Splinter
A poem about Silicon Valley, assembled from Quora questions about Silicon Valley
1 min · · Why do so many startups fail? Why are all the hosts on CouchSurfing male? Are we going to be tweeting for the rest of our lives? Why do Silicon Valley billionaires choose average-looking wives? · Shared by 141, including Kenneth Kalmer, Esther Schindler, Alexander Seifert, bouiboui, Oliver Reichenstein, Bram Kanstein, Aleyda Solis 🇺🇦, Mathew Ingram, Michael Seemann, Brad Frost, anildash.com, Loughlin O'Nolan, Francine Hardaway (hardaway.eth), Bjorn Larsen, Clemens M. Schuster, Sam Proud, Mara Averick, Jeff Atwood, Una 🇺🇦
Product Habits
My Billion Dollar Mistake
11+ min · · At my last company, KISSmetrics, I made a mistake that I truly believe lost me a billion dollar opportunity. It’s not something I’m proud of, and it’s one of the main reasons I’m now obsessed with… · Shared by 253, including Kevin Ho, Chris Schultz✌️ & ❤️, Oriol Farré, Josh Elman, Nando 💪🇦🇺🇦🇷, Tim Herbig, Dez S. Papp, Yann “不停” Heurtaux ⏚ @shalf@mastodon.social, Ricky Yean, Dominik Grolimund, Taylor Pearson, Codementor, hiten.eth, Neil Patel, 📁𝐦𝐫𝐯𝐧, Ben Tossell, Justin Jackson, Sachin Rekhi, Steven Sinofsky, Ryan Hoover
The Verge
Facebook’s new chief lawyer helped write the Patriot Act
2 min · · ‘Jennifer is a seasoned leader whose global perspective and experience will help us fulfill our mission,’ says Sheryl Sandberg · Shared by 44, including Oliver Reichenstein, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, 📁𝐦𝐫𝐯𝐧, Leslie D, Thomas Power, Charles Baldwin, Antonio Vieira Santos, Mathew Ingram, Bjorn Larsen
The New York Times
Putting Down Your Phone May Help You Live Longer
5 min · · By raising levels of the stress-related hormone cortisol, our phone time may also be threatening our long-term health. · Shared by 109, including Katja Evertz, Christian Müller, Liliane Ferrari ™, Jane, Niklaus Gerber, Tristán Elósegui, Forbes India, Chris Kresser, Brian Solis, Gui Schmitt
WIRED
Will Artificial Intelligence Enhance or Hack Humanity?
20+ min · · Historian Yuval Noah Harari and computer scientist Fei-Fei Li discuss the promise and perils of the transformative technology with WIRED editor in chief Nicholas Thompson. · Shared by 188, including Aimee Meifeu ✍️⚖️, Jeff Bussgang, Antonio Vieira Santos, Bertrand Maltaverne, Yuval Noah Harari, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Gerd Leonhard, Cyrill Schmid, Thomas Power, Backchannel, Alexandra Wong, Ian M Calvert, Nicolas Berg, Dayyan Smith, Yvette Dubel, 瑞拿頭, Klaus Eck, Clemens M. Schuster, fernand0, Toby Coppel
Insider Business
Amazon's warehouse worker tracking system can automatically fire people without a human supervisor's involvement
2 min · · Hundreds of Amazon workers have been fired over productivity at just one warehouse in one year. · Shared by 79, including Antonio Vieira Santos, Charles Baldwin, Niklaus Gerber, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Oliver Reichenstein, Thomas Pleil, Thomas Power, Aimee Meifeu ✍️⚖️
The Verge
Microsoft is now a $1 trillion company
1 min · · Strong earnings push Microsoft toward a new milestone. · Shared by 25, including 📁𝐦𝐫𝐯𝐧, Howard Getson, Remo Uherek, Antonio Vieira Santos, Kunal Bhatia
The New York Times
How Do You Stop Facebook When $5 Billion Is Chump Change?
5 min · · A trivial fine would mean the government isn’t just deferential to Facebook, but that it doesn’t truly understand its power. · Shared by 32, including ❤️ Umair, DHH, Loughlin O'Nolan
wistia.com
Why Setting Ambitious Goals Backfires
4 min · · Find out why setting modest, straightforward goals actually enables your team to do their best, most creative work. · Shared by 45, including Oscar MacDonald, Niklaus Gerber, Kunal Bhatia, Clemens M. Schuster, 📁𝐦𝐫𝐯𝐧, Sachin Rekhi, Johan den Haan
Uber
Introducing Base Web, Uber’s New Design System for Building Websites in React
4 min · · Base Web is a React component library which implements the Base design language to act as a device-agnostic foundation for easily creating web applications. · Shared by 87, including Oscar MacDonald, 📁𝐦𝐫𝐯𝐧, Stu Collett, Cameron Yick ~ @hydrosquall@vis.social on mastodon, Baadier Sydow 🇿🇦, Vikram Dutt, Brian, Ty Smith
Motherboard
Slack Warns Investors It's a Target for Nation-State Hacking
1 min · · As Slack prepares to go public, the company is warning potential investors that it's a target for malicious attacks from “sophisticated organized crime, nation-state, and nation-state supported… · Shared by 45, including Antonio Vieira Santos, 📁𝐦𝐫𝐯𝐧, Yann “不停” Heurtaux ⏚ @shalf@mastodon.social