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Broadway is a great example of something having very long-lasting effects. It’s much older than a postal road, being originally formed as a footpath used by the local native tribes to travel up and down Manhattan. It roughly followed a ridge line that is not very evident in lower Manhattan today but becomes much more obvious when you get up to northern Harlem, Washington Heights and Inwood.

Uncovering the first printed use of a word is known as “antedating” and has been central to dictionary efforts since the first edition of the OED. If you’re intrigued by the topic or just appreciate historical esoterica, I highly recommend the book The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester- it’s a great quick read.

The DAISY markup spec is a cool project if you’re into the tech of text/audio sync.

Also check out LearningAlly.org- a non-profit that produces audio books with synced text highlights. They are specifically oriented toward students with reading challenges but I believe anyone with some certification of learning difference can join. (They require certification to avoid conflict with copyright protections)

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This might be the first time anyone has ever said “Luckily my mother is a psychologist...”

I am highly skeptical of other replies to this post that make the subway seem like a summertime Shangri-La. While I think it's better than a urine- scented tardy hassle, I don't think many people who have spent a few years in NYC would describe their summer commutes as "pleasant".

Overall it's a miracle public utility that you don't appreciate as much as you should until you've left the city, but that July/August trip is a sweaty mass of humanity no matter how you crunch it.

There is a big difference between "wait a year" and "here are tangible goals, action steps and valuable skills to develop by accepting X, Y and Z responsibilities. At Time A and Time B, let's review and make incremental advancements toward your title and salary goals".

If you aren't willing to stick it out through the latter, you're probably doing the manager a favor in the long term by shopping that CV around.

I can definitely see how this could be useful for teams that create content collaboratively. When our team works on release notes, blog posts, support articles, etc we use a combination of Slack and Google Docs.

After editing, we post to tumblr (product updates), Medium (blog/marketing) or any one of half a dozen other places where we out stuff. Bold feels to me like Medium with bonus collaboration features + integrations. Tools like http://www.hemingwayapp.com/ built in sound awesome. Add in the ability to create your own assistants (import brand assets, pull up GitHub issues, insert content from your YouTube channel, find the right gif for this paragraph) and it adds up to a much more centralized writing experience for modern work-related content creation.

See also: http://alltop.com since ~2008(ish)

There was a startup called Outbox awhile back that was trying to be a proxy service for physical mail- have your mail forwarded to them (or maybe they picked it up manually?) and they digitized it for you. This idea from USPS isn't quite that but a good step in the right direction. Super handy for more transient urban millennials at least.

I've used UpCounsel for "on-demand" lawyers for things like this. You describe the project and what kind of help you need, then lawyers bid fixed rate quotes. In my experience turn around for quotes is less than a day.

My team has been using Freshdesk for about a year and it is killer. By default, your user creates an account to view tickets and communicate, but it is also highly customizable- we've changed all the settings so the users experience is entirely via email (so they never have to create a Freshdesk account) but they get automatic replies to let them know that we've received their email and a ticket has been created. It's also free for up to 3 users which is a heck of a deal.

Just like there are examples of companies/products that have become wildly successful without outside capital, or perhaps without a technical cofounder or without reading any books about Lean methodology or without ever reading a single PG essay, that is not evidence that any of those things are detrimental to one's success. Resources like HN, etc are just like any other resource- you have to filter your exposure, sift through the useless and apply your own judgment as to the appropriateness for your particular situation. They are distractions if you allow them to be and tools if you will them to be.

I've been looking for a way to learn Diplomacy for some time now - the controls feel a bit cumbersome but after just using the sandbox for an hour or so, I have a far better introduction than I've gotten from just reading primers. Nice work.

As of 2009, only 4 phone booths remained in Manhattan: http://www.scoutingny.com/the-last-phone-booth-in-new-york-c... Comments on that thread note that in 2012, at least 2 of those were verified as still around, but not sure about now.

There are a lot of phone stalls still around though - a number of which have been sites for experimental improvements for some time now, including a Google initiative to outfit some with public wifi: http://www.nyc.gov/html/doitt/html/business/future-of-public...