A good read on the uncomfortable benefits of buying followers [https://medium.com/i-data/fake-friends-with-real-benefits-eec8c4693bd3]: > Even more interesting, at least to me, was what my fake followers did for me. My Klout score almost instantly shot up. I was not impressed by that until I realized that Microsoft’s search

The diversity of life experience fuelling development of games today is great [http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2014-03-28-who-is-dayz-creator-dean-hall]: From Who is DayZ creator Dean Hall? [http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2014-03-28-who-is-dayz-creator-dean-hall]: > Survival had been drummed into him for months as part of Singaporean army training. He’d survived for two

A thought on”What the Fox Knows” [http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/what-the-fox-knows/]: > All of this takes time. That’s why we’ve elected to sacrifice something else as opposed to accuracy or accessibility. The sacrifice is speed — we’re rarely going to be the first organization to break news or

“Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.” [http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/28/magazine/28nutritionism.t.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0] : Every time a story comes up about the details of what is and isn’t healthy for you, I come back to this article. Eating 80% healthily isn’

Roger Angell: Life in the Nineties [http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2014/02/17/140217fa_fact_angell]: I’d happily read a blog of letters from old people passing on their wisdom and experience. There’s something earned by longevity that contrasts so deeply with the daily throwaway content from

The One Quality Every Startup Needs to Survive [http://firstround.com/article/Asanas-Justin-Rosenstein-on-the-One-Quality-Every-Startup-Needs-to-Survive] : > He had stumbled upon that one, critical missing ingredient — an ingredient that Rosenstein and Asana’s leadership have accepted as key to their success: Clarity. Whatever you call it, establishing the clear “why” and making sure everyone

Why Augur? [http://apatterns.tumblr.com/post/77365429971/augur-maxtb-launch]: apatterns [http://apatterns.tumblr.com/post/77365429971/augur-maxtb-launch]: > PR has become a much maligned industry. And perhaps there’s some fairness to the criticism. Over the last 100 years, its “two-way street” origin decayed into something designed to match broadcast media’

Like it or not, Dungeon Keeper is the future of LCD gaming [https://medium.com/p/676cdc67b5ab]: By me: “There has been a lot of fuss about the new ‘free-to-play’ Dungeon Keeper on iOS and Android. For much of the gaming community, it’s a new watermark for how the

The Graph That Changed Jon Bell [https://medium.com/launching-ux-launchpad/385ff833f9c8]

Quantum Dots: Band name or display technology? [http://www.displaymate.com/Display_Technology_2014.htm]: > Quantum Dots Quantum Dots provide an amazing super high technology performance enhancement for LCDs through a unique application of Quantum Physics. By incorporating them within the Backlight the LCDs then produce highly saturated primary colors

HARDWARE REVIEW: APPLE WEIGHS IN WITH MACINTOSH [http://www.nytimes.com/1984/01/24/science/personal-computers-hardware-review-apple-weighs-in-with-macintosh.html] : > The roughly 17-pound Macintosh comes in a square bushel-basket-size canvas tote bag with an oversized zipper. The preproduction version I saw did not sport the Apple-with-a-bite logo. The addition of this emblem could

It’s a great time to be a techy [http://ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2014/1/28/ecosystem-maths]: Nothing is settled on mobile. I have no idea what it will mean in 5 years time to say that I ‘installed’ an ‘app’ on an ‘Android’ ‘smartphone’. All of those terms could

“We’re Just Flipping Through Index Cards” [http://www.marco.org/2014/01/21/roderick-cmd-space]: > When a Marvin Gaye record came out 40 years ago, presumably, you went and spent your record-buying allowance on it, and you brought it home and listened to it exclusively for 2 weeks. It was

Don’t Glorify Startup Failure [http://www.instigatorblog.com/dont-glorify-startup-failure/2014/01/23/]: And the counterpoint, from Ben Yoskovitz: “But we should also be careful about glorifying startup failure. There’s nothing awesome about it. The entrepreneurs that fail are not heroes or celebrities. They are special–because they’re

14 Startup Post-mortems [http://ryanhoover.me/post/74229429351/14-startup-postmortems]: I think you learn more from failure, both in details and its looming possibility, than endless success stories. Well worth a read, even if you aren’t of the startup world.

How can I accelerate my personal growth? [http://www.quora.com/permalink/KwQqyaPOr]: You’ll have to click through for the graph but hopefully this makes sense. I’ve never seen a better summary of how I feel about working life. > Choose “anxiety-driven growth” over “boredom-driven growth“. For Csikszentmihalyi, flow

Mobile to the Future (or Max’s idea of “cloud screens”) [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4r4vbV-2fSM]: A good watch but while he’s keen on mobile being the next big channel, I think I’d just call it something like “cloud screens” now. Convergence is most obvious in

We Didn’t Eat the Marshmallow. The Marshmallow Ate Us. [http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/12/magazine/we-didnt-eat-the-marshmallow-the-marshmallow-ate-us.html] : A fun but interesting analysis of the old Marshmallow/ instant gratification test. > We want the instant gratification of an easy answer. We want to hear that character traits can be

The reality of digital newsrooms: ‘copy thrown online with a photo’ [http://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2014/jan/14/newspapers-digital-media] : > A young journalist who read the Fleet Street memories of Brian MacArthur (here) and Phil Moger (here) wants to make clear that it isn’t only veterans who miss

Some of what we did at Danger [https://medium.com/tech-talk/d823af31f7c]: > The company was called Danger, the platform was called hiptop, and what follows is an account of our early days, and a list of some of the “modern” technologies we shipped years before you could buy an iOS

Casinos’ (and Facebook’s) worrying knack for consumer manipulation [http://timharford.com/2014/01/casinos-worrying-knack-for-consumer-manipulation/] : > Now consider addiction by design. What is not understood about modern slot machines – certainly not by the UK’s Labour party, which recently tried to spark a moral panic on the subject – is that they