joshuago’s Bookmarks

BlueCross BlueShield of Texas' blueprint for denying health policies.

An unruly market may undo the work of a giant cartel and of an inspired, decades-long ad campaign.

Forget aid—people in the poorest countries like Haiti need new cities with different rules. And developed countries should be the ones that build them.

Unified government makes the country virtually ungovernable. Reforms win broader acceptance and are more durable when both parties' fingerprints are on them. The two great domestic reforms of their respective eras, tax reform in 1986 and welfare reform in 1996, were products of divided control.

Decent and insightful list of technical specifications on what the replacement for the IMAP protocol should look like, given what we know now. Good argument for HTTP/HTTPS but seems to argue for more more developer-efficient than byte-efficient approach.

Neat ideas for improving email clients such as detecting/organizing/displaying emails into project- and task-based threads and visualizing the thread structure of a given email thread. Good luck getting people to use this stuff, though.

There's no known point at which more aerobic exercise will start to be detrimental, which means that we should just go ahead and do as much exercise as we can.

Build your admin panel, implement CMS features, and have a good metrics dashboard and logger.

The default startup business model for 2010 and beyond will be subscriptions and transactions -- not growth/acquisition and advertising.

Graphical user interfaces are full of symbols. Symbols need to be reduced to their essence. This helps avoid cluttering the user interface with meaningless distractions, and makes it easier for people to «read» the symbol and figure out the meaning of an interface element. Realistic details can get in the way of what you’re trying to communicate to your users.