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Deliberate practice is the key to expert performance in writing, teaching, sports, programming, music, medicine, therapy, chess, business, and more. But there’s more to it than 10,000 hours. Read to learn how to accelerate learning, overcome plateaus, turn experience into expertise, and enhance focus.
Part five of my seven-part series on kickstarting and scaling a B2B business
A look at NitroKeys latest article
[I’ve added an update after watching the announcement.]
Goodreads is full of trolls, spam, and harassment campaigns. They probably like it that way.
In "Behavioral Advertising and Consumer Welfare: An Empirical Investigation," a trio of business researchers from Carnegie Mellon and Pamplin College investigate the difference between the goods purchased through highly targeted online ads and just plain web-searches, and conclude social media ads push overpriced junk:
A historic milestone in developing the first drug for healthy lifespan extension in dogs
Godot 4.0 is coming out soon. It includes major improvements all across the board in both features, performance and usability. Still, one of the biggest questions the community has is: How does it compare with mainstream commercial offerings?
This is the story of BaseFEX - a crypto exchange that unintentionally bankrupted itself through wash trading.
Last week, I did a Q&A session for a friend's security class. One of the students asked a question that I loved. They asked something like, "As a principal engineer, how do you make sure your company stays at the forefront of innovation?"
Cloudflare's R2 is an undiscovered gem and is redefining the economics of data storage
At a Goldman Sachs conference in December, Equifax CEO Mark Begor told investors that his company has a monopoly in an obscure but important area - selling data about your salary to third parties.
The 2020s are not the 1990s.
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, and business professionals.
Words from Mark Zuckerberg on management and remote work.
While we were visiting the University of Maryland, we came across a fleet of electric scooters scattered across the campus and couldn't resist poking at the scooter's mobile app. To our surprise, our actions caused the horns and headlights on all of the scooters to turn on and stay on for 15 minutes straight.
Autodesk will no longer sell nor support EAGLE effective June 7, 2026 This article covers the different ways you can still access EAGLE until it is no longer supported on June 7, 2026. It is recommended to subscribe to Autodesk Fusion for access to the electronics workspace. A subscription to Autodesk Fusion includes…
Starting on February 23, 2023, GitHub Sponsors will no longer support PayPal as a payments processor. As such, it will no longer be possible to sponsor individuals or organizations using…
Be My Eyes’ AI assistant, powered by GPT-4, is rolling out to hundreds of thousands of iOS and Android users over the next several weeks.
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The relationship between humans and machines. Click to read Methexis, by Kevin Fischer, a Substack publication.
Assured AB were contracted to perform a security assessment of our account and payment services between 2022-11-07 and 2022-11-29.
When you read in the news that a person whom you know as rich and wealthy is in financial trouble or has declared bankruptcy, it is easy to feel a sense of futility about managing your own money. Y…
Last week I had the privilege to sit down with Sam Altman and 20 other developers to discuss OpenAI’s product plans. Sam was remarkably open. The discussion touched on practical developer issues as well as bigger-picture questions related to OpenAI’s mission and the societal impact of AI. Here are the key takeaways.
