Fledgling engineering teams and hundred-person juggernauts, boom times and lean years — Adil Ajmal has experienced them all. As an engineering leader for nearly 20 years at companies like Amazon , Ten
I. Launch Day “So much of our manufactured environment testifies to carelessness,” Ive says. Things are “developed to be different, not better.” Photograph by Pari Dukovic In recent months, Sir Jonath
Why Agile Isn’t Working and What We Do Differently UPDATE: We’ve written an entire book on this topic! Read it online: Shape Up: Stop Running in Circles and Ship Work That Matters . Agile started off
Soon after the #MeToo movement formed in the United States, in responseto the Harvey Weinstein scandal, #balancetonporc (“expose your pig”)erupted in France. The effect has been an unprecedented blow
Minutes before an international war-crimes tribunal in The Hagueconvicted him, last week, of committing genocide, Ratko Mladić, theformer Serbian Army commander, now a doddering seventy-four-year-oldm
By all accounts, massshootings are now claiming more American lives than at any other point in the pastthirty-five years. The most recent, on the morning of November 14th, inRancho Tehama, California,
In Product Design, and Possibly Life Management Published in Prototypr · 8 min read · Nov 10, 2017 -- There is one principle of organization that every human should adhere to, particularly people who
The Stranger B ack in January, I e-mailed Dr. Greg Johnson, organizer of Northwest Forum, Seattle’s hottest closed-door white nationalist convention, asking for an interview on the latest in regional
9 min read · Nov 11, 2017 -- I sometimes see people refer to neural networks as just “another tool in your machine learning toolbox”. They have some pros and cons, they work here or there, and sometim
The most followed players on the platform Twitch earn well into seven figures. Illustration by Andy Rementer One humid morning this past summer, Omeed Dariani drove his black Tesla sedan through the f
I have harbored a lifelong dislike of feedback. I didn’t like it in sixth grade when a kid on the bus told me my brand new sneakers were “too bright.” And I didn’t like it when a senior executive hear
Thomas Hargrove is a homicide archivist. For the past seven years, he has been collecting municipal records of murders, and he now has the largest catalogue of killings in the country—751,785 murders
It’s mid-afternoon on a Friday at SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, California, and three of Elon Musk ’s children are gathered around him – one of his triplets, both of his twins. Musk is wearing a g
On the eve of a historical election, last year’s Fast Company Innovation Festival was about hope and potential. In the wake a historical upset, this year’s festival was about resilience, values, and i
It is entirely conceivable that, in two weeks’ time, the Republican Party’s leaders will have largely succeeded in railroading through Congress an unpopular, regressive, and damaging tax reform . That
One of the most popular methods of delivering feedback is, well, shit . Here’s why and what you should do instead… I recently ran into a friend who mentioned how she uses the Shit Sandwich to deliver
Artificial intelligence A new kind of AI system could create personalized clothing based on a shopper’s taste. By November 16, 2017 Daniel Savage Artificial intelligence might just spawn a whole new s
Tribune. Il y a vingt-cinq ans, en 1992, l’Union of Concerned Scientists et plus de 1 700 scientifiques indépendants, dont la majorité des lauréats de prix Nobel de sciences alors en vie, signaient le
Ribbed mussels remove bacteria and reduce excess nutrients in contaminated waterways. Mark Dixon The waterways of New York City are famously dirty: They’re full of everything from cigarette butts to r
W hen I brought the robot home from the Apple Store, I knew I was inviting a new kind of strangeness into our lives. My wife worried about giving our 4-year-old son a(nother) digital thing, a “smart”
Editor’s Note: We regret to report that Vanu Bose died of a sudden pulmonary embolism on November 11, 2017. His company had recently deployed over 40 Community Connect base stations in Puerto Rico to provide cellular service in the wake of two devastating hurricanes. Read his obituary here . This…
A new study out from health startup Cardiogram and the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) suggests wearables like the Apple Watch, Fitbit and others are able to accurately detect common but
Anna recently quit her job. She had held the same job for 19 years and never registered a complaint, so her resignation came as quite a shock to her manager. It shouldn't have. Turnover can be predict
Senator Al Franken (D-Minnesota) delivered some of the sharpest criticism yet about the dangers of tech giants like Facebook, Google, and Amazon during a speech on Wednesday, encouraging regulators, a
Solving a problem which is a good fit for someone’s ability and interest ensures regular progress. Consistent progress is directly correlated to one’s happiness . Progress and happiness then lead to h
André Staltz The Web began dying in 2014, here's how 30 Oct 2017 Before the year 2014, there were many people using Google, Facebook, and Amazon. Today, there are still many people using services from
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A rtificial Intelligence will change the future of energy. I am often asked how Artificial Intelligence (AI) can be used to help interpret the past, optimise the present and predict the future. Having
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7 min read · Oct 25, 2017 -- S̶i̶d̶e̶b̶a̶r̶:̶ ̶W̶e̶’̶r̶e̶ ̶h̶i̶r̶i̶n̶g̶. Whenever the maligned topic of Engineering Interviews flits across my Twitter feed, I take a moment to chime in about how there
Published in The Year of the Looking Glass · 5 min read · Oct 10, 2017 -- This was first published on my mailing list The Looking Glass . Every week, I answer a reader’s question. Photo by prakash.ame
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by Jonathan Solórzano-Hamilton “You will never be able to understand any of what I’ve created. I am Albert F***ing Einstein and you are all monkeys scrabbling in the dirt.” And so our resident genius,
GitPrime elevates engineering leadership with objective data. In this interview series, Engineering Leaders talk about how to build high performing teams. Engineers are uniquely unprepared for becomin
Artificial intelligence As robots get good at mimicking human behavior, people can be deceived into thinking they have human intelligence. So let’s put them to the test. By November 2, 2017 A few year
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Nathan Treff was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at 24. It’s a disease that runs in families, but it has complex causes. More than one gene is involved. And the environment plays a role too. So you don
Illustration by Jon Klassen Consider the yeti. Reputed to live in the mountainous regions of Tibet, Bhutan, and Nepal. Also known by the alias Abominable Snowman. Overgrown, in both senses: eight or t
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