Somehow, Freeman had scaled perfection.
On behalf of all craftspeople, including writers, I had to know how.
Read the whole article on the Atlantic: The Future of Iced Coffee. (Blue Bottle is an Audrey company.) Hat tip: Nick Gernert.
An oldie from Scott Berkun on Why Jargon Feeds on Lazy Minds. The link to the Politics and the English Language essay seems to be broken, here’s a better one.
The best approach is to think like a 100% owner of your company with long-term time horizon. Then you work backward to the present and see what makes sense and what remains. Versus, here is what we have now, how do we carry it forward?
Marc Andreessen in The Future of the News Business: A Monumental Twitter Stream All in One Place.
NomadList has list of cities around the world sortable by cost of living, temperature, and internet speed, so if you can work from anywhere you can choose someplace fun to do so. Hat tip: Matt Galligan.
As the engineer and writer Alex Payne put it, these startups represent “the field offices of a large distributed workforce assembled by venture capitalists and their associate institutions,” doing low-overhead, low-risk R&D for five corporate giants. In such a system, the real disillusionment isn’t the discovery that you’re unlikely to become a billionaire; it’s the realization that your feeling of autonomy is a fantasy, and that the vast majority of you have been set up to fail by design.
From Wired’s One Startup’s Struggle to Survive the Silicon Valley Gold Rush.
wpgo.go is a command-line tool to interact with WordPress blogs, written in Google’s Go language. It’s cool to see this new generation of apps built on WP.com + Jetpack’s new APIs, like Postbot.
Sometimes you have an idea, and the universe delivers. Hotel WiFi Speed Test let’s you speed test and search hotels by their internet speed, something I was wishing existed just last week. Since I work primarily on the road, I would pick fast internet over pretty much any other amenity a hotel could possibly offer. Speedspot also offers similar info. It’s funny how sometimes the less expensive hotels often have much better internet — I think this is because they try to do less with captive proxies and such.