2016 Articles

Miami is Flooding

Elizabeth Kalbert · The New Yorker · January 4, 2016

The Weather

Michael E. Kirkpatrick · January 4, 2016

Shields Down

Michael Lopp · Rands in Repose · January 4, 2016

The Website Obesity Crisis

Maciej Cegłowski · Idle Words · January 4, 2016

The Refragmentation and Economic Inequality

Paul Graham · January 4, 2016

Behind the Lens: 2015 Year in Photographs

Pete Souza · January 4, 2016

Don’t Edit Your Imagination

Brian Chesky · January 5, 2016

A Politics for Technology

Ben Thompson · Stratechery · January 5, 2016

Quantifying Shield Strength, or “How Happy Am I In My Job?”

Roy Rapoport · Tech and Culture Musings · January 5, 2016

The Lawyer Who Became DuPont’s Worst Nightmare

Nathaniel Rich · The New York Times Magazine · January 7, 2016

Why Do We Feed Wild Animals?

Helen MacDonald · The New York Times · January 7, 2016

If You Don’t Have Anything Nice to Say, SAY IT IN ALL CAPS

Ira Glass · WBEZ · January 7, 2016

Who Wants to Be a Billionaire?

Andy Ihnatko · January 10, 2016

Summon your Tesla

Tesla Motors · January 10, 2016

What being a flight attendant taught me about human trafficking

Heather Poole · Mashable · January 15, 2016

Martin Luther King Quotes

Michael E. Kirkpatrick · January 18, 2016

YC Moving to Digital Ocean

Y Combinator · February 3, 2016

Gravitational Waves Exist: The Inside Story of How Scientists Finally Found Them

Nicola Twilley · The New Yorker · February 12, 2016

The Reality of Missing Out

Ben Thompson · Stratechery · February 12, 2016

Antonin Scalia, Justice on the Supreme Court, Dies at 79

Adam Liptak · The New York Times · February 14, 2016

Associations

Michael E. Kirkpatrick · February 15, 2016

Apple and Encryption

Michael E. Kirkpatrick · February 18, 2016

The Most Important Apple Executive You’ve Never Heard Of

Brad Stone, Adam Satariano and Gwen Ackerman · Bloomberg Business · February 21, 2016

Walled Garden

Kieran Healy · February 21, 2016

No, Apple Has Not Unlocked 70 iPhones For Law Enforcement

Matthew Panzarino · TechCrunch · February 21, 2016

Apple, FBI, and the Burden of Forensic Methodology

Jonathan Zdziarski · Zdziarski’s Blog of Things · February 21, 2016

Do We Have a Right to Security?

Rich Mogull · Securosis · February 21, 2016

Palau vs. the Poachers

Ian Urbina · The New York Times · February 21, 2016

Apple FAQ Regarding FBI Legal Case

Apple · February 22, 2016

Apple CEO Tim Cook’s Email to Employees

Tim Cook · Recode · February 22, 2016

FBI Director Comments on San Bernardino Matter

James Comey · FBI · February 22, 2016

Q&A with Tim Cook (Pre-FBI Case)

Adam Lashinsky · Fortune · February 22, 2016

Apple, The FBI, and Security

Ben Thompson · Stratechery · February 23, 2016

Steve Jobs’ Stanford Commencement Speech

Steve Jobs · Stanford · February 23, 2016

San Bernardino Killers Destroyed Personal iPhones

Tami Abdollah and Eric Tucker · The Associated Press · February 29, 2016

Privacy & the Internet

Michael E. Kirkpatrick · March 14, 2016

Topics for Conversation

Michael E. Kirkpatrick · March 14, 2016

What Google Learned From Its Quest to Build the Perfect Team

Charles Duhigg · The New York Times Magazine · March 14, 2016

Life is Short

Paul Graham · March 14, 2016

How to Design a Better Pitch Deck

Kevin Hale · The Macro · March 14, 2016

Startup Playbook

Sam Altman · March 14, 2016

From Open (Unlimited) to Minimum Vacation Policy

Mathias Meyer · paperplanes · March 14, 2016

Castle.io

Y Combinator · March 17, 2016

How Jeff Bezos Became a Power Beyond Amazon

Adam Lashinsky · Fortune · March 27, 2016

Estimating Time

Randall Munroe · xkcd · March 28, 2016

How Many Decimals of Pi Do We Really Need?

