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A legendary Kenyan marathoner has once again redefined what humans are capable of.

Sometimes you don’t know who you are until you put on a mask.

Super fresh homescreen. Search bar. Swipes. And more….

Every September since Apple released the Apple Watch, we’ve seen a brand new version of watchOS come out that improves the experience. Here’s a brief recap: * watchOS 1 (Apr 2015): way more functionality than needed, and super slow * watchOS 2 (Sep 2015): slightly faster, and better APIs for

“They’re winning, but they don’t just want to win the race. They want to win the race while driving the best-looking car on the track.”

“We have a vague idea in our head of the “price” of certain accomplishments, how difficult it should be to get a degree, or succeed at a job, or stay in shape, or raise a kid, or build a house. And that vague idea is almost always catastrophically wrong. Accomplishing worthwhile things isn’t just a little harder than people think; it’s 10 or 20 times harder.” “But the switch towards taking on a practice and discipline is admitting to yourself that you suck and you want to get better.”

Jonny Sun is staying in business with HarperCollins Publishers courtesy of a three-book deal following the success of his “Everyone’s a Aliebn When ur a Aliebn Too.”

I’m often asked about the characteristics of great engineering managers. This is a question that almost always has a long answer that…

Whenever someone says, “You should do a parenting book!” I think of this tweet.

Light-skin-tone symbols are used far less often in the U.S. than their darker counterparts. Does shame explain the disparity?

In June 2015, the Unicode Consortium blessed us with a handful of new emoji including a burrito 🌯  and a cheese wedge 🧀. Perhaps the most think-piecey new addition to Unicode 8.0  was the inclusion of various skin-tone options for the hand-gesture and people emoji, which sparked

“You see, there is no "Twitter mob", there's only people. And people shape culture, and culture evolves. But in the past, the powerful could keep themselves isolated from the way culture evolves, if they wanted to.”

Signed talk story about the writer, in 1977, seeing “Star Wars” twenty-one times over the course of the summer, mostly by himself... I was using the …

Like everyone else, I watched the Washington Social Media circus with interest. A lot of words were used. Crocodile tears shed. Promises made. Bouquets of derision thrown. But no one actually said …

“An athlete without a coach is incomplete. So, why don’t we think the same way about coaches for CEOs?” “Matt’s coaching methodology is to act as a shadow CEO one day a week, including sitting in on all the one-on-one meets with the senior team and on the leadership meeting. Matt’s initial focus was on improving my personal productivity with a set of tools like GTD and a series of audits of my time and processes.. Once I was convinced of the benefit, he moved his focus to my senior team and the rest of the organization.”

Growth hacks everywhere — and it’s about to get even worse

I’m proofing the third pass of Keep Going. I find it really difficult at this stage of a project to get the right perspective — “fresh eyes” — for the thing, which makes it really, really hard to make edits. The production schedule for this book has been much more accelerated than any of my

“and the warm weather is holding.”

“what's your manager's job?”

“This is in line with the internet's idea that it's up to every individual to "protect" themselves with their own filters and settings I don't believe full responsibility should be on the receiving end. I wish our tools gave responsibility to senders for how they communicate.”

“Insight comes, more often than not, from looking at what’s been on the table all along, in front of everybody, rather than from discovering something new.” —David McCullough In his Paris Review interview, David McCullough talks about how important seeing is to the writer and historian, and