Dominik Mayer · Products, Asia, Productivity

Ev Williams: The job of leadership is to foster alignment and enthusiasm toward the right goal.

For some unknown reason (I was hungover) I decided to research how alcohol affects the body.

I love airplanes.

The former German star hopes to keep expectations low for the coming World Cup.

Excessive demands are leading to burnout everywhere.

Marty Cagan knows what he’s talking about.

Through the engineering of its fulfillment centers, Amazon has built the world’s most nimble infrastructure for the transfer of things.

This is your semi-regular reminder that CGI is at or beyond the point of absurdity, that everything on the Internet is fake, that there is no spoon, etc.

In charge of the German and Chinese desktop and mobile webshop.

In the absence of one good partner, an actively dating single person will naturally construct a corpus of complementary partners who, if assembled into one giant Voltron partner, would be his or her ideal boyfriend or girlfriend.

It’s fascinating to see what Werner Stengel made possible.

I would never have linked kissing with mouth-to-mouth feeding.

This is amazing.

This is what the future looks like.

Jeff Bezos: And the framework I found which made the decision incredibly easy was a, […] what I call though what only a nerd would call, a regret minimization framework.

Mandy Len Catron: More than 20 years ago, the psychologist Arthur Aron succeeded in making two strangers fall in love in his laboratory.

I didn’t know how much customer research Lego is doing.

Shanghai is clearly missing here.

Joseph Stromberg: This research has produced a number of specific tips: things you should do — or not do — to maximize the effectiveness of the hours you spend working.

For Kim Jong Il’s son, looking at things is not enough.

Greg Kumparak: To simplify what the company pitches as a complex, many-year plan, Gogoro is making two things for now: an electric scooter they call Smartscooter, and a battery swapping infrastructure to power it.

Dan Grover does a good job of summing up what’s going on with Chinese mobile apps these days.

Koreans all have the same name because their ancestors wanted to be part of the royal bloodline.

You came across a Haskell script and have no idea what all the signs and arrows mean?

Stephanie Burnett tries to find the origins of the omnipresent V-sign.

I see what Jared White is saying, but I don’t think that the Jobisan Cube is the best example.

Watching Apple unveil their newest product is great entertainment.

Bartosz Milewski: Learning a new programming language involves learning syntax, semantics, and idioms.

What if we could live on the other planets of the Solar System?

ONEDOWN is a humane rat trap.

Aditya Yadav: After a breakup you will never see her dog again and her dog will never know why you stopped visiting.

I love these transforming rooms.

Zaron Burnett III had to make the decision to abort his friend’s baby: How do you decide something like that for someone else?

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This is amazing.

Matt Yglesias explains where time zones come from and how we get rid of them.

David Obendorfer creates new versions of classic cars.

I’d like to see the information synced back to Spotify.

This feeling of the old movies.

Joel Runyon quotes advice he’s been given by Perry Marshall: All you really need to do is three things: Commit to something Put your balls on the line Then figure it out That’s all there is to it.