Gordon Wintrob

Modern airplane travel is spectacular. The Department of Transportation reported that an all-time high 848 million passengers flew in the U.S. in 2014. And remarkably, all of those passengers survived. With recent tragedies like the missing Malaysia Airlines flight and Germanwings crash, I wondered if airplane crashes are changing.

Learning a new language has many well-researched benefits. This year, I've set aside time to learn German and build more projects in public. And this month, I'm launching a new website that achieves both goals: Noob German (more on this later). Here are seven scientifically-backed lessons

Segment is a customer data hub that makes it easy for websites and mobile apps to integrate 3rd-party analytics tools. With all the customer data already flowing through them, Segment is opening a powerful distribution channel for data-powered SaaS businesses. Full disclosure — I'm a Segment angel investor, lived

Rather than write down New Year's resolutions, I tend to think of general areas to improve over the following year. Unfortunately, I'm left without any concrete, measurable improvements, so I'm going to take a different approach for 2015. Here are two specific resolutions I&