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As a growth marketer, you’re not interested in theory. You want to learn methods you can apply today. You want to discover tactics that have helped other companies scale at warp speed. And you want to know how the best of the best have tested and optimized those tactics to achieve even better outcomes, so you can avoid... | ['Marketing', 'Startup', 'Digital Marketing', 'Growth Hacking', 'SaaS'] |
9. Don’t Claim Your Book Will Be a Bestseller
Being positive and confident is one thing, but boasting that your book will become a bestseller that interests millions of readers around the world, especially everyone who “has a mother,” is another. These statements are just too broad to wrap your head around.
While age... | ['Literature', 'Publishing', 'Books', 'Fiction', 'Writing'] |
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They will divert the conversation, redirecting your attention elsewhere through distraction.
You might end up asking about where they were at for the past five hours when they were supposed to meet you for lunch, but instead, you’ll end up talking about the cute puppy they saw on... | ['Mental Health', 'Personality', 'Relationships', 'Psychology', 'Domestic Violence'] |
1. Python Crash Course / Eric Matthes
The book, which starts from a basic level such as how to show command on the screen and proceeds with easy steps, then provides information on deeper topics such as variables, comparisons, lists, loops, conditions. Each concept is represented by small program snippets, first shown... | ['Data Science', 'Python', 'Python Programming', 'Books', 'Programming'] |
Together with Idinvest, we hosted an event last week in Paris on how to successfully scale a marketplace.
Although we were born and are headquartered in Madrid, we are a multi-local European fund, with offices in Paris and London. And Paris is one of our fastest growing geographies, and a key focus for the fund moving... | ['Entrepreneurship', 'Startup', 'Marketplaces'] |
Part I: Enterprise Cloud Trends to Date
How would you describe the progression of enterprise cloud usage in Japan thus far?
Until last year (2016), the general view among executives seemed to be that cloud was an option to be considered for specific uses. That was especially the case back in the early days of the clo... | ['Development', 'Agile', 'Japan', 'Cloud Computing', 'Enterprise Technology'] |
Laura Manipura
About the Author
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Laura Manipura is a former librarian, currently trying to bust through the myth of the starving artist through her work on the blogging platform, Medium. As she is deeply analytical and detail-oriented, she is often called upon for editing projects. She has a gift for clarity an... | ['Books', 'Writing', 'Writers On Writing', 'Ftl Bio', 'Writers On Medium'] |
Power Law Drivers in Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital
(1) Preferential Attachment
This power law mechanism is commonly expressed in the maxim ‘the rich get richer’. Or if you’re religiously inclined, the Bible says ‘for whoever has, more will be given to them.’
Academics call this phenomenon preferential attachm... | ['Power Law', 'Startup', 'Venture Capital', 'Entrepreneurship', 'VC'] |
Colonizers or Victims?
A review of “The Last Kings of Shanghai: The Rival Jewish Dynasties that Helped Create Modern China” by Jonathan Kaufman
Of all the outlets to get a history of China over the last 175 years, I would not have expected a story of Jewish family businesses in Shanghai. But Jonathan Kaufman does jus... | ['Nonfiction', 'China', 'Books', 'History', 'Book Review'] |
This is a review of some artificial intelligence news that happened throughout the week
Quantum chemistry aims to predict the chemical and physical properties of molecules based on the arrangement of their atoms in space, without time-consuming and resource-intensive laboratory experiments. This can be achieved by sol... | ['Machine Learning', 'Technology', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Science', 'Deep Learning'] |
1.Marketing Strategies, Exposed: Apple’s way to generate enormous profits Definition of Upselling
Upselling is a special sales technique used by companies like Apple that invites us, the customers, to buy expensive items or upgrades for the product you want to purchase. Simple said the sellers try to sell you more tha... | ['Marketing', 'Apple', 'Economy', 'Web Design', 'Marketing Strategies'] |
NumPy arrays objects are technically of the class numpy.ndarray . I'll refer to them as arrays below.
Without further ado, here are the essential ways to make a NumPy array:
Convert a list
Convert a list with array .
Create and fill a NumPy array with…
equally spaced data with arange , linspace , or logspace .
, ... | ['Machine Learning', 'Technology', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Python', 'Data Science'] |
Python ETL vs. ETL Tools
Should you code it yourself or license an ETL tool?
