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A couple of hundred articles and finds bookmarked here over the years — newest first.
2023
- Some mistakes I made as a new manager
- Dirk Sahlmer on LinkedIn: SaaS Metrics Cheat Sheet | 37 comments
2021
- 50 Questions to Find a Co-Founder and a Startup Idea
- Just 20 minutes of exercise enough to reduce inflammation, study finds
- There’s a Name for the Blah You’re Feeling: It’s Called Languishing
- Top 10 Ways to Boost Your Energy
2020
- Longevity FAQ — Laura Deming
- The Adjacent User Theory
- The Cadence: How to Operate a SaaS Startup
- How I grew my Shopify micro-SaaS to $25k MRR and 20k users in 14 months
- How I Designed the Perfect Startup Logo for $20 — Colin Keeley
- What to write down when you’re reading to learn
- Optimizations as a company of one
- 20 growth marketing hacks to get your first 1000 customers, and how to distribute your content effectively.
- Tools for better thinking
- Habits of High-Functioning Teams
- Programmer Momentum
- 23 rules to run a software startup with minimum hassle
2019
- Free for developers
- It’s Not Enough to Be Right. You Also Have to Be Kind.
- Introducing our Startup Handbook – Version One
- Why work doesn’t happen at work
- Writing is Thinking: Learning to Write with Confidence
- The boring technology behind a one-person Internet company
- What I’ve learned interviewing 500 people: the interviewer skills ladder for high growth software companies
- 11 Tips to Unlock Your Creative Thinking at Work – Thrive Global
- How to Build a Successful Business by Changing Your Mindset
- How I manage customer feedback for my bootstrapped SaaS
- How do startups actually get their content marketing to work?
- How To Increase Your Willpower
- The 4-hour Workweek: What Tim Ferriss teaches us about time management
- How To Use Shadows And Blur Effects In Modern UI Design — Smashing Magazine
- 6 decision-making techniques all Product Managers should know
- Productivity Isn’t About Time Management. It’s About Attention Management.
- How to Deliver Constructive Feedback in Difficult Situations
- 12 Ways to Make Your Website More Modern and Improve Efficiency
- What Would Jeff Bezos Do? Unlocking the Secrets to Amazon’s Success.
- Awesome Startup Credits
- How Basecamp’s DHH Got to Be Great at What He Does
- 7 Top CEOs on the One Thing That Makes Their Mornings More Productive – Thrive Global
- Innovation Isn’t All Fun and Games — Creativity Needs Discipline
2018
- How I learned to suck less at GTD – Ambition & Balance
- A Mindful Approach To Task Management
- Optimize These 3 Areas in Your Life for Highest Productivity
- How to balance full-time work with creative projects – The Creative Independent
- The Joel Test: 12 Steps to Better Code
- The Power of Research: How We Grew Traffic on The Canva Blog By 226.47% In 60 Days
- Why the world needs deep generalists, not specialists
- In Pursuit of Production Minimalism — Brandur Leach
- How to PRIORITIZE: My New System for Planning My Weeks | Gillian Perkins
- Run less software – Inside Intercom
- Entropy of Social Networks: Why they all go bad – Anshu Sharma – Medium
- How to Design a Better Pitch Deck
- Pixar’s 22 Rules of Storytelling | Aerogramme Writers’ Studio
- How we built Hamiltix.net for less than $1 a month on AWS
- Stripe Atlas: Software as a Service pricing
- Are you in your write mind? How to overcome writer’s block
2017
- Ellen Langer: Mindfulness over matter – YouTube
- Cryptocurrency mining affects over 500 million people. And they have no idea it is happening.
- 34 Things You Need to Give Up to Be Successful
- Warren Buffett’s “2 List” Strategy: How to Maximize Your Focus and Master Your Priorities
- 10 Ways to Own Less – Be More with Less
- YC’s Essential Startup Advice
- The power of a ‘not-to-do’ list
- Hello, Designer? Would you tell me about your project?
- 4 Things That Set Successful CEOs Apart
- The Evolution of Code Deploys at Reddit
- Must read article on how our lives will change dramatically in 20 years by CEO of Mercedes.
