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Building Cloudflare TV from Scratch
Cloudflare TV is a 24x7 TV channel that takes you behind-the-scenes and let’s you hear directly from the builders working on your favorite Cloudflare products. This blog post covers the story of why we decided to build Cloudflare TV in-house and some of the technologies that make it possible.
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How on-the-wrist sleep apnea detection works
80% of sleep apnea cases are undiagnosed, and undiagnosed sleep apnea causes $150B of wasted medical spend every year.
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Accidental Genius: How To Think
I would say that alternative name of this book could be “How to think”. It is a must read.
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Stephen King's “Everything You Need to Know About Writing Successfully”
"I really am going to tell you everything you need to pursue a successful and financially rewarding career writing fiction, and I really am going to do it in ten minutes, which is exactly how long it took me to learn."
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What storytelling does to our brains
Storytelling is one of the most overused and underused techniques at the same time. In this post, we are revealing what storytelling does to our brains.
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How I play video games with spinal muscular atrophy
My name is Andrei Cebotar. I’m 37, I live in Moldova, and I have Spinal Muscular Atrophy.
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The Hungarian Approach and How It Fits the American Educational Landscape (2015)
By Ryota Matsuura , Assistant Professor of Mathematics at St. Olaf College and North American Director of Budapest Semesters in Mathematics Education .
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Arguing from compassion (2021)
For example, that universal basic income (UBI) could ameliorate the loss of jobs due to automation, a straw man would be, “So you want people to sit at home all day and collect free money?” Recently, the term has become a cudgel in the culture wars.
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More damaging evidence on open plan offices
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Create a positive feedback loop to become motivated
Do you struggle with enjoying your work? Do you struggle with going to the gym regularly?
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I ate and reviewed every snack in our office kitchen
Office Snacks ranked from banana to jerky to grapes. See which boost productivity, which wreck your desk—and why snacks reveal more than you think.
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Biomolecular shifts occur in our 40s and 60s (2024)
Time marches on predictably, but biological aging is anything but constant, according to a new Stanford Medicine study.
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Aerobic exercise can reduce the risk of metastatic cancer in mice: study
Tel Aviv University researchers find that exercise defeats cancer by increasing glucose consumption
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Notes for the New Year
Happy 2017! As a kid, I just sort of took for granted that stuff got better every year—TVs got bigger and then thinner, cars got a little faster, and computers got unbelievably better on an exponential curve. As an adult, I realized that the future is not guaranteed to be better. The default is that things stay the…
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Having a successful career with depression, anxiety and imposter syndrome
The first half of this conversation is a searingly honest account of...
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Mental models for designers (2019)
At Dropbox, our Brand Guidelines help us infuse everything we make with identity. From icons to illustration, logos to language, this collection is the foundation for how Dropbox looks, feels, and sounds like Dropbox.
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Two epigenetic regulators interfere with healthy aging
It has long been assumed that lifespan and health are strongly correlated, but although there has been an overall increase in human life expectancy
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Creativity is the new moat
AI makes it fast and easy to copy what’s already out there—but your competitive edge could learn a little something from web history
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Why are our brains shrinking?
As promised, here is the first post in our “The Student of Life” series. This essay, focusing on the fascinating subject of the shrinkage of our brain over the last 70,000 years, was masterfully penned by USF student Savannah Robison during the Fall 2017 semester of BIOL100. It is a wonderful example of student…
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Suppressing negative thoughts may be good for mental health after all
The commonly-held belief that attempting to suppress negative thoughts is bad for our mental health could be wrong, a new study from scientists at the University of Cambridge suggests.
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Why we need a book about naming
Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand. — Martin Fowler