Pick your direction: coding your ETL pipeline yourself or using an existing ETL tool (image by author)
If you’re researching ETL solutions you are going to have to decide between using an existing ETL tool, or building your own using one of... | ['Etl', 'Python', 'Data Science', 'Programming', 'Big Data'] |
1 — Create a plan fueled by consistent habits
Learning anything new can be challenging and this was a problem I faced when I began to teach myself web development and cloud engineering.
If you look at everything you must learn with a big-picture mindset you will veer off track or get discouraged by the amount of grou... | ['Startup', 'Life Lessons', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Programming', 'Life'] |
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We have something new for you. Every Wednesday we will be going back and highlighting some of the top works of the week in Literally Literary. We want you to know we are always paying attention to everything we publish.
Top works do not mean best works as that is a wholly subjecti... | ['Poetry', 'Nonfiction', 'Writing', 'Ll Letters', 'Fiction'] |
Extroverts love being the center of attention
Some extroverts love being the center of attention. Some don’t. Even if we do, which more times than not, I don’t mind…it can be exhausting. I can’t recall the last time I wasn’t invited somewhere only to find upon arriving, the group seems to have been waiting for me to f... | ['Self-awareness', 'Personal Growth', 'Self', 'Life', 'Psychology'] |
I submitted an article to Forge on Tuesday, but it took me some time to gather the courage to do so. I was afraid of being rejected and feeling like I wasn’t good enough.
I wasn’t just scared of their rejection, though. What if Forge accepts the article, but no one reads or likes it? I’m not only afraid of being told ... | ['Self-awareness', 'Self Improvement', 'Life Lessons', 'Advice', 'Entrepreneurship'] |
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them — Albert Einstein
Photo by Sebastian Herrmann on Unsplash
The ability to solve problems and successfully navigate challenges is one of the few qualities that differentiate star performers from average ones, it also differentiates happy a... | ['Self Improvement', 'Work', 'Problem Solving', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Productivity'] |
Useful Tools for Writers
Jumpstart your process.
There was a twisty windy journey that I skipped along before I came to a fork in the road. Path A, don’t bother with this stuff and go watch Dragon Ball Z (so tempting) or path B, write the damn piece, because this is one question you’ve been asked many many times.
If... | ['Tools', 'Scrivener', 'Fiction', 'Productivity', 'Writing'] |
How to keep unhealthy narcissism out of your life
In relationships
As many of us know, recovering from narcissistic abuse is an extremely arduous experience that can leave survivors questioning their sanity and worth. In relationships, narcissists operate in a systematically parasitic fashion, latching onto their vic... | ['Narcissism', 'Relationships', 'Self', 'Mental Health', 'Psychology'] |
The day is June 30, 1905.
Annalen der Physik, one of the biggest scientific publishers in Europe, receives a letter from a 26 years man. The letter contains four articles.
The editor is bemused. The author claims that he can curve time, expand space, and turn matter into energy.
His theories — blowing up 300 years o... | ['Startup', 'Life Lessons', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Success', 'Side Hustle'] |
*Warning: this post contains vivid descriptions of mental illness which some might find disturbing.*
From when I was very small I have remembered having strange and often irrational fears and worries. My mother told me not to play with plastic bags for fear I would suffocate and as a result I would not touch plastic b... | ['Anxiety', 'Obsessive Compulsive', 'Mental Health', 'Mindfulness', 'Psychology'] |
If there’s one thing that many ambitious people struggle with, it’s staying focused on their work for longer periods of time without getting distracted.
Yet, it’s those who are able to focus deeply on their most important work — without getting distracted every few minutes — who actually get it done fast and of high q... | ['Work', 'Self', 'Productivity', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Focus'] |
Any keen marketer knows how to keep up to date with the latest and emerging marketing trends.
It is important to bring innovative ideas to deliver your brand values amongst potential and existing customers.
Especially for entrepreneurs and startups, it is mandatory for them to implement the right small business marke... | ['Marketing', 'Design', 'Branding', 'Strategy', 'Small Business'] |
One of the biggest challenges in digital designing is figuring out what converts your target market into users and buyers and why. Many companies spend an inordinate amount of money on targeted ads that bring users to your website, landing page to capture the lead, and sales funnel to nurture that lead, only to find th... | ['Design', 'Cognitive Science', 'New York', 'User Experience Design', 'Customer Experience'] |
My First Book: What It Took Me
It was my fifth attempt to write something cool. The book I mean. The first try I made being 12-years old kid and what’s the most interesting — all issues remained the same.
