Jane McGonigal’s book thesis in action. Read more
Solid advice here for those of you embarking on a programming project without knowing the language or spec. “Divide and Conquer” using test-driven development is exactly the appr... Read more
Download the latest version of todo.txt’s command line interface and bask in the simplicity of its three-step setup. Thanks to our hard-working community of contributors for continuall... Read more
Nifty tool automates recipes for reactions to events across web services. Popular ifttt recipes include “if someone tags me in a photo on Facebook, then save it to my Dropbox” an... Read more
Solitude and leadership would seem to be contradictory things. But it seems to me that solitude is the very essence of leadership. The position of the leader is ultimately an intensely solit... Read more
Truly creative ideas are novel, and things that are different and unfamiliar scare people. Read more
People in the U.S. and around the world lack the education and skills required to participate in the great new companies coming out of the software revolution. This is a tragedy since every... Read more
Ben Goodger, writing about Chrome: Autoupdate is one of Chrome’s killer features. It is magical because it continuously updates an entire development platform invisibly, frequently. Su... Read more
Just released our 14th (and hopefully last) beta of ThinkUp today. Download beta 14 here. If you’re interested in getting involved in an open source project with users ranging from Ste... Read more
Mayer realized that pouring creativity into smaller, less important, promotional outlets like tweets not only distracted him from focusing on more critical endeavors like his career, it also... Read more
Viewers often ask what headset I wear on This Week in Google; here’s a complete list of all the gear I use for the show with handy-dandy links. Read more
Google+’s recent enforcement of a “real names” policy strikes me as an engineer’s approach to accountability—black-and-white, when there’s plenty of grey.... Read more
There’s a great conversation going on about why social networks, specifically Google+, shouldn’t require that all its users register using their “real” names. To catc... Read more
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Dewbie in: The Jobsian fallacy
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