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Here are 4 ways design can be used to better market your business.
1. Creating a Connection
Your logo and how you represent yourself online can help tell your story, even to those who have never heard of you. Your logo is often the first thing potential customers see, so use the opportunity to make a good first impre... | ['Branding', 'UI', 'UX', 'Marketing', 'Design'] |
Is to show up every single day.
And if you can’t show up every single day, try to show up more than anybody else in your industry, field, niche or whatever.
This is the only shortcut to success.
That’s the only way to hack the learning curve.
That’s the only real growth hack you need to know.
While others write on... | ['Life Lessons', 'Writing', 'Life', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Poetry'] |
The Reflective Eclectic
Defamiliarization
See with new eyes what you thought you knew
Image of the Korean War Memorial, Washington DC, by the author
One of the advantages of being a reflective eclectic is I can borrow techniques from other fields and apply them to my own, psychotherapy. Some of these techniques com... | ['Psychology', 'Psychotherapy', 'Photography', 'Mental Health'] |
Why Trying to Find Your Passion is Dangerous and Counterproductive
You can’t eat passion. Passion doesn’t pay your bills. You can’t enter “finding your passion” into an application for medical assistance. Passion doesn’t keep the circumstances that affect your life at bay — the economy, politics, personal traits that ... | ['Productivity', 'Psychology', 'Self Improvement', 'Advice', 'Life Lessons'] |
How Will Washing Dishes Make Me a Better Achiever?
1.A sense of achievement
When the dishes move entirely from the sink to the rack I have a sense of having sorted something; a diluted feeling of having achieved something good. It is like a small trigger that goes to my brain saying ‘I can do it’.
Takeaway:
Our min... | ['Self-awareness', 'Mindfulness', 'Self Improvement', 'Motivation'] |
When ‘Being’ Brings True Happiness
1.3m steps later, I had reached an unintended destination
The work of Samy Benmayor, at La Galería Gabriela Mistral de Arte Contemporáneo, Santiago de Chile in March 2017
I conquered over 1 million steps in May 2018. After issuing myself with an even greater challenge, I ended up w... | ['Life Lessons', 'Self Improvement', 'Wellness', 'Happiness', 'Mental Health'] |
Perhaps the most important aspect of online marketing today is conversion. Getting a visitor to convert to your brand is just as important as earning new clients, as it seems everyone already has a preference and align themselves with another company. It’s always a tight race and competition is fierce.
This means a go... | ['Design', 'Web Design', 'Digital Marketing', 'Conversion Optimization', 'Marketing'] |
3 Reasons Your Business Should NOT Go Digital
Make sure digital marketing is right for your business before committing
Our content manager is going to hate me.
He told me to write an article about why all small and medium sized businesses (SMBs) should go digital to market their product/services. But instead, I’m us... | ['Digital Strategy', 'Marketing', 'Digital Marketing', 'Startup', 'Critical Thinking'] |
Why Learning Java is a Starting Point For Big Data Developers Of The Future
Java is a big friend to Big Data scientists and developers. Here I am going to tell you why is that so
Photo by Franki Chamaki on Unsplash
Considering the impressive pace of big data growth over the last 2–4 years, it’s clear that this subse... | ['Big Data', 'Data Science', 'Java', 'Big Data Analytics'] |
Rainbows are a consequence of real things happening in the world, but they are not quite real themselves. You can see them, but you can’t touch them.
A rainbow is caused by a chance combination of light, a downpour, and being in the right place to see it — with your back turned to the light.
Human beings see differen... | ['Philosophy', 'Culture', 'Psychology', 'Self Improvement', 'Science'] |
This article starts by covering some of my process and thinking when it came to branding a startup I co-founded earlier this year. It then goes on to look at the visual results with images of the key assets and an example of the brand in action.
Designing For Others
I’ve spent a large part of my career working on or ... | ['Branding', 'Startup', 'Visual Design', 'Design', 'Design Process'] |
Wellington : Night or the Prussian Must Come
Meeting of Wellington and Blücher, from The Wars of Wellington. The British Libary.
Two days prior to the Battle of Waterloo, General Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, Prince of Wahlstatt, commander of the Prussian army was on his backfoot, retreating, having been defeated at... | ['Human Resources', 'History', 'Leadership', 'Trust', 'Startup'] |
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My SF novel Hunter began life as 15 ‘seat of the pants’ chapters. I created a complete outline and knew my characters. I knew what the story was, where it was supposed to go and exactly how it ended.
