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How to use behavioral science to improve your experience
A beginner’s guide to applying behavioral economics, cognitive science, psychology, and neuromarketing.
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So you want to apply behavioral science to your experience, but you’re not sure where to start?
You’ve probably been hearing... | ['Marketing', 'Startup', 'Business', 'User Experience', 'Psychology'] |
Our love affair with all things digital has brought many great inventions into the world. But in our enthusiasm for computerized products and services we could be losing sight of an extraordinarly powerful tool for teasing out the kind of creative insights that fueled the technology revolution in the first place —namel... | ['Creativity', 'Innovation', 'Design', 'Psychology', 'Self Improvement'] |
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Giants in mythology are ferocious and terrifying beasts that are feared and often subjugated, lest they take over the universe.
In Norse mythology, they dwelt in the infertile lands of Jotunheim, sworn enemies of the gods, destroyers of peace and order. Gods and humans enjoyed lusci... | ['Storytelling', 'Climate Change', 'Education', 'Society', 'Writing'] |
Welcome to my story.
Excitement, science fiction, cats and dogs living together, mass hysteria!
First of all, I really am glad that you have taken the time to come visit my blog. I am certainly new to this medium, and writing in general. Which is why the Word Crimes picture is up there from the song by the same title... | ['Fiction', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Science Fiction', 'Storytelling', 'Books'] |
I Went Viral And Got 674 Followers on News Break
Playing it safe seems to be the worst thing you can do for News Break
Screenshot from the author
Like many Medium writers, I started posting and publishing my pieces on News Break, relatively later than many writers I know. According to Ash Jurberg, News Break is a te... | ['Freelancing', 'Nonfiction', 'Writing', 'Marketing', 'Self'] |
I’ve made a decision.
2021 is going to be the year I finally, finally, go all in on trying to make self-publishing a thing in my life.
My plan is simple. I’m going to publish romance novels. They’re my first love. I found my traditional publishing niche in children’s literature, but I started out to be a romance writ... | ['Writing', 'Creativity', 'Productivity', 'Business', 'Email Marketing'] |
Seven Dangerous Lies Trump Spread About the Coronavirus
Believing in this fake-news can cost you your life
Source: NBC News
Unfortunately, we are living in Post-Truth and the pandemic has been the biggest testament to that. The last nine months have been fraught with beserk misinformation often times sugar-coated wi... | ['Election 2020', 'Politics', 'Health', 'Coronavirus', 'Science'] |
Laura Bassett • May 6, 2019
Newsrooms across the country are laying off journalists, because the ad dollars generated from their work all filter up to Big Tech.
Roughly 2,400 journalists and media staffers in the United States lost our jobs in the first few months of 2019.
I was laid off in January, after nearly a d... | ['Journalism', 'Digital Journalism', 'Facebook', 'Google', 'Big Tech'] |
The True Power of Science Fiction
It’s not just about pew-pew lasers and cranial ridges you know
Science fiction as a genre is often sneered at by literary types as time-wasting pop-culture trash. In this article I will explain what science fiction means to me, and why it is not at all a frivolous genre.
The Human C... | ['Fantasy', 'Writing', 'Science Fiction', 'Science', 'Books'] |
Effects of Insomnia
Just as I’m sure everyone experiences at least once in their life low mood that surpasses the intensity of regular sadness, I’m sure everyone experiences symptoms of insomnia at least once in their life. While any form of insomnia is dangerous, acute insomnia often resolves itself over time, once t... | ['Psychology', 'Life', 'Mental Health', 'Health', 'This Happened To Me'] |
Should YouTube Have a Dislike Button?
My thoughts.
YouTube is one of those platforms I don’t spend much time on. For starters, I am not a big fan of their interface. Plus, I find the vibe a bit on the old school side of things.
However, I was on it recently because I happened to do a video collaboration with a frien... | ['Business', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Mental Health', 'Social Media', 'Psychology'] |
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As a contractor, I frequently work with different companies and teams which included some good designers. However, regardless of where each design team might be in terms of skill level, as soon as you start handling multiple designs, organising all the elements between them starts to ... | ['Product Management', 'Design Patterns', 'Design', 'Productivity', 'Design Process'] |
Long or Short: Which Headlines Are Better?
The research is divided, but you don’t have to choose
Illustration by Cynthia Marinakos.
