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You might sensibly read these heuristics and think "Hmm, you seem to over-focus on speed. Aren't quality, price, etc also really important?" These questions don't *really* test for speed. They test for *repeatable competence at scale*, which is another thing entirely.

How do the best performers increase their revenues and shareholder returns at nearly twice the rate of their industry counterparts? The value of design comes from top management rigor, company-wide teamwork, rapid iteration, and relentless user-centricity.

Doist's head of marketing shares tips for managing a remote team. (Hint: If you're asking how to monitor your employees, you're asking the wrong question.)

“I am convinced the devil lives in our phones.”

We thoroughly evaluate the claims made by Bloomberg in their Supermicro China tampering stories and found them likely impossible or implausible at best. We take stock of sources and discuss the next steps calling for formal SEC and shareholder investigations of Bloomberg.

How hackers start their afternoon. HackerNoon is a free platform with 25k+ contributing writers. 100M+ humans have visited HackerNoon to learn about technology

Too much design effort goes into artifacts that are not part of the working software. There’s a better way to work.

Every byte of a TLS connection explained and reproduced

Soviet scientists tried for decades to network their nation. What stalemated them is now fracturing the global internet

Type as both language and composition

Silicon Valley was built on job-hopping. But when a leader of Google’s self-driving-car unit joined Uber, Google filed suit. Now the Feds are on the case.

Finding the particle we assume is responsible for dark matter has always been a guessing game. We guessed wrong.

The pursuit of excellence has infiltrated and corrupted the world of leisure.

As humans, we have an underlying “blueprint” for how we perceive and process the world around us, and the study of psychology helps us define this blueprint. And as designers, we can leverage psych…

Get next edition's tickets info here: https://goo.gl/yfHbBG Josh will be giving a workshop this year on May 22nd about how to make your app more whimsical https://www.react-europe.org/#schedule-item-1581 This talk explores various ways that we, as front-end developers, can make our products more delightful to use. While it’s design’s job to give us static mock-ups, it’s our job to bring those designs to life. Slides: https://github.com/joshwcomeau/react-europe-talk-2018 Mail demo: https://github.com/joshwcomeau/whimsical-mail-client Get next edition's tickets info here: https://goo.gl/yfHbBG

The attack by Chinese spies reached almost 30 U.S. companies by compromising America's technology supply chain.

Our new blog is designed to radically reduce the energy use associated with accessing our content.

The care and feeding of a drug addict

For decades, the medical community has ignored mountains of evidence to wage a cruel and futile war on fat people, poisoning public perception and ruining millions of lives. It's time for a new paradigm.

The first few times it happens, it feels like a positive signal. Somebody wants your advice and perspective. You must be good at what you do. And th

People love to party! Well, at least some of them do. For the rest of us, parties bring on waves of feelings, good and bad, much like the events themselves. Here's everything you've ever wanted to know about being the hit of the party.

Powerlifters are loud. They all look different. They’re laser-focused on their skill. And women are joining in droves.