Every story in the world has one of the six basic plots

http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20180525-every-story-in-the-world-has-one-of-these-six-basic-plots
Vonnegut's vindicated via the use of R

Free Tutorial Mega-List: How to Build Your Own Cryptocurrency, Operating System, Programming Language, and More

http://www.fatosmorina.com/a-long-list-of-tutorials-on-how-to-build-many-technologies-on-your-own-for-free/
High-end tutorials: build your own OS, cryptocurrency, programming language, etc.

12 Hiking Destinations You'll Want to Add to Your Bucket List

https://www.self.com/story/hiking-destinations-youll-want-to-add-to-your-bucket-list
Some really lovely places. Think I'll skip the sherpa village, though. 

ICOs are Cancer

https://medium.com/@michaelflaxman/icos-are-cancer-c404594f181b
With the majority of ICOs labeled as "scams" here's the breakdown of the underlying "why"s. 

Your Guide to the Best Podcasts Out There

https://medium.com/taking-note/your-guide-to-the-best-podcasts-out-there-234871544d3a
Collection of some of the best podcasts out there, and why podcasting is booming.

9 Kickstarter and Drip Creators to Follow for Advice and Inspiration

https://medium.com/kickstarter/9-kickstarter-and-drip-creators-to-follow-for-advice-and-inspiration-fa738c00c715
Interesting collection of kickstarter creators

The 10 Statistical Techniques Data Scientists Need to Master

https://towardsdatascience.com/the-10-statistical-techniques-data-scientists-need-to-master-1ef6dbd531f7
Overview of statistics for data science. Some I'm not familiar with. 

Machine Learning Zero-to-Hero: Everything you need in order to compete on Kaggle for the first time, step-by-step!

https://towardsdatascience.com/machine-learning-zero-to-hero-everything-you-need-in-order-to-compete-on-kaggle-for-the-first-time-18644e701cf1
Good ML using python tutorial. 

AWS Lambda Go vs. Node.js performance benchmark

https://hackernoon.com/aws-lambda-go-vs-node-js-performance-benchmark-1c8898341982
Go vs. Node in AWS Lambda functions. Go speed blows Node out of the water. Yea GoLang!

Top 10 JavaScript errors from 1000+ projects (and how to avoid them)

https://codeburst.io/top-10-javascript-errors-from-1000-projects-and-how-to-avoid-them-2956ce008437
Some of these errors are maddeningly vague. Here's good guidance on what they actually mean. 

Five Useful Laravel Blade Directives

https://laravel-news.com/five-useful-laravel-blade-directives
Well, at least a couple of these could be useful. 

We validate email addresses Email list cleaning and real-time email verification service.

https://verifalia.com/
Interesting API-based commercial service that does real-time email address verification. 

Are We Headed Towards Another Deep Solar Minimum?

https://www.universetoday.com/139189/are-we-headed-towards-another-deep-solar-minimum
Looks like we're heading toward another deep solar minimum. Winter is coming!

Why you should use functional composition for your full applications

https://medium.freecodecamp.org/why-you-should-use-functional-composition-for-your-full-applications-eb7b702ffd4a
If you like the term "functional composition" better than "dependency injection" 

How to set up Tensorflow.js for machine learning in your browser

https://medium.freecodecamp.org/how-to-set-up-tensorflow-js-for-machine-learning-in-your-browser-2540b5c43411
Interesting: running tensorflow ML in a browser. 

Why Most People Will Never Be Successful

https://medium.com/@benjaminhardy/why-most-people-will-never-be-successful-5e7e3a4afff8
Time to redefine success. 

When You Get Insurance Quotes, How Different Are the Prices?

https://priceonomics.com/when-you-get-insurance-quotes-how-different-are/
Really odd: homeowners' insurance rates have variance based on geography. Good data paper here, just wish they'd included a map.

Quantum Physics May Be Even Spookier Than You Think

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/quantum-physics-may-be-even-spookier-than-you-think/
Quantum spooky-action-at-a-distance just got spookier.

Email Is Dangerous

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/05/email-is-dangerous/560780/
Email security is a LOT harder than anyone lets on. Maybe it can't even be done, given the current state of email clients. 

Cronic pain treatment: psychotheapy has been shown to work.

https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2018/5/17/17276452/chronic-pain-treatment-psychology-cbt-mindfulness-evidence
Yes, there are other ways to treat cronic pain than opiods.

Spies, Crime, and Lightning Strikes: The Value of Probabilistic Thinking

https://www.fs.blog/2018/05/probabilistic-thinking/
I've long maintained that statistics are much more useful to students than calculus.