- Reverse Engineering A Successful Lifestyle Business: Here’s Everything I’ve Learned From Reading IndieHackers.com
- My Curated List of AI and Machine Learning Resources from Around the Web
- Talks are Entertainment – speaking.io
- Design principle: IKEA effect – UX Planet
- Warren Buffett’s “20 Slot” Rule: How to Simplify Your Life
2016
- The (slightly insane) morning routines of these top professionals 35 and under | Olivia Barrow | LinkedIn
- Confessions of a Necromancer – Hintjens.com
- Startups in 13 Sentences
- Are Your 1:1’s Effective? | Brandon Naber | LinkedIn
- Design Resources — HH Design — Medium
- Shortcuts to a Well Balanced Life – CityLife
- This Man Wants To Inspire You To Finally Follow Your Dreams
- MJML – The Responsive Email Framework
2015
- Kathy Sierra: Building the minimum Badass User, Business of Software. A masterclass in thinking about software product development. – Business of Software USA
- Here’s Google’s Secret to Hiring the Best People | WIRED
- How to Design a Powerful Presentation – Design School
2014
- The Stoic: 9 Principles to Help You Keep Calm in Chaos
2012
- Now this is startup hustle: how Backblaze “farmed” hard drives during the Thailand hard drive shortage: #creativity
- TIP: Google’s new Tag Manager may be the last Analytics code you will ever have to put into your website (thx @rikang)
- Good article and I’m still thinking about whether I agree or not: “Social Login Buttons Aren’t Worth It”
- Wow, Facebook will start using offline/in-store purchase history for its online ads.. extremely powerful
- The most important question in email marketing
- 10 Tips For Making Sure That Your Business Contacts Never Forget You
- Agree, great stories always sells. RT @Hot_House Brand marketers as storytellers- a new approach? #marketing #branding
- Nice summary of UX – even for the “rest of us” :-) RT @sophiegem A good summary
- Wow! RT @snarkyboojum The cost of cloud storage is 10x cheaper tonight – Amazon Glacier: :) #goodnight #interwebs
- 2012 Global Digital Journalism Study, good read (via @MarcLaurin)
- 2012 Global Digital Journalism Study, good read (via @MarcLaurin)
- If you haven’t done so already, read the free “KPCB Internet Trends 2012” report from Kleiner Perkins very informative
- Amazing and action packed physical video of what humans are capable of: #MasterYourCraft #energy
- Nice.. 4 Ecommerce Experiences to Learn From: (by @BrianHonigman via @mashable)
- Very powerful once done right; location based mobile advertising will be HUGE, e.g. Australian ? (via @lebard @djinoz)
- Creating a Great Board of Directors
- @daniel_iversen Google off to good start on the immediate and inevitable reinvention of the TV , amzn+appl will come
- True + interesting RT @CarrieWilkerson agree with @mcuban ‘Follow your passion’ is BAD advice for business building
- Watch out; 10 ways to inhibit innovation in your company! RT @clare_owens
- Stumbled on old but insightful read from @Simonvw around status of retail and online in Australia; (thx @Hot_House)
- Thx @rikang “5 Psychological Studies on Pricing That You Absolutely MUST Read”
- “Google Now” and “Apple Passbook” new generation of far reaching ubiquitous location aware tech!
- Wow, read stats retailers!! RT @stephenlord E-Commerce is Head Over Heels for Pinterest, and There’s a Good Reason Why
- Wow, this is seriously cool advertising online – watch the 2nd video on (via @kidkangaroo) #ExploitTheMedium #commerce
- Seven “Non-Negotiables” to Prevent a Bad Hire
- Simple article on how to replace your crappy AB testing with the “bandit algorithm” in conceptually 20 lines of code
- One of my favorite startup books frm 37signals “Getting Real” is now a FREE PDF eBook.. Go get it
- Twitter acquires email marketing platform. Makes sense!..
- Good lessons to rmbr! RT @kimberlymccabe How to Avoid “Shiny New Technology” Syndrome in Content Marketing [Case Study]
- Awesome! – Apple’s inspirational note to new employees: #makeadifference
- FatWire’s awaited “Content Server 8” is finally released; welcome Oracle WebCenter Sites 11gR1! #wcm #majorversion
- Good presentation on how Instagram designers and engineers worked on mobile app speed; tested it out and it’s amazing!
- New large branding + marketing opportunity for companies? introducing “followware” ? #createvalue
- Agree, so simple but have to spell it out! RT @rikang 10 Strategic IT, Business Tasks Your Cloud Vendor Should Solve
- Wow its happening! RT @QAlegend Think GPS is cool? Indoor Positioning System, IPS will blow your mind via @extremetech
- Wow. RT @rikang Using Klout and social scoring for sales and marketing teams: <– profound lesson for the C-level
- I love the free @diagramly just created the most beautiful architecture diagrams in record time and what a joy to use!