And then I got to chapter 16 and everything fell apart. I tried for several weeks to res... | ['Rescue Story', 'Storytelling', 'Writing', 'Stalled Story', 'Fix Story'] |
In Peru, we’re proud of our cultural heritage and world-famous cuisine. But alongside Machu Picchu and ceviche, nature is right up there as part of our national identity. From the Pacific coast to the Andes to the Amazon, we’re blessed with an amazing natural heritage, much of which remains unspoilt.
After Brazil, Per... | ['Nature', 'Environment', 'Amazon', 'WWF', 'Forest'] |
6 Tips for Developers to Handle Imposter Syndrome
The things that worked well for me
“Every one of my successes is no big deal and due to luck.”
“I feel like a fake because I still don’t know [xxx].”
“Every failure is due to my lack of expertise and I should give up.”
“I’m lacking experience in that topic, I bette... | ['Programming', 'Technology', 'Imposter Syndrome', 'Startup', 'Software Engineering'] |
Brandt and Berge both explain a lot of human (marketing related) behavior with the core message: “The brain is lazy”. Although the brains ability to ignore information is an important feature, it doesn’t explain all marketing related scenarios, and it doesn’t explain WHY it is lazy.
If the brains end state is that it ... | ['Psychology', 'Marketing', 'Research'] |
The world has become a noisy place
Maybe it is easier now to make a name for yourself as a writer. But there are so many of us, it’s hard to find an audience in the middle of all the creative souls scattering their words to the four winds.
This all seems so awesome in theory.
The shattering of the glass ceiling, the... | ['Social Media', 'Writing', 'Marketing', 'Social Anxiety', 'Introvert'] |
Airbnb has changed the way we travel, with more affordable values for guests, who can know real local customs while choosing the most appropriate option. Hosts also benefit from an increase in their revenues.
In July 2019 I visited the city of Bristol, UK. Bristol is the largest economic, cultural and educational cent... | ['Python', 'Data Science', 'Exploratory Data Analysis', 'Airbnb'] |
When most people hear “Machine Learning” or “Artificial Intelligence”, they imagine a robot: a deadly Terminator. But Machine Learning or Artificial Intelligence is not futuristic fantasy. By the way most people do not know that Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence is not the same, Machine Learning is subset of... | ['Machine Learning', 'Python', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Deep Learning', 'Data Science'] |
Photo by Kazuky Akayashi on Unsplash
Being the “face” of a company is an intimidating role, and as a result, many CEOs and founders shy away from the spotlight. They either consider it a move toward humility or personal protection against possible future embarrassments — either way, it’s a safer play, but it forces th... | ['Branding', 'Personal Branding', 'Brand Strategy', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Startup'] |
Sign up for American Haiku Steamship To Writing History
By American Haiku
Writing takes practice. American Haiku is a great way to put your words from your fingers to your piece of paper. Don't quit, you can do it. Take a look | ['Growth', 'Poetry', 'Mental Health', 'Psychology', 'Programming'] |
Product-Market Fit and Startups
What is Product-Market Fit and Why Achieving It is Essential For Your Startup Madhur Dixit Follow Jun 13 · 5 min read
Image by Syda Productions
Failing to achieve a product-market fit is a major reason why 9 out of 10 start-ups fail. For a startup to be successful, it is essential to ... | ['Product Market Fit', 'Digital Marketing', 'Growth Marketing', 'Startup', 'Marketing'] |
AliExpress: Is Amazon under Siege in Europe?
AliExpress is attacking the uncontested market leader in Europe. Brands and sellers benefit by listing and advertising on the platform.
While most of the Covid-impacted Europeans have been home-shopping on Amazon, AliExpress has continued to silently yet aggressively grow ... | ['Strategy', 'Ecommerce', 'Amazon', 'Aliexpress', 'Marketing'] |
How can brands keep customers engaged with science?
The coronavirus pandemic has catapulted science into the cultural lexicon, shining a light on it like never before. You could even argue that it’s one of the few silver linings born out of Covid-19, as we place more emphasis on understanding how to separate informati... | ['Science', 'B2B', 'Brand Strategy', 'Healthcare', 'Marketing'] |
About
Clarisights helps performance marketing teams by —
Unifying reporting — Modern marketers want to unify isolated data into a consistent structure. With Clarisights, they can centralize all of their marketing data from different sources (not only their advertising but analytical, attribution as well as custom int... | ['Clarisights', 'Startup', 'Breakout Startups', 'Marketing'] |
Now ironically the PC itself and Intel have become the new RISC workstations. They may hold the performance crown for now.
