B ig Tech is broken. Suddenly, a wide range of journalists and politicians agree on this. For decades, most of the media and political establishment accepted Silicon Valley’s promise that it would not
It's 11:30 p.m. on a Thursday , and Silicon Valley has gone quiet for the night. The streets are largely empty, the corporate campuses dark. But in a sea of vacant office parks, the lights are on in a
Consider the following nightmares. You’re about to launch a new feature your team has spent weeks on. When you try to verify in staging, nothing works as expected. After digging into the problem, you
Artificial intelligence John Giannandrea, who leads AI at Google, is worried about intelligent systems learning human prejudices. By October 3, 2017 Getty Google’s AI chief isn’t fretting about super-
Published in Mike’s blog · 12 min read · Sep 23, 2017 -- S omething is going on. The people are unhappy. The spectre of civil unrest stalks our programming communities. For the first time, a meaningfu
IN THEORY, overnight air travel should be wonderfully convenient. Instead of booking a hotel for the night and losing a day, travellers simply sleep while they fly. In reality, sleeping on a plane is
Lead 3 Reasons to Stop Asking This 1 Question to Your Employees (And You've Probably Already Asked It) Avoid the same mistake countless of CEOs and managers have made. By Claire Lew , CEO, Know Your C
4 min read · Jul 24, 2017 -- In February, an engineer I’d managed for over a year moved to a new team. In one of our last 1:1s, I mentioned that he’d recently done some good project management. He rep
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12 min read · Sep 13, 2017 -- This is episode 2 of my series on life as an Engineering Manager ( 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 ). In this ep we dive in to how you should spend your time: what you shou
by on Sep 19, 2017 Two years ago I could spend a week not working because I was avoiding some task. One year ago it was 100 to 120 hours of work monthly. Nowadays I do around 200 productive hours each
Robyn Beck / AFP / Getty Images A yearlong audit by the US Department of Agriculture's inspector general's office found weaknesses in the oversight of imported organic produce, according to a report r
Much has been written about employee motivation and retention. It’s written by folks who actively use words like motivation and retention and generally don’t have a clue about the daily necessity of k
It was October 2011, a few weeks before LinkedIn’s second earnings announcement after going public. The business was doing well. Extremely well, by all visible measures. We had successfully navigated
Science and technology: we tend to think of them as siblings, perhaps even as twins, as parts of STEM (for “science, technology, engineering, and mathematics”). When it comes to the shiniest wonders o
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Share Read the Spanish version of this article translated by Yesica Danderfer . Buttons. With them, we finalize shopping on the internet, we log in to our bank app, and we submit forms filled with our
Donald Trump is testing the institution of the presidency unlike any of his 43 predecessors. We have never had a president so ill-informed about the nature of his office, so openly mendacious, so self
De-vaguifying technology product schedules Published in Pointer IO · 6 min read · Aug 8, 2017 -- This article is exclusive to Pointer — a reading club for developers. Sign up at Pointer.io for our wee
Picture a rowing team gliding gracefully across the water, strokes in perfect synchronicity. Every rowman's oar drives in lockstep with his those of his teammates. Their rhythm is perfect. Reliable, r
It’s tempting — and easy — to be cynical about the richest company in the world beginning its annual unveiling of new products with what effectively amounted to a promotional video for a building cust
The Shift Is There a Cryptocurrency Bubble? Just Ask Doge. Jackson Palmer, creator of Dogecoin, in San Francisco on Friday. He was an early fan of cryptocurrency, but is now one of the loudest voices
12 min read · Aug 15, 2017 -- On my first day at Airbnb, in early 2011, I walked in to see cofounder Joe Gebbia building my desk. I had spent three months slowly convincing the fledgling startup that
Blockchain Finland’s digital money system for asylum seekers shows what blockchain technology can offer the unbanked. By September 5, 2017 Moni For a refugee in a new country, identity—at least in the
Known as “the man behind Google Docs,” Sam Schillace has quite literally changed the way teams work together. Now as SVP of Engineering at Box , he’s applying the same systematic, collaborative thinki
In 1986, Geoffrey Hinton co-authored a paper that, three decades later, is central to the explosion of artificial intelligence. But Hinton says his breakthrough method should be dispensed with, and a
The first time Alex Acero saw Her , he watched it like a normal person. The second time, he didn't watch the movie at all. Acero, the Apple executive in charge of the tech behind Siri , sat there with
A hospital administrator recently talked to us about an issue that is all too common for patients: missed medical appointments. The story was about a woman named Mary (a pseudonym), a patient with a p
O n 20 December 1999, a young man pulled away in his car from his grandfather’s house in Sarnia, Ontario, with his girlfriend in the passenger seat beside him. Scott Routley, who was 26, had studied p
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Credit... Matt Chase Opinion What the Rich Won’t Tell You “There’s nobody who knows how much we spend. You’re the only person I ever said those numbers to out loud.” Credit... Matt Chase By Sept. 8, 2
10 min read · Aug 26, 2017 -- My new book on visual thinking is out! http://amzn.to/2yb69CZ For reprint rights, or to hire me speak, contact me . When I first heard about Design Thinking, I thought it
David J. Phillip/AP Photo It’s time to open our eyes and prepare for the world that’s coming. By ERIC HOLTHAUS Eric Holthaus is a meteorologist and contributing writer for Grist. In all of U.S. histor
*May also apply to senior ICs Earlier this year, I wrote a piece called “How do Individual Contributors Get Stuck?” This was an attempt to help ICs provide constructive feedback to their peers, by ide
My good friend, Matt Aimonetti , posted a tweet a few days ago that motivated me to share some ideas bouncing around my head publicly. Still working on it but my current view: VP of eng = people/now,
Artificial intelligence can accurately guess whether people are gay or straight based on photos of their faces, according to new research that suggests machines can have significantly better “gaydar”
Sometime late last year, as I was playing a video game named Dishonored 2 , I did a routine YouTube search about how to beat a tricky section of the game. As usual, I found a video to answer my questi