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Daniel Eckler in The Startup12 hrs ago6 min read

The Future of Design is Emotional

In 1950, the American psychologist Harry Harlow conducted an experiment that separated two infant…

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rstevens3 days ago

📟 I’m pretty sure that when I eventually get a job at a cool startup, this is how it’s going to happen.

http://www.dieselsweeties.com/ics/23/

Jess Iandiorio in The Startup18 hrs ago6 min read

The “Women in Tech” convo needs more men

Ugh. That title! I wrote it and it makes me see red. Like we’re damsels in distress…

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Wyatt Jenkins17 hrs ago7 min read

Making the Shift to Platform Product Management

Many startups begin with a great product — something…

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Martin Bryant2 days ago3 min read

Hit the north: I’m moving on from TNW

It’s almost seven years since I started working at a tiny blog called The Next Web.

Zee, the only member of staff working full-time on the site then, hired me to write a post a day after I answered an ad on now long-departed social…

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Tristan Harris in The StartupMar 610 min read

Tech Companies Design Your Life, Here’s Why You Should Care

Estimated reading time: 10 minutes, 15 seconds

Four years ago, I sold my company to Google and joined the ranks there. I spent my last three years there as Product Philosopher, looking at the profound…

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Justin Blanton in Anxious Robot4 days ago2 min read

The infinite queue

For better or worse, queues are how I’ve come to view nearly every aspect of my life, and I know I’m not alone. Apart from some work-related responsibilities, nearly every other dimension of my life flows into “one” sinuous, malleable, and ever-growing list of things to digest and process. This…

Pacific Standard in Pacific Standard3 days ago10 min read

Meet PRIME, the New App That Wants to Help End Schizophrenia

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Chris Dixon in Software Is Eating the WorldFeb 2111 min read

What’s Next in Computing?

The computing industry progresses in two mostly independent cycles: financial and product cycles. There has been a lot of handwringing lately about where we are in the financial cycle. Financial markets get a lot of attention. They tend to fluctuate unpredictably and sometimes…

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Daniel L. Doctoroff in Sidewalk Talk5 days ago3 min read

It’s time for urbanists and technologists to start talking

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