How to build great products

Posted on August 4, 2020 by HeyJK

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If you believe that sales fix everything, it follows that most startups fail because they don’t ship a great product in a growing market before they run out of money. Assuming you’ve picked an explosive market, how do you go about building a great product?1

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The Art of Not Thinking

Posted on August 4, 2020 by HeyJK

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After years of feeling guilty about not wanting to do everything, I realized I don’t need motivation to get things done. Below, I describe how I use the concept of not thinking instead. It took me five years to get in the habit of exercising. I just didn’t want to do it.

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Why Is America Stuck With Bad Headlights?

Posted on August 4, 2020 by HeyJK

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I didn’t figure I’d fall in love with the 2021 Porsche 911 Turbo S for its headlights. This, after all, is a car that has 640 horsepower, does zero-to-60 in 2.6 seconds and tops out at 205 mph. I figured I’d be into it for mostly those reasons, which are pretty solid positives in any context.

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The UX of LEGO Interface Panels – George Cave

Posted on August 4, 2020 by HeyJK

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Piloting an ocean exploration ship or Martian research shuttle is serious business. Let’s hope the control panel is up to scratch. Two studs wide and angled at 45°, the ubiquitous “2×2 decorated slope” is a LEGO minifigure’s interface to the world.

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A Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Permanently Flipped Workplace

Posted on August 2, 2020 by HeyJK

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The second wave of COVID-19 infections has dashed all illusions of going back to the way things were before. Permanent, radical shifts in corporate policy are becoming more mainstream every day.

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Laws of UX

Posted on August 2, 2020 by HeyJK

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Users often perceive aesthetically pleasing design as design that’s more usable. Productivity soars when a computer and its users interact at a pace (<400ms) that ensures that neither has to wait on the other.

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Is TikTok Spying On You For China?

Posted on July 27, 2020 by HeyJK

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The relentless pressure on TikTok ramped up further this week, with U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo again claiming user data is sent to to China.

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Humans in America 30,000 years ago, far earlier than thought

Posted on July 23, 2020 by HeyJK

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Paris (AFP) – Tools excavated from a cave in central Mexico are strong evidence that humans were living in North America at least 30,000 years ago, some 15,000 years earlier than previously thought, scientists said Wednesday.

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The Tricky Math of Herd Immunity for COVID-19

Posted on July 23, 2020 by HeyJK

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Herd immunity differs from place to place, and many factors influence how it’s calculated.

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R.I.P. Cable TV: Why Hollywood Is Slowly Killing Its Biggest Moneymaker

Posted on July 22, 2020 by HeyJK

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Earlier this year, people started noticing something peculiar about MTV’s schedule: The network had quietly morphed into an almost 24/7 offering of just one show.

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Invert, always, invert

Posted on July 21, 2020 by HeyJK

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Today, we will look at one of my favourite mental models called – The Inversion principle. Mental models are a set of simple, abstract but useful principles that help us make sense of the world around us. I came across the Inversion principle on the Farnam Street blog.

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In Event of Moon Disaster – FULL FILM

Posted on July 21, 2020 by HeyJK

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PREMIERE OF FULL FILM & COMPLETE SPEECH!

In July 1969, much of the world celebrated the “giant leap for mankind” that the successful moon landing constituted. In 2020, nothing is quite so straightforward. In Event of Moon Disaster illustrates the possibilities of deepfake technologies by reimag

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Mysterious 450-foot ‘blue hole’ off Florida has researchers looking for signs of life

Posted on July 21, 2020 by HeyJK

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Tales of the ocean swallowing places are as ancient as the myth of Atlantis, but there is an element of truth in the science, according to a NOAA-backed expedition set for Florida’s Gulf Coast. The ocean does open up and consume areas of sea floor.

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Cellular aging ‘master circuit’ discovered: Extended human lifespan to follow?

Posted on July 20, 2020 by HeyJK

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SAN DIEGO — The average American lives to be around 75 or 80 years old; but if you had an opportunity to slow down the aging process and live an extra couple of decades would you take it? It’s a loaded question, strife with philosophical, religious, and societal considerations.

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Elon Musk claims his Neuralink chip will allow you to stream music directly to your brain

Posted on July 20, 2020 by HeyJK

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Elon Musk‘s mysterious Neuralink startup is working on a brain-computer interface that will allow wearers to stream music directly to their brain, the technology entrepreneur has claimed.

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Lollapalooza co-founder predicts no concerts until 2022

Posted on July 18, 2020 by HeyJK

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Lollapalooza co-founder Marc Geiger predicts there may not be concerts or festivals in the U.S. until 2022 due to the coronavirus. The music exec said any “super-spreader” event such as concerts, sports or festivals would not do well economically while COVID-19 is still a present threat.

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Layer gets $5.6M to make joint working on spreadsheets less hassle

Posted on July 16, 2020 by HeyJK

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Layer is not trying to replace Excel or Google Sheets.

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The U.S. is the accidental Sweden, which could make the fall ‘catastrophic’ for Covid-19

Posted on July 16, 2020 by HeyJK

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With the Covid-19 pandemic rampaging across the U.S. in April and 20 million people filing for unemployment in that month alone, libertarians thought there was a better way. The Heritage Foundation praised Sweden for “preserving economic freedom.

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Analysis of sleep records from 100,000 people

Posted on July 15, 2020 by HeyJK

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The coronavirus pandemic has significantly affected both our work and our leisure in unprecedented ways. But a third pillar of our everyday lives has been less studied: how has the pandemic affected our sleep?

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The Intersection Between Self-Driving Cars and Electric Cars

Posted on July 13, 2020 by HeyJK

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Cars have not been good for the environment, to put it lightly. Transportation accounts for 28 percent of US greenhouse gas emissions, and light-duty vehicles for more than half of those. Someday, self-driving cars will appear widely in the US.

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