A cover of my book, created by Eugenia Gordeeva
A few days ago I sent my book to the typography and in 10 days m... | ['Storytelling', 'Books And Authors', 'Books', 'Writing A Book', 'Storyofmylife'] |
Stop Being a Worry Wart — a Tutorial
Life is too short to spend it in a tizzy
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I come by my worry gene honestly. My mother and my father both are worriers in their own special ways. I’m fortunate enough to be a hybrid crossbreed between the two of them.
My mom primarily worries abo... | ['Mindfulness', 'Self', 'Mental Health', 'Psychology', 'Life'] |
The Theory of Relativity Applies to Emotions
Opposite reactions are still equal
Photo by Guillermo Ferla via Unsplash
There is an inherent flaw in emotional logic. It stems from the fact that a good number of people hear those two words together and it does not compute. Emotions and logic are two great tastes that d... | ['Relationships', 'Self', 'Mental Health', 'Emotional Intelligence', 'Psychology'] |
Many jobs I’ve had served me well for a while, but didn’t feel as fulfilling as I hoped they would. I’ve never made it anywhere past the 2-year mark in one position, for many different reasons. I also always thought that I’d be best off not having a full time job to have all the time to work on my various side projects... | ['Jobs', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Productivity', 'Side Project', 'Side Hustle'] |
A question creates value.
For the person who asks it, the one who answers it, and anyone who gets to consume that answer.
I’m answering questions on Twitter and it’s prompting me to consider and communicate things I haven’t necessarily addressed before.
You can ask me a question here and I’ll be happy to answer.
Co... | ['Newsletter', 'Social Media', 'Email Marketing', 'Marketing', 'Writing'] |
I’m Not Convinced the iPad Pro is Replacing the Laptop
thoughts on deciding which Apple rabbit hole to jump down
Photo by Xiong Yan on Unsplash
As I write this on Word 365 mobile on my trusty iPad Air, which I bought as a good compromise between processing power and the knowledge I just did not do “Pro” stuff on an ... | ['Apple', 'Writing', 'Mac', 'iPad Pro', 'iPad'] |
Throughout history men have been trying to understand periods and not surprisingly feminine care products have been designed mainly by the male perspective. The “building empathy” part of the marketing equation was definitely a factor to be improved and not too long ago, many new brands made for women, by women started... | ['Marketing', 'Branding', 'Brand Strategy', 'Business Strategy', 'Entrepreneurship'] |
In this post, we’re going to take an honest look at A/B testing, including when it’s important and when not to bother, what tools to use and how to design experiments that will get results you can actually use.
There’s a million great posts on A/B testing out there. We’ve included our favourites in the ‘further readin... | ['Marketing', 'Analytics', 'Startup', 'UX', 'Digital Marketing'] |
Don’t get me wrong. I love editing, and I love being an editor. My work as a freelance editor has gifted me with a career I love and surrounded me with another love: books. But—especially in the beginning—it can be slightly chaotic when you put all the pieces together. I’m constantly balancing all the good, bad, and ug... | ['Startup', 'Editing', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Success', 'Freelancing'] |
Asshole Astrology: Week of 21 December 2020
Horoscopes for horrible people. Christmas edition.
Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay
Here is next week’s horoscope for your sign.
It doesn’t matter when you read it, or which sign you are, as horoscopes are all made up.
What does the universe have in store for you? Let’... | ['Relationships', 'Self', 'Psychology', 'Life Lessons', 'Writing'] |
Should I Care if I’m a Top Writer on Medium?
Given that it’s just about frequency does it really mean anything and what designation might mean more?
Photo by LongTimeLurkur on Imgur
I keep seeing these articles with people announcing that they are top writers on Medium in some area or another. They then purport to g... | ['Awards', 'Psychology', 'Advice', 'Ｍedium', 'Writing'] |
Prevent What Makes You Unhappy
You don’t always have to do what makes you happy.
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I took the drink away from my lips, and I picked up the cap on the counter with my left hand. I flipped it over and was pleasantly surprised to see words on the underside. Being that it was a S... | ['Life', 'Mental Health', 'Motivation', 'Life Lessons', 'Inspiration'] |
What we see when we don’t let ourselves turn around.
Cornfields look different before daybreak.
This is something you learn when you work at a locked, inpatient psychiatric hospital — that sits across the parking lot from a cornfield, that is. If you work at one that doesn’t, well, don’t worry — you’ll learn other th... | ['Memories', 'Mental Health', 'Essay', 'Creative Writing', 'Nonfiction'] |
Because who doesn’t want to know more about true crime? Let’s dive into it!
