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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 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.

I hope this helps you in 2018

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.

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

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

Together they were the Hairy Bikers, a TV phenomenon that won them fans around the world. With the sad death of Dave Myers, Si King reflects on friendship, loss and the incredible adventure the two of them shared

"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".

Sleep hygiene is a behavioral and environmental practice developed in the late 1970s as a method to help people with mild to moderate insomnia. Clinicians assess the sleep hygiene of people with insomnia and other conditions, such as depression, and offer recommendations based on the assessment. Sleep hygiene recommendations include: establishing a regular sleep schedule; using naps with care; not exercising physically or mentally too close to bedtime; limiting worry; limiting exposure to light in the hours before sleep; getting out of bed if sleep does not come; not using bed for anything but sleep and sex; avoiding alcohol as well as nicotine, caffeine, and other stimulants in the hours before bedtime; and having a peaceful, comfortable and dark sleep environment. However, as of 2021, the empirical evidence for the effectiveness of sleep hygiene is "limited and inconclusive" for the general population and for the treatment of insomnia, despite being the oldest treatment for insomnia. A systematic review by the AASM concluded that clinicians should not prescribe sleep hygiene for insomnia due to the evidence of absence of its efficacy and potential delaying of adequate treatment, recommending instead that effective therapies such as CBT-i should be preferred.

Pranayama is the practice of breath regulation and is often practiced with yoga and meditation. According to research, pranayama can promote relaxation and mindfulness, and may improve aspects of physical health such as lung function, blood pressure, and brain function.

I’m fascinated by interesting memos written for an internal audience – a company, a campaign or even for the President. Raw, not smoothened over for PR departments, they help shed light…

The best engineers don't just know how to code. They know how to lead.

Research looked at three London boroughs to value overall health benefits of active travel over 20 years at up to £4,800 per head

A feature documentary on the life and work of civic guru Robert Putnam.

We spend years of our lives attending school, but there are many life skills missing from the typical curriculum. Critical thinking, constructive conversations, handling money, business writing, time management, and self-care are just but a few. Another skill we don’t spend enough time honing is learning how to learn. It’s a shame, because there are ... Read More

Facing death, these people found a clarity about how to live

The political economy of bullshit.

Carl Malamud, defender of civil liberties, wants more – not less government on the Internet. While many Internet pioneers have turned their attention toward getting rich, Carl Malamud has remained focused on the public interest. A passionate proponent of the public's right to access government documents, the pugnacious Malamud goaded the Securities and Exchange Commission […]

The Return of Reactionary Modernism

Experts say allowing brief doze may help businesses and employees boost productivity as well as health

New research shows that binge-drinkers’ brains have to put more effort into trying to feel empathy for other people in pain.