Kunal, Ryan, Red, and Daniel Go Canvassing
Growth of Subreddits
As of September 2018, there were 892 million comments for the year so far, spread out over 355,939 subreddits. Here’s how it got to this point, and “what the internet has been talking a…
Brian’s Take on Management
Good questions! Let me organize my thoughts on these in a lil thread https://t.co/qGp0zVaOZn— Brian Michel (@brianmichel) November 3, 2018
Remembering XOXO 2018
How Manhattan Became a Rich Ghost Town
“Their dark windows serve as daytime mirrors for rich pedestrians”
Network Closure
“@mhdempsey In general the two forms I am most interested in are 1) coalescing of people from randomly talking --> implicit --> explicit groups 2) reverse engineering physical events by seeing ripples they cause in network closure”
The high-return activity of raising others' aspirations - Marginal REVOLUTION
“At critical moments in time, you can raise the aspirations of other people significantly, especially when they are relatively young, simply by suggesting they do something better or more ambitious than what they might have in mind. It costs you relatively little to do this, but the benefit to them, and to the broader world, may be enormous”
People Bottlenecks
Songs to Survive the Summer
What We Lose
Who Sends the First Text?
Your Real Biological Clock Is You’re Going to Die
Something New from XOXO
Six years ago, we launched XOXO with a singular mission: to bring together and celebrate artists and creators of all kinds using the…
“no one ever helps me in this damn house…“
no one ever helps me in this damn house pic.twitter.com/gvwjTpVO3s— MOVED TO @SEUPO (@seupodead) October 24, 2018
Carving Marble
Nicolet Schenck's Illustration Portfolio
Nicolet Schenck is a designer and illustrator currently creating digital products with Nike.
Group Trust Dynamics
I think that we underestimate the power law of throughput by how close you are to someone. And given non-linear decay of pairwise trust as you add people to group, and group trust being the GCD of pairwise trust. So much left unsaid in the public commons of the internet— Kevin Kwok (@kevinakwok) October 22, 2018
Memes as Emoji
“⠀⠀🤔 🤯 🧠 😮 ✨🧠✨ 😵”
Values Length and Interpretation
Single words for values are seductive because they have deep meanings. But, because they have deep meanings, you’ve little assurance that everyone has the same definition. (“What is love?”)— Sean Rose (@seanrose) October 22, 2018
Teach the 1K
The event will take place in February 2019, and the deadline to apply is November 8th. If you are interested, but can't make it to NYC, please fill out the "can't make it" form on our site as we'd love to hear from you: https://t.co/l4CQUiU1Ow— Gary Chou (@garychou) October 22, 2018
Skin Tone Art
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Reducer Composition
Check out @mbrandonw's talk on how reducers compose, which covers how you can build up with a big ole "appReducer" out of all the smaller reducers in your code base:https://t.co/VFkcZyVxrr— Stephen Celis (@stephencelis) October 20, 2018
An argument for free functions
“@cocoaphony Right. I'm not opposed to methods, but there's a giant class of operations that do not have a "primary" object that they're acting on, and simply make more sense written as free functions because of this.”
Competency and Perception Curves
On letting go
So true. From The Untethered Soul pic.twitter.com/tvEmshtCA6— Tiago Forte (@fortelabs) October 10, 2018
Parenting Chronicle
“@jordancooper It's a bit scattershot, but I chronicled the learnings of the first 26 weeks of fatherhood https://t.co/B6Y9Kvv6XU”
”I know that the “Ph.D in 4chan” comment is a joke, but seriously, people who study the language of online harassment are invaluable. I know some anti-harassment researchers and I admire their work. It’s not easy to comb through the hate to make t
“I know that the “Ph.D in 4chan” comment is a joke, but seriously, people who study the language of online harassment are invaluable. I know some anti-harassment researchers and I admire their work. It’s not easy to comb through the hate to make the internet a better place.❤️”
Making Yourself Irrelevant
“You should worry about the potential damage that can be done to your business if something were to happen because not enough people were knowledgeable or had the right tools to do their job.”
Praise is a vitamin
I was thinking about how happy I am when I get the kind of praise I need. It doesn’t make me feel smug or complacent, it makes me feel strong and empowered and like what I’m doing matte…
On Storypointing
“There is no such thing as a bad estimate in regards to pointing to a story. I'm not even sure if there is such a thing as a good estimate. Use retro's to speak to inefficiencies/bottlenecks/miscommunication. Stop worrying about the damn points.”