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Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
If you have heard of the serial killer H.H. Holmes, you should read this book. Larson delves into the world of 1893 Chicago and shares the story of two men: Daniel Bur... | ['Book Recommendations', 'Books', 'Nonfiction', 'True Crime', 'True Crime Books'] |
Motivational Monday — 12/28/2020
About Me Stories — New Updates and New Writers
Photo by Pablo Heimplatz on Unsplash
Hey everyone!
We’re officially entering the last week of 2020! What are your New Year’s resolutions when it pertains to Medium? What about your personal life? What goals are you seeking to achieve th... | ['About Me', 'Community', 'Motivation', 'Bio', 'Writing'] |
Like any broken human, I was the queen of self-help books. Over two decades of thinking each book will be The One to solve all that ailed me. That’s a tall order for any single book given my (perceived) pile of flaws and trauma. Truthfully, most self-help books can distill down to a few sentences. The rest of the book ... | ['Mental Health', 'Depression', 'Relationships', 'Psychology', 'Self Improvement'] |
Lessons From a Destroyer Captain to Startup Founders
And how to delegate better, faster, and with fewer mistakes.
Photo by Arron Choi on Unsplash
Most of my professional life I spent as an employee in multinational headquarters. Companies where you do not have much skin in the game, as Nassim Taleb explains.
All th... | ['Leadership', 'Self Improvement', 'Startup', 'Life Lessons', 'Entrepreneurship'] |
Introduction
Although many programmers don’t need to worry about processing images in their daily jobs, chances are that we may have to deal with images for small jobs. For instance, we may need to resize thousands of images to a particular size, or we may add a common background to all the images in a particular dire... | ['Machine Learning', 'Python3', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Python', 'Programming'] |
My delightful red desk, warped after too many pools of condensation, no longer entices me. The bulletin board and stacks of neatly organized files no longer spark inspiration. My pens gather dust as my notebook patiently waits for me to open it and become productive again.
I cannot. All I can do is stare out the windo... | ['Work Life Balance', 'Work', 'Self', 'Mental Health', 'Productivity'] |
Is Fox News Becoming the New Kmart?
What’s your brand’s position? When you don’t “own’’ a clear marketing niche, you slowly die
Fox News in happier times: Courtney Friel in New York during the release of the iPhone. Public domain image via Wikimedia Commons.
Fox News — like Kmart — invented a new brand category and ... | ['Marketing', 'Branding', 'Politics', 'Television', 'Journalism'] |
As writers, we like to tell ourselves that we’re in a profession that can’t be automated, not anytime soon anyway. But artificial intelligence and machine learning are being refined at a rate that should probably begin to worry us.
Generative Pre-trained Transformer 3 (GPT-3) is a powerful language model that produces... | ['Machine Learning', 'Technology', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Writing', 'Data Science'] |
If you’ve ever had to name a button on a website, app, or landing page, then you’ve probably had the moment where you’re going back and forth between options. Do I name the button “Sign up” or “Register”? Do I use “Donate Now” or “Be a Donor”?
Is there a way to word requests, or buttons that encourages people to take ... | ['Psychology', 'Gregory Walton', 'Design', 'Research'] |
Isaac Smith for Unsplash
Why is this important, you might ask? Well, for one, improved stats means more eyes are seeing my work, a win in itself. Two, higher stats usually relates to money earned, and in my case, I earned about a dollar more than last month. Not great, yet it proves that more work equals more money- y... | ['100 Naked Words', 'Writing', 'Statistics', 'Productivity'] |
Cartoonist for the New Yorker among other places. I love my mom and white wine. My graphic memoir MURDER BOOK out in 2021. Follow on Insta @CartoonsbyHilary!
Follow | ['Anxiety', 'Mental Health', 'Nonfiction', 'Comics', 'Lifestyle'] |
Microservices have been everywhere for the past few years. YouTube is using them. Facebook is using them.
But should you use them?
Spoiler alert: Microservices probably isn’t the best solution for your cloud architecture. In this article, we’ll explain why.
Let’s start with the basics.
What Are Microservices?
The ... | ['Microservices', 'Software Architecture', 'Software Engineering', 'Cto'] |
If you’ve made a writing goal to post more on your blog, Medium, or other writing platforms, creating an editorial calendar can help you achieve that goal.