Marc Rayman · NASA JPL Cal Tech · March 28, 2016

Mobile ate the world

Benedict Evans · March 29, 2016

Apple Supplier Responsibility Report

Apple · March 30, 2016

Agility Requires Safety

Yevgeniy (Jim) Brikman · The Macro · April 3, 2016

How to Decide Whether to Rent or Own

Aarti Shahani · National Public Radio · April 3, 2016

Dillan

Apple · YouTube · April 3, 2016

Turning a Best Friend into a Co-Founder

Michael Seibel · The Macro · April 3, 2016

Y Combinator Intends to Acquire Sequoia Capital

Sam Altman · Y Combinator · April 3, 2016

Coffee Shop, Art Gallery, Co-Working Space

Michael E. Kirkpatrick · April 4, 2016

How an internet mapping glitch turned a random Kansas farm into a digital hell

Kashmir Hill · Fusion · April 10, 2016

Facebook, Phones and Phonebooks

Ben Thompson · Stratechery · April 14, 2016

Algorithms

Randall Munroe · xkcd · April 14, 2016

Microsoft Sues the US Government

Brad Smith · Microsoft · April 15, 2016

How to Make Pittsburgh a Startup Hub

Paul Graham · April 18, 2016

The days are long but the decades are short

Sam Altman · April 18, 2016

On looking up a mountain

Dermot Daly · April 19, 2016

The Lunar Games

Michael E. Kirkpatrick · April 20, 2016

Humanae

Angélica Dass · April 20, 2016

Bill Campbell

Michael E. Kirkpatrick · April 21, 2016

Curing Our Slack Addiction

Dave Teare · AgileBits · April 21, 2016

Harriet Tubman Ousts Andrew Jackson in Change for a $20

Jackie Calmes · The New York Times · April 21, 2016

The Black Box in your Car

Michael E. Kirkpatrick · April 25, 2016

Climate Change is Real

Michael E. Kirkpatrick · May 3, 2016

Inside Evan Spiegel’s very private Snapchat Story

Kurt Wagner · Recode · May 11, 2016

For Entrepreneurs, Pitching To Pint-Sized Sharks Is No Child’s Play

Brenda Salinas · National Public Radio · May 15, 2016

Apple R&D Reveals a Pivot is Coming

Neil Cybart · Above Avalon · May 15, 2016

Happy Together

Lizzie Widdicombe · The New Yorker · May 15, 2016

Should Prostitution Be a Crime?

Emily Bazelon · The New York Times · May 31, 2016

How Technology Hijacks People’s Minds

Tristan Harris · May 31, 2016

Unplugging the Colorado River

Abrahm Lustgarten · The New York Times · May 31, 2016

An Open Letter to California Democrats and Independents

Jerry Brown · May 31, 2016

American Capitalism’s Great Crisis

Rana Foroohar · TIME · May 31, 2016

The Curse of Culture

Ben Thompson · Stratechery · May 31, 2016

Apple M&A Is Entering a New Phase

Neil Cybart · Above Avalon · June 1, 2016

Sexual Assault

Michael E. Kirkpatrick · June 6, 2016

How Not to Fail

Jessica Livingston · The Macro · June 13, 2016

When Justice Ain’t

Dave Pell · NextDraft · June 13, 2016

Cartography Comparison: Google Maps & Apple Maps

Justin O’Beirne · June 13, 2016

Iceland Carbon Dioxide Storage Project Locks Away Gas, and Fast

Henry Fountain · The New York Times · June 13, 2016

The Future Of Podcasting

Ben Thompson · Stratechery · June 13, 2016

What About Twist-off Caps?

Marc Kirkpatrick · EverWonderWine? · June 18, 2016

Donuts vs. Doughnuts

Ashley Deemer · Chasing Doughnuts · June 20, 2016

Could he actually win?

Dave Eggers · The Guardian · June 22, 2016

Trump

Sam Altman · June 22, 2016

Refugees in Greece need internet so badly that they’ll stop a riot to let the wifi guys work

Madeline Kane · Quartz · June 22, 2016

Envisioning the Hack That Could Take Down NYC

Reeves Wiedeman · New York Magazine · June 22, 2016

What Is Disruptive Innovation

Clayton M. Christensen, Michael E. Raynor and Rory McDonald · The Harvard Business Review · June 22, 2016

Gun Violence in the United States

Michael E. Kirkpatrick · June 22, 2016

How Do You Stop a Future Terrorist When the Only Evidence Is a Thought?

Rukmini Callimachi · The New York Times · June 22, 2016

NASA’s Juno Spacecraft Enters Into Orbit Around Jupiter

Kenneth Chang · The New York Times · July 5, 2016

Disappeared

P.J. Vogt · Reply All · July 8, 2016

The Sneeches

Theodor Seuss Geisel · The Sneeches · July 8, 2016

The Moral Economy Of Technology

Kieran Healy · July 8, 2016

The Moral Economy of Tech

Maciej Cegłowski · Idle Words · July 8, 2016

The Gap: Listening

Ezra Klein · Vox · July 14, 2016

Hillary Clinton: The First Woman to Accept a Major Party’s Presidential Nomination

Patrick Heal and Amy Chozick · The New York Times · July 29, 2016

My favorite questions

Horace Dediu · Asymco · August 13, 2016

Dollar Shave Club And The Disruption Of Everything

Ben Thompson · Stratechery · August 13, 2016

The Most Popular Product Of All Time

Horace Dediu · Asymco · August 13, 2016

When Life Looks Perfect.

