Na Kim A s anyone who has been called out for hypocrisy by a small child knows, kids are exquisitely attuned to gaps between what grown-ups say and what grown-ups do. If you survey American parents ab
Originally published July 2015 In 2002, Professor Enrico Zaninotto, Dean of Economics at the University of Trento, gave a keynote at the Extreme Programming conference. It was the clearest technical t
Thoughts on a controversial branding offering. Published in Smith & Diction · 15 min read · Aug 7 I know some designers will read the following and say that I’m completely out of my mind. And four yea
Want to stay current with Arthur’s writing? Sign up to get an email every time a new column comes out. G ratitude is very similar to exercise. We all know it’s good to be grateful and show it—just as
This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here . I n 2019 , Kennedy Ndahiro, the editor of the Rwandan daily newspaper The New Times , explained to readers of
For a long time, I found the micromanager CEO archetype very frustrating to work with. They would often pop out of nowhere, jab holes in the work I had done without understanding the tradeoffs, and th
In a breakthrough for AI in weather prediction, researchers at Google DeepMind have unveiled GraphCast —a revolutionary machine learning model that can generate highly accurate 10-day global weather f
Last week, the Times published an opinion piece by the historian Omer Bartov, which raised the question of whether Israel’s military actions in Gaza constitute a genocide. “I believe that there is no
A discussion with Brent (my podcast partner) about Brent (the character from The Phoenix Project ) has had me thinking about heroes, bottlenecks, and culture. The Hero We Need In the Phoenix Project,
Published in Defense Unicorns · 5 min read · 1 day ago The never-ending methodology debates are exhausting. “Agile or Waterfall? “Are we doing Scrum correctly?” “Should we use Kanban instead of Scrum?
Failing to acknowledge a favor or a courtesy is a triple mistake, and it’s becoming more common. ChatGPT is now promoting the idea that it can write a thank you note for you, and a text is a lot easie
The word circadian is derived from the Latin circa , meaning around, and dies , meaning day: around the day. All organisms on the planet have an organisation of physiological processes based on the tw
Conviction is often seen as a positive trait, but it can also lead to a willful disregard for facts. Changing your mind is a sign of mental liquidity, or the ability to let go of beliefs when new info
10 Nov 2023 • startups The following examples happen regularly at all levels of all kinds of companies: A manager asks a direct report “can you do X?” The report spends 10 times the amount of time tha
tl;dr: Google research found that psychological safety is the most important dynamic for an effective team. This was alongside other dynamics like dependability, role clarity, meaningful work and impa
Published on November 11, 2023. executive (31), management (188) Many of the most important questions for running an organization don’t have clear answers. In most engineering organizations, both the
Our industry is in the early days of an explosion in software using LLMs, as well as (separately, but relatedly) a revolution in how engineers write and run code, thanks to generative AI. Many softwar
The constant inflow of information from my smartphone, always readily available in my pocket to capture any free moment of attention, had fragmented my attention span. Download a PDF of this book. Rec
Chemists accidentally invented an unusual new material that could make the next generation of computer chips much faster. The material is a molecule made of rhenium, selenium, and chlorine, and its ca
Jakob recently wrote that the UX field needs to urgently engage with AI . This is partly because usability improvements are sorely needed for current AI tools but just as much because UX work can be v
Americans support recycling. We do too. But although some materials can be effectively recycled and safely made from recycled content, plastics cannot. Plastic recycling does not work and will never w
I love the following frontend architecture principles presented, which I first learned about in the talk " Beyond Micro-Frontends and the Jamstack - Architecting and Integrating Decoupled Applications
Transcript Cockcroft: I'm Adrian Cockcroft. I'm going to talk to you about microservices retrospective: what we learned and what we didn't learn from Netflix. I was at Netflix from 2007 to the end of
I think I amat least somewhat more productive than average, and people sometimes ask me forproductivity tips. So I decided to just write them all down in one place. Compoundgrowth gets discussed as a
Hello! I’m slowly working on explaining git. One of my biggest problems is thatafter almost 15 years of using git, I’ve become very used to git’sidiosyncracies and it’s easy for me to forget what’s co
I've been using eco-friendly toilet paper for about a year, since my colleague Carolyn did a great presentation on making greener purchasing choices. And while I won’t go back to wasting-the-trees toi
I had drafted this Pocket post on stress just prior to the awful news in Israel-Gaza. The news feels heavy beyond words and continues to be an unmitigated crisis and tragedy. It’s as brutal to bear wi
This is another post in our Code Health series. A version of this post originally appeared in Google bathrooms worldwide as a Google Testing on the Toilet episode. You can download a printer-friendly
Illustrations by Rose Wong. In 2018, all we needed was a single MacBook. At least, that’s all we needed to run our entire in-house performance testing system. The laptop looped the same couple of test
Chatbots are currently the predominant UI of generative-AI tools for text manipulation. Each individual interaction with AI is a straightforward transaction: you put text in, and AI gives text back. (
Posts RSS ◂◂RSS Contact May 25th, 2023 tech Sometimes you have a lot of data, and one approach to support quicksearches is pre-processing it to build an index so a search caninvolve only looking at a
One of the most common questions I receive from new engineering managers is: "What should my week look like, and what exactly should I be doing?" This question is particularly pertinent for those who
06 Oct 2023 • leadership One of the most common management mistakes is not providing clarity when people are wrong on important, invested efforts. For example, say you’re an IC engineer and you want t
I will come right out and say it - it's been rough lately . Everyone I know seems to be slowly spiraling further down the hole rather than climbing out of it, and while I started to feel this way at t
After tearing down their homepage, I joined Equals. Now it's time to put my money where my mouth is. A little bit of context The homepage is the digital front door to any web-based business. Almost ev
Early this past month, Adam Ramer started a new job. He was just four years out of college, and this would be one of his biggest jobs yet: political director for the reëlection campaign of Ro Khanna,
L ast week , on a dusty road in the West Bank, I received a phone call from the office of the spokesperson of the Israel Defense Forces to schedule a meeting the next day. “Hello,” I said. “It’s diffi
A friend and I were recently lamenting the strange death of OKCupid. Seven years ago when I first tried online dating, the way it worked is that you wrote a long essay about yourself and what you were
I remember back when being on one of those gigantic, long-lived software projects when I was a wee programmer. Professional project managers had laid out the entire thing before we started coding. Enl
Meta’s Systematic Code and Asset Removal Framework (SCARF) has a subsystem for identifying and removing dead code. SCARF combines static and dynamic analysis of programs to detect dead code from both