Essentially, the editorial calendar is where you plan, schedule, and maintain your content. By using the calendar to plan out your next writing week, month, or yea... | ['Writing', 'Content Marketing', 'Calendar', 'Writing Tips', 'Productivity'] |
Dynamic pivot tables in notebooks: atoti
Drill down to where it matters
If you are reading this article because of the title, you probably already know what a pivot table is. Otherwise, a pivot table presents summarized data in a table format that allows you to perform your analysis with the minimal effort.
Without ... | ['Jupyter Notebook', 'Python', 'Pivot Tables', 'How To', 'Big Data Analytics'] |
Patterns are based on principles, so learn the principles and you’ll write better code
Modularity Reusability Easy to read Easy to modify.
These four principles should always be applied when you write code. These principles can be broken down into others. But at the end of the day, it’s these four core principles tha... | ['Entrepreneurship', 'Swift Programming', 'Startup', 'Swift', 'iOS App Development'] |
We all know entrepreneurs…and some of us are entrepreneurs. I hear many words used to describe them.
…Visionary
…Innovator
…Creator
…Expert
All true, accurate and could be applicable to non-entrepreneurs as well. The descriptor (it’s actually two words) that intrigues me most about entrepreneurs though is ‘risk ma... | ['Risk', 'Risk Management', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Startup', 'Entrepreneur'] |
Python Virtual Environment for Data Science hiddenntreasure Follow Jun 19 · 8 min read
This article will describe everything about how to setting up a python virtual environment for data science. At the end of the article you will learn about virtual environment, Anaconda, conda, pip, package manager, packages install... | ['Virtual Environment', 'Jupyter Notebook', 'Anaconda', 'Python', 'Data Science'] |
Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World by Cal Newport Media consumption went way up in 2017. For most of us, that meant happiness and productivity went way down. The world is becoming noisier and will become more so every day. If you can’t cultivate the ability to have quiet, insightful, deeply focu... | ['Life Lessons', 'Books', 'Self Improvement', 'Life', 'Productivity'] |
Use the right words to show the seriousness of COVID-19
The conversation about this disease is being hijacked and politicized to put less emphasis on immediate risk to human life.
COVID-19 is, of course, something everyone is talking about, but I am not sure that we are paying enough attention to the words that are b... | ['Covid 19', 'Science Communication', 'Writing', 'Medicine', 'Science'] |
For some, the concept of memoization may be new. For others, this may be a long-time familiar tool used to craft efficient components when building a web application. In my experience, I have learned there are certain situations when it is appropriate to memoize as well as situations when it is not. I’ll walk through w... | ['React', 'Typescript', 'Memoization'] |
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Have you ever look at a factory and wonder how things are created so quickly, in such an automated fashion?
When we are buying something that came up out of a factory, we are never concern how the factory produced what we are looking for. We are only concerned about getting what we ... | ['Java8', 'Java', 'Design Patterns'] |
I have always believed that Psychology and Design comprise User Experience. Our profession entails empathy whenever we deal with human needs whose our goal is to solve. And as I continue to dive deep into where Psychology comes in in the picture of Design, I then stumbled upon Gestalt Principles.
So, what is a Gestalt... | ['Sketch', 'Design', 'User Experience', 'Psychology', 'User Interface'] |
An audio version of this Medium article is available on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.
Skilled data scientists share something in common. They can build product solutions… with data.
It is no longer good enough to be a data scientist who can solve math and statistics problems applied to Python, R or Julia programming.
... | ['Machine Learning', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Software Engineering', 'Data Science', 'Programming'] |
Humans are inherently irrational. Our hearts are often stronger motivators than our heads when making day-to-day decisions.
So, you can blame your brain for your choice of Chipotle over Chop’t for lunch. Even Wall Street-ers are not immune to the power of emotions. Research has shown that sunny weather is linked to hi... | ['Marketing', 'Branding', 'Psychology', 'Emotions', 'Advertising'] |
Meet Cochl.’s Team: Yunji Chung, UX/UI Designer
What does Cochl.’s design team do?
Could you briefly introduce yourself, please?
My name is Yunji Chung, a recent BBA(Bachelor of Business Administration) graduate from Emory University. I originally planned to start MHCI (Master of Human-Computer Interaction) at Carne... | ['Internships', 'Design', 'Startup', 'Life', 'UX'] |
How to Write a Pre-Nup for Your Partnership
Sure, everything seems rosy now. But when you and your co-founder no longer see eye-to-eye, you’ll be glad you did the paperwork early on. Laura McCann of ADORAtherapy helps you prepare for the challenges of partnership.