However smart phones, tablets and all sorts of other embedded devices is where the volume is at. Chip makers such as TSMC, is in large part due to ARM getting such volume that they are able to out... | ['Cloud Computing', 'Amd', 'Apple', 'Arm', 'Intel'] |
Covid-19 May Have Started Before Dec 2019, Increasing Evidence Shows
It may also explain its unusual early adaptation to humans, unlike other coronaviruses.
Home vector created by freepik — www.freepik.com
The first global identified case of Covid-19 was on December 26 in the Wuhan Hospital in China, where a respira... | ['Life', 'Coronavirus', 'Ideas', 'Science', 'Technology'] |
A “Historic Week” on Nightingale
Well, historic in the sense that we published some amazing history-themed content.
Olivia Vane wrote “Strange Times: Visualising the Oddities of Time Data” which builds upon her experience visualizing museum collections and dives into the unique challenges of working with historic obj... | ['Design', 'History', 'Information Design', 'Political Cartoons', 'Mapping'] |
Here’s What I Do
First, I sit down, and I get a new document open, and I start writing
I have my topic in my head, and I start writing everything I can think of.
This is how I get into the flow state that is so important when writing. I find that if I can get going, I can get into a flow and stay there long enough t... | ['Time Management', 'Self Improvement', 'Writing', 'Writing Tips', 'Productivity'] |
What is a Protocol?
HTTP 1.1 is a Protocol.
If you want to use HTTP 1.1 you simply use a component like an HTTP 1.1 Web Server to serve your content. Then you use an HTTP 1.1 Browser to consume your content. Did you have to code HTTP 1.1 to do any of this? Nope. HTTP 1.1 as a protocol was coded for you by someone or ... | ['Microservices', 'Functional Programming', 'Dynamic Programming', 'Python', 'Django Rest Framework'] |
Michael Lee is the CEO and Co-Founder of Evolve Energy. He’s worked in renewable energy for the past 10 years and earned his MBA from Harvard Business School. In 2018, Michael founded Evolve Energy to help consumers save on energy costs while also laying the groundwork for the energy infrastructure of the future. Evolv... | ['Energy', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Startup Spotlight', 'Startup', 'Startup Lessons'] |
End of Day ceremonies: the key to sleeping better and staying focused during quarantine Joshua Mauldin Follow May 18 · 3 min read
Remember the last time you couldn’t get something out of your head and you woke up thinking about it in the middle of the night? The last few weeks of quarantine have been one continuous st... | ['Self Improvement', 'Productivity', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Advice'] |
Photo by Tim Rebkavets on Unsplash
I’m no expert when it comes to writing in the fantasy genre. In fact, I write and read mostly in the mystery department. I do love a good fantasy now and then and have even written a few stories myself in the fantasy genre.
When I think of fantasy, a few things pop into my head.
Th... | ['Novel Writing', 'Books', 'Writing', 'Fantasy', 'Writing Tips'] |
Relationships
Can Your Partner Be Your Best Friend?
I didn’t think so. And then I did. And now I don’t.
Photo by Kirill Vasilev on Unsplash
In my first marriage, my husband and I told each other we were best friends. I felt like such a liar. Was I lying? I wanted it to be true. I really did. Your husband is suppose... | ['Life', 'Life Lessons', 'Psychology', 'Relationships', 'Mental Health'] |
The gentle cycle’s hidden menace: Or why how you do laundry matters to the earth
Micro-plastics in highly unusual places
First it was the tea bags, and now…. the gentle cycle?
Researchers at Newcastle University ran tests with full-scale machines to show that a delicate wash, which uses up to twice as much water as ... | ['Driving', 'Sustainability', 'Laundry', 'Environment', 'Microplastic'] |
1) Don’t waste time searching for a “meaning”, there isn’t any.
On social media, you surely have encountered people trying to make sense of the situation. Whether it is Earth taking its revenge on polluters, God punishing us for our sins, or Capitalism finally collapsing, everyone seems to come up with their explanati... | ['Albert Camus', 'Existentialism', 'Covid 19', 'Psychology', 'Coronavirus'] |
This is One of the Rare Habits That Profoundly Changed My Life
And is responsible for much of my success
Every single day, you see approximately 1,023,872 articles about habits that will make you more successful.
