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

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

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

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

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?

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

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)

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

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?

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

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 the Earthquake

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.

Distort, Garry, Hypercube, Nine, Penrose Tiles, Tricorder

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)

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

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

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

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

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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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)

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

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

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.

HN: Interesting hacks

Mixergy interview with Steve Huffman

Matt Rix: The Story So Far

Arthur De Vany: Essay on Evolutionary Fitness

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.

Steve Newcomb: Cult Creation.

Bootstrapping Stormpulse

John Sculley On Steve Jobs

Patrick McKenzie: Lessons Learned At Business of Software 2010

Tom Kleinpeter: The Android Market

Marketing Stormpulse: rise early, work hard, strike oil

Jonah Lehrer: You Know More Than You Know

Gabriel Weinberg: Startup micro opportunities

Sunny Bains: Mixed Feelings

James Surowiecki: What does procrastination tell us about ourselves?

Steve Martin: How compromise choices can make you money

Good advice from Slava Akhmechet on what matters

Marc Hedlund: Why Wesabe Lost to Mint