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I wrote about the lessons I’ve learned leading remote teams through hard times.

Being cast in ‘School of Rock’ was a defining moment in my life — for better or worse

Ten hours to make a cup of coffee? Now that's commitment.

Learn how you can procedurally generate realistic branches, vines, veins, roots, and other branching structures from nature using codel

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01 Intro One of the best books I have read in the last few years is The Elephant in the Brain by Robin Hanson and Kevin Simler. The book makes two main arguments: a) Most of our everyday actions can be traced back to some form of signaling or status seeking b) Our brains deliberately hi

We're talking the art of an egg cleanse. The humble egg will be waiting to cleanse you and your disgustingly filthy aura.

With four minutes to go, Boris Johnson ran in. I was already concerned – maybe more concerned than Boris. It was an awards ceremony at the Hilton, Park Lane. The room was packed with financial people in bow ties. It was a couple of years before Johnson became Mayor of London. At this point he […]

“With advertisements removed in Grenoble you can see the city's beauty and the mountains beyond. Adverts create obstacles. Without them you can breathe,” explains Khaled Gaiji, national mobilisation coordinator of (...)

If you can set annual goals and hit them on the expected timeline, you’re not thinking big enough or you work in a factory.

> Maybe every paper abstract should have a mandatory field of what the limitations of the proposed approach are. That way some of the science miscommunications and hypes could maybe be avoided. — Sebastian Risi (@risi1979) October 28, 2019 [https://twitter.com/risi1979/status/1188924048375451649?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] The media is

Seth Godin could work in a skyscraper. Instead, he works in a converted apartment in a small town in upstate New York His workspace is his own mind turned inside out and made manifest as interior decoration He could have a large staff to order around, but instead he employs a small crew of friendly people who he treats like family and makes them lunch every day

With everything that’s happening about the Coronavirus, it might be very hard to make a decision of what to do today. Should you wait for more information? Do something today? What? The coronavirus is coming to you. It’s coming at an exponential speed: gradually, and then suddenly.

Design systems haven’t solved the consistency problem—far from it. What can?

or, 3 Years as a Senior Developer Who Wasn't Allowed To Commit Any Code or, I Passed Up a $50,000 Severance To Write This Previously: Anatomy of Software Frauds…

Svelte is a JavaScript framework for building user interfaces. Its compiler architecture enables amazing tradeoffs for UX and DX. Svelte might be worth your attention, especially if you pine for the web of yore and future.

Angela Merkel has it in abundance – how do you cultivate this crucial skill?

They quit their jobs, their religion, their relationships and even quitting itself.

She opened the portal, and the mind met her more than halfway. Inside, it was tropical and snowing, and the first flake...

Katrina Onstad has a crazy idea: Why not take off a couple of days every week and relax? Don’t cram them with frantic shopping, desperate playdates or crafty work emails – and certainly don’t make them exactly the same as the other five.

One of the paradoxes of advice seems to be that those most likely to be asked for it are least likely to have taken anyone else’s: their projects of “becoming” are the most particularized of all.

Our individualistic culture inflames the ego and numbs the spirit. Failure teaches us who we are.

"Full access to a person's phone is the next best thing to full access to a person's mind," says cybersecurity expert Eva Galperin. In an urgent talk, she describes the emerging danger of stalkerware -- software designed to spy on someone by gaining access to their devices without their knowledge -- and calls on antivirus companies to recognize these programs as malicious in order to discourage abusers and protect victims.

This is going to be a lengthy blog post so let me use this opening paragraph as a summary of where Project Svalbard is at [https://www.troyhunt.com/project-svalbard-the-future-of-have-i-been-pwned/]: Have I Been Pwned is no longer being sold and I will continue running it independently. After 11 months of

Impossible Routes I've been thinking about routing engines for my upcoming course (titled: All Maps Lie) and what they reveal. Projects like…

Schools are increasingly adopting surveillance technology to spy on students while they’re at school, at home, or even on their social media. The companies that make these surveillance products and services advertise them to schools as a way to keep students safe–but there’s no evidence so far that they actually protect students, and worst of all, they can harm the people they