These articles aren’t bad, per se, but most of them miss the fundamental point in writing articles about... | ['Self Improvement', 'Life Lessons', 'Psychology', 'Productivity', 'Advice'] |
I’ve been learning data science and AI for the past year, during this time my way of working was to search for the code I needed at every step of my data science projects, copy-paste it and adapt it to my project. I thought it would be really useful for me to have some kind of template containing all the code I could n... | ['Kaggle', 'Machine Learning', 'Data Science', 'Python', 'Technology'] |
Madness can never be truly understood, and madness is something that is still very mysterious, unique, and belonging to the other world, a world that only few of us have access to.
By Ekaterina Netchitailova, PhD
It was Michel Foucault, a French philosopher, who claimed that madness is a social construction, and that... | ['Bipolar', 'Psychology', 'Depression', 'Medicine', 'Mental Health'] |
Jawad Abbassi, head of Middle East and North Africa region, GSMA
The Gulf states are set to be global leaders in the deployment of 5G networks, with many expected to launch commercial 5G services in 2019. According to a recent GSMA Intelligence report, 5G will account for 16 percent of mobile connections across the si... | ['Tech', 'Damianradcliffe', 'Journalism', 'Zdnet', 'Startup'] |
Personality Traits, Introverts, Extroverts and Everything in Between
How to build your own recharge ritual and learn to choose yourself
From a young age, we are taught how to be kind, how to love and how to show up… for everyone but ourselves. We are taught that putting ourselves first is selfish. For some reason we ... | ['Mental Health', 'Self Love', 'Mental Health Awareness', 'Personality', 'Psychology'] |
Dear writers, stop pinning your stories on Medium! I noticed while browsing through some profiles I am unable to find the newest pieces. When a writer posts new content, Medium provides a notification to the reader on their homepage. When the reader clicks on a writer’s picture, it leads the reader to the writer’s prof... | ['Self Improvement', 'Writing', 'Advice', 'Ideas', 'Design'] |
Mistakes You Shouldn’t Make While Pitching via Email
Avoidable mistakes that made you lose a potential customer
According to DMR Business Statistics, we send and receive 121 emails every day — that’s about 15 emails in an eight-hour working day. Indeed, the number is more significant if a person has more authority an... | ['Marketing', 'Email Marketing', 'Sales', 'Startup', 'Enterpreneurship'] |
Just like the billions of neurons that make up the human nervous system, the perceptron is the basic unit of artificial intelligence. Every thought, action, emotion or decision that we make reflect the activities of the nervous system which is a master system that controls and communicates with every part of your body.... | ['Machine Learning', 'Python', 'Perception', 'Neural Networks', 'Artificial Intelligence'] |
When and How you Should Go Physical
Oversized Burn Down Chart
Here’s something you’re probably surprised to hear a Director of Product at a tech startup say: Digital isn’t always the answer.
How can it be?
Technological Progress = Digital, right? Everything must be faster, more integrated, more automated, and less ... | ['Product Management', 'Marketing', 'Startup', 'Tech', 'Digital Marketing'] |
Lesson #1- Abuse Is Like Losing A Limb
Child abuse, indeed, any abuse, whether sexual, emotional, physical, or financial, permanently cripples.
People don’t easily forget negative experiences, especially ones that happened during their formative years. Chronic trauma stunts an individual’s growth and sentences them t... | ['Personal Development', 'Personal Growth', 'Mental Health', 'Self-awareness', 'Mental Health Awareness'] |
Python is quite a popular language among others for its simplicity and readability of the code. It is one of the simplest languages to choose as your first language. If you are a beginner with the basic concepts of python then this is the best time to learn to write better codes.
There are a lot of tricks in python th... | ['Machine Learning', 'Python', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Data Science', 'Programming'] |
The infographic shows some of the most effective ways of finding the best unicorn content.
See Content From Top Performing Facebook Pages
Check the Tops From Relevant Subreddits
Mind Quora for FAQ
Use Medium To Follow Your Interests
Find Great Video Inspiration From YouTube and Vimeo
Subscribe To Relevant Industr... | ['Self Improvement', 'Content Marketing', 'Marketing', 'Content', 'Entrepreneurship'] |
Introduction to Istio Traffic Management
Traffic Routing with Istio by Example
What is Istio?
The continued adoption of microservices architectures and the move toward complex distributed applications composed of decoupled components that communicate via APIs introduces various new challenges for developers. While t... | ['Kubernetes', 'Istio', 'Service Mesh', 'Microservices'] |
The Negatives
The bad part of all this studying is, of course, the constant detection of even the tiniest errors. There are books which I read from start to finish in a state of immersion and suspended disbelief, and even though there are errors here and there, I know they’re made on purpose because their strict, gram... | ['Self Improvement', 'Writing', 'Advice', 'Reading', 'Books'] |
Who wrote that ridiculous rule? I’d bet it wasn’t Stephen King, Master of Doorstops!
