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The head of the most valuable company in the world talks to Bloomberg Businessweek Editor Megan Murphy.

“One million Syrian customers,” CEO Hikmet Ersek says. “Do you think they will ever forget Western Union?”

James Comey’s seven-page written statement, released by the Senate Intelligence Committee this afternoon in connection with Comey’s impending testimony tomorrow, draws no conclusions, makes no

There’s graft, and then there’s Odebrecht graft.

I generally have posted about things that I have been directly involved with — either code I wrote or projects I managed. In this post I am taking a different tack to write about my perspective on the underlying causes of the Windows Vista (codename Longhorn) debacle. While this happened over a decade ago, this was a crucial period in the shift to mobile and had long-running consequences internally to Microsoft. I have found many of the descriptions of Microsoft’s problems, especially around the shift to mobile, to be unconvincing and not to mesh with my understanding or experience of what went wrong. Vanity Fair’s article Microsoft’s Lost Decade, ascribed it to bureaucratic rot and infighting (“life … had become staid and brutish”) or culture rot due to the negative effects of a competitive stack ranking evaluation system. A more recent article in The Atlantic describes it as a classic “Innovator’s Dilemma” story.

Should you drink more coffee? Should you take melatonin? Can you train yourself to need less sleep? A physician’s guide to sleep in a stressful age.

In the past few years we’ve seen the rise of CSS-in-JS, emerging primarily from within the React community — but why?

Inside the portable battery pack giant

Here is the text of a talk I gave last week at re:publica in Berlin called “Notes From An Emergency”

Terrific article -- It is as if "Donald Trump has challenged Usain Bolt to a 100-yard dash" via @politicomag

For 15 years, the animation studio was the best on the planet. Then Disney bought it.

A journalist who covered Nixon’s fall 45 years ago explains why the current challenge to America may be more severe—and the democratic system less capable of handling it.

"Sell to people who have money!" Jeff Atwood explains how targeting high-value businesses instead of consumers helped grow Discourse's revenue to $120,000/mo.

First, a disclaimer: the subject of this article is Mobile First in the context of design process, not development. We cool? Okay, nice. Let’s jam. 🤙 You know what really gets on my nerves? Mobile…

“We were standing in an empty gravel pit trying to figure out how to build a festival village from scratch”

Introducing our new open source library React Sketch.app

Hidden away in Juicero’s bad week of press is one of the most powerful lessons we preach to hardware startups: unconstrained development is lethal. Last week Bloomberg published an article exposing how easy it is to “hack” Juicero’s produce packs by squeezing them with your hands, deeming the $69

From Basics to Expanded Concepts to Apply Space with Intent

Awesome-Swift-Playgrounds - A List of Awesome Swift Playgrounds

A new podcast from Serial and This American Life. Hosted by Brian Reed.

Open Source Freelancer

Join Note to Self's Bored and Brilliant project to help you detach from your phone and spend more time thinking creatively.

Disillusioned with fine dining, one of the world’s great chefs took on fast food. It has been harder than he ever imagined.