Slack, I'm breaking up with you
It leads to everyone having half-conversations all day long, with people frequently rotating through one slow-drip discussion after another, never needing to officially check out because “hey! it’s asynchronous!”
The Netflix ID Bible – Every Category on Netflix
Details on hidden Netflix categories
Who Controls Your Facebook Feed
A small team of engineers in Menlo Park. A panel of anonymous power users around the world. And, increasingly, you
Why Memory and Mimicry Are The Next Big Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence
Reinforcement learning, mimicking, and a sense of time (to create memory) are needed to create true AI
Cheap airline tickets
The Decay of Twitter
8 Days in North Korea
The Role of a Product Manager — Startups, Wanderlust, and Life Hacking
Future Reading
Craig Mod on the durability and openness of the print book ecosystem and the importance of trust in that durability and openness which is preventing the evolution of digital publishing.
Blameless PostMortems and a Just Culture
Inoculating your company from future mistakes and pre-empting the blame game.
Will Artificial Intelligence Surpass Our Own?
A philosopher worries about computers’ ever accelerating abilities to outpace human skills
Hacking the Facebook Interest Graph
Useful url-hacking tips to get a profile of your target audience's tastes.
Locking the Web Open: A Call for a Distributed Web
Brewster Kahle proposes using Blockchains and BitTorrent to make the web distributed while also adding the distributed identity management and micropayments.
All LinkedIn with Nowhere to Go
this world of aspirational business affiliation is nothing new. LinkedIn merely digitizes the core, and frequently cruel, paradox of networking events and conferences.
The End of the Internet Dream?
In 20 years, the Web might complete its shift from liberator to oppressor. It’s up to us to prevent that. Jennifer Granick's keynote at Black Hat 2015
If your website's full of assholes, it's your fault
Anil Dash reflects on 12 years of running a blog and how to raise a good community.
How 30 Random People in Knoxville May Change your Facebook News Feed
Augmenting algorithmic tuning with a staff of 600 in centers around the US.
Don't Blame Your Community: Ad Blocking Is Not Killing Any Sites
Web Design: The First 100 Years
Why must we continually optimize the future when we can do so much with what we have?
The Wall of Sound
they (The Grateful Dead) were about to revolutionize sound engineering, acoustic theory, and the way people experienced live music for decades to come, and they likely didn’t even know it. Someone lit a joint.
The Alleged $7.5 Billion Fraud in Online Advertising
Ad networks knowingly sell bot traffic to publishers and publishers knowingly buy the bot traffic because the resulting ad impressions earn both of them money—at the expense of the clients who are paying for the impressions.
The Mayor vs. the Mogul
Inside baseball at Bloomberg.
HTML5 UP!
Downloadable, fully responsive website templates. Good for generally static sites with a small number of pages.
Deep Learning Machine Beats Humans in IQ Test
Deconstruct websites, get hired
hiding recruitment messages in source code
How Google’s New Photos App Can Tell Cats From Dogs
An exclusive look under the hood of the product that wants to be the world’s scrapbook.
Facebook tips by Robert Scoble
useful tips by the master of the domain
The Inside Story of How the iPhone Crippled BlackBerry
Initially blindsided, later forced to release a competitive phone that wasn't ready by a carrier with a Fear of Missing Out, the inside story of RIM's "existetial crisis"
What I Learned Building A Startup like Dogster, Inc.
"Don’t believe anything you whiteboard. Ever. Only believe what you see customers enjoying." and other bon mots
How to Build a Unicorn From Scratch – and Walk Away with Nothing.