- Prob. better done server-side with a decent mvc-based WCM but still great idea + result!: Retina Graphics for Website
- Google Panda Makes Guest Blogging Essential
- 9 Ways to Get More Out of Google Analytics
- Agree; what managing a team really means (via #linkedin)
- Build a public IaaS cloud with Cisco sponsored open source Apache CloudStack, interesting or not?
- Matt Mullenweg Interview @SXSW 2011, The Future of WordPress: … interesting times ;) #CXM #WEM #WCM #evolution
- Good Reads; Why Top talent leaves: ,Only 3 interview Qs: ,Responsive design
- Funny with some truths ad well. :-) RT @dolfdijkstra Tony Byrne loves his dog: A CMS is like a dog
- Feature Flipping is so freakin’ awesome! RT @nomiddlename I made a feature flipping/toggling library for #nodejs
- Online ad spend in 2012 $40 billion, print: $37 billion (wow!) + Facebook Marketing [INFOGRAPHIC] via @jeffbullas
- All great points, read if u blog RT @jeffbullas: Are You Making These 20 Mistakes on Your #Blog? #SocialMedia #Blogging
- Testing Buffer, claimed “a better way to post to Twitter and Facebook”. (you can try it @
- Wow, beautiful and amazing, a must see!! (but Flash = no iDevices..) RT @rebekahsen The universe is an amazing place
- Four Mistakes Publishers Make When Bringing Content to Tablets via @techcrunch
- 6 Social Media Networks to Watch in 2012 [Plus Infographics] » Jeffbullas’s Blog #Faceb […] via @jeffbullas
- #Oracle creating the worlds only true end-to-end CXM solution w/ #FatWire, #RightNow, #ATG, #Siebel and more. Watch
- Awesome.. funny but true :) RT @robholliday: is your online shopping experience like this? – Nice work Google!
- “Web Experience Management” (WEM), the “fad” the web industry did not want to shake – now with OASIS support :)
- Interesting article+charts on where Google, Apple and Microsoft earns their money, small surprises thanks #hackernews
- True true! Great presso! RT @snarkyboojum “Worry about your coworkers. Your servers, offices, and ideas are bullshit.”
- Has the time come? Amazon, Google, Apple or netflix to win? RT @WatchGTV Samsung, LG and Sony sign on to Google TV
2011
- Interesting for research.. new 5 billion web page index available free from Common Crawl Foundation: (thx #HackerNews)
- Cool, did not know the accelerometer works in HTML(5?) – try to see this nice demo on you iPhone: #learnedsomethingnew
- Interesting read – Java VM tuning @ Twitter , however much detail most people won’t have to worry about though.
- This anecdote about Steve Jobs is great & says a lot! “Icon Ambulance”; :-)
- If this guy is remotely right (wrt iPhone 5), near-future phones & AI will be awesome; Apple “Virtual Assistant”. WOW!
- Wow! – @Twitter has now open sourced its event stream processing system, “Storm”; (via #hackernews)
- Great and insightful video interview of Google’s Eric Schmidt by Marc Benioff; (on cloud, tech, future, politics etc)
- Great presentation from @Hot_House! RT @marclaurin Making sense of the mobile web – Presentation To the point #in
- Now THIS would be worth seeing (but long shot): Enterprise IT takeover of the decade? – Oracle to buy HP? (Forbes)
- How-to: Manage Social Media Accounts for Multiple Clients: (thx @mashable)
- Paper: The Akamai CDN Network – 95,000 Servers, 1,000 Networks, 70 Countries (highscalability.com): #scalableweb
- Oracle Outlines Fatwire’s Customer Experience, Web CMS Roadmap #CXM
- Now THIS is how to approach quality in your IT cloud environment, “The Netflix Simian Army”: !
2010
- Free Amazon EC2+goodness for a year!
- Stack Overflow launches chat..
- FoxSports launched on Fatwire!
- Best source code comments! (funny)
- The top 19 iPad apps for business (and my top 19 favourite iPad apps)
- Facebook Looks to Invest in Social Startups
- Why did Google “accidentally” steal/sniff WiFi information?
- HTML5 (and the great demo on rocks!
- Worthwhile read, amazing times
- The Facebook(-like) social web and the speed of human evolution