their job.
The Expectations and Realities of Six-Man Football in Small-Town Texas
On the football field, one team went from six to eleven. Another went from eleven to six. And both faced challenges they didn’t expect.
Looking Inside My Heart - Longreads
Jen Hyde discovered that her heart valve was made by women working in a factory near her childhood home. Getting to know them brought her closer to her own mother.
Emerging Memories Today: Understanding Bit Selectors - The Memory Guy Blog
The previous post in this series (excerpted from the Objective Analysis and Coughlin Associates Emerging Memory report) explained why emerging memories are necessary. Oddly enough, this series will explain bit selectors before defining all of the emerging memory technologies…
25 Ecommerce A/B Testing Ideas For Your 5 Top Store Pages
The biggest question in ecommerce A/B testing is not “how.”
Python Data Visualization 2018: Why So Many Libraries?
Anaconda is the birthplace of Python data science. We are a movement of data scientists, data-driven enterprises, and open source communities.