18 favorite financial rules of thumb (and some useful money guidelines)

https://www.getrichslowly.org/financial-rules-of-thumb/
Some of these are off by 2x according to my back-of-the-envelope calculations, but a useful starting point.

How To Buy A Wireless Router - 2018 Edition

https://www.smallnetbuilder.com/basics/wireless-basics/33177-how-to-buy-a-wireless-router-2018-edition
Some tech details on the SOTA of wireless routers. I like my mesh setup. 

Introducing View Components in Laravel, an alternative to View Composers

https://laravel-news.com/introducing-view-components-on-laravel-an-alternative-to-view-composers
The search continues for the right way to modularize JavaScript functionality. Here's a step: Vue.js and Laravel composers vs. components.

BackdropCMS: A free and Open Source CMS for small to medium sized businesses and non-profits.

https://backdropcms.org/
Looks like an outgrowth of Drupal.

AvoRed A Laravel Open Source Shopping Cart

https://www.avored.com/
An e-commerce shopping cart based on Laravel. We'll see if they grow an ecosystem.

Completely Silent Computer

https://tp69.wordpress.com/2018/04/17/completely-silent-computer
I've long maintained that noise is a vice. Here's a build-it-yourself completely silent computer. 

Critical Linux Flaw Opens the Door to Full Root Access

https://threatpost.com/critical-linux-flaw-opens-the-door-to-full-root-access/132034/
Time to start assigning static IP's folks: linux distros with critical security flaw in DHCP client. 

Are ebooks dying or thriving? The answer is yes

https://qz.com/1240924/are-ebooks-dying-or-thriving-the-answer-is-yes
Hard to tell market trends in e-books since Amazon isn't publishing many numbers.

Stochastic Weight Averaging — a New Way to Get State of the Art Results in Deep Learning

https://towardsdatascience.com/stochastic-weight-averaging-a-new-way-to-get-state-of-the-art-results-in-deep-learning-c639ccf36a
Slightly esoteric article about some of the new thinking in deep learning and pattern recognition. 

How to Study Smarter Not Harder and Retain More in Less Time

https://medium.com/swlh/how-to-study-smarter-not-harder-and-retain-more-in-less-time-3767c5621d0a
More science about how to learn well.

The Only Real Way to Acquire Wisdom

https://medium.com/personal-growth/the-only-real-way-to-acquire-wisdom-7489a10c8f8e
Really understanding is stripping something down to its core and relating it to other concepts.

ss command: Display Linux TCP / UDP Network/Socket Information

https://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/linux-investigate-sockets-network-connections.html
ss as a replacement for netstat

Hack Your City The Best Disney World Travel Tips From Our Readers

https://lifehacker.com/the-best-disney-world-travel-tips-from-our-readers-1825901636

PHP application logging with Amazon CloudWatch Logs and Monolog

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/developer/php-application-logging-with-amazon-cloudwatch-logs-and-monolog/
In the ongoing saga of logging, Monolog can log to AWS Cloudwatch and you can go from there. 

Top 15 Python Libraries for Data Science in 2017

https://medium.com/activewizards-machine-learning-company/top-15-python-libraries-for-data-science-in-in-2017-ab61b4f9b4a7
Some of the usual suspects here, but some new faces. I like that they did GitHub activity and Google Trends for each.

The Founders Of The World’s Five Largest Companies All Follow The 5-Hour Rule

https://medium.com/the-mission/the-founders-of-the-worlds-five-largest-companies-all-follow-the-5-hour-rule-and-they-re-9ca82e93f3fc
Five hours of learning per week. Is it preparing for work, or IS learning the work?

19 Incredibly Useful Websites You’ll Wish You Knew Earlier

https://medium.com/swlh/19-incredibly-useful-websites-youll-wish-you-knew-earlier-aff5d0f8255b
Listicle of useful, informative websites. Most were new to me. 

Why Writing a Book Is Good for Business

https://www.namecheap.com/blog/writing-book-good-for-business/
The king of the hill in content marketing: write a book.

18 Blockchain Predictions for 2018

https://media.consensys.net/18-predictions-for-2018-7a376ea7bd4b
The latest blockchain prognostications. Some are slam-dunks, some are more out there.

Data Science for Startups: Introduction

https://towardsdatascience.com/data-science-for-startups-introduction-80d022a18aec
First of what will hopefully be a nice series on data science for startups.

Revue: An editorial newsletter tool for writers and publishers.

https://www.getrevue.co/
an interesting niche email marketing platform for curators.

What is edge computing? 20 The future of software will be managed

https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2018/5/7/17327584/edge-computing-cloud-google-microsoft-apple-amazon
Basic, somewhat fluff piece about what is edge computing.