I spent over an hour today browsing reputable sites for the answer to the question: Are long or short headlines better? In between running to the couch to comfort my seven-year-old who ... | ['Productivity', 'Creativity', 'Writing', 'Business', 'Headline Hacks'] |
It’s scary to make a declaration to yourself about the deepest desires of your heart.
It’s even scarier to unabashedly and publicly pursue the deepest desires of your heart.
What if you fail?
What if you’ll never be “good enough”?
What if you disappoint your parents?
What if your friends judge you?
What if everyo... | ['Creativity', 'Personal Development', 'Motivation', 'Self Improvement', 'Productivity'] |
Designers often think that all their ideas must be original, or they’re a fraud. Imagine that you’re looking at another product. You find a color palette that you like, an interaction that feels just right, or a pixel perfect layout for a landing page. You might be tempted to think, “Well, too bad because someone’s alr... | ['Design', 'Startup', 'Entrepreneurship', 'UI', 'UX'] |
To say things are evolving fast would probably be a cliché. But that is indeed the reality of the situation: The marketing industry must continuously reinvent itself as new technologies, trends, and consumption habits emerge. During the last edition of C2 Montreal, three predominant trends stood out as the ones busines... | ['Content Marketing', 'Marketing', 'Environment', 'Technology', 'Storytelling'] |
If an organization isn’t using data to develop and grow its products, then its days are probably numbered.
But while everyone talks about data, rarely does anyone explain what to do with all of it. So companies wind up skipping a data-driven approach because there isn’t any time. Or they use data incorrectly and get a... | ['Startup', 'Business', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Productivity', 'Product Management'] |
Goodbye! (For Now)
It’s time to check out, rest up, and prepare for 2021
Rarely in my 30+ years of journalism have I felt a greater need for some time off, and I am really not good at taking it. But after nearly 12 straight months of 24/7 reporting and thinking about the coronavirus and other aspects of the human con... | ['Mental Health', 'Science', 'Health'] |
Gut Microbes and Metabolism: Glucose, Hunger, and the Microbiome
In mice, gut microbes influence the number of specific neurons that affect glucose control and feeding behavior
(Pixabay, geralt)
The reach of the microbiome
We are all ecosystems. We house numerous creatures on and in our bodies. Among them, veritabl... | ['Biology', 'Health', 'Neuroscience', 'Science', 'Food'] |
Visualizing covid-19 data to understand the impact it had on the American population.
The novel corona virus has caused more than 200000 deaths worldwide.
In this post i’m going to walk you through how to build an interactive dashboard of your own using only python tools and api’s and publish it on a provider like bi... | ['Covid 19', 'Python', 'Visualization', 'Data Science', 'Dashboard'] |
Model Evaluation in Machine Learning Testing
Usually, software testing includes:
Unit tests. The program is broken down into blocks, and each element (unit) is tested separately.
The program is broken down into blocks, and each element (unit) is tested separately. Regression tests. They cover already tested software... | ['Machine Learning', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Big Data', 'AI', 'Programming'] |
5 Powerful Lessons My Dog Taught Me About Writing
Simple ways you can become your readers’ best friend
Photo by Frank McKinley
As I sat down to write this, my dog sat down in front of me.
I rubbed her head.
She licked my hand.
Then she walked over to the door and turned her head to look at me.
“It’s that time, i... | ['Marketing', 'Business', 'Creativity', 'Personal Development', 'Writing'] |
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You probably know what a placebo is. It’s a substance or procedure that should have no physiological effect when administered. It is inert, a sugar pill.
You probably also know what the placebo effect is. It is when a therapeutic benefit is obtained, despite the sugar pill having no ... | ['Research', 'Self', 'Health', 'Science', 'Psychology'] |
Editing is a different beast.
If writing and plotting are like playing a song, editing is like tuning a guitar. (Okay, except that you edit after you write, not before. Don’t dig too much into this metaphor.) Except that guitar has 80,000 strings that all need to be perfectly pitched.
That’s gonna take a while. Even ... | ['Storytelling', 'Creativity', 'Editing', 'Art', 'Writing'] |
I remember the first time I heard that term. The way it was said, made me understand that I was supposed to have known it. Of course I played along… Yea, sure EDA… no big deal! But it was sure a big deal. I got to understand what it meant though but I was still pretty much in the dark. I had questions; how far to go? H... | ['Exploratory Data Analysis', 'Unemployment Rate', 'Analysis', 'Kaggle', 'Wrangling'] |
Human animals are gregarious by nature.
However, individualism has corrupted our ability to look out for one another. We do not care about others therefore no one cares about us and we become lonely.
