Filipe FortesFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logo The Rule of "The Most Accessible" and how it can make you feel betterbyterot.blogspot.co.uk I remember when I was a kid, I watched a documentary on how to catch a monkey. Basically you dig a hole in a tree, big enough for a stretched monkey …
Filipe Fortes Ways to think about carsben-evans.com - Benedict Evans Cars are going to change a lot in the next few decades. Electricity on one hand and software on the other change what a car is, how it gets made and …
Filipe FortesPlay button The Coddling of the American MindThe Atlantic - Greg LukianoffIn the name of emotional well-being, college students are increasingly demanding protection from words and ideas they don’t like. Here’s why that’s disastrous for education—and mental health. Something
Filipe Fortes The Container Ship Tourism IndustryAtlas Obscura - by Andy Wright Container ships preparing to leave Algeciras, Spain. (Photo: Alex Proimos/WikiCommons CC BY 2.0) Robert Rieffel was strolling with his wife and …
Filipe Fortes Gov_logogoverning.com - by Zach Patton It’s easy to feel like everything’s swell in San Juan. Driving through the neighborhoods of the Puerto Rican capital -- touristy Old San Juan, with …
Filipe FortesCitizenship This Swiss Lawyer Is Helping Governments Get Rich Off Selling PassportsBloomberg - Jason Clenfield In 2006, the tiny Caribbean state of St. Kitts and Nevis was in deep trouble. Its sugar plantations had closed a year earlier, gang violence had …
Filipe Fortes Yes to the Dress?medium.com - Paul Ford Right now people in my professional world (content platform pontificators) are avidly discussing the traffic garnered by a single picture of a …
Filipe FortesFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logo Why do we give lectures? Why does anyone attend them?educationoutrage.blogspot.ca I found myself in the unusual position (for me anyway) of being a tourist in Brazil about a month ago. For various reasons, I was on boats, and …
Filipe Fortes Soccer's Unsolvable Piracy ProblemThe Atlantic - Terrance F. RossThe sport's fandom is vast, fanatical, and fans want to watch however they can. So stopping illegal streaming is going to require more than strict regulations and software. NBC has found unprecedented
Filipe Fortes Steve Albini on the surprisingly sturdy state of the music industry – in fullThe Guardian - Steve AlbiniThe music producer, Shellac frontman and author of seminal 1993 essay, The Problem with Music, spoke in Melbourne about the advantages of the internet, the death of the major label system, copyright law
Filipe FortesFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logo Denying Problems When We Don’t Like the Solutionsduke.edu There may be a scientific answer for why conservatives and liberals disagree so vehemently over the existence of issues like climate change and …
Filipe Fortes The IPO is dying. Marc Andreessen explains why.Vox - Timothy B. LeeTwenty years ago, a 22-year-old Marc Andreessen co-founded Netscape, the company behind the first commercially successful web browser. Netscape went public the next year, making Andreessen wealthy and
Filipe Fortes The Open-Office TrapThe New Yorker - Maria KonnikovaIn 1973, my high school, Acton-Boxborough Regional, in Acton, Massachusetts, moved to a sprawling brick building at the foot of a hill. Inspired by architectural trends of the preceding decade, the classrooms
Filipe Fortes The Rise of the $8 Ice Cubepriceonomics.com In 2007, during a business school lecture at UCLA, Roberto Sequeira had a revelation. What if I could design the perfect business? he asked himself, …
Filipe FortesFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logo Thought-Provoking Satirical Illustrations by Pawel Kuczynskiimgur.com by Asalym Im happy most of you enjoyed these as much as I do, here is a link to part 2: https://imgur.com/gallery/idu3E
Filipe Fortes 50 Cent Is My Life CoachGQ - By Zach BaronFor years now, the man who wrote Get Rich or Die Tryin' has been getting very rich indeed—off record sales, energy drinks, self-help books, ercise routines, headphones, you name it. His newest product?
Filipe Fortes The Illusion of Motionpaulbakaus.com - Paul Bakaus Like to watch, rather than read? Watch my recorded talk from SmashingConf 2014: http://vimeo.com/108331968IntroductionYou may have heard the term …
Filipe Fortes Loophole land—where crimes can't be prosecuted. Really.loststates.blogspot.com According to a law professor from Michigan, there is small section if Idaho where major crimes can not be prosecuted—thanks to a giant blunder by …
Filipe Fortes Stop forcing people to wear bike helmetsVox - Joseph StrombergToday is Bike to Work Day — an event that's all about trying to get more people to ride bicycles more regularly. If you don't feel like wearing a helmet while biking, that's fine And here's some advice
Filipe FortesFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logo Shtetl-Optimized » Blog Archive » Malthusianismsscottaaronson.com Why, in real life, do we ever encounter hard instances of NP-complete problems? Because if it’s too easy to find a 10,000-mile TSP tour, we ask for a …
Filipe Fortes As Court Fees Rise, The Poor Are Paying The PriceNPR - Joseph ShapiroIn Augusta, Ga., a judge sentenced Tom Barrett to 12 months after he stole a can of beer worth less than $2. In Ionia, Mich., 19-year-old Kyle Dewitt caught a fish out of season; then a judge sentenced
