You probably won’t remember this, but the “forgetting curve” theory explains why learning is hard

In today fast-moving world we have less and less time for learning. To overcome a problem we want to share a Nikhil Sonnad’s article posted on QUARTZ about some memory experiments. Learning has an evolutionary purpose: Among species, individuals that adapt to their environments will succeed. That’s why your brain more easily retains important or…

How Facebook stole the news business

Big news outlets stupidly sold their soul to Facebook. Desperate for the referral traffic Facebook dangled, they spent the past few years jumping through its hoops only to be cut out of the equation. Instead of developing an owned audience of homepage visitors and newsletter subscribers, they let Facebook brainwash readers into thinking it was…

1 in 4 developers started coding before they could drive

It’s never too early — or too late! — to start coding. Of the roughly 39,000 developers surveyed across all professional levels, more than a quarter of developers wrote their first piece of code before they were 16 years old. Meanwhile, of all the developers who started coding after the age of 26, 36% are now senior or…