Although we’re aware that our behavior is against nature, we can’t help but recoil at the mere mention of loneliness, ... | ['Self', 'Mental Health', 'Relationships', 'Psychology', 'Society'] |
Upwork gets a bad rap from so-called six-figure freelancer-turned-coaches who’ve made it their mission to advocate against content mills.
But actually, the platform is a goldmine for freelancers, especially those at the beginning of their careers.
Here’s why:
It helps you (literally) start from your scratch — no por... | ['Marketing', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Careers', 'Creativity', 'Freelancing'] |
11 Book Recommendations from Mark Cuban to Stay at the Top of the Game
The books that shaped billionaire’s mind
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In case you’re looking for books that will help you succeed in business and better understand the world, look no further than the reading list of billionaire Mark Cuban.
Mark Cu... | ['Books', 'Self Improvement', 'Business', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Startup'] |
Writing is tough enough without adding poor mental health into the mix. Most find it impossible to quiet the anxious thoughts in their heads long enough to focus on writing.
What do you do, if all you want to do is write, but your fickle mind won’t let you?
I’ve been writing since I could hold a pencil and form a sen... | ['Mental Health', 'Social Media', 'Advice', 'Creativity', 'Writing'] |
Have you ever had an idea for a story that you just couldn’t wait to write? You’re knowledgeable about the subject, and you do a masterful job sharing your enthusiasm with your reader.
But it bombs. Nobody reads it, claps for it, or pays you for it.
Let me tell you what probably happened.
My Personal Failure
Years ... | ['Storytelling', 'Writing Tips', 'Creativity', 'Success', 'Writing'] |
How to Change Your Mind Over a Glass of Wine
Becoming an expert in anything, whether it’s wine tasting or mathematics, changes the way you perceive the world.
By Ann-Sophie Barwich
Expertise is less about knowledge and more about observing things that elude novices. Through training, experts learn to see, taste, sme... | ['Health', 'Neuroscience', 'Wine', 'Self Improvement', 'Science'] |
Validation can mean a couple of things to writers.
It can mean that something has happened to validate the audacity of even calling yourself a writer in the first place. Someone really enjoying your work. Someone paying you for it. Someone publishing it.
That’s why even a tiny bit of pay can feel incredible. If someo... | ['Publishing', 'Productivity', 'Creativity', 'Byob', 'Writing'] |
The Coronavirus Funeral.
Remembering a Day of Mourning.
Photo by Fernando Meloni on Unsplash
We cannot hug one another. We wear masks. It is a beautiful day and the cemetery is full…the parking lot reminds me of how the mall parking lots used to look.
We are not the only service. I see hearse after hearse. Each one... | ['Humanity', 'New York', 'Grief', 'Society', 'Coronavirus'] |
My First Product ‘Broke’ Twitter and Then Crashed Hard
Celebrities were “harmed” in the making of this story.
Background from Ryan Cryar
It was late 2009. I was working in a corporate banking job and had just launched my first ever product online as a “side hustle”.
It was a “social polling” network called WhatPoll... | ['Marketing', 'Startup', 'Business', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Founders'] |
This article will introduce you to how data migration works on Amazon Web Services Cloud. Following pointers will be covered in this article,
Use Case For Data Migration
AWS Snowball
Steps For Migrating Data To The AWS Cloud Using Snowball
Snowball vs Snowmobile
So let us get started then,
Use Case For Data Migra... | ['Snowball', 'Cloud Computing', 'Amazon', 'AWS'] |
R.F.S. is a geologist in his 60s who suffered an acute neurological injury in 2010, affecting the parietal lobe of his cerebral cortex. This part of the brain is responsible for visual and spatial awareness. R.F.S. first experienced headaches, amnesia and tremors, but his condition unfortunately deteriorated. In 2011 h... | ['Research', 'Education', 'Science', 'Psychology', 'Neuroscience'] |
Deep learning (DL) is helping us at Airbnb serve our stakeholders better and enhance belonging. For example, we use it for search ranking models, fraud detection models, issue prediction models in customer support, content understanding on listings and many other areas. A broad division within DL are classification tas... | ['AI', 'NLP', 'Computer Vision', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Deep Learning'] |
Maybe it’s time to create one.
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I have a flood of creativity these days. I don’t know where to put it all. I haven’t been a true creative for 20 years. Now, I’m pouring buckets.
