Instead of ‘finding your passion,’ try developing it, Stanford scholars say

https://news.stanford.edu/2018/06/18/find-passion-may-bad-advice/
I like this advice: instead of following your passion, develop it. 

Definitive List of 50 Books to Understand Everything in the Universe

https://medium.com/swlh/definitive-list-of-50-books-to-understand-everything-in-the-universe-6d04f1a08533
Interesting breakout or classification of essential books. 

The Tiny, Essential Google Tricks for Way Better Search Results

https://lifehacker.com/the-tiny-essential-google-tricks-for-way-better-search-1826791031
They've been listed before, but here's some good Google power-searching tips.

Why 4 a.m. Is the Most Productive Hour

https://www.wsj.com/articles/why-4-a-m-is-the-most-productive-hour-1471971861
Early, early rising

The Most Important Skill Nobody Taught You

https://medium.com/personal-growth/the-most-important-skill-nobody-taught-you-9b162377ab77
The value of being quiet. 

People’s egos get bigger after meditation and yoga, says a new study

https://qz.com/1307380/yoga-and-meditation-boost-your-ego-say-psychology-researchers/
Yoga and meditation: maybe you're doing them wrong. 

PDO vs. MySQLi: The Battle of PHP Database APIs

https://websitebeaver.com/php-pdo-vs-mysqli
PDO and MySQLi in PHP. This author says go with PDO.

Data Science for Startups: Business Intelligence

https://towardsdatascience.com/data-science-for-startups-business-intelligence-f4a2ba728e75
The part data science should play in a startup.

Multi-Class Text Classification with Scikit-Learn

https://towardsdatascience.com/multi-class-text-classification-with-scikit-learn-12f1e60e0a9f
Some pretty stiff text classification in Python.

What I’m Telling Business People About Why Relational Databases Are So Bad

https://codeburst.io/what-im-telling-business-people-about-why-relational-databases-are-so-bad-6f38d3d6c995
Truth-teller about the ugly of relational databases.

How to Break Bad Habits and Set Yourself Up For Success According to Research

https://medium.com/swlh/how-to-break-bad-habits-and-set-yourself-up-for-success-according-to-research-66c5420aa060
How to break a bad habit cycle.

PODCASTING FOR DUMMIES (BY DUMMIES)

https://www.mimblewimble.in/blog/podcasting-for-dummies
Good basics of podcasting from the trenches.

Data Science for Startups: R -> Python

https://towardsdatascience.com/data-science-for-startups-r-python-2ca2cd149c5c
Setting up basic Python for data science. 

26 Top Rated Online Courses In Personal Development

https://medium.com/personal-growth/26-top-rated-online-courses-in-personal-development-e15bd9c471c3
A fair number of these seem to be rooted in modern neuroscience. 

How you can improve your workflow using the JavaScript console

https://medium.freecodecamp.org/how-you-can-improve-your-workflow-using-the-javascript-console-bdd7823a9472
I'll admit, I had no idea the lowly JavaScript console could do so much.

11 Javascript Utility Libraries You Should Know In 2018

https://blog.bitsrc.io/11-javascript-utility-libraries-you-should-know-in-2018-3646fb31ade
Some visual, some add-ons to make JavaScript a better development platform. 

Modern JavaScript features which you should be using every day for better development and what problems do they solve.

https://medium.com/@tkwebdev/modern-javascript-features-which-you-should-be-using-every-day-for-better-development-and-what-66d74633e896
JavaScript's slowly evolving into a better language. Here's some new features as examples. 

20 Useful Laravel Packages Available on CodeCanyon

https://code.tutsplus.com/articles/20-useful-laravel-packages-available-on-codecanyon--cms-25334
Some interesting Laravel packages on CodeCanyon. 

Serverless Laravel

 http://mnapoli.fr/serverless-laravel/
How to get laravel to go serverless. 

Using Composer with Serverless & OpenWhisk

https://akrabat.com/using-composer-with-serverless-openwhisk/
How to use composer packages with serverless PHP 

The Stanford Prison Experiment was massively influential. We just learned it was a fraud.

https://www.vox.com/2018/6/13/17449118/stanford-prison-experiment-fraud-psychology-replication
The infamous Stanford Prison Experiment was actually coached or treated as an improv exercise? 

Meet the Renegades of the Intellectual Dark Web

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/08/opinion/intellectual-dark-web.html
I like these people, but their website seems broken. 

GitHub, Glitch and the Future of Social Coding

https://medium.com/glitch/github-glitch-and-the-future-of-social-coding-5e6faa45c8f2
The folks at Fog City built a layer on top of Git: Glitch. Not convinced yet.

Building a responsive image

https://medium.com/9elements/building-a-responsive-image-e4c6229fa1f6
Tour-de-force on SVG and media queries. 

There Are Two Ways to Read — One Is Useless

https://medium.com/personal-growth/there-are-two-ways-to-read-one-is-useless-cc152cf4f51b
A bit of a simplistic premise: there are many more than two ways to read, but still good advice.

You don't know Bash: An introduction to Bash arrays

https://opensource.com/article/18/5/you-dont-know-bash-intro-bash-arrays
I don't use bash arrays often (like AT ALL) but here's an article about them.

What Your Startup Can Learn from Astronauts, The Daily Show, and the Coach of the Boston Celtics

http://firstround.com/review/what-your-startup-can-learn-from-astronauts-the-daily-show-and-the-coach-of-the-boston-celtics/
Excellent counter-intuitive advice on building an excellent team. 

9 Sources for midcentury modern sheds — prefab, DIY kits, and plans

https://retrorenovation.com/2014/07/15/sources-midcentury-modern-sheds/
Some of these would make great studio/offices

Developers Should Abandon Agile

https://ronjeffries.com/articles/018-01ff/abandon-1/
One of the authors of the Agile Manifesto says it's time to abandon it. 

10 Books for Coders of All levels - Must Read Best of Lot Read more: http://www.java67.com/2018/01/10-must-read-books-for-coders-of-all-level.html#ixzz5Hs2raag8

http://www.java67.com/2018/01/10-must-read-books-for-coders-of-all-level.html
another listicle of books about coding. hopefully language-neutral.