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I couldn’t figure out why small, straightforward tasks on my to-do list felt so impossible. The answer is both more complex and far simpler than I expected.

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From one designer to a front-end developer: I’m so grateful for you. You take my pretty pictures and turn them into real-live websites and applications; you…

A glimpse of the suburban grotesque, featuring Russian mobsters, Fox News rage addicts, a caged man in a sex dungeon, and Dick Cheney.

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It’s time for compassionate fitness goals.

Personal websites and email can replace most of what people like about Facebook—namely the urge to post about their lives online.

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"These schemes really require the mind of someone whose depravity knows no bounds."

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To deliver a great user experience, you have to think about interaction modes. But because of pressures, competing priorities, and industry trends, they’re often an afterthought. Andrew Grime…

Some people are just genetically tougher. But you can train your brain to better handle stress.

(and how to try your own low-stress experiment)

A reproduction of Oliver Byrne's celebrated work from 1847 plus interactive diagrams, cross references, and posters designed by Nicholas Rougeux

Identify your food based on the location of structural starch. Is a hot dog a sandwich? No, it's clearly a taco.

Teens have always created their own spaces to experiment, socialize, and indulge idle curiosity

Atlassian’s JIRA began life as a bug-tracking tool. Today, though, it has become an agile planning suite, “to plan, track, and release great software.” In many organizations it has become the primary map of software projects, the hub of all development, the infamous “source of truth.” It is a truism that the map is not […]

In this expert talk, Renaud Forestié, Gameloft Montreal's Gameplay Director, reveals how his team of five can design a mobile game in just two to fourteen days by focusing on the game-feel and experience. Renaud will share Gameloft's design best practices for speeding up and improving the quality of design iterations. You'll leave the session with an overview of a process for creating compelling and memorable experiences in a very short timeframe while gaining valuable insight into your game's potential.

The fear virus. Plus, ocker bricklaying robots, wave cinemagraphs, gene edited Chinese babies, bacterial nanobionics (what?) and good news on suicide, AIDS, electricity and LGBTQI education.

Harvard Business School invented the “leadership” industry—and produced a generation of corporate monsters. No wonder Sandberg, one of the school’s most prominent graduates, lacks a functioning moral compass.

Fashionable minimalism replaced plush opulence. That’s a recipe for commotion.

via A Business With No End

A guide to finding the right day job, protecting your time, and building creative habits by Jeffrey Silverstein. Illustrated by Sunny Eckerle.

Software is easy. People are hard.