This morning, I read this post by Stefani Vader. She has a great suggestion for making a list of all the crea... | ['Life Lessons', 'Writing', 'Work', 'Productivity', 'Creativity'] |
How Walmart used psychology to become the world’s largest retailer
Their approach is more scientific than you might think
Photo by Fabio Bracht on Unsplash
Founded by Sam Walton in 1962, Walmart is a retail juggernaut. Walmart is the world’s largest company by revenue, with $514.405 billion according to Fortune’s 20... | ['Marketing', 'Startup', 'Business', 'Psychology', 'UX'] |
The term “analytics” became popular due to the 2006/2007 Harvard Business Review article and book by Tom Davenport called “Competing on Analytics.” The content made companies realize they should be doing more to ensure they were making data-driven decisions across their entire enterprise. Davenport made the case that i... | ['Machine Learning', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'AI', 'Business Intelligence', 'Deep Learning'] |
The Ultimate Writer Series Idea
If this is the first article that you’ve read in this series, allow me to give you the scoop on the idea. The Ultimate Writer series was created from a daydream on how I would create the Ultimate Writer based on 13 core writing attributes. I believe that these attributes are the most im... | ['Writing', 'Writing Tips', 'Creativity', 'Inspiration', 'Journalism'] |
How To Get The Most Out Of Any Self-Help Book
Don’t just read books, devour them.
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Do you read books, or do you devour them? Or for lack o better words; how do you read self-help books?
The purpose of any self-help book is to fix some problem or to ‘level up’ in some area of perso... | ['Books', 'Self Improvement', 'Inspiration', 'Startup', 'Productivity'] |
why finishing your work is the most important thing you can do as a writer
Photo by Isaac Wendland on Unsplash
We all get a little starry-eyed when we think of our favorite works of art.
The evocative and tender stroke of a paintbrush. A sentence so gorgeously wrought you find yourself whispering it aloud, just to r... | ['Writing', 'Productivity', 'Writing Tips', 'Creativity', 'Inspiration'] |
It’s really helpful to respond to a person’s ineffective behavior with curiosity rather than judgment. I learned this from a friend of mine, the writer and activist Kimberly Longhofer (who publishes under the name Mik Everett). Kim is passionate about the acceptance and accommodation of disabled people and homeless peo... | ['Mental Health', 'Productivity', 'Psychology', 'Life Lessons', 'Life'] |
Amazon has become an increasingly ubiquitous part of our lives, as more and more people receive weekly — and even daily — packages from the company. But as these packages pile up on doorsteps all over the world, a glaring issue has emerged: How do you recycle all those damn mailers?
Given the huge variety in packaging... | ['Environment', 'Sustainability', 'Amazon', 'How To', 'Wasted'] |
I had my first diary at age 13. Didn’t all girls? Mine was pink. I loved it so much. I protected it like a momma bear watches over her babies. Touch it and you die. No questions asked.
I wrote about boys mostly. Jamie Jones. I’ll never forget him. He was the cutest boy in the neighbourhood. All the girls loved him. Es... | ['Motivation', 'Writing', 'Freelancers', 'This Happened To Me', 'Entrepreneurship'] |
Short Literary Fiction: Superfood for the Digital Soul
Why Short Stories?
There is a place in this digitally-driven world for literary fiction.
The internet has changed the world, including the world of literature. Arguably, people are reading more than ever thanks to the ubiquity of smartphones and social media.
B... | ['Writing', 'Mental Health', 'Education', 'Art', 'Psychology'] |
Anyone Can Be Ok at Anything
Rodriguez had to learn a lot of tough skills to make his movie such as editing, sound capture, set design, organising a crew etc. These ain’t skills you learn the usual way by being a good student at school, it’s what you learn by getting down and dirty doing something you really want to d... | ['Self Improvement', 'Life Lessons', 'Productivity', 'Startup', 'Entrepreneurship'] |
Even in normal times, persistent mysterious symptoms, combined with an uncertain diagnosis, can be a recipe for stigma — but the pandemic may be worsening this phenomenon. In a study published on July 25 that hasn’t yet been reviewed by other scientists, Natalie Lambert, PhD, an associate research professor at the Indi... | ['Healthcare', 'Health', 'Science', 'Coronavirus', 'Covid 19'] |
-This article was written by Juan Castillo, Creative Director at Endertech-
My design team and I recently had the exciting opportunity to develop the brand identity for a new product from scratch. When our client, Global Electronic Technology, approached us with this project, their new product didn’t even have a name ... | ['Branding', 'Design', 'Business', 'Startup', 'Marketing'] |
Think “Work From Home” Means Working Less? Think Again
Those micro-moments of downtime are critical for mental and physical health
Monday morning. I sit at the desk in my house, sunlight streaming into my work-from-home space, hoping for a moment’s rest before the onslaught of meetings and requests come in.
