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- April 25, 2014
The Most Valuable Startup Compensation
If you look at the expected rate-of-return for each of these (salary, benefits, stocks) and benchmark them against the market, they aren’t dramatically different from what you could get working at the stereotypical big company. In fact, they are worse on average—with one exception: Rate Of Learning (ROL). Rate-of-learning is the velocity at which you […]
- April 22, 2014
How to Get More People to Read Your Content
The power of storytelling: Your valuable content is your vitamin (useful, informative, the benefit that it delivers). Vitamins might be what we need, but candies are what we want. Successful content needs both vitamin and candies (gummy vitamins). The vitamin part is your value. That’s the problem that your post solves, or the benefit that […]
- April 22, 2014
Big Data: Are We Making a Big Mistake?
Amid the big data frenzy, it is easy to get so bedazzled by its seemingly limitless potential that one overlooks common pitfalls when applying it. At times like this, it is more important to see big data as what it is not: big insights. The “big data” that interests many companies is what we might […]
- April 21, 2014
Things I Learn from the Internet – 5
Note: Things I Learn from the Internet is a series of post containing snippets of wisdom collected from stuff I read on the WWW which do not warrant a post in itself. Awesomeness Fest: An event for entrepreneurs from around the world to connect with world-changing leaders. Patreon: support and engage with creators (writers, artists, […]
- April 21, 2014
The Right Way to Ask Users for iOS Permission
Ask users for permission when, and only when, we absolutely need it, and we think the user can clearly relate how this access will benefit them. only show the system permissions dialog once a user has told us that they intend to say “Allow”. the worst possible thing is for a user to deny permission […]
- April 17, 2014
How to Run Live User Testing
The more neutral the location, the better. As tempting as it might be to use your company’s conference room, I’d recommend not bringing users into the corporate office. Use a friend’s office or co-working space. Use Craiglist to recruit testers: we posted a job opportunity to the jobs/et-cetera section of Craigslist. In this relatively short post, […]
- April 15, 2014
Indie Phone
Besides Blackphone, Fairphone, we now have Indie Phone, a phone where people own the tool and data. I heard Aral Balkan speak at Drupal Con in Prague a few years ago and he was brilliant. There are two types of entrepreneur, the visionaire and the builder. Aral is definitely the former. My favourite quote from […]
- April 13, 2014
Wealth Inequality in America
Not only do the bottom 20% and the next 20%, the bottom 40% of Americans barely have any of the wealth. the top 1% has more of the country’s wealth than 9 out of 10 Americans believe the entire top 20% should have. The ideal we asked everyone about: We’ve got some incentive, as the […]
- March 18, 2014
The Problem with Silicon Valley’s Youth
An exceptionally thought-provoking (albeit long) article on virtually everything about the Silicon Valley tech scene. The Web 2.0 checklist: cloud-based, scalable, mobile-friendly. (They are buzzwords, but they are also true) In pursuing the latest and the coolest, young engineers ignore opportunities in less-sexy areas of tech like semiconductors, data storage and networking, the products that […]
- March 13, 2014
Things I Learn from the Internet – 4
Note: Things I Learn from the Internet is a series of post containing snippets of wisdom collected from stuff I read on the WWW which do not warrant a post in itself. browserhacks: an extensive list of browser specific CSS and JavaScript hacks from all over the interwebs. titanpad: lets people work on one document simultaneously […]
- March 10, 2014
The Science of Why We Don’t Believe in Science
Here’s for all the climate change, vaccine and evolution deniers out there: The Science of Why We Don’t Believe Science Facts are not up for interpretation, but our prior beliefs can skew how we respond to them. when we think we’re reasoning, we may instead be rationalizing. Or to use an analogy offered by University […]