My trip from the middle class into the ranks of the homeless began with a ticket of sorts. I came home one afternoon in 2013 from another fruitless job search to find a summons taped to the front door
One of the WeWork common spaces in downtown Manhattan. In just eight years, WeWork has built a global network of 212 shared working spaces and has been valued at $20 billion. Credit... Cole Wilson for
The Tyranny of Convenience Credit... Hudson Christie Convenience is the most underestimated and least understood force in the world today. As a driver of human decisions, it may not offer the illicit
Published in Startup Patterns · 11 min read · Feb 18, 2018 -- Last week, I was standing in a conference room at a $20 billion company, facilitating a workshop on Agile. The group in attendance was mad
Published in OneZero · 9 min read · Feb 18, 2018 -- Credit: Eduard Muzhevskyi/iStock/Getty Images Plus The first two eras of the internet During the first era of the internet — from the 1980s through
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a person who has never raised a picky eater knows exactly how to make other people’s children eat. Theirs is a special kind of wisdom, firm in its untested
The Shift His 2020 Campaign Message: The Robots Are Coming Andrew Yang, a New York businessman who wants to be the Democrats’ next presidential candidate, believes that automation threatens to bring G
In 1969, William H. “Holly” Whyte decided to analyze, and eventually decode, New York City’s rambunctious street life. A famed author, Whyte, along with a handful of collaborators, was recruited by th
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
We usually think of surveillance cameras as digital eyes, watching over us or watching out for us, depending on your view. But really, they’re more like portholes: useful only when someone is looking
Do any of these situations sound familiar? Your manager gives you some feedback that your peers are unhappy with how you collaborate with the team, but can’t give you any satisfying examples. You’re r
I’ve benefited enormously from big tech. Prophet, the consulting firm I cofounded in 1992, helped companies navigate a new landscape being reshaped by Google. Red Envelope, the upscale e-commerce comp
After atmospheric scientist Ivana Cvijanovic began pushing a computerized climate simulation to its limits, she noticed a disturbing result: as Arctic sea ice nearly disappeared, massive high-pressure
Code reviews can be contentious. I had an incredible experience giving my first conference talk titled “ Unlearning Toxic Behaviors in a Code Review Culture ”at AlterConf . I went into the experience
Amazon Go is the story of technology, and so is this tweet: I’m in Seattle and there is currently a line to shop at the grocery store whose entire premise is that you won’t have to wait in line. pic.t
A few weeks ago I spent several days marching around CES in Las Vegas (along with close to 200,000 other people), and as in previous years I saw 'smart' versions of just about anything you can imagine
FOR much of the past two years, market watchers have had little to write about, apart from the passing of one stock-index milestone after another. The events of the past week, however, have shaken the
Sundar Pichai, the chief executive of Google, has said that AI “is more profound than … electricity or fire.” Andrew Ng, who founded Google Brain and now invests in AI startups, wrote that “If a typic
Matter This Mutant Crayfish Clones Itself, and It’s Taking Over Europe The marbled crayfish is a mutant species that clones itself, scientists report. The population is exploding in Europe, but the sp
As the Dow Jones industrial average collapsed 700 points in 20 minutes Monday afternoon and the stock market jerked from bad to cataclysmic, traders and analysts coalesced around an increasingly routi
State of the Art Tackling the Internet’s Central Villain: The Advertising Business Credit... Doug Chayka Pretend you are the lead detective on a hit new show, “CSI: Terrible Stuff on the Internet.” In
Voting A blockchain allows the authentication of transactions without them needing to be administered or guaranteed by a central authority. Ballot boxes and current online voting platforms are vulnera
making_ultimate/Getty Images We live in a world where productivity, a key pillar of long-term economic growth, has crumbled. In the United States, Europe, and other advanced economies, productivity gr
The Follower Factory Everyone wants to be popular online. Some even pay for it. Inside social media’s black market. The Follower Factory Everyone wants to be popular online. Some even pay for it. Insi
If Workers Slack Off, the Wristband Will Know. (And Amazon Has a Patent for It.) Employees at an Amazon warehouse in Carteret, N.J. The e-commerce giant has been known to experiment in-house with new
Smaller algorithms that don’t need mountains of data to train are coming. By February 2, 2018 Yaopai In January, Google launched a new service called Cloud AutoML , which can automate some tricky aspe
On January 28, 2008, Marco Arment announced a new side project called Instapaper. Ten years and billions of articles later, we’re thrilled to be helping our readers learn, research and experience the
Enlarge Diego Betto YouTube was recently caught displaying ads that covertly leach off visitors' CPUs and electricity to generate digital currency on behalf of anonymous attackers, it was widely repor
How telecommuting will shape our work and our minds In our new Augmented Realites column, BBC Capital will explore scenarios you might encounter in your not-so-distant future. First, we’re going to lo
Summary: Personas are useful tools for UX work, so why do they often fail? Find out what pitfalls cause personas to fail, and how to avoid and overcome them. By Kim Salazar Kim Salazar on 2018-01-28 J
In the current discussion over Apple, Facebook, and Twitter turning our kids into phone and social media addicts, there is a need for both designers and engineers who do UX to step forward and take re
Programmers complain about readability and talk about bad code and unclean code, and the difficulties they run into trying to understand and maintain that code. What do we mean by readability? What ma
This week’s design principle is focusing on Hick’s Law, which is related to the KISS principle . Let’s first say a few words to introduce Hick’s Law. Do you remember the old video games from 20 years
Bernard Van Berg/EyeEm/Getty Images Mazin Gilbert has an ambitious goal . As vice president of advanced technologies at AT&T, Gilbert wants to make AI technologies widely available throughout the corp
UX Psychology plays a big part in a user’s experience with an application. By understanding how our designs are perceived , we can make adjustments so that the apps we create are more effective in ach
In his nearly five years aboard H.M.S. Beagle, Charles Darwin catalogued a dizzying array of new creatures. But how to show them to the people back home? Illustration by R. Fresson “I had been struck
8 min read · Jan 19, 2018 -- When you go from being a manager of individual contributors to being a manager of managers, you are again going “once forth unto the breach” and pushing yourself out of yo
Design Psychology We remember better that which is unfinished or incomplete. 2 min read · Sep 29, 2017 -- This is not the end I write Sunday Wisdom where I write about human behaviour and decision mak
Editor’s note: This is the third in a series of articles about the effects of software and automation on the economy. You can read the other stories here and here . The way Hod Lipson describes his Cr
Around 2012, something started going wrong in the lives of teens. In just the five years between 2010 and 2015, the number of U.S. teens who felt useless and joyless – classic symptoms of depression –