This engineer explains how he’s experienced failures from the inside, including Google Glass. “They all had a fatal flaw. Everyone saw the flaw. But the culture that arose in these teams purposefully ignored the flaw.” | learn more
“Pollen, the events festival tech startup, went bankrupt in August after raising more than $200M in venture funding.” Employees will likely get none of the £3.1M in owed wages, as they are behind secured creditors in the pecking order. Full […]
And you should too! “Frameworks will not fix all your problems. Used right, they should help you 1) better understand your context 2) create structure for problems 3) communicate ideas & solutions” | learn more
“A new, AI-powered selfie generating tool called strmr.com is making the rounds on social media, allowing users to create incredibly stylized, beautiful and handsome versions of their own faces by simply feeding the algorithm around five to ten previously taken […]
Coming (hopefully soon) to Austin. “If all goes according to plan, Pura Vida will be the largest integrated wave pool development in the world. In addition to the Surf Lake at the center, other high adventure additions will be announced […]
“Most big cities in the U.S. have charters, but Chicago not only doesn’t have one, it is not even allowed by the state of Illinois to create one.” | learn more
“ALL the eels in Europe and America are born in the Sargasso Sea (in the Bermuda Triangle! Ominous? Yes).” | learn more
In the summer of 2020 economist Russell Napier predicted the coming inflation. “My structural argument is that the power to control the creation of money has moved from central banks to governments. By issuing state guarantees on bank credit during […]
“When the Black Death struck Europe in 1348, the bacterial infection killed large swaths of people across the continent, driving the strongest pulse of natural selection yet measured in humans, the new study found.” | learn more
This author argues decentralization need not be about the content, but the users’ names. “A social network achieves sufficient decentralization if two users can find each other and communicate, even if the rest of the network wants to prevent it.” | learn […]