It’s funny how three months into writing 2015 over and over again , it feels as if I’ve never written 2014 before. Strange .
Month: March 2015
Teabox Raises $6M To Grow Its Global Tea-Commerce Business
Teabox, an India-based company that sells tea online to a global audience, has brewed up a fresh $6 million funding round to grow its business in key overseas markets.
Research Shows These Four Things Will Make You a Peak Performer
It’s all about the way you practice the skills key to the task at hand. Research has shown that “Deep Practice” (or Deliberate Practice) is how experts train. Here is the four parts to focus on: 1) Make your practice as similar to the real life scenario as possible. Via The Talent Code: Greatness Isn’t […]
Here’s What Former Sex Workers Think of Pretty Woman
Apple Acquires Durable Database Company FoundationDB
Apple has acquired FoundationDB, a company that specializes in speedy, durable NoSQL databases, TechCrunch has learned.
A notice on the FoundationDB site notes that it’s no longer offering downloads of its database software. Financial terms of the deal were not available. CEO David Rosenthal was previously VP of Engineering at Omniture and co-founded the company with COO Nick Lavezzo and Dave Scherer in 2009.
http://techcrunch.com/2015/03/24/apple-acquires-durable-database-company-foundationdb/
29 Books That Will Enrich Your Inner Literati
Answer by Cristina Hartmann on Quora. For anyone who wants to attain the vaunted title of “being well-read,” it’s more about breadth than depth. (As for feeling well-read, read the postscript.) To “feel” well-read in literature, it’s all about the categories, not the books themselves. Read a few books in a few different genres, time […]
Here’s J.K. Rowling’s Perfect Tweet About Dumbledore’s Sexuality
I love this woman 😀
These Charts Show Why the Germanwings Crash Is Especially Unusual
Witness Scenes From the Plane Crash in the French Alps
An Oxygenated Brain 