Corinne Rogero · Duly Noted. · August 13, 2016

An exclusive inside look at how artificial intelligence and machine learning work at Apple

Steven Levy · Backchannel · August 26, 2016

Black Design

Black Design · August 26, 2016

The Sports Linchpin

Ben Thompson · Stratechery · August 26, 2016

Starshade

Randall Munroe · xkcd · September 7, 2016

How to Recruit

Michael Lopp · Rands in Repose · September 12, 2016

Earth Temperature Timeline

Randall Munroe · xkcd · September 15, 2016

The Force Quit Fallacy

Kyle Richter · The Syndicate · September 16, 2016

Pairing Wines with Hot and Spicy Foods

Marc Kirkpatrick · EverWonderWine? · September 18, 2016

The Ultimate Guide to Solving iPhone, iPad, and iOS Battery Drain

Scotty Loveless · Solution Owl · September 18, 2016

The Man. The Voice. The Stories.

Jayson Stark · ESPN · September 22, 2016

The People’s Cheesburger

Willy Blackmore · Eater · September 24, 2016

Interviewing as a Manager

Cate Huston · Accidentally in Code · September 26, 2016

Carboncounter

MIT Trancik Lab · September 27, 2016

Theo Epstein Is Making Lightning Strike Twice

Bill Pennington · The New York Times · September 29, 2016

Endorsement: Hillary Clinton is the only choice to move America ahead

The Arizona Republic Editorial Board · The Arizona Republic · October 1, 2016

USA TODAY’s Editorial Board: Trump is ‘unfit for the presidency’

USA Today Editorial Board · USA Today · October 1, 2016

The terrorist inside my husband’s brain

Susan Schneider Williams · Neurology · October 2, 2016

Note On Reaching The Annual Low Point

Ralph Keeling · The Keeling Curve · October 4, 2016

Getting Duped: Piggybacking on Webcam Streams for Surreptitious Recordings

Patrick Wardle · Virus Bulletin · October 6, 2016

Google And The Limits Of Strategy

Ben Thompson · Stratechery · October 6, 2016

‘Because You’d Be in Jail’

Will Wilkinson · The New York Times · October 10, 2016

Augmenting reality without augmenting vision

Chris Martens · Everything in Context · October 10, 2016

Why Many On-Demand Platforms Fail

Sam Madden · The Macro · October 10, 2016

We Need to Save the Internet from the Internet of Things

Bruce Schneier · Motherboard · October 10, 2016

Long Beach Beer Lab

Michael E. Kirkpatrick · October 12, 2016

Perpetual Line Up

Clare Garvie, Alvaro Bedoya and Jonathan Frankle · Georgetown Law: Center on Privacy and Technology · October 27, 2016

PANO | LA

Joe Capra · Vimeo · October 31, 2016

The Inevitability of Being Hacked

Andrew Mcgill · The Atlantic · October 31, 2016

Facebook Lets Advertisers Exclude Users by Race

Julia Angwin and Terry Parris Jr. · ProPublica · October 31, 2016

How to Stop People Who Bog Things Down with Bureaucracy

James Allen · Harvard Business Review · October 31, 2016

Turn On, Tune In, Transcribe: U.N. Develops Radio-Listening Tool

Camila Domonoske · National Public Radio · October 31, 2016

Gossip, Rumors, and Lies

Michael Lopp · Rands in Repose · November 7, 2016

Let Your Workers Rebel

Francesca Gino · Harvard Business Review · November 7, 2016

On 1:1s

Cate Huston · Accidentally in Code · November 7, 2016

I’m With Her

Randall Munroe · xkcd · November 7, 2016

The Story of Us

Hillary Clinton · YouTube · November 9, 2016

John Wooden: The difference between winning and succeeding

John Wooden · TED · November 9, 2016

Being American in the Trump Years

The New York Times Editorial Board · The New York Times · November 10, 2016

Freedom on the Net 2016

Freedom House · November 16, 2016

The Genealogy of the MacBook Pro

Horace Dediu · Asymco · November 16, 2016

We Are Engaged.

Corinne Rogero · Duly Noted. · November 16, 2016

Cameras, ecommerce and machine learning

Benedict Evans · November 20, 2016

The Right Way to Resist Trump

Luigi Zingales · The New York Times · November 20, 2016

Victory

Formidable · November 20, 2016

Obama Reckons With A Trump Presidency

David Remnick · The New Yorker · November 21, 2016

The Likeability Feedback Loop

Michael Lopp · Rands in Repose · November 22, 2016

Rain in California

Mike Mcphate · The New York Times · November 29, 2016

Uber Now Tracks Passengers’ Locations Even After They’re Dropped Off

Laura Roman · National Public Radio · December 2, 2016

Settling

Randall Munroe · xkcd · December 12, 2016

The Perfect Weapon: How Russian Cyberpower Invaded the U.S.

Eric Lipton, David E. Sanger, Scott Shane · The New York Times · December 13, 2016

Mobile is Eating the World

Benedict Evans · December 18, 2016