(Never mind how Carrie was 60,000 words.)
Anyone ever heard of Margaret Mitchell? Gone With The Wind! 418,000! (FIRST AND ONLY!)
Okay, okay, that was like seventy years ago. But hey, look at this, Miss Snark! A DEBUT NOVEL about vam... | ['Editing', 'Books', 'Fiction', 'Advice', 'Writing'] |
Image by Annie Spratt on Unsplash
I had a difficult conversation again last week with an online retailer who was struggling with the high acquisition costs of selling via online marketplaces (eBay, Amazon, etc.) but not putting the time and effort into his own site because it hadn’t generated enough sales.
He’d given... | ['Ecommerce', 'Email Marketing', 'Marketing', 'Amazon'] |
If you achieve data from CSV or other types of flat files in BIRT, you can s use Flat File Data Source. If you generate a dynamic parameter report, you can create a second dataSet to use the parameter and filter the original dataSet. If you use the Unformatted CSV file as a data source and produce the report, you need ... | ['Report', 'Big Data', 'Analytics', 'Visualization'] |
More Than What You See
Photo by Rishi Deep on Unsplash
“A forest is much more than what you see…underground there is this other world, a world of infinite biological pathways that connect trees and allow them to communicate…and allow the forest to behave as though it’s a single organism. It might remind you of a sort... | ['Nature', 'Life Lessons', 'Environment', 'Technology', 'Science'] |
Getting Started
What you’ll need: book in PDF or TXT format
Programming language and IDE: R and the IDE of your choice
Packages we’re gonna use: tm, stopwords, tidytext, tidyverse, wordcloud2, ggplot2, and others.
The book I have chosen to analyze this time is Carrie, by Stephen King. While it’s actually not my fav... | ['R Programming', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'R', 'Data Science', 'Books'] |
Genetic Algorithms are based on Charles Darwin’s theory of natural selection and are often used to solve problems in research and machine learning.
In this article, we’ll be looking at the fundamentals of Genetic Algorithms (GA) and how to solve optimization problems using them.
What are Genetic Algorithms?
Genetic ... | ['Programming', 'Python', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Machine Learning', 'Technology'] |
After moving to another city with my wife I am trying to get my life back on track, and also my writing… Last few weeks were very stressful due to the reason why we moved, and I found it very difficult to start writing again, I had a severe case of writer’s block. After staring at my screen for a few hours (again) one ... | ['Love', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Writing', 'Conquer', 'Writing Tips'] |
The purpose of this tutorial is to get a clear idea on how a linear regression can be used to solve a marketing problem, such as selecting the right channels to advertise a product.
This time, we will use Google’s Tensorflow on a Docker container. TensorFlow is an open-source software library for machine learning acro... | ['Big Data', 'Deep Learning', 'Marketing', 'Marketing Technology', 'Machine Learning'] |
Update on 1/10/20 — I’m now a Top Writer in Movies, Travel, Reading AND Fiction now. W.T.F.?
I’ve been writing fiction since I could hold a crayon. By the time I stumbled upon Medium I’d accumulated a nice fat folder of short stories, flash fiction, long-form fiction, and three novels. I’ve had six short stories publi... | ['Writers On Writing', 'Nonfiction', 'Fiction Writing', 'Writing', 'Reading'] |
Not As Easy As ABC
A review of Judith Flanders’ unconventional history of alphabetical order, *A Place For Everything*
When I was in high school, one of my favorite things to do was to come up with “unanswerable” questions. I thought they were unanswerable because no one had Google at their fingertips quite yet, and ... | ['History', 'Nonfiction', 'Microhistory', 'Books', 'Reading'] |
I am tired of being afraid.
That is what I definitively stated, out loud while sitting in a corner of the verandah while at home in Jamaica in November 2015. I had just completed my Master’s program in England, birthed from a longtime dream to see a side of the world that I never have before, and a fear that I may nev... | ['Personal Growth', 'Life Lessons', 'Mental Health', 'Fear', 'Psychology'] |
The intuition behind the dimension reduction
Let’s start with a very simple example where the 3 features of a dataset (x, y and z) are displayed in the 3D space below (code below):
Original dataset displayed around x, y and z axis.
