Work done for a reward is much lower than work done in the Yoga of wisdom. Set thy heart upon thy work, but never on its reward. Work not for the reward; but never cease to do thy work. —The Bhagavad

In a Field Notes post from 2014, LeadingAgile consultant Andrew Fuqua considers Brooks' Law in the context of the Theory of Constraints. Brooks' Law is the adage that adding manpower to a late softwar

Malcolm Gladwell writes about a fascinating episode in history. Neville Chamberlain’s first plane ride was a trip to meet Adolf Hitler. The British Prime Minister was taken by Hitler’s charisma. He be

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"Everything with a power point is probably connected, or will be shortly," says Christopher Neal, chief information security officer (CISO) of Ramsay Health Care. "Increasingly that connectivity is cr

According to my iPhone, I pick up my phone 177 times a day and spend 26 hours a week on social media. These aren’t hours allotted to a hobby I view as a priority. Rather, these are hours lost to what

You may not have known this, but there's such a thing as a World PowerPoint Championship. This year it had around 850,000 students from 119 countries, and has a state, national, and world competition.

There is a connection between my research into behavioral models of information security and my Black Hat USA talk with Dr. Forsgren from last week regarding DevOps and the future of information secur

With a “hello,” Microsoft and UW demonstrate the first fully-automated DNA data storage and retrieval system. Photo: Microsoft Microsoft In 1862, Gregor Mendel bred pea plants to study inheritance. Fast forward 100 years to 1962, James Watson, Frances Crick, and Maurice Wilkins were awarded a Nobel…

Prerequisite plug that you should come see my talk with Dr. Nicole Forsgren at Black Hat next week (16:00 in South Pacific)! What type of vendors are showing themselves off in the Business Hall? Are t

WORLD VIEW 24 July 2019 Misconceptions about disinformation leave us vulnerable to manipulation online, says Kate Starbird. Kate Starbird Kate Starbird studies human–computer interaction and crisis in

The key political partnership of the Millennial left was born over noodles. Saikat Chakrabarti met Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez at Potjanee, a Thai restaurant near his apartment in the West Village, in Ma

Category: The Life of a Programmer I’ve been reading a book called, “ The Four Hour Work Week ” lately, and the timing is pretty interesting. In the book, Ferris outlines a positively cold-blooded pla

The previous three Industrial Revolutions leveraged technologies to enable economies of scale and mass consumption. But the Fourth – formidable and sweeping in scale as it is – has much greater opport

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California is the first state to try to reduce the power of bots by requiring that they reveal their “artificial identity” when they are used to sell a product or influence a voter. Photograph by Emma

…without actually doing that How we got here After Apple released its (soon-to-be) previous generation Mac Pro, it probably didn't take long for them to realize they had a trash can fire on their hand

3 min read · Jun 27, 2019 -- Images from Hand Signals on Wikipedia I take issue with a lot of standard advice. “Pick your battles” is terrible, and “Stay in your lane” is something of a trigger phrase

What makes something endure for centuries? To find out, we must start with a principle called the "Lindy Effect", explains Tom Chatfield. FORECAST CHALLENGE Some people are particularly good at seeing

Dark Mode is the marquee feature of macOS 10.14 Mojave. Apple even gives it the top spot on the macOS product page, saying: Dark Mode is a dramatic new look that helps you focus on your work. The subt

Most people have had at least one colleague with a sense of privilege who likes to speak first, she says, and that can often drown out other voices in the room. “This behavior may make it difficult fo

The unintended consequence of the #MeToo movement — that men are now more fearful of working one-on-one with women — is getting worse. Much worse. Or at least, that’s the takeaway from a survey releas

Books are easy to take for granted. Not any specific book, I mean: the form of a book. Paper or pixels—it hardly matters. Words in lines on pages in chapters. And at least for non-fiction books, one i

4 min read · May 9, 2019 -- Me Collecting Potentially Unlimited Value My poker coach, Tommy Angelo , sells me his time and experience. Either by video or email, I describe a problematic poker situatio

The dot-com bubble of 2000 might have been the worst thing that happened to an entire generation of investors. The carnage was twofold: First, those investing in the NASDAQ Composite Index -- a techno

Published: April 19, 2019 Human genius has always been something of a mystery. Experts often cannot articulate how they know someething to be true. When a world-class chef smells something—crinkles hi

Why You Can No Longer Get Lost in the Crowd Once, it was easy to be obscure. Technology has ended that. April 17, 2019 Credit... Claire Merchlinsky By Woodrow Hartzog and Dr. Hartzog is a professor of

Working remotely can be really tough. To get some insight into how to do it better, Google conducted a two-year study involving data from 5,600 employees across the U.S., Asia, Europe, the Middle East

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M ost jobs that exist today might disappear within decades. As artificial intelligence outperforms humans in more and more tasks, it will replace humans in more and more jobs. Many new professions are

Image Credit: Pixabay (Image credit: Image Credit: Pixabay) As a career technology guy, I am admittedly biased, but few industries are cooler to be part of. Every day, I get to think with people aroun

The New Social Network That Isn’t New at All Credit... John W. Tomac SAN FRANCISCO — My favorite new social network doesn’t incessantly spam me with notifications. When I post, I’m not bombarded with

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It already knows whether you are single or dating, the first school you went to and whether you like or loathe Justin Bieber. But now Facebook , the world's biggest social networking site, is facing a

I am really sad about Facebook. I got involved with the company more than a decade ago and have taken great pride and joy in the company’s success … until the past few months. Now I am disappointed. I

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