Business Development edition.
Seth Godin: Understanding business development
Mike Volpi: Benjamin Franklin and the Art of Business Development
Matt Wyndowe: The Fundamental skills for Internet Business Development
Alexander Taub: Assessing The Stage Of A (BD) Deal
John O’Farrell: Who You Gonna Call? Navigating the Existential Crisis
Paul Graham: Schlep Blindness
Marco Arment: Designing “Mute”
James Hague: A Spellchecker Used to Be a Major Feat of Software Engineering
Al Ries: Kodak Wasn’t Slow to Digital; It Was the First One In
Snapshot: Viaweb, June 1998
Keith Adams: The Life of a Typeahead Query
Adam Wiggins: Idea to Delivery – app development in 2012
Adrian Cockcroft: How Netflix gets out of the way of innovation
Top 25 lines from @bhorowitz at #geeksvsuits
Scott Miller: The genius of Pac Man
Joel Spolsky: Hitting the High Notes
Nelson Minar: CPU scavenging
In Singapore, loyalty card rewards coffee fans for being disloyal
Jason Goldberg: How Fab Raised $40 million with a lot of data and not much pain
Wavii blog: Your Mileage May Vary
Patrick McKenzie & Keith Perhac: Japan, Startups, A/B Testing, And More
Michael Farr (Tintinologist): Why do the Tintin stories have such enduring appeal?
Nora Young interviews Luis von Ahn on Duolingo
Jessica Mah: A Startup is a Learning Experience
Roger McNamee: 10 Hypotheses for Technology Investing (pdf)
Vint Cerf, Van Jacobson, Nick Weaver & Jim Gettys: BufferBloat: What’s Wrong with the Internet?
Cirocco Dunlap: Literary Genre Translation
A partial visual history of sugru
Mike Belshe: SPDY of the Future Might Blow Your Mind Today
Quotes from Steve Jobs Lost Interview
Leonard Mlodinow: How Hollywood really operates
Craig Hockenberry: Twitterrific iPhone/iPad app development
Maciej Cegłowski: The Social Graph is Neither
Paul Tyma: Startup Ideas – Part 3
Interesting presentations from Velocity Europe 2011
Ivo Teel & Laurens van Hees: Taking on the Performance Challenge (video)
Artur Bergman: Full Stack Awareness (video)
Jon Jenkins: An Overview of Amazon Silk (pdf)
Richard Hamming: “You and Your Research”
Dr. Alan Kay: On Learning (video)
Justin Vincent: Entreporn, The Fallacy That Wastes Your Life
AppNexus: Display Advertising 101
How Browsers Work: Behind the Scenes of Modern Web Browsers
James Hague: Things That Turbo Pascal is Smaller Than
Steve Blank: How the iPhone Got Tail Fins
LoveMachine: A Different Model For Building Software
Jason Roberts: How to Increase Your Luck Surface Area
Clay Shirky: Power Laws, Weblogs, and Inequality
Avi Freedman: Does Squeezing Network Costs Cut Revenue?
Bret Victor: Up & Down the Ladder of Abstraction
Dieter Rams: Ten principles for good design
Dr. Alan Kay: Programming and Scaling (video)
Steve Jobs on marketing — shot during the Think Different days (videos)
GazeHawk: What everyone should know about the human eye
TV Size Matters: Upload a photo of your wall and see how different screen sizes look on it
Colin Percival: What does $1265 of bugs look like?
Josh Kopelman: Lifecycle Messaging
Derek Sivers: Uncommon Sense (videos)
Danny Macaskill: Industrial Revolutions (video)
Scott McCloud: Understanding comics (video)
Kevin Rose interviews Chris Sacca (video)
Patrick McKenzie: A software business on 5 hours a week
Dan Ariely: How online companies trick you into sharing more, joining more and spending more
Ben Pieratt: Dear Graphic and Web Designers, please understand that there are greater opportunities available to you.
Milo Medin: An Abridged History of the Internet (pdf)
Richard Kahn: APAC Subsea Cable Systems (pdf)
James Hamilton: Internet Scale Storage (pdf)
Paul Roy, Alex Polak, Gregory Bershansky: Performance Measurement and Case Studies at MSN (ppt)
Julia Lee, Stevan Vlaovic: The Impact of Ads on Performance and Improving Perceived Performance (ppt)
David Byrne: Six possible music distribution models
Geoffrey West: Why Cities Keep Growing, Corporations and People Always Die, and Life Gets Faster (video)
Raghuram Rajan: Money Magic
Bryan Appleyard: Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (And What It Says About Us)
Dr. Neal Krawetz: Perceptual hash algorithm
Paul Graham: Y Combinator Numbers
Jonah Lehrer: Ads Implant False Memories
Timothy Fitz: In the lair of Cycle-Eaters
Luis Von Ahn’s Duolingo: The Next Chapter in Human Computation (video)
Send your parents a tech support care package
Michael Burry: One-on-one & video
Jamie Zawinski: The Netscape dorm
Brilliant essay on Quora review: Sex, Death, and Anonymity on Quora
Kartik Ayyar: I don’t use Quora, I play it
Shinji Kuwayama: The Value of Promise
Pinboard Blog: Anatomy of a Crushing
Bill Moorier: Life at a Startup
Andy Gavin & Jason Rubin: Making Crash Bandicoot – Part 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Byrne Reese: How did WordPress win?