You can easily notice that despite having 3 dimensions, the scatter plot is mostly sp... | ['Dimensionality Reduction', 'Data Science', 'Machine Learning', 'Python'] |
A lost memory from my childhood Christmas TV schedule, also lost in 2015
Back in January I proposed Six memos for 2015, in which I suggested six ideas that I believed would be popular or at least interesting in 2015. They were: Resilience, Ambient persuaders, Ambiguity, Mavens, Emotional sensing and Personal data righ... | ['Technology', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Design', 'Mgm Oldies'] |
Want to work in UX? Pay attention in English class.
With special guest Andy Welfle, Adobe Senior Content Strategist Lead
Building the Perfect Designer
There seems to be a bit of an arms race to standardize the skill sets that are required by employers when it comes to UX-ers, digital product designers, UI designers,... | ['User Experience', 'Creative Career', 'Writing', 'UX', 'Design'] |
Pickyourtrail has raised $3M in total. We talked with its co-founders Hari Ganapathy and Srinath Shankar.
How would you describe Pickyourtrail in a single tweet?
Pickyourtrail is a self-service platform that lets travellers create, customise and book international vacations in a jiffy.
How did it all start and why?
... | ['India', 'Planning', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Startup', 'Travel'] |
How I Build Machine Learning Apps in Hours… and More!
What is new in the AI world, the release of our book, and our monthly editorial picks
If you have trouble reading this email, see it on a web browser.
Happy Monday, Towards AI family! To start your week with a smile, we recommend you to check out “Superheroes of ... | ['Technology', 'Innovation', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Education', 'Science'] |
When competition is stiff—as it is in freelance writing, publishing, and marketing consultation—the losers can be doomed by details as small as apostrophes in the wrong place.
In fact, over my years of hiring writers and marketing support, attention to detail has consistently separated the strong from the weak. That m... | ['Writing Tips', 'Writing', 'Entrepreneur', 'Startup', 'Freelancing'] |
After a little introduction, let’s start our project without wasting time. First of all, we will need some Python libraries to do our operations.
pip install Flask pip install pillow
After installing the necessary libraries, let’s design an API endpoint that will take as a input the image URLs with the HTTP-POST meth... | ['Programming', 'Python', 'Flask', 'Image Processing', 'API'] |
1. They shame our powerful sexuality.
Women shine as glorious sexual beings, and when they diminish our sexuality, they reduce our humanity.
Judith Duerk, author of “Circle of Stones,” describes “the gift of sexual love” as being “the most sacred of the gifts bestowed by the Goddess.”
Far from celebrating the beauti... | ['Culture', 'Mental Health', 'Anger', 'Psychology', 'Woman'] |
If you wait long enough, everything seems to evolve into a crab. Biologists call this “carcinisation”. On the internet, sooner or later everything seems to evolve into a marketing platform. In this article, I will show you how that happens, what consequences it has, and what it might mean for you.
Let’s start with som... | ['Advertising', 'Marketplaces', 'Market', 'Startup', 'Marketing'] |
I’ve always loved writing, but I’ve been afraid of writing, too.
Because I love it. Because it’s important to me. Because it’s a core expression of who I am, so I don’t want to mess it up.
Most of my life, I’ve had a love-hate relationship with writing.
Actually, more of a love-fear, dread, avoid, obsess over relati... | ['Writers On Writing', 'Writing', 'Psychology', 'Writing Tips', 'Writing Life'] |
C# Design Patterns
C# Design Patterns — Singleton
Providing one instance for the whole application
Photo by Hitesh Choudhary on Unsplash
Design patterns are common coding practices defined to solve common software development problems.
The Singleton pattern was developed to provide a common way of providing a sing... | ['Singleton', 'Dotnet Core', 'Dotnet', 'Csharp', 'Design Patterns'] |
How To Use Analytics To Identify The Business Value of Your Website
3 simple steps to setup and track business objectives on your website
You just finished designing the new website for your business.
You loved everything about it — the layout, the information, the type… It’s perfect.
However, while admiring the ne... | ['Critical Thinking', 'Google Analytics', 'Digital Marketing', 'Startup', 'Marketing'] |
Whenever you are visited by an emotion, the emotion comes to you as a teacher and a guide. The emotion is guiding you to a part of yourself that needs attention and love. Not “healing” or “fixing” or “getting rid of.” Just attention and love.
These emotional guides often show up in the form of your child self, pulling... | ['Spirituality', 'Life', 'Mental Health', 'Psychology', 'Life Lessons'] |
It’s Day… Whatever of Lockdown. Everywhere around me people are reaching outside of their comfort zones, trying to adjust to the New Normal. Going above and beyond to try and stay healthy and connected during this confusing time. Probably using features and apps in ways you hadn’t ever planned on. (I, for one, never ex... | ['Life', 'Writing', 'Inspiration', 'Mental Health', 'Covid 19'] |
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How to Find Your Voice as a Writer
And say what you have to say.
