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A detailed explanation of why I keep saying that advertising is a cancer on modern society.

Using two classics of magic, Kyle Eschen explores the psychological techniques that underlie theatrical deception. As people wander the world, they use assumptions and heuristics to filter out everything that they deem unimportant - Kyle gives a conjuror’s perspective on the brain’s predictable blind spots. More information on http://www.tedxvienna.at Magician Kyle Eschen thinks deeply about psychology of deception. Through a decade of performing he has seen that people possess gaping blind spots, which he will highlight through magic routines with audacious methods. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at http://ted.com/tedx

Over the past decade, everyone—and I mean everyone—with an online presence felt the pressure to become a content publisher. Coca-Cola. Costco. Tiny midwestern

Modern JavaScript frameworks are all about reactivity. Change your application's state, and the view updates automatically. But there's a catch — tracking state changes at runtime adds overhead that eats into your bundle size and performance budgets. In this talk, we'll discover an alternative approach: moving reactivity into the language itself. Your apps have never been smaller or faster than they're about to become. Slides: https://rethinking-reactivity.surge.sh/ YGLF 2019: Code Camp Blog - Rich Harris: https://www.israel.yglfconf.com/post/meet-the-speaker-rich-harris

Brooke Holden had all but given up on breaking into the video game business.

For more than a decade, consumer rights groups (including EFF) worked with technologists and companies to try to standardize Do Not Track, a flag that browsers could send to online companies

Sometimes what a company needs is a group that a manager can’t control.

Mindfulness promotes itself as value-neutral but it is loaded with (troubling) assumptions about the self and the cosmos

Essay on the benefits of speedy software, and how it affects user perception of engineering quality and overall usability

What's the number one prerequisite to building a high-quality wardrobe? Exactly: You need to be able to recognize a quality garment when you see one. You need to be able to tell the difference between a durable, well-crafted piece and one that looks pretty on the rack but won't last more than half a

Ten days after calling off her engagement, CJ Hauser travels to the Gulf Coast to live among scientists and whooping cranes.

When I became a manager, I realized I needed to listen a lot more. This is my journey with active listening, and the exercises that have helped me improve.

When Philip Poniz opened Box 105 at his local Wells Fargo, he discovered it was empty — and that he was totally unprotected by federal law.

Technical details, source code links, and AWS configuration for Generative.fm, a platform for generative music that plays the broswer. Learn the current state of a weird creative coding project.

Long after research contradicts common medical practices, patients continue to demand them and physicians continue to deliver. The result is an epidemic of unnecessary and unhelpful treatments.

★ On Bill Gates’s ‘Greatest Mistake Ever’:

Elaborate usability tests are a waste of resources. The best results come from testing no more than 5 users and running as many small tests as you can afford.

"I'm a good judge" ... said by government employee and judge Gisele Pollack who, it seems, sentenced people to jail because of their drug use...while she, herself, was high on drugs. But, in her defense, "she's had some severe personal tragedy in her life". And that's why, it seems, she's being allowed to check herself

Before the robots take our jobs, can we please get them to help us do some good work?

The dark underbelly of ad-tech

Technology keeps us constantly stimulated. What do we lose when we no longer have nothing to do?

Traditionally, a major source of high-quality pirate releases has been retail discs, such as Blu-ray or DVD. Today, torrent and streaming sites are regularly fueled by content culled from streaming services such as Netflix and Amazon. Known online as WEB releases, these files are the product of a decryption process using tools mostly not intended for public use. Recently, TF spoke with a person involved in the secretive WEB scene.

Voltaire was right.

Ever spent an agonizing amount of time mulling something over? This should help.

Stop Running in Circles and Ship Work that Matters

Professionalism has become a destructive myth. You don't have to leave your conscience behind when you head to work.

It's better to have a hole in your team than an asshole

Apple’s design chief helped create some of the world’s best-known products, but grew distant from leadership, as the company shifted its focus to operations under CEO Tim Cook.

Google’s internet freedom moonshot has gotten glowing attention for its ambitious projects. But current and former employees, leaked documents, and internal messages reveal a grim reality.

"Except in extreme cases, no single number gives a good idea of whether a person is functionally healthy or not. The common numbers are not directly or easily changeable. As these numbers continue to dominate health care, however, an emerging body of evidence is finding useful and cheap numbers that anyone can find and track. If these new numbers aren’t being taken seriously, it may be because they seem too obvious. "The speed at which you walk, for example, is eerily predictive of health status."