“This is the anti-routine essay, in which I refute the paradigm of fitter, happier, more productive routines as the secret to success. Our careers are defined by the highest moments of its biggest upside swings. The question is how to […]
Your “frog” is your big, important, and often unpleasant task. Productivity gurus often promote the strategy of “eating your frog” by forcing yourself to do it first. “All of this has been a long way of saying: if you’re forcing […]
“Whenever there are “too many” of fundraises of one type, the next round becomes the hardest to raise. In 2024, the Series A Crunch has returned. Software companies that have achieved the previous era’s milestone, $1m or more in ARR, […]
“One of the things I emphasized to [my students] is that no one really knows what current LLMs are capable of, since most of the tests conducted by AI companies focus mostly on coding and testing benchmarks, not real-world applications. […]
“Ald. David Moore vowed to stay on 73rd Street despite having to leave over the weekend after shots rang out. … “Camping out was his “last resort,” Moore said. “I know what I’ve been doing and, evidently, what I’ve been […]
“In a contract worth up to US$843 million, NASA has selected SpaceX to design the “US Deorbit Vehicle.” The spacecraft will bring the $150 billion International Space Station out of orbit to safely and burn up in our atmosphere at […]
“Most people incorrectly prefer aisle seats to window seats. They’re sure to discover their error sooner or later, but in the meantime, use it to your advantage.” ~ learn more
“We began dating in the summer of 2015 and broke up in the spring of 2016.” Teresa Ibarra ran a variety of data analyses on roughly 83,000 messages. ~ learn more
“Data from the US Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) indicates that more than 31,000 people were treated in hospitals for umbrella-related injuries between 2008 and 2017.” ~ learn more
This is a long and well-researched story about water deals between cities. I had never considered these dynamics in the past and find them very interesting. I have always considered Chicago to be water-rich, and this really helps that point […]