This post may contain affiliate links. If you click on a link and make a purchase, Shoot It With Film may receive a small commission at no additional cost to you. Written by David Rose My analog journey has been an … Read more
Too often, a popular consumer app unexpectedly gets worse: Some combination of harder to use, missing features, and slower. At a time in history where software is significantly eating the world, this is nonsensical. It’s also damaging to the lives … Read more
July 29, 2021 In 2009, I wrote an article for Sports Illustrated about a U.S. four-man bobsled team known as the “Night Train” — so named for the sled’s matte black finish. The following year, at the Vancouver Winter Olympics, … Read more
Once, to survive in the arts, you needed someone like this: The profoundly rich product of centuries of inbreeding. This is a blog post about making a living writing art. Like, say, indie games. So expect a certain amount of … Read more
The Great War was over, cars were multiplying on the streets, radios were crackling in living rooms, plastics were hitting the market and theatres were attracting people with newfangled moving pictures. Science and technology were roaring ahead. It was, after … Read more
Being stuck can come in two shades. The first is when you’re missing information. I’ll call this not knowing (yet). The second is when you have all the information necessary but it’s not related in the way the program is. … Read more
A single node system has no problem deciding what time it is and which order the events inside the system happened. The node has a timer, called clock, and any process that needs to make use of time makes a … Read more
Support for this research was provided by the Division of Research at the Harvard Business School. Patrick Sweeney provided excellent research assistance. Paul Gompers has invested in and consulted for venture capital firms. The views expressed herein are those of … Read more
After years of trying to turn its fortunes around, Korea’s LG said it would exit the mobile phone business globally. Between the lines: The phone business is a hard one to make profitable for all but the largest players. LG … Read more