Entrepreneurship is not for the faint of heart. Many ... | ['Startup', 'Partnerships', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Women Entrepreneurs'] |
For Salvador Dali (and you)
Photo by Sandra Klaas via Unsplash
It is always the same window
no matter how many other
windows
roll past
it is this window
that’s the first.
Always.
It is always the same window
on the third floor
in the house
on Argyle.
It is early
even when it’s late
one morning.
It is al... | ['Love', 'Writing', 'Nonfiction', 'Salvador Dali', 'Poetry'] |
A map of Budapest. Source: https://hebstreits.com/product/budapest-hungary-downtown-vector-map/
Ever wondered how to draw a map of less common geographical areas? Perhaps even colour them based on some data? This is the first in a series of two tutorials that show you how to build this from scratch! First, you need to... | ['Maps', 'Dataviz', 'Python', 'Data Science', 'Openstreetmap'] |
How to Get & Stay “In The Zone”
A masterclass from research on the flow state.
Attention is our most precious resource.
It’s also one we’re giving away like free sweets. We give up hours of attention each day with little to show for it — scrolling Facebook, watching YouTube compilations.
What if we could spend this... | ['Positive Psychology', 'Attention', 'Flow', 'Psychology', 'Productivity'] |
Versus your sales pitch, marketing funnel, or something else.
Pricing is one complicated cookie.
Entrepreneurs lose sleep over it, overthink it and question themselves, and change their pricing several times because they’re not confident in it.
Here’s the thing though, even with the amount of deep thought and delibe... | ['Entrepreneurship', 'Startup', 'Ecommerce', 'Money', 'Pricing Strategy'] |
By the time I immigrate to America in 2013, I’m lost for words, wondering what to make of it all, floundering.
Although I’ll be locked into denial mode for a long time, I sink into major depression, the kind that paralyzes you, renders you helpless.
I may have led an interesting and varied life to date, but the illne... | ['Memoir', 'Life Lessons', 'Mental Health', 'Journalism', 'Life'] |
Learning from open-heart surgery
Batching is a great way you can reduce the stress and overhead of having to keep track of lots of identical things at once. But what do you do when the things aren’t identical? Here I was influenced by Atul Gawande’s brilliant book The Checklist Manifesto. Gawande is a top surgeon in B... | ['Management', 'CEO', 'Startup', 'Venture Capital', 'Productivity'] |
Few things “trigger” me. I was born of a generation where we were told to shut up and deal with it. Bury your pain as far down as it will go. Lock it in a box and swallow all the keys. Keep smiling through tears, through sadness. Never let anyone see you cry, my mother once said. Because tears were a weakness one could... | ['Rape', 'Mental Health', 'Culture', 'Women', 'Writing'] |
Sunshine is gently warming the tip of my nose and I can make out different birds chirping.
I will myself to stay under the duvet a while longer and focus on the sensation of warmth on my face, on the sounds outside, and on how exhausted I still am. Perhaps if I resist wakefulness the birds will lull me back to sleep s... | ['Relationships', 'Self', 'Mental Health', 'Psychology', 'Culture'] |
Creating a culture of innovation in retail’s era of disruption
Innovation is the number one topic among successful retail executives in this Amazon era. Facing relentless competition and disruption on multiple fronts, retailers and brands know they must push toward intelligent advancement to stay a step ahead of their... | ['Retail Technology', 'Startup', 'Retail', 'Innovation', 'Entrepreneurship'] |
At 8VC we invest in technologies with the capacity to transform antiquated processes in old-line industries. In the private sector, one of the least tech-enabled industries is Law. We are excited by the opportunity for smart software tools to enhance lawyers in a new form of man-machine symbiosis. Legal technology of t... | ['Startup', 'Productivity', 'Blog', 'Workflow', 'Investing'] |
Q&A with Dorothy McGivney, Entrepreneur-in-Residence at The New York Times
This week, we caught up with Dorothy, an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at The New York Times who was hired last November to help build a travel standalone product and recently launched “Notes From Our Homes to Yours” — a new Times initiative where ... | ['Journalism', 'Travel', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Subscriber Spotlight', 'New York Times'] |
A writer has the right and responsibility of choosing their content’s attire. You can either go to the ball dressed classier that any royal face, or dirtier than any hardcore punk. Either way, the spotlight will shine on you; what’s to be done, is simply determine which way to attract it.
