Category: Blogging

I wandered up a couple of flights of stairs, through Moynihan Station’s cavernous halls, and sat down with Nadella to ask him what he’d meant by his remark. “The lesson we have learned is that there’s going to be more personal computing in our lives,” he replied. Forms will change, functions will change, devices will change, he explained, and so, “You can’t fall in love with this one thing becoming the hub for all things and for all time to come.”
That philosophy is, in many ways, the opposite of the old Microsoft. The company under Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer was a hyper-competitive, cutthroat organization focussed on getting as many people as possible to run Microsoft software on personal computers. The company was so in love with P.C.s (the hub for all things and for all time to come) that it came late to the Internet and much, much too late to mobile phones. Windows used to run on ninety per cent of computing devices; now, with the rise of Android and Apple phones, it runs on eleven per cent.
Nadella, who took over as C.E.O. in February of 2014, is changing the company both strategically and by personal example.

Source: Satya Nadella and Microsoft’s Very Good Day – The New Yorker

Props to DuckDuckGo for Doing It Right!

“DuckDuckGo is actually profitable. It is a myth you need to track people to make money in web search,” Weinberg said during the AMA session. “Most of the money is still made without tracking people by showing you ads based on your keyword, i.e. type in ‘car’ and get a car ad.”These ads are lucrative because people have buying intent. All that tracking is for the rest of the internet without this search intent, and that’s why you’re tracked across the internet with these same ads.”

Source: DuckDuckGo CEO: ‘It’s a myth you need to track people to make money in web search’

I attempted to attend a free guided meditation session at UCLA, but the proctor didn’t show up! 😹  Oh well. I still had my longest (I think) meditation session.

This food looks delicious and I want to eat it! Extra cool that they’re cheap and healthy.

Source: How to make cheap and healthy dinners – Quartz

The Twitter [Engineering Effectiveness team] motto is: “Quality, Speed, Joy”.
Those are the three things we are trying to affect across all of Twitter engineering.
Unlike that other famous triple, Fast, Cheap, Good, we believe you don’t have to pick just two. In fact they feed into each other: Building things right will let you go faster. Building faster will give you more time to experiment and find your way to the right thing. And everybody enjoys building good stuff and a lot of it.

Source: Let a 1,000 flowers bloom. Then rip 999 of them out by the roots.

This is actually really cool, and I had no idea Google made this product. I would probably choose to see kittens instead of ads. The author has this dynamically generated Mondrian-like art. #cool

1. You support the sites you visit without expending any energy. 2. You see fewer ads. 3. (And this is the cool part) you get to decide what to show in that ad space instead of ads.

Source: Give Google Contributor a try