Josh Kopelman on why raising a Series A is harder than ever, and how startups can adapt to survive the changing investment landscape. Fantastic essay, relevant for every company raising money at any stage.
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This Man’s Simple System Could Transform American Medicine, about a quest to quantify the effects of medicine and treatment differently, which is really needed.
Update: Looks like it’s built on WordPress, too:
.@photomatt Thanks for the link! I built the site with Dave Newman (powered by WordPress)!
— Graham Walker, MD (@grahamwalker) March 9, 2015
Joseph Mosby experiments with my trick of listening to a song on repeat to get work done, and digs a bit into the psychology behind it.
Om Malik on the decline of cameras as gadgets, Standalone camera: Shot (Dead) By iPhone.
Great piece by Jonathan Libov on text-based messaging interfaces for everything in the future, it’s like the command line has come alive again.
Ben Dwyer on why writing code is like solving a Rubik’s cube.
A lot of the tech news I’ve linked here has been a bit of a downer, but today we can celebrate: FCC votes for net neutrality, a ban on paid fast lanes, and Title II. This is not an outcome I would have bet on a year ago.
As a good follow-up to the podcast with Tim the other week, I did a podcast with Matt Medeiros of the Matt Report.
I am Elon Musk, CEO/CTO of a rocket company, AMA!. This guy continues to amaze.
There’s been some interesting threads going around on Jetpack and the future of WordPress, here’s Chris Lema’s take: Is the Future Success of WordPress tied to Jetpack?.
Automattician Guillermo Rauch writes on the 7 Principles of Rich Web Applications.
Since it’s Valentine’s day, here’s a little humor from the New Yorker’s Hallie Cantor: What I Imagine My Boyfriend’s Ex-Girlfriends Are Doing Right Now. (That the character is named Matt is completely coincidental.)
Shocked and dismayed this morning on the news that David Carr passed last night after collapsing in the New York Times newsroom, where he was working into the evening. If you’re not familiar with his work or legacy, these links on Mediagazer are a good start.
There’s a relatively new site called Fusion.net that is definitely worth checking out, it’s already full of great articles and they’re starting to climb up the Techmeme Leaderboard. They run on WordPress.com VIP.
Steven Levy asks What is a Hacker? and gets some great answers back.
FiveThirtyEight says People Working From Home In A Snowstorm May Be Producing More Than You Are, on the productivity of working from home.
Cory Doctorow on How Laws Restricting Tech Actually Expose Us to Greater Harm.
Austin Smith at Mediashift talks about Why It’s Risky Business for Publishers to Build Their Own CMS.
If Apple Made Milk, and Other Super-Cool Imaginary Product Packaging, cool work by the artist Peddy Mergui. (Who uses WordPress.)