www.newyorker.comIn 1975, researchers at Stanford invited a group of undergraduates to take part in a study about suicide. They were presented with pairs of suicide notes. In each pair, one note had been composed by a random individual, the other by a person who had subsequently taken his own life.
www.nytimes.comWhen detectives in a Phoenix suburb arrested a warehouse worker in a murder investigation last December, they credited a new technique with breaking open the case after other leads went cold.
www.buzzfeednews.comIn an edited extract from his upcoming book Ruined by Design, Silicon Valley veteran Mike Monteiro explains how designers destroyed the world. In the 12 years between those two tweets, some things happened that are worth exploring.
www.nytimes.comSAN FRANCISCO — When Logan Green, chief executive of the ride-hailing service Lyft, was asked which tech leaders he admired, he pointed to three men who had built their companies ruthlessly: Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos.
ronjeffries.comWe might like to imagine that there’s some perfect mix of design quality, code quality, and test quality, to build a perfect product. But that’s not the case. There’s room for all those elements to mush around:
thebristolcable.orgWe’re not seeing the big picture, says Joe Smith, who works in the sector and is increasingly frustrated at how the issues are framed. When the public is asked if they think the voting age should be reduced from 18 to 16, only 24% support it.
kentcdodds.comThe dangers of DRY, the web of WET, the awesomeness of AHA. This is generally a good practice that I typically subscribe to (though less dogmatically than that definition seems to encourage).
www.theverge.comNima, the parent company for a line of portable food sensors intended for people with allergies and sensitivities, says its culture is based on five core values, the first of which focuses on transparency. “We are more open than private,” Nima writes on its website.
wpengine.comWho is the first superhero that comes to mind? What about a number between one and 10? And finally, a vibrant color? Quickly think of each of those things if you haven’t already, and then combine all three into a single phrase. Now, it’s time for us to guess it.
medium.comThis is about digital archeology. I hope people interested in the legacy of early online services will find it useful. And I hope other digital archeologists more knowledgable than me will find it and provide additional information. Maybe someone even feels compelled to pick up where I left off?
www.theverge.comThere’s a lot to evaluate about Apple’s new News Plus subscription service, including if it’s a good deal for the media business and forecasting how much of an existential threat it poses to an already at-risk industry.
blog.gyrosco.peWe’re excited to launch our third major update to the Gyroscope app. It includes the new Watch app, official launch of Health Score, a new tracking tab to capture everything about your life, and much more.
www.wired.comThis year marks the 30th anniversary of the World Wide Web, so there's been a lot of pixels spilled on "the initial promises of the web"—one of which was the idea that you could select "view source" on any page and easily teach yourself what went into making it display like that.
www.theverge.comWhen Google announced an external advisory board for AI projects last week, the company framed the decision as a step forward in accountability.
medium.comThe United Nations General Assembly is officially back in session, as its new president — María Fernanda Espinosa — calls for equality, inclusion and justice for all. Citizens around the world are fed up with widespread sexism and racism that should have ended centuries ago.
techcrunch.comJust five months after announcing £85 million in Series E funding, Monzo is already gearing up to raise additional funding, which would almost double its valuation. As reported in the Sunday Times yesterday, the U.K.
www.theverge.comCloudflare has announced that it’s adding a VPN to its 1.1.1.1 DNS resolver app. The 1.1.1.1 service, which first came to mobile back in November, currently attempts to speed up mobile data speeds by using Cloudflare’s network to resolve DNS queries faster than your existing mobile network.
www.bristol247.comMid-afternoon on a recent Saturday, the queue to the bar at the Old Lock & Weir stretched down a small flight of stairs towards the back of this historic pub. At the bar, pints of Thatchers Haze were being poured in quick succession into plastic glasses.
www.theverge.comSimpliSafe, who make our pick for the best home security system you can install yourself, is coming to the UK.
www.refinery29.comThe first quarter of 2019 has been impressive for women-founded companies. Glossier (founded by Emily Weiss) and Rent The Runway (founded by Jennifer Fleiss and Jennifer Hyman) both announced their unicorn status (VC-speak for companies with over a $1-billion-dollar valuation).
www.nytimes.comCompanies and governments are gaining new powers to follow people across the internet and around the world, and even to peer into their genomes. The benefits of such advances have been apparent for years; the costs — in anonymity, even autonomy — are now becoming clearer.
www.thetimes.co.ukLaura Kuenssberg tells me she didn’t sleep well last night. Which isn’t surprising, given we meet between the Speaker’s no third meaningful vote bombshell and Theresa May’s extension-seeking trip to Brussels. But Kuenssberg was not kept awake between 2am and 4am by Brexit.
