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 18 Ways to Think About Data Quality
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 [...]
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 The evolution of the web 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) Apple brochure from 1984
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) National Zoo Animals React to [...]
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.
Drew Olbrich edition. Distort, Garry, Hypercube, Nine, Penrose Tiles, Tricorder
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
Lawrence Kesteloot edition. Slow Assimilation Works Best Why Software is Late Helping the Average Programmer Estimates Production Languages and Toy Languages Soccer Team Preference Personal Motivation Hiring in a Recession Every Line Is a Potential Bug
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
Piaw Na: 5 Google Engineering Management Mistakes Patrick McKenzie: How A Half-Broken Halloween Promotion Smashed Revenue Records Instapaper Founder Marco Arment’s Journey From Bagel Jockey to Publishing Pioneer Jonah Lehrer: The Taste Of Coke Is All In Your Head
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 HN: Interesting hacks 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. Bootstrapping Stormpulse 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