I’ve been writing for a living for close to 2 years now. While it often feels like living the dream, it sometimes feels like I’ve completely drained myself and have nothing more to give.
You’ve probably heard that writ... | ['Writing Tips', 'Self', 'Productivity', 'Life Lessons', 'Writing'] |
If you’re looking for a sign to purchase those items in your shopping cart, chances are, you don’t even need them. And by need, I mean, it is neither a necessity nor something you really really, really want.
Each passing day, a new product, an innovation, no matter how trivial, is out in the market and aims to provide... | ['Lifestyle', 'Sustainability', 'Minimalism', 'Activism', 'Environment'] |
Photo of Person Holding Alarm Clock
So you wake up in the morning, have your morning coffee, sit down on your desk, determined to work, slug it out, switch on your computer, and just as you are about to sort out your day’s activities, your mind wanders to Twitter, Facebook or Youtube.
Today is the morning after the e... | ['Work', 'Procrastination', 'Productivity', 'Motivation', 'Techniques'] |
Hi, my sweet lonely feeling.
Hi, sweet Jordin. I’m here again.
Yes, you are. How come? Tell me more.
Well, I come to visit you any time you’re pursuing fitting in rather than belonging.
Oh shit. That’s deep.
It is everything. Belonging is everything. You crave it so much — all parts of you in here long to feel lik... | ['Psychology', 'Inspiration', 'Spirituality', 'Mental Health', 'Self'] |
An exact explanation of what I did
Before I start, I want to elaborate that being in 10 projects at once does not mean that you would be doing it yourself. On the contrary being on 10 projects at once should help you to do the exact opposite. The things I did might sound unbelievable (or believable depending on who yo... | ['Productivity', 'Self', 'Opinion', 'Self-awareness', 'Project Management'] |
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What gets you out of bed in the morning when you think of analytics in 2018? Is it the prominence of AI in our lives, democratization of data or advanced analytics that keeps you excited? Let’s accept it, last year was quite an eventful year, with the rise of self-service analytics, IoT analytics and o... | ['Artificial Intelligence', 'Analytics', 'Big Data', 'IoT', 'Bitcoin'] |
Here are 3 simple rules to help you. They are collectively called (drumroll) The Mom Test:
Talk about their life instead of your idea Ask about specifics in the past instead of generics or opinions about the future Talk less and listen more.
The questions to ask are about your customers’ lives: their problems, cares,... | ['The Mom Test', 'Summary', 'Pdf Book', 'Books', 'Startup'] |
Kicked Out of Your Own Company: What To Do
It happens more than we admit: Entrepreneurs get kicked out of their own companies. Susan Strausberg shares what to do when it happens to you.
As the co-founder and CEO of EDGAR Online, I ran the company for thirteen years. For the vast majority of that time I was fully focu... | ['Entrepreneurship', 'Startup', 'Women Entrepreneurs', 'Business Development'] |
The gospel we preach is clear and unchanging: “Deliver the right message to the right people at the right time.” As a product marketer, you possess a deep understanding of strategic positioning, the nuances of messaging, and the wants and needs of your customer.
You strategize your approach to pricing, ad copy, websit... | ['Product Management', 'Startup Marketing', 'Marketing', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Product Marketing'] |
Learn From Your Mistakes If You Want to Find Your Version of Success
It is possible to build a business or career despite hurdles and challenges like a mental or physical illness
Photo by krakenimages on Unsplash
I would blame my failure to stay focused this past week on the election, but the deeper I overthink the ... | ['Writing', 'Mental Health', 'Success', 'Failure', 'Mistakes'] |
What is K-Means Clustering?
K-Means algorithm is a centroid based clustering technique. This technique cluster the dataset into k different clusters. Each cluster in the k-means clustering algorithm is represented by its centroid point.
Left Image: Plot of the dataset, Right Image: Plot of the result of 3-means clust... | ['Machine Learning', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Towards Data Science', 'Image Processing', 'Data Science'] |
Taylor Swift quoted writer Nora Ephron the other night. “Everything is Copy” meaning: Every single thing that happens to us can be used as creative fodder.
I think we all know this as writers.
This is great news.
Yes. Every damn thing that happens to us can be a story.
I want to embrace this thought again.