Analysis: World of Goo’s iPad Launch
Non-intuitive Examples of Compounding Returns
Rand Fishkin: Inbound Marketing for Startups in 2011
Rands In Repose: The Noise
Phil Whelan: Quora’s Technology Examined
Jonah Lehrer: Cracking the Scratch Lottery Code
Charles Limb: Your brain on improv
Mark Suster interviews Gregg Spiridellis: Want to know why charging $12 / year converts higher than $9.99?
Rasmus Andersson: Why I wrote a programmer’s text editor
Jon Moore: Intuitions about Software Development Flow
James Altucher: How Being a Sore Loser can make you Rich (or crazy)
Elliot Loh: Artifacts of Design
How HiSiri Works: Nova Spivack interviews Tom Gruber, CTO of SIRI
Fascinating presentations (videos) from Zurich Minds 2010
Daniel Dennett: How Memes Made Minds: The Evolution of Reasons
Simon Ammann & Gerhard Tröster: The Science of Ski Jumping
Helmut Bertalanffy: The Art of Brain Surgery
Ulrike Ehlert: Can We Cope With Stress?
Arthur de Vany: Evolutionary Fitness
Evan Miller: Golden Footballs and the Economics of Groupon & Is Groupon The Next Google?
Paul Buchheit: Angel investing, my first three years
James Altucher: 10 Things I Learned While Trading for Victor Niederhoffer
Steve Jobs: Hiring the Best Is Your Most Important Task
Howard Lindzon interviews Mark Cuban
Rich Skrenta: Algorithmic search is sinking, Bryne Hobart gets to the bottom of it.
Dan Ariely: An Irrational Guide to Gifts
Michael Lewis: How the Eggheads Cracked
Billy Hoffman: Optimizing Web Performance (ppt)
Paul Graham: Tablets
Interesting startup: Lockitron
Mike Belshe: Linux Client TCP Stack Slower Than Windows
Ben Strong: Google and Microsoft Cheat on Slow-Start. Should You?
Scott Locklin: Investments for dummies
Interesting product, Browserling, Peteris Krumins has more information on Browserling
Brian Meidell: What I Learned From FarmVille – So You Don’t Have To Play It
Joel York: SaaS Startup Strategy – Three SaaS Sales Models
Paul Tyma: A Google Interviewing Story
Mo Costandi: Neurocriminology in prohibition-era New York
James Chanos: A Walk on the (Asian) Wild Side (pdf)
David Einhorn interview (video)
Jordan Mechner: Tips for game designers
Matt Mullenweg: 1.0 is the Loneliest Number
Ben Horowitz: Meet the New Enterprise Customer, He’s a Lot Like the Old Enterprise Customer
Dan Ariely: The power of Free tattoos
Keith Schacht: Understanding your customers
Chuck Lorre: How to create a hit sitcom
Jason Goldberg: 57 things I’ve learned founding 3 tech companies
Rich Skrenta: Crowdsourcing search relevance
How will you find your truest, most productive niche? It may take decades and trial and error.
Paul Graham: The new funding landscape & What we look for in founders
Mixergy interview with Steve Huffman
Matt Rix: The Story So Far
Arthur De Vany: Essay on Evolutionary Fitness
Naval Ravikanth: Privacy Violations. Excellent observation.
Philip Su: Goodbye Microsoft, Hello Facebook!
Tracy Chou captures notes from Startup School 2010
Peter Norvig: On why he started working with Python
Gabriel Weinberg: My history of (mostly failed) side projects and startups. Comments on HN.
Ben Horowitz: Hiring Executives: If You’ve Never Done the Job, How Do You Hire Somebody Good?
Steve Newcomb: Cult Creation.
John Sculley On Steve Jobs
Patrick McKenzie: Lessons Learned At Business of Software 2010
The Evaporative Cooling Effect
Tom Kleinpeter: The Android Market
Marketing Stormpulse: rise early, work hard, strike oil
Jonah Lehrer: You Know More Than You Know
Steve Blank: Why Pioneers Have Arrows In Their Backs and Strategy is Not a To Do List
Gabriel Weinberg: Startup micro opportunities
Sunny Bains: Mixed Feelings
James Surowiecki: What does procrastination tell us about ourselves?
Kevin Drum: The Counterintuitive World
Steve Martin: How compromise choices can make you money
Good advice from Slava Akhmechet on what matters
Marc Hedlund: Why Wesabe Lost to Mint