Advice for Companies With Less Than 1 Year of Runway

Read more in YC's the Macro.

How to Raise a Creative Child. Step One: Back Off

This is one of my favorite pieces I've read the past few weeks.

Few child prodigies grow up to be leaders in their fields. Why? Read more in the NYT.

More support for #Crafternoon. Thanks, +Alessia Bhargava 

Affectiva Facial Coding Demo

Curious if computer software can accurately guess your emotional state? It was surprisingly good at guessing mine when watching a series of ads. Check out the demo at Affectiva.

Thanks, +Jeremy Au 

Obama Announces Computer Science For All

Zebra cousin went extinct 100 years ago. Now, it's back

Mind. blown. Meet the Quagga. #engineeringscience

Thanks, +Claire Richard 

Say goodbye to plastic sandwich bags January 28

Read more in CNN Money.

Thanks, +Claire Richard

She Divorced Me Because I Left Dishes by the Sink

Powerful piece in Must Be This Tall To Ride.

Thanks, +Claire Richard 

Sheryl Sandberg is Wrong: Silicon Valley Wants MBAs

Found this to be surprising:

As it turns out, Facebook looks for more MBAs than Goldman Sachs. In fact 3x as many job postings by Facebook state a preference (and sometimes a “strong preference”) for an MBA compared to Goldman, both in absolute number of jobs, and in the jobs as calculated as a percentage of their total job listings.

Tapwage has more data to back up it's assertion.

Jessica Livingston: Why Startups Need to Focus on Sales, Not Marketing

Read more in the WSJ.

A Colleague Drank My Breast Milk and Other Wall Street Tales

Cringing reading Maureen Sherry's, a former Bear Stearns managing director's, experience on Wall Street in the NYT.

Thanks, +Zuhair Khan 

We Should Have a Better Condom by Now. Here’s Why We Don’t.

Read more in Slate.

Thanks, Mark

Shaq, Florida officer surprise kids with a basketball game

Read more in CNN.

Thanks, +Claire Richard 

How PTSD Became a Problem Far Beyond the Battlefield

"Though only 10 percent of American forces see combat, the U.S. military now has the highest rate of post-traumatic stress disorder in its history."

Read more in Vanity Fair.

Thanks, +Zuhair Khan 

Kleiner Perkins is Using Blockchain Tech to Incentivize its Founders

Read more about EdgeCoin in CoinDesk.

Thanks, +Jason Ethier 

Privilege and inequality in Silicon Valley

Why “few successful startup founders grew up desperately poor.”

Read Ricky Yean's post in Medium.

Private Equity's Golden Age Wasn't So Golden After All

Oof. We're 10 years out from the 2005-07 "Golden Era," how did the returns pan out?

Read more in Bloomberg.

Thanks, +Richard Qian 

Why Does Pessimism Sound So Smart?

If you've ever wondered why it's easier (more socially acceptable) to critique rather than create, check out this post in the Motley Fool.

Not everyone’s weekend has been ruined by the US snowstorms

Not everyone’s weekend has been ruined by the US snowstorms – here’s Tian Tian the panda at a zoo in Washington DC. (Footage from Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute): http://trib.al/9b0AbCL

Posted by Sky News on Saturday, January 23, 2016

Why Doesn’t Silicon Valley Hire Black Coders?

"Howard University fights to join the tech boom." Read more in Bloomberg.

Thanks, Dad

Make Yourself Immune to Secondhand Stress

Read more in HBR.

Akili Interactive Labs raises $30.5M for cognitive video game intervention

Read more in Mobi Health News.

The New White Flight

In Silicon Valley, two high schools with outstanding academic reputations are losing white students as Asian students move in. Why?

Read more in the WSJ.

Thanks, +Joyce Yu 

Is the Drive for Success Making Our Children Sick?

Read more in the NYT.

Thanks, +Joyce Yu 

When Teamwork Doesn’t Work for Women

Read more in the NYT.

Thanks, +Paul Morrell 

Expect Some Unicorns to Lose Their Horns, and It Won’t Be Pretty

Read more in the NYT.

