Tech & Science & Business stories
Stories about tech & scientific endeavours, as well as business ones. People who have done stuff, whether they succeeded or not.
Collection by Martina Pugliese
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21 Lessons From Jeff Bezos' Annual Letters To Shareholders
33m read95 saves10/16/18Each year, Jeff Bezos writes an open letter to Amazon's shareholders. Over the last two decades, these letters have become…
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The Complicated Economy of Open Source Software
29m read100 savesFirst: Feb 14A look at the complicated business of funding open source software development.
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Against metrics: how measuring performance by numbers backfires
8m read104 savesFirst: 04/24/18More and more companies, government agencies, educational institutions and philanthropic organisations are today in the grip of a new phenomenon.…
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A Mysterious Infection, Spanning the Globe in a Climate of Secrecy
18m read148 savesApr 06The rise of Candida auris embodies a serious and growing public health threat: drug-resistant germs.
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Product Graveyard: Commemorating the most memorable deceased products
68 savesFirst: 08/17/17Commemorating the most memorable products that have gone away. And finding some alternatives along the way. View products <
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Scientific computing’s future: Can any coding language top a 1950s behemoth?
5m read6 savesFirst: 02/05/17Cutting-edge research still universally involves Fortran; a trio of challengers wants in.
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Let your customers do the work
5m read12 savesFirst: 12/04/17How we built a (free) sales team from thousands of happy users.
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What Is Disruptive Innovation?
20m read214 saves12/01/15Twenty years after the introduction of the theory, we revisit what it does—and doesn’t—explain.
How Darknet Sellers Build Trust
7m readFirst: Apr 06Trust used to be a very personal thing: You went on the recommendations of your friends or friends of friends.…
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Thousands of scientists publish a paper every five days
11m read23 saves09/12/18To highlight uncertain norms in authorship, John P. A. Ioannidis, Richard Klavans and Kevin W. Boyack identified the most prolific…
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Does Theranos Mark the Peak of the Silicon Valley Bubble?
13m read27 savesFirst: 05/31/18Silicon Valley has a term for startups that reach the $1 billion valuation mark: unicorns. The term is instructive. It…
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A fetish for falsification and observation holds back science
13m read48 savesFirst: 04/05/18Demanding that a theory is falsifiable or observable, without any subtlety, will hold science back. We need madcap ideas