Personal Finance author. (more)

Ramit Sethi's new video course on getting paid more at your DayJob closes tonight. (I think this might be the highest-Leverage Personal Finance project you can take on.)

Mickey Drexler and the death of a supply-driven world (Big Retail) (more)

Venkatesh Rao on Frankenstacks and Rhizomes (more)

Renee DiResta compares ChatBot FakeNews to HFT. (more)

Simply: an independent writer, designer and publisher based in Palo Alto, California. (more)

Transcript: Craig Mod on Great Design and Long Journeys interviewed by Paul Ford and Rich Ziade (more)

framing: MacroTimeline, Art And Design Of The Last 100 Years (more)

The Peace of Westphalia (German: Westfälischer Friede) was a series of peace treaties signed between May and October 1648 in the Westphalian cities of Osnabrück and Münster, effectively ending the European wars of religion. These treaties ended the Thirty Years' War (1618–1648) in the Holy Roman Empire, and the Eighty Years' War (1568–1648) between Spain and the Dutch Republic, with Spain formally recognizing the independence of the Dutch Republic... The Peace of Westphalia established the precedent of peaces established by diplomatic congress,[4][5] and a new system of political order in central Europe, later called Westphalian sovereignty, based upon the concept of co-existing sovereign states. Inter-state aggression was to be held in check by a balance of power. A norm was established against interference in another state's domestic affairs. As European influence spread across the globe, these Westphalian principles, especially the concept of sovereign states, became central to international law and to the prevailing world order. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace_of_Westphalia (more)

Self-determination. (more)

Podcast: Tiago Forte’s Approach to Productivity. But, like with the example of Toyota developing this entire culture around it, using small batch sizes requires skill, and requires a different way of thinking and doing things (more)

Insurance navigator Wellthie looks beyond healthcare with $5M Series A round... prepares to expand into vision, dental and life insurance. (more)

Stowe Boyd compares some other folks' maps of emerging technologies. (more)

Esko Kilpi: Hedging the future of work (more)

Taylor Pearson emailed A 5 Minute Exercise To Make Today The Most Productive Day of Your Life (more)

Instagram and Snapchat don't pay. Patreon does and it's growing like crazy. (more)

Progressive Web Apps are technically regular web pages (or websites) but can appear to the user like traditional applications or (native) Mobile applications. This new application type attempts to combine features offered by most modern browsers with the benefits of mobile experience... As of 2017, Progressive Web Apps are supported by the Google Chrome browser, but more browsers may support the features needed in the future. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_web_app (more)

Web Design approach that tries to handle variety of user hardware (esp Mobile) (screen size, speed, support for JavaScript, etc.) gracefully. (more)

Progressive Web Apps: Yeh or Meh? (more)

Stowe Boyd: The Rise and Fall of Work Media (more)