Finally, a safe space for your most unpopular opinions — Twitter announced today that it will be rolling out a limited test of a new feature that would allow its users to post “yeets.” Yeets are like tweets, except they’re only for the spiciest of takes, and they’ll vanish before your followers can even finish reading them. A yeet will…

What you need to know to come up with the perfect name for your new project and build a strong brand around it — So you had a great idea. It might be a fun weekend challenge, a side project, or a business idea. Maybe it’ll even be the next billion dollar company. Now you need a name. And the name has to convey so much! There’s no secret formula to coming up with…

Why stop at 10? Here’s how a 1x engineer can improve by 99,999,999,900% — You might have heard about the rare “10x engineer” recently. But you probably haven’t heard of the even rarer 1,000,000,000x engineer (or 1Bx engineer for short). Sometimes referred to as “unicorngineers,” this type of engineer will significantly increase a company’s odds of achieving implosive growth and unicorn status. Here are…

Forget inbox zero — how about inbox infinity? — Reinventing things is the lifeblood of Silicon Valley: shopping, space travel, transportation, currency—the list goes on. But you might not expect email to make that list. A few months ago, a hot new startup started generating buzz around their mission of disrupting email … and paying you 30 dollars a…

Brain technology is about to get crazy, and you’re not nearly excited or scared enough — The human brain is the most complicated object in the universe. It’s also the only one that got to pick its own name, which is pretty cool. It’s your body’s operating system. …

Hold your favourite glowing rectangle close and tell it you love it, because it won’t be here forever. — Screens connect us to our closest friends and strangers. They let us experience other people’s stories and tell people ours. Screens are how we work, play, create, and talk to each other. They bridge gaps in knowledge, time, and space. …