WELCOME TO THE ZOONIVERSE People-powered research

https://www.zooniverse.org/
a platform for citizen science. mostly classifications, it seems.

grow with google Free training, tools, and events to help you grow your skills, career, or business.

https://grow.google/
mixed bag of training for education and business.

APC Double Bulb Duct Mounted UV Light Air Purification System

http://www.airpurifiersandcleaners.com/apc-uv-light-in-duct-air-cleaner-double-36-watt-bulb-201.html

The Gambler Who Cracked the Horse-Racing Code

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-05-03/the-gambler-who-cracked-the-horse-racing-code
Interesting statistics problem and solution. 

7 Rules for Creating Gorgeous UI

https://medium.com/@erikdkennedy/7-rules-for-creating-gorgeous-ui-part-2-430de537ba96
Good advice on UI design.

Cerberus A few simple, but solid patterns for responsive HTML emails. Even in Outlook and Gmail.

http://tedgoas.github.io/Cerberus/
A template for responsive mobile-friendly emails. No Litmus screenshots, that I see.

A group of public radio companies acquires podcast app Pocket Casts

https://techcrunch.com/2018/05/03/pocket-casts-acquisition/
Is this a good thing or bad?

Amazon Offers Retailers Discounts to Adopt Payment System

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-02/amazon-said-to-offer-retailers-discounts-to-adopt-payment-system
Amazon's upping their game against PayPal and Stripe.

Learning Is a Learned Behavior. Here’s How to Get Better at It.

https://hbr.org/2018/05/learning-is-a-learned-behavior-heres-how-to-get-better-at-it
Learning to learn: some of the modern metacognition stuff. 

The Rise of the Rural Creative Class

https://www.citylab.com/life/2018/05/the-rise-of-the-rural-creative-class/559319
Not sure if there's anything new here: rural people have always had to be more creative just to survive.

The Fascinating Science Behind Why We See 'Faces' In Objects

http://mentalfloss.com/article/538524/science-behind-pareidolia
Why we see faces in things

FoundationDB gives you the power of ACID transactions in a distributed database.

https://www.foundationdb.org/
OpenSource distributed database. We'll see if it has legs.

How to Build a Serverless App with S3 and Lambda in 15 Minutes

https://itnext.io/how-to-build-a-serverless-app-with-s3-and-lambda-in-15-minutes-b14eecd4ea89
Mostly point-and-click intro to serverless via API Gateway, S3 and JavaScript Lambda.

The Best Transcription Apps and Services in 2018

https://zapier.com/blog/best-transcription-apps/
Great review comparing and contrasting the best machine and human transcription services. The gap is narrowing. 

The List That Made Her Millions

https://medium.com/the-mission/the-list-that-made-her-millions-90bfab80b0c3
The origins of Angie's List.

Rethinking Education Is Education a Waste of Time & Money?

https://medium.com/the-polymath-project/rethinking-education-c8754b3d77b4
Clearly education isn't a waste, but how should we be thinking of it and measuring it?

Distinction Bias: Why You Make Terrible Life Choices

https://medium.com/@lakshmoo/distinction-bias-why-you-make-terrible-life-choices-6d948dec0557
One of the oldest marketing tricks in the book and why we fall for it.

Proper way to use Laravel Eloquent

https://medium.com/@mantasd/proper-way-to-use-laravel-eloquent-3ca194e2b766
Ways to use Eloquent in Laravel. The 3rd is the usual.

Why we should bulldoze the business school

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/apr/27/bulldoze-the-business-school
Is it time to reinvent the business school as something else? 

Want to be a top developer? You should build things. Here’s another list to get you started.

https://medium.freecodecamp.org/the-secret-to-being-a-top-developer-is-building-things-d3d058e4e472
We learn by doing. We learn to program by programming. Here's some toy projects to practice on. Though some do seem a bit beyond the beginner level.

Four Questions Every Marketplace Startup Should Be Able to Answer

https://medium.com/@jgolden/four-questions-every-marketplace-startup-should-be-able-to-answer-defb0590e049
I've lost count of the number of people who've come to me with marketplace ideas over the years. Here's some great winnowing questions I wish I'd had.

14 Rare Lessons on Raising Money From a Serial Entrepreneur With 30 Years of Pitching Experience

https://entrepreneurshandbook.co/14-rare-lessons-on-raising-money-from-a-serial-entrepreneur-with-30-years-of-pitching-experience-9914d35b4f36
Great advice on pitching an idea to investors.

Venture Capital Is Ripe for Disruption

https://medium.com/s/understanding-venture-capital/venture-capital-is-ripe-for-disruption-1313b909a7bc
Yet another industry ripe for disruption. I've known the VC model is broken for a couple of decades.