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a ux designer would tell you to not trust your own experience, but to measure the experience of others.

the danger of climate change

You have to define what "ruin" really is. Ruin could mean no longer being a viable brand, in which case you may be right. However ruin can also mean a creative decline in terms of …

Idea: Can you volunteer for a local non-profit to build up a resume?

The problem is that when you have a hammer (a software startup), everything looks like a nail: 1. There may be a shortage of Doctors to provide a 2nd opinion. The cost of a medical…

my friend did this at a well known tech company, and they screwed her over in a very bad way sadly your boss usually isn't your friend, and your boss will talk to other co-workers,…

I hate to tell you this but you're looking in the mirror at your future self (and your peers) as coding isn't usually in most cases a healthy lifestyle choice.

Something to keep in mind is that Asimov was very much a product of the age of pulp magazines, so early on in his career he was paid by the word for his work. A side geek note: If …

This blew me away: "Venture capitalist Michael Cardamone, the tournament’s co-organizer, approves of young companies buying tables with venture funds. “You absolutely should,” he s…

This: "Better design does not mean more design. Often, the most obvious designs are invisible." This also reminds me of the Steve Jobs approach of being proud of all the times that…

That depends on the nature of the startup: There is a ton of hyphen-tech here, so for example a fin-tech startup in my building that focuses on insurance just closed a Round B. Bos…

Y Combinator should come to Brooklyn!

While it wasn't hardware I wish they had mentioned GEOS: If you had enough money for a disk drive this would give you a Mac OS feel to your C64: http://toastytech.com/guis/c64g.htm…

There already was a crash of ad banner rates in 2008, in fact that killed many small publishers. You'd have a real bubble if there was a ton of moneys still being pumped into AdTec…

Something to keep in mind is that Japan is very impacted by the economy of China: Not just direct exports and tourism, but as the rest of Asia suffers from the slow down in China t…

It's not a bubble, the advertising industry has always followed this cycle: The post war television boom in America begat many new Madison Avenue ad agencies in the 50s who reached…

Suggestion to non-design founders: If you really want to learn about color you should start with a serious study of color theory. If you don't have the bandwidth to take a full cou…

If you want to see their amazing film work (and they made quite a few cool films on computing thanks to IBM) take a look at this: https://www.youtube.com/user/EamesOffice If you wa…

Looking back I have to conclude that Adobe didn't know what they were doing, so you can't really blame Apple. The proof? If you look at the success of Unity which does cross platfo…

Every form of energy generation has positive and negative points, to claim that one is the best is oversimplification. In fact when I met people who worked for that industry their …

Q. What direction do you want to go in with your career? I think you really need to think through where you'd like to be when you get out of school. Do you want to work at a big co…