It’s wor... | ['Psychology', 'Productivity', 'Self Improvement', 'Remote Work', 'Mental Health'] |
Masks, Protection, and Our National Character
Public health is inherently unselfish; why aren’t we?
A man wearing a cutout mask gathered with hundreds of others at a “Hazardous Liberty! Defend the Constitution!” rally to protest the stay-at-home order on April 19, 2020, in Olympia, Washington. Photo: Karen Ducey/Stri... | ['Covid 19', 'Health', 'Public Health', 'Science', 'Coronavirus'] |
I’ve been writing pretty consistently on Medium (around 3,000 words per day) for the past few months, with stories hosted in over a dozen publications.
Over time I’m beginning to learn what it takes to make a decent income on Medium, and I want to share what I’ve learned so far.
Some writers earn an incredible amount... | ['Writing', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Startup', 'Finance', 'Inspiration'] |
The hardest role to fill in any company is leadership. Say what you will about logic-defying compensation packages and golden parachutes for C-level executives, because I’ll nod my head right along with you. The hard truth is that experienced leadership is always the difference between success and failure. Always.
But... | ['Leadership', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Business', 'Startup', 'Productivity'] |
The Failure that Led to Sigmund Freud’s Success
Why Even a Dead Page can have Purpose
In 1895, Sigmund Freud started Project for a Scientific Psychology, a monograph where he tried to explain all neuroses under a single framework. The ambition and expectation of the task brought trouble of equal magnitude. In Creatin... | ['Creative', 'Motivation', 'Failure', 'Psychology', 'Creativity'] |
“Tell me a story!”
Something we have all said or heard in our lives. Stories bring us together around the campfire.
We can escape into the rich and inviting worlds of our favorite authors, in a thrilling tale of adventure like Indian Jones movie, or like my grandmother escape into fantasy world of a soap opera.
A st... | ['Storytelling', 'Insight', 'Writing', 'Creativity', 'Purpose'] |
The Scene Tree
All JSX Components written in a React Native application are ultimately translated to platform level nodes understood by the underlying rendering engine. The representation of these nodes can be described as a Scene Tree. It contains the relationships and contextual information needed by the engine to r... | ['Mobile App Development', 'JavaScript', 'React', 'Development', 'React Native'] |
Viewing the E.Coli imbalance dataset in 3D with Python Tracyrenee Follow Dec 16 · 4 min read
The E.Coli imbalance dataset is a very good dataset to experiment on because two of its classes only have two occurences in and one class has only five occurrences. Some individuals suggest removing those classes from the data... | ['Machine Learning', 'Python', 'Matplotlib', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Data Science'] |
A couple of days ago, I wrote about why writers need email lists.
I hope I convinced you.
If I have, your next question might be — fine, I’m in, but how exactly do I do this?
The most basic way to keep an email list is to literally write down people’s email addresses. Keep a notebook.
When you want to write an emai... | ['Marketing', 'Business', 'Startup', 'Email', 'Writing'] |
What is the most complex technical task you have ever solved?
There are different Criteria of Complexity for Tasks we need to solve from day to day. A task may be Complex by tough Timelines, by Communication Issues within the Team or with a Customer, by Lack of Resources and finally, by it’s Nature. I experienced all ... | ['People', 'Software Engineering', 'Software Development', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Machine Learning'] |
The year 2020 witnessed a pandemic, crashing economies, depressing lockdowns, loss in all forms and figures, hospitals and healthcare centers stacked with the diseased and their helpless loved ones, unsung heroes working relentlessly in the depths of such facilities, and widespread chaos. We were hit by an enemy we wer... | ['Research', 'Biotechnology', 'Health', 'Covid 19', 'Science'] |
Just as with any human relationship that comes to an abrupt end (or not so abrupt at times) certain events in our lives will require us to take a step back, heal our wounds, take some time and recover before we venture out again into the unknown.
