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Let’s play startup

When Y Combinator launched in 2005, they flipped investing criteria on its head, making micro bets on young, inexperienced kids, instead of funding people with proven track records. Now their venture fund has a portfolio of winners including Dropbox, Zenefits, Airbnb, and Stripe. And next year they’re thinking a little bigger In 2018 they’ll accept […]

Technology Is Not Hijacking Your Brain

Nir is the author of Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products and have taught at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and Design School. I’ve sold two technology companies since 2003 and now help teams design more engaging products. For most of my career I’ve worked in the video gaming and advertising industries where I […]

Google AI Experiment lets you mix two instruments for some odd sounds

This experiment lets you play with new sounds created with machine learning. It’s built using Nsynth, a research project that trained a neural network on over 300,000 instrument sounds. NSynth is able to combine sounds, like a bass and flute, into a new, hybrid bass-flute sound. This experiment lets anyone explore these sounds and make music […]

Indian solar power prices hit record low, undercutting fossil fuels

Last year we were talking about solar energy growing 10x with a corresponding 90% drop in costs.  I’d talk often with people still thinking that solar needs subsidies from tax breaks. They also would point out that solar was only a small part of the energy economy.  I’d smile and remind them that it meant […]

How to Be Unstoppable in 30 Behaviorial Steps

I admire life/psychology/behavior hackers. They’re ever-testing, always-growing and often are happy to prolifically share their findings. I’m all for optimizing life, so I often find myself reading posts from notable writers and experimenters like Benjamin hardy. In his recent Thrive Global post, Benjamin draws you in with a headline you just can’t help but click […]