I want ... | ['Grief', 'Writing', 'Writing Tips', 'Productivity', 'Writing Life'] |
How To Turn a $12k Investment Into $1 Million
When Albert Einstein once said that humanity’s greatest invention is “Compound interest.”
The biggest excuse for not investing I hear is: “I have no money to invest.”
Part of the reason why people think they should hold back from investing until they have more money is t... | ['Innovation', 'Investing', 'Money', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Startup'] |
Apple is another name for Innovation! Be it Newton’s law of universal gravitation or Steve Jobs multinational technology firm Apple Inc. the roleplay of innovation has broadened the expanse of discovery.
For thousands of years, the most dramatic events centrally focus on human development through experimental analysis... | ['Technology', 'Innovation', 'World', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Startup'] |
What do you do to lighten up Helsinki in November? I got to take part in the world’s biggest tech event, Slush. I was a volunteer there and I want to tell you about my journey within Finland’s big startup community. I am studying in one of the most stimulating startup hotbeds in the world and I explored the event like ... | ['Tech', 'Volunteer', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Slush', 'Startup'] |
10 Practical Tips for Effective Cross-Team Collaboration
Actionable tips that you can apply to your multi-team projects
Photo by Marvin Meyer on Unsplash
It is not easy to be part of a project requiring multiple teams to work together to complete. If mismanaged, it can cost you and your organization valuable manhour... | ['Startup', 'Technology', 'Leadership', 'Productivity', 'Programming'] |
How Social Distancing Can Help You Live More Sustainably
While living more simply, you’re also being more sustainable — which is good for you, and good for the planet
Let’s get one thing straight. Social distancing is not fun. A global pandemic is anything but peachy. Still, there’s nothing wrong with finding a silve... | ['Self', 'Environment', 'Lifestyle', 'Sustainability', 'Social Distance'] |
Using Machine Learning to Predict Subscription to Bank Term Deposits for Clients with Python
Bank Marketing with Machine Learning using Scikit-Learn
“No great marketing decisions have ever been made on qualitative data.” — John Sculley (CEO of Apple Inc.)
Credit: wpforms.com/best-google-analytics-plugins-for-wordpre... | ['Data Science', 'Python', 'Machine Learning', 'Marketing', 'Scikit Learn'] |
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Once added as a contributor, you will be able to submit your drafts to The Brave Writer directly from your ... | ['Writing Tips', 'Write For Us', 'Self Improvement', 'Writing', 'Marketing'] |
When notes leaked that Apple was planning to begin production of an electric “iCar” by 2025, Elon Musk responded. At first, he questioned Apple’s tactics for producing safe and efficient batteries and whether they actually gave the company a competitive advantage over Tesla.
Then, he dropped this bomb:
In 2017, perha... | ['Transportation', 'Technology', 'Apple', 'Sustainability', 'Tesla'] |
A new economic model which puts the emphasis on the recycling and reusing of materials and products is emerging, as concerns for the environment escalate. The circular economy calls for a radical shift in production and consumption. Continual cycles recover and restore products, components and materials through strateg... | ['Economy', 'Environment', 'Circular Econonomy', 'Material Efficiency', 'Sustainability'] |
Spring Boot Microservices — Implementing Circuit Breaker
In this article, we will learn the fundamentals of one of the must pattern in the Microservices world — Circuit Breaker. We will do the sample implementation based on Spring Boot, Spring Cloud & Resilience4j. This is the sixth part of our Spring Boot Microservic... | ['Microservices', 'Spring Boot', 'Circuit Breaker', 'Spring Cloud', 'Software Engineering'] |
Sangram Vajre
8. Storytelling and the Value of In-Person Connections
In-person events and conferences
I have a renewed appreciation, value, and understanding for what in-person events can do for companies. And it doesn’t need to be on the scale of Dreamforce — companies should be doing their own events whether there... | ['Digital Marketing', 'Marketing', 'Venture Capital', 'Startup', 'SaaS'] |
Paying with Apple Pay on a Square Device
In the last couple of years, we have seen a growing number of acquisitions in the Payments Industry. From large investors buying established global companies, like San Francisco Partners -> Verifone, to strategic acquisitions for capabilities, geo-expansion or consolidation pur... | ['Analytics', 'Data Science', 'Payments', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Startup'] |
It’s 2020 already, and there is still no common solution for aggregating logs in Kubernetes. In this article, we would like to share our ideas, problems encountered, and solutions — all these with the help of real-life examples. Generally speaking, most of the things described here can be applied not just to Kubernetes... | ['Logging', 'Microservices', 'Fluentd', 'Loghouse', 'Kubernetes'] |
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