By John Allspaw May 22, 2012 Last week, Owen Thomas wrote a flattering article over at Business Insider on how we handle errors and mistakes at Etsy. I thought I might give some detail on how that act
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In this op-ed, Lauren Michele Jackson tackles the recurring use of black people as reaction GIFs and its implications in terms of broader “digital blackface.” Adore or despise them, GIFs are integral
Lessons learned on how to shape the next generation of leaders Published in Redbubble · 4 min read · Feb 19, 2018 -- The move into management is an often discussed topic. We all want to climb the care
Tragically Lost in Joshua Tree’s Wild Interior What may seem like a benign park only two hours from L.A. became the landscape for a high-endurance detective operation to find a missing hiker. Doba wit
On the list of leadership merit badges, “Successfully deliver hard news” is one the hardest badges to acquire. It’s not just that you have news, it’s hard news. It’s an honest something the human sitt
While not definitively saying yes, Mark Zuckerberg says he’s “open” to testifying before members of Congress regarding Facebook’s recent privacy scandal involving Cambridge Analytica . The data firm,
Op-Ed Contributor The Boys Are Not All Right I used to have this one-liner: “If you want to emasculate a guy friend, when you’re at a restaurant, ask him everything that he’s going to order, and then
Congratulations - you’re a new manager! No, really, I’m being sincere. You can hear the sarcasm in my voice? Sorry, I tried, but I know that along with some excitement, there’s plenty of doubt and ang
Del Harvey, Twitter’s resident troll hunter, has a fitting, if unusual, backstory for somebody in charge of policing one of the Internet’s most ungovernable platforms. As a teenager, she spent a summe
by January 25, 2018 Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email The world is disturbingly comfortable with the fact that women sometimes leave a sexual encounter in tears. When Babe.net publish
Patrick Griffin was high from shooting up as he hugged his sister, Betsy. Their father, Dennis, right, and his ex-wife had spent the afternoon trying, unsuccessfully, to convince Patrick to check into
Published in Product Hunt · 5 min read · Jan 30, 2018 -- Since Product Hunt’s beginning, people have asked, “How will you make money?” Some startups choose to make money on day one while others choose
My new year’s resolution was to give up on reading Twitter and Facebook. I gave up on the feeds because they were making me angry. A lot of times I was angry because of politics, but even on non-polit
Jamie Dimon says he “regrets” his now infamous criticism of bitcoin, in which he called the cryptocurrency a “fraud” . The JPMorgan Chase chief executive on Tuesday softened the comments he made at a
About once a month, on a Friday or Saturday night, the Silicon ValleyTechnorati gather for a drug-heavy, sex-heavy party. Sometimes the venueis an epic mansion in San Francisco’s Pacific Heights; some
Laurie Penny | Longreads | October 2017 | 15 minutes (4,185 words) “Man fucks woman. Man: subject. Woman: object.” — The Fall , Episode 3, “Insolence and Wine” The first thing you need to understand a
Alan Diaz/AP Photo AT&T’s lust for Time Warner traces a business impulse we’ve seen in action a dozen times in the past half-century. Jack Shafer is Politico ’s senior media writer. The Department of
This estimate is conservative. The math only works out to 78 hours if you assume that you never incorrectly reject a trendy candidate and that you don't have to interview candidates that you “correctl
T a-Nehisi Coates’ We Were Eight Years in Power , a book about Barack Obama’s presidency and the tenacity of white supremacy, has captured the attention of many of us. One crucial question is why now
Deliverance From 27,000 Feet Two mountain climbers died near the top of Mount Everest in 2016. Their bodies lay frozen there for a year. Then a journey began to bring them home. In 2016, three Indian
News Analysis Self-Correcting Beyond a Web Era Marked by Sensationalism Nick Denton, the founder of Gawker, in a Florida courtroom before a jury awarded Hulk Hogan damages for Gawker’s posting of a se
Here’s the scenario. A company raises $2m of seed money from angels in a convertible note with a $6m cap. Assuming equity is raised at or above that cap, the total dilution, before the new money, is 3
Opinion How to Get Your Mind to Read Credit... Lilli Carré Americans are not good readers. Many blame the ubiquity of digital media. We’re too busy on Snapchat to read, or perhaps internet skimming ha
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21 min read · Nov 6, 2017 -- I’m James Bridle . I’m a writer and artist concerned with technology and culture. I usually write on my own blog, but frankly I don’t want what I’m talking about here anyw
This story is part of OUTER LIMITS, a Motherboard series about people, technology, and going outside. Let us be your guide . The disappearance of Stacy Ann Arras has a cultish online following. On doz
Almost as long as I have been working to make the lives of software engineers better, people have been asking me how to measure developer productivity. How do we tell where there are productivity prob
The Future Sucked Jacob Silverman , October 5, 2017 Reinventing the Wheel Moguls and the media companies they love—right into the ground Chris Hughes, dashing off to a more profitable venture. / aisle
Illustration: Greg Mably Bitcoin “miners” are electromagnetic alchemists, effectively turning megawatt-hours of electricity into the world’s fastest-growing currency. Their intensive computational act
During this crazy and bizarre week—one in which we learned that Donald Trump was briefed by intelligence chiefs that the Russian government had kompromat on him (and then later what said kompromat mig
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Heading out the door? Read this article on the new Outside+ app available now on iOS devices for members! Download the app . Charles Chesnutt leads a double life. In one, he works as a costumed histor
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But guess what? There’s no place to put the pen. What the fuck are they thinking about? So, what that is is, marketing people reacting to something that a competitor is doing and ignoring the fact tha
He was one of cinema’s biggest stars, but Marlon Brando behaved like a “monster” and seemed “hell-bent on sabotaging” The Island of Dr Moreau , one of his last films, according to its screenwriter. Wh
“It’s been hard for me to share my story. I’m a pretty private person,” she said. “I felt like I wanted to help other people who might be going through something. I don’t want people to give up. It seems like people are taking away my integrity and changing the story in a way that it won’t help…
When the Museum of Ice Cream opened in New York in 2016, it was more a temporary curiosity than a rival to, say, the Whitney Museum of American Art, which stood just across the street. The walls were
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