9 Best Articles in 2021
Martin Fowler
Is High Quality Software Worth the Cost?
Martin Fowler
9 min read · From 2019 · We usually perceive that it costs more to get higher quality, but software internal quality actually reduces costs.
Seth Godin
Sunk costs, creativity and your Practice
Seth Godin
1 min read · May 26th · “Ignore sunk costs” is the critical lesson of useful decision making. The thing you earned, that you depend on, that was hard to do–it’s a gift from your former self. Just b…
Fast Company
The first graphene jacket is here, and it’s magical
Fast Company
5 min read · From 2018 · And it only costs $595.
VentureBeat
Google open-sources framework that reduces AI training costs by up to 80%
VentureBeat
2 min read · 2020-03-23 · Google recently open-sourced SEED RL, a framework that scales AI model training across thousands of machines while reducing costs.
david-codes.hatanian.com
AWS costs every programmer should know
david-codes.hatanian.com
2 min read · From 2019 · The title for this blog post is a direct reference to Latency Numbers Every Programmer Should Know. There are several versions of those numbers available now, and I could not find the original author…
The New Yorker
The Hidden Costs of Automated Thinking
The New Yorker
8 min read · From 2019 · Overreliance on artificial intelligence may put us in intellectual debt.
read.acloud.guru
The hidden costs of serverless
read.acloud.guru
4 min read · From 2018 · Evaluating the real costs of serverless architecture is tricky
medium.com
Understanding Customer Acquisition Costs — Growth Hacking, Marketing and Venture Capital
medium.com
5 min read · From 2015 · The framework VCs use
truthonthemarket.com
GDPR After One Year: Costs and Unintended Consequences
truthonthemarket.com
5 min read · From 2019 · GDPR is officially one year old. How have the first 12 months gone? As you can see from the mix of data and anecdotes below, it appears that compliance costs have been astronomical; individual “data…
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Ars Technica
Bitcoin power plant is turning a 12,000-year-old glacial lake into a hot tub
Ars Technica
4 min read · Jul 6th · Private equity's cryptocurrency experiment pushes more costs on the public.
TechCrunch
The rise of cybersecurity debt
TechCrunch
4 min read · Jun 4th · In software development, there is a concept called "technical debt." It describes the costs companies pay when they choose to build software the easy (or fast) way instead of the right way.
Aeon+Psyche
Want to know, even if it hurts? You must be a truth masochist
Aeon+Psyche
5 min read · Jul 19th · Do you seek knowledge at all costs, even if it harms you? Can’t leave well enough alone? You might be a truth masochist
Seth Godin
Good writing is cheaper than special effects
Seth Godin
Jul 11th · In movies, that’s obvious. It costs far less to make The Big Lebowski than a Marvel movie. But the metaphor applies to just about any sort of creative project. We often err on the side of …
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backstage.crew.co
What does Unsplash cost?
backstage.crew.co
5 min read · From 2016 · Take a quick guess: What do you think it costs to host one of the largest photography sites in the world for a month? $1,000? $10,000? $50,000?
UX Collective
Interaction design is more than just user flows and clicks
UX Collective
~17 min read · Feb 14th · How to evaluate interaction costs and improve UX.
Justin Jackson
Let's talk about startup costs
Justin Jackson
4 min read · From 2018 · Let's not delude ourselves. Let's drop the bravado. Most of us need to stop following the crowd and be more honest about where we're at financially.
Behavioral Scientist
The Hidden Costs of Reminders
Behavioral Scientist
7 min read · From 2019 · Research in partnership with one of the largest charities in Denmark sheds light on why reminders can backfire.
cushionapp.com
Expenses
cushionapp.com
7 min read · From 2015 · A close look at the costs that go into running Cushion and the reasons why we use specific services.
Harvard Business Review
Network Effects Matter Less Than They Used To. That’s a Really Big Deal.
Harvard Business Review
6 min read · From 2018 · In the software age, switching costs are lower.
Mark Manson
The Hidden Costs of Happiness
Mark Manson
7 min read · From 2015 · Like anything in life, happiness is not always free. Discover the hidden costs of living a life of meaning and fulfillment.
thinkingthrough.substack.com
Context switching costs more than we give it credit for.
thinkingthrough.substack.com
3 min read · Jan 18th · (4 min read) Batching things by function can skyrocket your productivity.
a16z
NFTs and a Thousand True Fans
a16z
6 min read · Feb 27th · Non-fungible tokens offer fundamentally better economics for creators by removing rent-seeking, enabling granular pricing, and reducing customer acquisition costs.
