Tech & Science & Business stories
Stories about tech & scientific endeavours, as well as business ones. People who have done stuff, whether they succeeded or not. Follow along on Refind to get notified when they have new links.
Collection by Martina Pugliese
WIRED
The Women Who Invented Video Game Music
WIRED
2 min read · 88 saves · Oct 5th · Dia Lacina · Composers like Eímear Noone and Manami Matsumae created some of the most iconic songs in games that have defined the industry.
The Verge
Emotional baggage: inside the toxic work environment at Away
The Verge
20+ min read · 267 saves · 2019-12-05 · Zoe Schiffer · Away promised a company culture of travel and inclusion, but former employees say CEO Steph Korey uses the company values to get people to…
CB Insights
21 Lessons From Jeff Bezos' Annual Letters To Shareholders
CB Insights
127 saves · From 2018 · Each year, Jeff Bezos writes an open letter to Amazon's shareholders. Over the last two decades, these letters have become an unparalleled source of…
Motherboard
The Complicated Economy of Open Source Software
Motherboard
20+ min read · 122 saves · 2019-02-14 · A look at the complicated business of funding open source software development.
Aeon+Psyche
Against metrics: how measuring performance by numbers backfires
Aeon+Psyche
8 min read · 152 saves · From 2018 · More and more companies, government agencies, educational institutions and philanthropic organisations are today in the grip of a new phenomenon. I’ve termed it ‘metric…
The New York Times
A Mysterious Infection, Spanning the Globe in a Climate of Secrecy
The New York Times
~18 min read · 177 saves · 2019-04-06 · The rise of Candida auris embodies a serious and growing public health threat: drug-resistant germs.
productgraveyard.com
Product Graveyard: Commemorating the most memorable deceased products
productgraveyard.com
5 min read · 90 saves · From 2017 · Commemorating the most memorable products that have gone away. And finding some alternatives along the way. View products <
Ars Technica
Scientific computing’s future: Can any coding language top a 1950s behemoth?
Ars Technica
~18 min read · 13 saves · From 2017 · Cutting-edge research still universally involves Fortran; a trio of challengers wants in.
The Startup
Let your customers do the work
The Startup
6 min read · 15 saves · From 2017 · How we built a (free) sales team from thousands of happy users.
Harvard Business Review
What Is Disruptive Innovation?
Harvard Business Review
~20 min read · 324 saves · From 2015 · Twenty years after the introduction of the theory, we revisit what it does—and doesn’t—explain.
Nautilus Magazine
How Darknet Sellers Build Trust
Nautilus Magazine
7 min read · 27 saves · 2019-04-06 · Trust used to be a very personal thing: You went on the recommendations of your friends or friends of friends. By finding ways to…
Nature
Thousands of scientists publish a paper every five days
Nature
~11 min read · 32 saves · From 2018 · To highlight uncertain norms in authorship, John P. A. Ioannidis, Richard Klavans and Kevin W. Boyack identified the most prolific scientists of recent years.