Typically, when startup founders make the tough decision to not continue... | ['Business', 'Productivity', 'Life Lessons', 'Motivation', 'Startup'] |
In the last 12 months, fact checking has gone from a fun pastime where you get to make fun of Big Walnut to something of a life-and-death scenario where the myths that are promulgating online can have serious consequences for people’s longevity. Instead of impacting which berry you favor at the supermarket checkout, th... | ['Facts', 'Health', 'Covid 19', 'Coronavirus', 'Science'] |
What is a growth team? Growth can mean a lot of different things at different organizations. At Wish, growth is a mission-based, multi-functional team. It’s a collaboration of marketing, creative, engineering, analytics, and product professionals to create a dynamic team that excels at efficiency and innovation. Togeth... | ['Growth', 'Engineering', 'Design', 'Startup'] |
5 Lessons I Learned From My Neuroscience Degree
A call to celebrate with reflection in the absence of convocation.
I just graduated with a degree in Neuroscience without a plan to go to med school or grad school.
“Then what do you want to do with that?” People would always ask.
“Learn about the brain.”
That was my... | ['Neuroscience', 'Education', 'Psychology', 'Science', 'Life Lessons'] |
Character building in stories is such a fun challenge.
One of my favourite ,weird past times, is people watching to help build character’s backgrounds, stories and descriptions. It is a fascinating hobby, and although it may make me look like a creeper, I do it anyhow.
Just For Fun
Let’s go sit at a mall together. Y... | ['Creativity', 'Short Story', 'Storytelling', 'Writer', 'Writing'] |
In The Dynamics of Creation, psychoanalyst and psychologist Anthony Storr attempts to understand what motivates people to dedicate themselves to creative work. Considering that creativity is a difficult endeavour and often carries few rewards, it has to be about more than fame or money.
Storr believed that for some pe... | ['Creativity', 'Self Improvement', 'Productivity', 'Life Lessons', 'Writing'] |
Photo by Ioana Cristiana on Unsplash
TL;DR: I quit my relatively cushy, full-time reporter job at the New York Post after one of my tweets went very viral with no backup plan and no real professional prospects.
But the full-length version of how I came to that decision is something slightly more complicated. Somethin... | ['Journalism', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Jobs', 'Freelancing', 'Writing'] |
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Have you felt repressed? Have you felt ashamed of yourself, of your sexuality, afraid of being too loud? Have you felt embarrassed by your emotions, believing you are too sensitive or dramatic? You are not alone.
“Men who do not turn to face their own pain are too often prone to inflict it on o... | ['Creativity', 'Mental Health', 'Feminism', 'Psychology', 'Abuse'] |
Episode 1: “The Evolution”
Java JIT Hotspot & C2 compilers
With Java, we achieved the “write-once-run-anywhere” dream, in the early 90s. The approach was very simple. The Java programs are compiled to “byte-code”
Interesting fact: byte-code is called byte-code, as each instruction in byte-code is of byte length, so ... | ['Microservices', 'Java', 'Graalvm', 'Containers', 'Kubernetes'] |
There are a number of online classes, articles, and books to read on writing, which is why it can be difficult to figure out where to begin. You want to improve your writing skills, but you feel intimidated by the amount of information there is, so you do what all sane humans do: you avoid it.
To make it easier for yo... | ['Creativity', 'Writing Tips', '5 Tips', 'Books', 'Writing'] |
Launch of Google Stadia: What it is & Why It’s A Mess
The Future Of Gaming Is Here Apparently
The gaming industry has grown tremendously over the last few years, with games such as League of Legends, Dota 2 and more garnering millions of players around the world.
What’s even more amazing is the technology that is gr... | ['Gaming', 'Startup', 'Google', 'Future', 'Tech'] |
I’ll fall in love with your beautiful health story
I can’t help it, I fall in love every time.
As I get started up with Pictal Health, I’ve been working with patients 1-on-1 to help gather, distill, and visualize their health stories. This process involves talking together, prioritizing what’s important, and creating... | ['Design', 'Health', 'Storytelling', 'Healthcare', 'Data Visualization'] |
What We Can Learn About Emotional Payoff From My Octopus Teacher
TLDR: This post does not have one single thing about politics in it.
Photo by Serena Repice Lentini on Unsplash
Spoiler Alert: You can tell by the title and the genre what this Nextflix documentary, My Octopus Teacher, is going to be about, so there is... | ['Storytelling', 'Books And Authors', 'Books', 'Writing', 'Documentary'] |
My friend Juneta is an artist writer. In fact, when I think about artist writers, I always think about Juneta.
An artist writer is someone who:
Is a perfectionist.
Has lots of ideas, but tends to want struggle shifting between them, so usually works on one thing at a time.
Writes for their muse.
