Clare Corthell

Switching from single-assistant to a faceless app today completely changed the experience. I will churn. I'm in the middle of scheduling a bunch of connections for a trip, and it requires consistent context to get it right, which a single assistant was able to handle well. The messages I'm getting now are somewhat nonsensical, asking if I want to book a flight when I asked for a train, and...

I appreciate career advice, and I think it's a dramatically underserved need of college students. However, some of this is damaging and simply wrong. The Data Science career track, for example, starts with "If you have a PhD and don't know what to do next..." This is like a bad infection, an idea that pervades despite little correlation to reality. There is no necessity of having a PhD to do...

I connect this with Simplenote - I've been using it for about 5 years and it's flawlessly minimal. If you like Omwriter and other minimal writing applications, this is a better alternative (IMHO).

http://www.businessinsider.com/bill-gates-backs-birth-control-gadget-2014-7 (Found through the Mattermark News reader) - Implantable medical device - Can be filled with 16 years worth of birth control - Can be remotely turned on and off I always believed that the IUD would address all of humanity's population control desires, because it's 100% effective and very safe. But it's also hard to get...