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To be young today is to face the future – the planet’s as well as one’s own – at a time when social safety nets...

I was at Nando’s, waiting for my order of chicken wings. These days, I hardly carry my phone, bringing my pocket notepad instead. A lady working there approached me and asked if I was waiting for something. I said, “Yes,” and she replied, “Oh, okay, just checking.”

Overview of the insights from the roundtable on Plato Elevate conference in San Francisco!

Guest post by Ian Vanagas - Writer at Product for Engineers

This article first gives a background about the thriving Developer Relationship (DevRel), then discusses vanity and potential North Star…

Steve Messer’s website. Product manager. Web enthusiast, working in the open. Black Country boy living in London, UK.

“Networking.” What a word. When I left grad school in 2015, networking was for slick-haired salesmen, former jocks, and social parasites in general. Real heroes built better mousetraps and the world beat a path to their doors. But then I looked at what real successes actually do - they lead...

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A new study by researchers from Arizona State University and their colleagues highlights a dietary strategy for significant health improvement and weight management. Participants following an intermittent fasting and protein-pacing regimen, which involves evenly spaced protein intake throughout the day, saw better gut health, weight loss and metabolic responses. These benefits were notably greater than those seen with simple calorie restriction.

There is a cacophony of calls for cybersecurity automation. The most experienced people are no longer directly solving problems but instead are supervising largely automated processes. More and more, digital devices are tuning out small failures, from attacks and misconfigurations to version mismatches and service disconnects.

On the evening of May 31, 2009, 216 passengers, three pilots, and nine flight attendants boarded an Airbus 330 in Rio de Janeiro. This flight, Air France 447, was headed across the Atlantic to Paris. The take-off was unremarkable. The plane reached a cruising altitude of 35,000 feet. The passengers read and watched movies and slept.

Whether it is a new product or a new feature, the attention you get at launch is a one time opportunity. So, what should you focus on building?

In doing research for a post on "The Enterprise Cool Kids" at the tail end of last year, I interviewed Silicon Valley veteran Marc Andreessen about where he thought the enterprise was headed. While excerpts of that interview made it into the post, the transcript of the entire interview was so good it deserved to be published in its entirety.

On Monday, October 21, 2013, I sent this letter to our entire team at Airbnb. I have decided to publish this in the event it is helpful to entrepreneurs building their cultures. Our next team meeting…

At Greylock, my partners and I are driven by one guiding mission: always help entrepreneurs. It doesn’t matter whether an entrepreneur is in our portfolio, whether we’re considering an investment, or whether we’re casually meeting for the first time.

The Facebook CEO gives sage advice to a crowd of young entrepreneurs.

Update (Sept 2014): I gave a talk on this topic during lecture 1 of Stanford’s CS 183B course. Check out the video if you’d like to hear more about deciding to become an entrepreneur. I’ve also added…

“I’m an ambitious 19 year old, what should I do?”  I get asked this question fairly often, and I now have a lot of data on what works, so I thought I’d share my response. Usually, people are...

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The researchers argue that there needs to be greater recognition that these types of mental health and neurological symptoms can act as an early warning sign that an individual is approaching a

Over the past year, while building Pullpo, I've been highly focused on one specific area: code...

As someone who’s been in the tech industry for more than 15 years, I’ve come to recognize a fundamental truth about being a software dev: the key to

Why Interview Even When You’re Happy

Real experiences on growing an audience, driving traffic, and turning your knowledge into products that sell on autopilot with practical and repeatable playbooks.

What I Learned from My Recent Experiment with the Spotify Squad Model

"The Wolf and the Seven Young Goats" is a fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm and published in Grimm's Fairy Tales. It is of Aarne-Thompson type 123 "The Wolf and the Kids".