Really wants reade... | ['Creativity', 'Blogging', 'Perfectionism', 'Productivity', 'Writing'] |
Which Doctor Can Help My Colon? One Cuts Butts and One Deals With Guts
The difference between a gastroenterologist and a colorectal surgeon
Tools of the Colorectal trade. copyright Carmen Fong 2020
This is one of the most common questions I am not asked, as the majority of my patients believe we are one and the same... | ['Health', 'Surgery', 'Wellness', 'Science', 'Medicine'] |
Reinforcement learning with Skinner
A friendly introduction to the problem of reinforcement learning with examples from neuroscience
Reinforcement learning has entered the spotlight recently with accomplishments such as AlphaGo, and is supposedly one of our best shots at Artificial General Intelligence — or at least ... | ['Machine Learning', 'Neuroscience', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Psychology', 'Reinforcement Learning'] |
No this is not a piece about the rise and fall of communism, political ideology, or propaganda. It’s about the current state of digital advertising.
“T he Red Menace is real!” — read posters from the cold war.
Why?
Because politicians throughout history know this truth: if there’s one thing that can bring down a lar... | ['Marketing', 'Facebook', 'Netflix', 'Google', 'Advertising'] |
SK: You’ve told me before that a data viz is only as good as the questions that are being asked. Can you explain why you think that is? And what questions are you interested in right now? What questions aren’t being asked?
G: Data visualisation should solve problems: We are not artists, we are designers. Don’t get me ... | ['Creativity', 'Design', 'Dataviz', 'Data Science', 'Data Visualization'] |
Are there any Kubernetes fans here? I’m running it in production both at work and for my private projects for quite a while now, but sometimes I need a place to quickly develop and test new features without incurring additional costs or simply — run my home entertainment, backups, file sharing and kettle.
Few more nod... | ['Linux', 'Raspberry Pi', 'Kubernetes', 'Development', 'Clustering'] |
“But Hey, I Love to Write Code and I’m Passionate About It”
Don’t get me wrong. I don’t mind if someone codes in their free time. It makes a lot of sense in different situations, like with junior developers who obviously need to learn and practice. Or when you need to learn a new language or a new technology. Or when ... | ['Programming', 'Productivity', 'Development', 'Startup', 'Software Development'] |
This is the second part of my introduction to building an image recognition system with TensorFlow. In the first part we built a softmax classifier to label images from the CIFAR-10 dataset. We achieved an accuracy of around 25–30%. Since there are 10 different and equally likely categories, labeling the images randoml... | ['Machine Learning', 'Python', 'TensorFlow', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Image Processing'] |
How to Build a No Code Startup Around Your MVP
You don’t have to spend a fortune to build out your company, yet
Why do some successful startups scale smoothly while others flail and eventually fail?
In the early days of any company — the minimum viable product days — it’s a miracle just to get a working version of y... | ['Product Management', 'Business', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Startup', 'Productivity'] |
Ready, Set, Go — Making an Impact in Your First Few Months at Wish
A look into the first projects of 4 team members
Image by Ruby Yeh
With so many tech companies and tech workers in the Bay Area, it would be easy to get lost in the fold at another company. This is not the case at Wish, where each one of our 350 empl... | ['Startup', 'Engineering', 'Design', 'Analytics', 'Product Management'] |
Teams don’t struggle with solving problems but figuring out what the problems are.
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Summary
Though many factors contribute to a project’s failure, nothing is more certain to cause a project to fail than solving the wrong problem or realizing too late that the problem was misunderstood.
A common mis... | ['Technology', 'Design', 'Startup', 'Digital Marketing', 'Entrepreneurship'] |
NeurIPS, the largest conference in artificial intelligence, is currently underway, and it has over 20k people registered. If you are not registered and would like to access their goodies, please visit this public access version of the NeurIPS website.
If you are into deep learning, we recommend you to check out this p... | ['News', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Science', 'Future', 'Technology'] |
A creative director explains how dyslexia is the secret to unlocking flow.
In my mind, I see a lady with a tattoo. I also see a bearded man. Scattered in this orbit are a small cat, a large dog and the swell of love.
These images are all part of a rebranding project I’m visualizing for a veterinary technology company... | ['Creative Process', 'Design', 'Creativity', 'Design Thinking', 'Visualization'] |
Set a SMART goal
Business mentors, coaches, marketing gurus, and experts really like to wave a very threatening statistic around our faces. Apparently, 90% of startup businesses fail within the first year. If, as a creative, you thought you’d be exempt from being part of the failure complex, you may be wrong.
