better doing
If humility is so important, why are leaders so arrogant?
Bill Taylor, co-founder of Fast Company, tackles this question in the Harvard Business Review. | learn more
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better doing
A hard-to-read font promises to help boost your memory.
The science behind Sans Forgetica, which incorporates a learning principle called ‘desirable difficulty.’ | learn more
retail therapy
Visual search sits on the brink of a breakthrough.
“According to eMarketer’s 2018 Visual Search report, about 1 billion visual searches happen per month. That’s a tiny fraction of overall search, which renders hundreds of billions of queries per month, but it’s growing. On Pinterest, monthly visual searches went […]
retail therapy
New site where best direct-to-consumer companies are listed for free.
Stephan Aarstol, the founder of Tower Paddle Boards (backed by Mark Cuban), created NoMiddleMan.com to try and remove the need for d2c brands to pay a big portion of revenue to Amazon and Google for the privilege of reaching customers. | learn more
on the blockchain
Security token exchanges launching in Q4 2018 and 2019.
Cointelligence compiled a list of the various exchanges launching soon. |learn more
tech, startups, internet
Some of the latest Techstars companies.
If you’re curious what sort of innovative startups are being supported by the global incubator, here’s a quick speed round of about 10 per link: Toronto, New York, Montreal, Paris, Berlin, Oslo.
tech, startups, internet
Let’s complexify it.
Brad Feld wrote this short post about the process of letting complexity creep in to startups. “We just got it simplified – now let’s complexify it.” | learn more
tech, startups, internet
The VC Ponzi scheme theory.
Chamath Palihapitiya is the founder of the uber-successful investment firm Social Capital, which has recently been in the news for some serious drama (google it if you’re curious). Chamath is interviewed here by Jason Calacanis and shares his controversial views […]
oh, chicago
Cook County judge send to anger management counseling.
“A Cook County judge at the criminal courthouse has been suspended from the bench and ordered to undergo anger management after a committee determined he created a ‘hostile work environment for another judge.’” |learn more