The publisher — or any privat... | ['Storytelling', 'Writing', 'Medium'] |
Writing, period, is a lonely pursuit.
What makes a book particularly lonesome is how deep into it an author must go. When you’re working on a book, that book becomes who you are. You feel the things you’re writing about — they’re as tangible as the clothes you wear, the food you eat.
It’s all you think about it.
The... | ['Writing Tips', 'Books And Authors', 'Writing Life', 'Books', 'Writing'] |
There is one significant problem both new and experienced writers encounter. Believe it or not, but the issue is connected with having too many ideas that overwhelm you. Some writers will be surprised by a statement like this. Most of them would say that experiencing crisis and writer’s block is a real problem, while h... | ['Getting Things Done', 'Projects', 'Writing', 'Productivity'] |
Some data on warm intros vs. cold emails
When I look back on my years of fundraising, I remember, at various points, thinking warm introductions to the investors I wanted to meet never seemed to get me any farther than cold emailing them. If anything, the warm intros seemed less effective than cold emails.
Unfortunat... | ['Fundraising', 'Startup', 'Venture Capital', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Networking'] |
Traversing the Customer Funnel
What Product Managers need to know about Lead Management
Photo by Shengjun Shi
This post appeared in my weekly newsletter on Product Management. Sign up here to get new posts straight to your inbox.
Last week, we talked about the first principles behind a Customer Acquisition Funnel, ... | ['Product Management', 'Startup', 'Marketing'] |
I’m in the business of catching mistakes. I’m an editor, and I have the unholy job of pointing out the error of many author’s ways. Since I don’t have a huge sadistic gene, it’s not my favorite part of the job. But that’s what I get paid for, to show a writer where they fell short and help them get better, much better.... | ['Humor', 'Writing Tips', 'Psychology', 'Advice', 'Writing'] |
#1 — Understanding the __main__ function
Using if __name__ == '__main__' provides the flexibility to write code that can be executed from the command line or imported as a package into an interactive environment. This conditional statement controls how the program will execute given the context.
You should expect tha... | ['Artificial Intelligence', 'Python', 'Computer Science', 'Data Science', 'Programming'] |
R-Squared (R²)
R² represents the proportion of variance explained by your model.
R² is a relative metric, so you can use it to compare with other models trained on the same data. And you can use it to get a rough a feel for how well a model performs, in general.
Disclaimer: This article isn’t a review of machine lea... | ['Machine Learning', 'Technology', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Python', 'Data Science'] |
Why do women love bad boys? Why did I?
1. You are an emotional adrenaline junkie.
Bad boys are always a little jittery, a little live-wirey, a lot unpredictable. You can hear the thunder, but never know where the lightning is going to strike.
The euphoria you get from them telling you that they love you or having se... | ['Women', 'Relationships', 'Mental Health', 'Love', 'Psychology'] |
There are many ways to record audio on iOS, with the AVFoundation framework being a veritable Swiss Army Knife of tools.
At the basic level, AVAudioRecorder makes it dead simple to record audio in a variety of common formats, and save it to disk. However, the audio is only available after recording is complete. This i... | ['Mobile App Development', 'iOS', 'Development', 'Swift', 'Avfoundation'] |
Photo by Lola Guti on Unsplash
If you’re taking some time out from the real world this Christmas; whether voluntarily or not you may need a little slice of distraction.
And while stories aren’t just for Christmas, these tales may just make your festive period pass more gloriously.
Below are five stories that, betwee... | ['Storytelling', 'Ideas', 'Books', 'History', 'Classics'] |
Testing the Annotation
In order to test the annotation, we can perform the following:
1. First, let’s add memory to Docker Desktop. Although you can run with less memory, 8GB is recommended.
2. Now we can install all the required applications to create the development environment.
I am using OSX, so I will install ... | ['Nginx', 'Programming', 'DevOps', 'Cloud Computing', 'Kubernetes'] |
Welcome everyone to our series of tutorials based on the ARK Messenger Proof-of-Concept (PoC). By the end of this series, you will be able to set up your own autonomous and private messaging application. This tutorial was created in-part with documentation provided by Delegate Lemii as part of his ARK Messenger Proof-o... | ['Typescript', 'Development', 'Open Source', 'Blockchain', 'Bitcoin'] |
Something eery always happens the minute I step inside a plane bound for Portugal.