If we d... | ['Marketing', 'Creativity', 'Business', 'Productivity', 'Work'] |
Read the Email That Led to the Exit of Google A.I. Ethicist Timnit Gebru
‘Your life gets worse when you start advocating for underrepresented people’
Photo: Kimberly White/Stringer/Getty Images
Timnit Gebru, one of Google’s most prominent researchers on ethics and computer vision, says she was fired this week after ... | ['Technology', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'AI', 'Google', 'Race'] |
6 Powerful Headline Principles Inspired by Claude Hopkins
42 Headline examples and practical tips you can use immediately
Illustration by Cynthia Marinakos.
Claude Hopkins was one of the world’s greatest copywriters and advertising men. He is credited with ad techniques such as market research, money-back guarantees... | ['Headline Hacks', 'Business', 'Creativity', 'Startup', 'Writing'] |
How to Organize Your Medium Submissions With Trello
Manage where and when you publish and increase your writing productivity
Photo by Kelly Sikkema on Unsplash
One of the best ways to get your writing seen on Medium is to publish them in popular publications. The number of my submitted stories that get accepted into... | ['Creativity', 'Publishing', 'Writing Tips', 'Productivity', 'Writing'] |
Interferon: The Latest Advancement in Covid-19 Treatment
A frontline doc unpacks results of a new clinical trial that shows interferon may reduce the odds of severe illness or death from Covid-19
Photo: Emin BAYCAN/Unsplash
As someone who provides care for those with Covid-19 in a hospital approaching its capacity, ... | ['Health', 'Healthcare', 'Covid-19', 'Coronavirus', 'Science'] |
Increase Your Reach 10x by Turning Blog Posts into Videos
Video receives more engagement than text and other mediums
Photo by Jackson Hayes on Unsplash
Producing and publishing great blog posts is not enough to grow your views and reads. You also need to promote those blog posts to attract visitors.
Don’t stop at s... | ['Writing', 'Social Media', 'Marketing', 'Productivity', 'Money'] |
Stop Killing Yourself Little by Little with Positivity
There are some habits you need to break and some gratifications you need to rechannel, if you want to be healthier and not cut your life short.
Make a conscious effort, everyday, to be more positive.
Here’s 6 ways to start:
You can do this by consciously practi... | ['Mental Health', 'Health', 'Psychology', 'Abuse', 'Anger Management'] |
Comparison Between Styles Using Real Headlines
Here’s what each style looks like when applied to the headline:
All the Silicon Valley Copycat Cities Around the World
AP: All the Silicon Valley Copycat Cities Around the World
APA: All the Silicon Valley Copycat Cities Around the World
CMOS: All the Silicon Valley C... | ['Headline Hacks', 'Business', 'Productivity', 'Creativity', 'Writing'] |
I’m passionate about talent management and culture. My objective is to make Osedea the best workplace for our team.
Follow | ['Books', 'Reading', 'Creative Thinking', 'Productivity', 'Creativity'] |
New Research On Masks Show They Can Act Like A Vaccine
This is the strongest evidence yet that masks really work
As a healthcare professional who has actually taken care of patients afflicted with COVID-19 on the front lines, it has been distressing to me to see the active campaign against masks. Yes, this would not ... | ['Politics', 'Medicine', 'Health', 'Coronavirus', 'Science'] |
A network diagram offers a “common language” that is both visual and mathematical. So, from a network map, we can get qualitative information by reading its actors and relations, as well as do quantitative analysis by computing its connection structure. In fact, we can use this common language to study systems that may... | ['Productivity', 'Data Science', 'Creativity', 'Big Data', 'Data Visualization'] |
The Six Principles of Influence
The six principles of influence are:
Reciprocity
Commitment and consistency
Social proof
Authority
Liking
Scarcity
Let’s look at how the email follows each of these principles:
Reciprocity — the $5 credit
The principle of reciprocity was first outlined by the social anthropolog... | ['Entrepreneurship', 'Writing', 'Marketing', 'Email Marketing', 'Case Study'] |
You can tell by the things they are saying. The major outlets talk about his legacy of business successes and huge parties, and his “tragic downfall at the end”. The personal essayists and bloggers are looting that legacy for inspiring leadership quotes. And WaPo is turning him into a cautionary tale for rich people ev... | ['Business', 'Startup', 'Mental Health', 'Leadership', 'Psychology'] |
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