1-Sentence-Summary: An Astronaut’s Guide To Life On Earth teaches you how to live better by taking lessons from the rigorous requirements of going to outer space and applying them to everyday life. Read in: 4 minutes Favorite quote from the author: Recently, I was surfing the internet when I came across a link to apply to be an astronaut. I’ve always been fascinated by space and the idea of going there. After opening the link, I was surprised to find […]

1-Sentence-Summary: You’re Not Listening is a book that will improve your communication skills by revealing how uncommon the skill of paying attention to what others are saying is and what experts teach about how to get better at it. Read in: 4 minutes Favorite quote from the author: Do you know what habit 5 is of the 7 Habits of Highly Effective People? It’s “seek first to understand then to be understood.” That book was 30-years-old in 2019, and this […]

Snapchat is the latest social media company to take on the president, Fitbit gets approval for its emergency ventilator and we review the new Sonos soundbar. Here’s your Daily Crunch for June 4, 2020. 1. Snapchat is no longer promoting Trump’s posts Snap announced that it will not be promoting content from President Donald Trump’s Snapchat account in its Discover tab, following statements from Trump last week on Twitter threatening that protestors could be met with “vicious dogs” and “ominous […]

TOP 5 TAKEAWAYS FROM THE DATA ANALYSTS & DATA SCIENTISTS Communication skills are underratedIf you can’t present your analysis into digestible concepts for your CEO to understand, your analysis is only useful to yourself. The biggest challenge for a data analyst isn’t modeling, it’s cleaning and collectingData analysts spend most of their time collecting and cleaning the data required for analysis. Answering questions like “where do you collect the data?”, “how do you collect the data?”, and “how should you […]

The Book In Three Or More Sentences: Who Owns The Future? is a book that describes hypothetical speculations about the future – which will most probably occur. Jaron Lanier argues that the middle classes will crumble if we keep concentrating more money and more power towards big digital networks (think Facebook and Google). He encourages us to rethink the way we consume information if we want to avoid another destructive, wallet-zeroing recession. The Core Idea: The book covers multiple topics […]

Everyone knows about the Tulip Bubble, first documented by Charles Mackay in 1841 in his book Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds: In 1634, the rage among the Dutch to possess [tulips] was so great that the ordinary industry of the country was neglected, and the population, even to its lowest dregs, embarked in the tulip trade. As the mania increased, prices augmented, until, in the year 1635, many persons were known to invest a fortune of 100,000 […]

Understanding how the placement of the FAB can affect the experience Hello, ladies and gentlemen of Medium! Continuing the Feature Breakdown series, here we have another article for you. As the title suggests, this one is about Floating Action Buttons (also known as FAB) and where should we be putting them on our interface, along with the whys behind it. Floating action buttons were made popular by the Material Design, which is a visual design language introduced by Google. According […]