No matter how stressed out and overtired I am, all it takes is a “Boa tarde!*” or “Bom dia!**” to set me right. Greetings from the flight crew, captain chatter, and even the safety briefing all have a calming effect on me. By the time w... | ['Language', 'Travel', 'Mental Health', 'Portugal', 'Psychology'] |
There’s a reason why most productivity advice fails to make any meaningful difference in your life over the long run. It’s not that the hacks and tricks and techniques don’t work. They do.
It’s that we see this kind of advice as the best possible way — the pinnacle, really — of improving our productivity. But it’s not... | ['Self Improvement', 'Productivity', 'Life', 'Psychology', 'Culture'] |
Debate over showing the impact of the war
Facebook received backlash after it removed posts from users who shared images of emaciated Yemeni children published in the New York Times.
“At issue,” the Times explained, “was a photograph of a starving child.”
Image: Amal Hussain, a 7-year-old Yemeni girl, whose picture ... | ['Middle East', 'Social Media', 'Conflict', 'Yemen', 'Journalism'] |
What Are the Top 5 Reasons for Choosing a Pen-Name?
1. Drawing yourself from scratch
A long time ago, when the Internet was at its dawn very few people used their real names online.
All were enjoying building online personas that enabled free exploration of the Internet. Later on, when Facebook started, social inter... | ['Pseudonyms', 'Marketing', 'Feminism', 'Strategic Thinking', 'Writing'] |
The Art Of Perspective
A Cynical Take On Holiday Classics
Photo by Candice Picard on Unsplash
Thanksgiving has come and gone. The holiday season is in full swing. And that means something wonderful or terrible, depending on your point of view. No, I’m not talking about the repetitive, cheesy Christmas music that mak... | ['Culture', 'Psychology', 'Self Improvement', 'Life Lessons', 'Writing'] |
IBM’s acquisition of Red Hat brought us new opportunities to lead in cloud, and our design organization wasted no time jumping at them. I’m proud to announce that Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud won Product of the Year in the BIG Awards for Business in the Enterprise category.
Launched in 2012, the BIG Awards for Busin... | ['Design', 'UI', 'Cloud Computing', 'Red Hat Openshift', 'UX'] |
Writing Begins with Reading
My Journey
In the first part of this series, I talked about my mother’s earliest memories of reading, her parents and her childhood. In this post, I pick up with my mother’s earliest memories of me as a young child.
Writing Starts with Reading…
“I started reading to you when you were jus... | ['Libraries', 'Writing', 'Reading', 'Ftl Bio', 'Books'] |
Authorise Flux CD to Connect to Your Git Repository
We now need to allow the Flux CD operator to interact with the Git repository, and therefore, we need to add its public SSH key to the repo.
Get the public SSH key using fluxctl .
$ fluxctl identity --k8s-fwd-ns flux
ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAADAQABAAABgQCryxSADyA... | ['Programming', 'Software Engineering', 'Kubernetes', 'DevOps', 'Technology'] |
Set up Project Folder and Start Collecting Moodboard
There are plenty of sites for inspiration — Dribbble, Behance, Pttrns, Pinterest etc. It’s really easy to find similar projects to the one you shall be working on. Additionally, there may be already a solution to a problem you’re experiencing and trying to solve.
... | ['Product Design', 'Sketch', 'Design', 'Dashboard', 'UX'] |
My predictions for Black Friday weren’t good. I warned that the usual draws for Black Friday had disappeared. Deep discounting had already been the primary strategy that companies had been using to try to recover from Covid-19, which meant the massive sales had become normal. Plus, 70% of American adults report struggl... | ['Big Data', 'Retail', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Data Science', 'Business Science'] |
3 Easy Zen Ways to Boost Your Mood at Home This Winter
Happiness lies in simple everyday actions
Zen monks quarters in the Kennin-ji temple area of Kyoto © by Simone Parisi is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
Last spring, I found my peace in the middle of the COVID-19 panic. Of course, I hit the rock bottom first.
Af... | ['Life Lessons', 'Self', 'Mental Health', 'Mindfulness', 'Psychology'] |
By Damien Krotkine, Ivan Paponov
This is a critical operational process, since our daily work always gives precedence to data. Relying on data removes the guesswork in making sound decisions.
In this series of blog posts, we will outline details of our data pipeline, and take a closer look at the short and medium-ter... | ['Big Data', 'Database', 'Riak', 'Development', 'Perl'] |
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