Listen to this post: Log in to listen It’s the nature of business that the eulogy for a chief executive doesn’t happen when they die, but when they retire, or, in the case of Apple CEO Tim Cook, announce that they will step up to the role of Executive Chairman on September 1. The one morbid…

I read a lot on the web. I almost never look at websites, though. I consume almost everything through an RSS reader. As AI reshapes the way online information is organised and consumed, it increasingly feels like I'm behind the scenes, watching the performance from the wings rather than seeing it…

“Simplicity is a great virtue, but it requires hard work to achieve and education to appreciate. And to make matters worse, complexity sells better.” — Edsger Dijkstra I think there’s something quietly screwing up a lot of engineering teams. In interviews, in promotion packets, in design reviews:…

Whenever a new technology arrives, the impulse is to treat it as something that has never existed before. A clean break from everything that came prior. I catch myself doing this with vibe coding constantly, and I see it everywhere around me. But the most useful lens for understanding a new…

I got let go from my job - elimination of role, they're claiming - so I'm understandably a bit raw. So was my boss from what it looked like, though he still has a paycheck and benefits whereas I do not. Still, rawness is an excellent time to reflect on what went right and what I could've done…

But some companies are realizing that cutting young workers out of the pipeline isn’t a sustainable long-term strategy: $240 billion tech giant IBM just revealed it’s ramping up hiring of Gen Z. “The companies three to five years from now that are going to be the most successful are those companies…

You’ve probably seen this famous graph that breaks out various categories of inflation, showing labor-intensive services getting more expensive during the 21st century and manufactured goods getting less expensive. One of the standout items is TVs, which have fallen in price more than any other…

Listen to this article. 0:00 10:21 Not too long ago, I made a living working as a contractor where I would hop from project to project. Some were short term where I would work for a week and quickly deliver my service. Others lasted a couple months where I would make enough money to take some time…

Arthur Conan Doyle was not just one of the world’s best crime fiction writers. He was a progressive wordsmith who brought light to controversial and taboo subjects. One of those taboo subjects was male vulnerability and mental health problems – a topic of personal significance to the author. Doyle…

03.13.2018, 7:00am Business Share Link Copied! Save for later Hillary Bonhomme Hillary Bonhomme As tastier breeds like Honeycrisp and Gala edge the Red Delicious out of grocery stores, what happens to the forgotten fruit? Almost everyone agrees: The Red Delicious is a crime against the apple. The…

Redbox’s field service technicians thought they had seen it all. Stores had unplugged thousands of the company’s iconic red DVD rental kiosks. Payroll and expense reimbursements had been late. Several employees say their corporate gas cards have been declined. They had read article after article…

Why You Can't Build Apple with Venture Capital An ex-Apple designer who went on to startup success once told me, "I wish I could give a workshop for Apple alumni jumping into startups, to help them un-learn The Apple Way." As someone who strives to build products with the craft and quality of Apple,…

We can have a different web 0:00/985.443265 Listen to a voiceover of this post, download the recording for later, or subscribe to the feed in your podcast app. As a lifelong lover of the web, it's hard not to feel a little hopeless right now. Search engines — the window into the web for many people…

Earthquakes in New York are even rarer than snowfall in Los Angeles. The one that struck the East Coast last Friday was one of the largest in the region in a century. And yet on the grand scale of things — no longer the Richter scale, by the way, but the Moment Magnitude Scale — it was relatively…

In the late 1980s, in a dimly lit studio filled with the smell of latex and rubber, and the growing buzz of creative energy, Phil Tippett, a maestro of movie magic who would boast credits in iconic films such as “Star Wars” and “Jurassic Park,” was beginning the work of a lifetime. It wasn’t a…

25 years for Sam Bankman-Fried 0:00/1188.493061 Listen to a voiceover of this post, download the recording for later, or subscribe to the feed in your podcast app. Just like the jury deliberations, Sam Bankman-Fried's sentencing was brief. Commencing at 9:30, the sentence was delivered before noon.…

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Yesterday I got coffee with a pal who I used to work with on a design systems team that no longer exists. And, as we were talking, we both realized that everyone we worked with no longer even does design systems work these days. They might still be interested in the subject, might still write about…

For decades, physician and author Silke Heimes has been leading groups in therapeutic exercises to put thoughts and feelings down on paper. Heimes, a professor of journalism at Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences, points to abundant evidence that writing for five to 20 minutes a day can improve…

Cory Doctorow (by Amelia Beamer) Of course AI is a bubble. It has all the hallmarks of a classic tech bubble. Pick up a rental car at SFO and drive in either direction on the 101 – north to San Francisco, south to Palo Alto – and every single billboard is advertising some kind of AI company. Every…

Original title: “Why Should You (Or Anyone) Become An Engineering Manager?” The first piece I ever wrote about engineering management, The Engineer/Manager Pendulum, was written as a love letter to a friend of mine who was unhappy at work. He was an engineering director at a large and fast-growing…

Let me tell you about the time Happy Cog* almost tore itself apart about a year after I merged my studio, Airbag Industries, into the company, and how this event sparked the foundation of Same Team Pa

Why is this bridge here? This pedestrian bridge crosses I-494 just west of the Minneapolis Airport. It connects Bloomington to Richfield. I drive under it often and I wondered: why is it there? It's not in an area that is particularly walkable, and it doesn't connect any establishments that…

Through an impenetrable fog, the keel of a small vessel cuts through dark, threatening waters. Aboard, two figures stand hunched at the bow with their backs to us, their thick overcoats drawn tightly to shield them from the icy spray. One is old (Willem Dafoe), with the lined face of a seasoned…

MARION, Kan. — The phone conversation between the journalist and the town’s newly hired police chief quickly turned contentious. Tipsters had been telling Deb Gruver that Gideon Cody left the police department in Kansas City, Mo., under a cloud, supposedly threatened with demotion. So now she was…

Law and OrderProsecutor Fani Willis filed a sprawling new indictment against Donald Trump, but the Justice Department’s prosecution is likely to take priority. Jack Smith’s case was filed earlier than Fani Willis’, and federal proceedings tend to take priority in the legal system. | Francis…

Pastor Stephen Lee hasn’t had a very good week. “I can tell you that he’s nervous,” Lee’s attorney, David Shestokas, told The Daily Beast in an exclusive interview. “Anybody charged with a crime that serious—a five-year mandatory minimum, and a possible 20-year maximum—is not going to sleep easy at…

A sheriff's deputy stands guard near the Fulton County Courthouse in Atlanta on Monday. Authorities in Georgia said Thursday they're investigating threats targeting members of the grand jury that indicted former President Donald Trump and 18 of his allies. Alex Slitz/AP Before many people had a…

Lawyers say they expect former President Donald Trump to wade into commentary, and personal attacks, on people involved in bringing him to justice across four separate criminal indictments in four different jurisdictions. Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images Former President Donald Trump is testing the…

“I feel like I’m losing my mind.” These words are a continual presence these days. I hear them a couple hundred times a day in one form or another. I read them in desperate social media outbursts. I find them in my inbox from friends and from strangers. I hear them in my own head. They are the…