The Beginning of Infinity contains an inspiring message for humanity. Author David Deutsch describes the processes through which our species has emerged from a dirt-scratching purgatory to today's tow
Suppose that a great commotion arises in the street about something, let us say a lamp-post, which many influential persons desire to pull down. A grey-clad monk, who is the spirit of the Middle Ages,
Twitter has begun allowing its users to showcase NFTs, or non-fungible tokens, as profile pictures on their accounts. It’s the latest public victory for this form of … and, you know, there’s the probl
I have a hunch that once people saw the economic potential of software, they started looking for ways to “scale it up” and we haven’t stopped searching yet. There is something peculiar about software
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Usufruct is a short film about three friends on an atypical bikepacking trip near Durango, Colorado. Instead of planning a route with the best riding or most scenic vistas, they opt to ride through bu
2022-01-28 About 5 years ago I was working on a project written in style still common for today: python backend serving a REST API (public btw) SPA using framework-of-the day And it was horrible. Not
Wealthsimple makes powerful financial tools to help you grow and manage your money. Learn more When Thomas first started programming, it was 1969. He was a kid just out of high school in Toronto, with
I. How the system works My father-in-law passed away at a hospice on a cold, dreary Sunday morning in March 2019. His brutal two-and-a-half-year battle with colorectal cancer reached its tragic conclu
One of the things that is hard to appreciate in complex systems is path-dependence — the fact that most systems have memory. What we see today is a consequence of what came before. This is a very simp
The pandemic and climate crises make working ourselves to the bone in service of our own ambition seem a little silly. Let’s change that. Illustration: Ana Galvañ E arlier in the summer, while picking
As a quick stroll on social media reveals, most people love showing that they are good. Whether by expressing compassion for disaster victims, sharing a post to support a social movement, or denouncin
This letter is taken from the second volume of Letters of Note . Huge thanks to Steve Albini. Sign up to have these letters sent straight to your inbox... Nirvana, Dec 1993. Photo by Jeff Kravitz/Film
Burnout. According to some studies, 81% of developers have experienced it in recent years. While there’s no clear remedy for burnout, Anselm Hannemann has found one way to combat it… by planting veget
We’d all like life to be simpler. But we also don’t want to sacrifice our options and capabilities. Tesler’s law of the conservation of complexity, a rule from design, explains why we can’t have both.
Grafana Labs is a remote-first company. We hire and work with people from all over the world. The team I am in is a 10 person team is distributed across 5 countries (you can read more about our team h
I have a thought experiment for you. Pretend you’re driving somewhere local. A friend’s house, your favorite store, the office, whatever. You’re on autopilot, you’re not really paying attention. You r
Introduction It’s common in the tech industry to create several pre-live environments, such as development, staging, and even team, or feature-level environments. There are lots of reasons for this, b
P RIVATE CARS WERE RELATIVELY SCARCE in 1919 and horse-drawn conveyances were still common. In residential districts, electric streetlights had not yet replaced many of the old gaslights. And within t
Here’s how you do it. Build a platform which relies on cultural creation as its core value, but which only sees itself as a technology platform. Stick to this insistence on being solely a “neutral” te
A fter years of starting the day with a tall morning coffee, followed by several glasses of green tea at intervals, and the occasional cappuccino after lunch, I quit caffeine, cold turkey. It was not
My management philosophy is that “Devs do their best work when they feel useful , supported , and appreciated .” This is a draft of trying to put some of my management thoughts and best-practices in a
Editor’s Note : Taking Apple Music Discovery into Your Own Hands is part of the MacStories Starter Pack , a collection of ready-to-use shortcuts, apps, workflows, and more that we’ve created to help y
Image: France in 2000 year (XXI century) — Electric scrubbing (1899) by Jean-Marc Côté . The tagline was clear: “George Jetson heads a family of the future in a way of life very much like our own!” Pr
Written by 9 months ago - 6 min read If we could tag one apocalyptic rider for adaptive organizations, it would be "traditional performance management." It is old-fashioned performance management that
Wed Jan 12, 2022 by Justin Fuller Halfway through last year, I found myself overwhelmed by my schedule. There were simply too many things to do and not enough time. As we bookworms tend to do, I set o
Probably the single best thing to happen to me in my career was having had Kellan placed in charge of me. I stuck around long enough to see Kellan’s technical decisionmaking start to bear fruit. I lea
Image: Detail from SanFrancouver, Spring (2008) by Torrie Groening. Courtesy the artist. In 1995, environmental historian William Cronon published “The Trouble With Wilderness; or, Getting Back to the
This presentation was recorded at GOTO Amsterdam 2017. #GOTOcon #GOTOams http://gotoams.nl Robert C. Martin (Uncle Bob) - Author of "Clean Code" & "The Clean Coder", Co-author of the Agile Manifesto A
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100 years of whatever this will be What if all these weird tech trends actually add up to something? Last time, we explored why various bits of trendy technology are, in my opinion, simply never going
Ein Meer, zwei Welten Tel Aviv und Gaza-Stadt trennen 70 Kilometer und ein jahrhundertealter Konflikt. Eindrucksvolle Bilder von den Stränden der beiden Städte, die viel mehr zeigen als sonnendurchflu
Management isn’t a promotion up the ladder; it’s a separate, specific role that relates to individual contributors. That’s why managers need leaders on the technical track to be the deep experts their
Introduction Dig into Nick Caldwell ’s resume, and you’ll see leadership posts at an enviable list of startup staples — Reddit, Looker, and now Twitter. But less typical these days is the 15-year stin
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Great ideas can come from anywhere—at Lucid we truly believe that. While it’s not directly listed in our core values, all four of our values create space for us to find and deliver the best ideas at L
Imagine another version of the Internet respectful of people’s attention and time. The Swatch .Beat Webstream Black YQS1002 in the middle of retired digital artifacts In 1998, Swatch proposed a global
Hi everyone! This missive contains a recap of my columns on digital culture for The New Yorker and a B-side essay that helped me figure out my column on how social-media interfaces manipulate us . (Th
When the pandemic hit last spring, Mr James Routledge experienced some familiar symptoms. Anxiety. Stress. A nagging sense that life hadn’t turned out the way he dreamed. As the CEO of Sanctus, a comp
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