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The Munger Operating System: How to Live a Life That Really Works

In 2007, Charlie Munger gave the commencement address at USC Law School, opening his speech by saying, “Well, no doubt many of you are wondering why the speaker is so old. Well, the answer is obvious: He hasn’t died yet.” Fortunately for us, Munger has kept on ticking. The commencement speech is an excellent

ARE BLOGS A RELIABLE SOURCE OF INFORMATION?

Can We Trust the Information We Read Online? With the absolute saturation of digital information, fake news, and a misconception that nothing on the internet is real, it can be hard to know what sources can be trusted. What’s the first thing we do when we think

Wikipedia at 20: last gasp of an internet vision, or a beacon to a better future?

Twenty years ago today, a tech startup called Nupedia launched a side project. The company had been hard at work producing a free online encyclopaedia, but it was slow going: its strict editing process, comprehensive peer review and focus on expert authors meant it finished only 21

How to Successfully Build a Business Operating System for Your Company

American business franchises account for well over $1 trillion in revenue. The following table illustrates that American franchises have an enviable rate of success compared to other American businesses. Franchisers provide their franchisees with three advantages that most entrepreneurs do not have: an established business system, a

Spotify is testing a TikTok-inspired feed of videos with a new Discover tab

TikTok built an empire on short vertical videos with popular music playing in the background. An empire that other tech companies want to emulate, including Spotify – it appears that the music streaming service is testing a feature that displays a feed of vertical videos. That feature

Social Media for Business: A Marketer’s Guide

If your small business isn’t on social media, you could be missing out on significant value, including new customers, insights into your brand, and audience and engagement opportunities with customers and competitors alike. Plus, social media can be a highly cost-effective way of reaching your customers in

A Comprehensive Study of Kernel (Issues and Concepts) in Different Operating Systems

Various operating systems (OS) with numerous functions and features have appeared over time. As a result, they know how each OS has been implemented guides users’ decisions on configuring the OS on their machines. Consequently, a comparative study of different operating systems is needed to provide specifics

Lenovo May Soon Launch The 17-inch ThinkBook Plus Laptop With A Secondary Screen

Looks like Lenovo is all set to add a large screen model to its ThinkBook Plus series. The upcoming laptop’s design details have been revealed by @evleaks, known for his excellent track record for leaks. As per his tweet, the notebook will be dubbed as the 17-inch Lenovo ThinkBook Plus. Much

Open-Sourcing a Monitoring GUI for Metaflow, Netflix’s ML Platform

tl;dr Today, we are open-sourcing a long-awaited GUI for Metaflow. The Metaflow GUI allows data scientists to monitor their workflows in real-time, track experiments, and see detailed logs and results for every executed task. The GUI can be extended with plugins, allowing the community to build integrations to other systems,

Opinion | A public campaign could tackle the ills of social media

Most of us, at some point of time, have experienced the perils of unbridled online content. It’s a problem with almost every widely-used medium of communication—the internet, television and social media. Even if we dislike the chatter we witness, we cannot curb people’s freedom of speech. Inflammatory