Thanks, +Zuhair Khan 

A Story of a Fuck Off Fund

Some (unconventionally) excellent advice for women navigating their twenties. Read more in Medium.

Yesterbox: The Weird Inbox Zero System From the CEO of Zappos

Read more on Hubspot.

Thanks, +Mark Wilson 

TED Talk: Your brain on video games

Meet the New York Bachelors Who Yearn for Something More

Read more in the NYT.

Thanks, +Zuhair Khan 

One Brilliant Hire Changed the Game for Small Business Lender

Read more about Bond Street in WeWork Creator.

Harvard Business School of 2020

Read Ellen Chisa's predictions for HBS in 5 years in Medium.

How to Bridge That Stubborn Pay Gap

Read more in the NYT.

Thanks, +Megan Gardner 

The Happiness Code

A new approach to self-improvement is taking off in Silicon Valley: cold, hard rationality.

Read more in the NYT.

Thanks, +Megan Gardner 

Elephant in the Valley

An excerpt:

The inspiration for this survey came out of the incredible conversation from the Ellen Pao & KPCB trial. What we realized is that while many women shared similar workplace stories, most men were simply shocked and unaware of the issues facing women in the workplace. In an effort to correct the massive information disparity, we decided to get the data and the stories. We focused on five main areas including: Feedback & Promotion, Inclusion, Unconscious biases, Motherhood, and Harassment & Safety.  

We asked 200+ women focusing on women with at least 10 years of experience. The survey is largely bay area with 91% in the bay area/silicon valley right now. We have a broad age ranges with 77% 40+ and 75% have children. Our respondents hold positions of power and influence with 25% are a CXOs, 11% are Founders, 11% are in venture. In addition to capturing start-up data, we also have employees from large companies including Apple, Google, and VMWare.  

We encourage you to read, discuss, and add your anonymous stories to this initiative.

Read more on the Elephant in the Valley.

It’s not your fault.

"And other lessons I’ve learned from being sexually harassed at Google."

+Julia Chou writes an intensely personal reflection in Medium.

Poor and traumatized at Harvard

Read Due Quach's piece in Medium.

The Guerrilla Girls, After 3 Decades, Still Rattling Art World Cages

Read more in the NYT.

2016 Google Tracker: Everything Google is working on for the new year

Read more on ars technica.

How the Web Works: A Primer for Newcomers to Web Development (or anyone, really)

Read more from Preethi Kasireddy on Medium.

The high price of beauty: 4 women reveal their annual costs

Ooof, these numbers are crazy high. Read more in the WSJ.

Thanks, Tom

It’s Payback Time for Women

Read more in the NYT on approaches to instituting a universal basic income (U.B.I) in a country.

Thanks, +Elizabeth Slavitt 

I Was a Working Single Mom Twice — Here’s What I Learned

This is a powerful story from Lateefah Simon, the program director at the Rosenberg Foundation in San Francisco.

Thanks, +Tennille Duffy 

When Men Waste Women's Time

Read more in HuffPo.

Thanks, +Zuhair Khan 

Venture Investing Declined Sharply at the End of 2015

Read more in the NYT.

Thanks, +Zuhair Khan 

Six Photographers Each Have A Photo Session With The Same Man

An excerpt:

When six photographers are tasked with taking portraits of the same man, the results are astonishing. Here’s the twist: each photographer is told a different (fake) personal history of the man. As portrait photographers, it’s their goal to portray this man, as they see him, in a single photograph. Though he comes to each photo session dressed exactly the same, carries himself the same way, and speaks with each photographer in the same manner, the photographers treat him differently and photograph him completely differently depending on the background story. 

Read more.

Thanks, +Claire Richard 

Barack Obama: Guns Are Our Shared Responsibility

Read more in the NYT.

Thanks, +Julia Chou 

VR porn is here and it's scary how realistic it is

Read more in Mashable.

Saudi women are beginning to know their rights

Read more in the New Yorker.

Thanks, +Elizabeth Slavitt