From Recode’s 450 KB interview article: “Global user growth looks strong as do early returns on recent monetization efforts. User growth and revenue are the oxygen for any successful company so we’ll be looking to double down on this traction,” he wrote. “My job is to lead and scale this great team through the next phase of product and revenue growth, and to preserve Evernote’s unique culture while evolving it over time.

I’ve definitely met my fair share of coffee snobs. They are generally condescending and critical of everyone else’s tastes and methods except their own. Do you use an AeroPress? You’re probably not using it right. Are you using a temperature controlled kettle? You probably are not using the right water. You name it and there’s a coffee snob that considers it to be critical to the “experience.” There’s plenty of variables to be concerned about but I’ve rarely found a noticeable difference beyond the beans.

The Wolfram API now handles email processing and this post describes some mail rules beyond anything you’ve probably ever seen. Now I can subscribe to the mailing list as “receiver+5DHCTKhQ@wolframcloud.com,” and I will only receive messages about tables. But I can do better. Why not search messages for the price and create a log with the information I want? The function func below will run in my Wolfram Cloud account every time the mail receiver address receives an email

FastMail has been on a roll lately. In the past 12 months they’ve added CalDAV and a terrific web app for calendaring, CardDAV support of contact management and syncing, IMAP Notes support and now comes the long awaited IMAP email push. Push email will happen automatically for existing users and if you already have iOS configured with FastMail IMAP, you’ll just start benefiting from the change without doing anything extra.

Here’s a good podcast with nerds gushing about concept mapping. Lot’s of interesting use cases in there. I’ve seen some of Eddie Smith’s presentations and he really nails it with these animated transitions of concept maps.

I hate cleaning and clutter. Maybe once a year my hate for clutter wins out over my hate for cleaning. On episode 41 of Nerds on Draft, Jeff and I talk the madness that drives us to purge on a seasonal basis. We also enjoy a bottle of Belafonte, one of the best Saison’s you’ll find anywhere.

Creating notes with hyperlinks can be a real pain. All of the tedious jumping back and forth and searching the Internet kills most of the joy I get from writing good notes. Rather than get sidetracked with endless Internet searches, I let Mindmeister do the work for me. Here’s a little video demonstrating the WunderLink functionality of Mindmeister: Here’s the direct Vimeo link. I use Mindmeister for all of my collaborative concept mapping and for anything that I need access to while on Windows.

The Guardian has a terrific piece about Amy Poehler. I love this bit so much. “I see life as like being attacked by a bear,” she says. “You can run, you can pretend to be dead or you can make yourself bigger. So, if you’re my stature, you stand on a chair and bang a pan and scream and shout as if you’re going to attack the bear. This is my go-to strategy.

Warning: Thought-pieces may cause mild dystopia and burning sensation during urination. But, they sure are satisfying to write. I think we are witnessing a transformation of internet publishing beyond the upheaval of the subscription business.1 It’s obvious that publishing original content is a fading career opportunity and is being replaced by micro blogs such as Medium, Twitter and even Instagram. Not only do I think these are replacing individual blogs, such as this site, but I believe they are actively speeding the demise of original work.

My favorite phrase of the week by Eddie Smith: In some ways we’re living in the mushroom cloud of a productivity time bomb that was first wired by the Protestant work ethic. Eddie is commenting on this interesting Economist article regarding leisure time in the modern world All this work has left less time for play. Though leisure time has increased overall, a closer look shows that most of the gains took place between the 1960s and the 1980s.