Falcon Heavy Launch, Making Your First Dollar, and Beating Amazon

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Technology

SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy Launch – If all goes according to plan, SpaceX‘s huge new Falcon Heavy rocket will launch for the first time ever today (2/6/18).

How I Created a “Black Hole” Cake – The physics of black holes and stars is hard to digest. Could baking a cake help explain the phenomenon?

Startups

How we made our first dollar at Product Hunt – “There’s no right way to startup but every team needs a focused goal, especially in the beginning.”

How to Beat Amazon – You can’t build a consumer brand in 2018 and ignore the 800-pound-gorilla that is Amazon.

Design

Why Some Apps Use Fake Progress Bars – Designers use “benevolent deception” to trick users into trusting the system.

Focus

Why You Should Stop Reading News – “[W]e’re surrounded by so much information that is of immediate interest to us that we feel overwhelmed by the never-ending pressure of trying to keep up with it all.”

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