Product vs. Feature Teams This article is certain to upset many people. I’m sorry for that, but the degree of ongoing noise and confusion surrounding the role of product at tech companies is only gett
by Morten Just Take a few products and keep asking “what is this compensating for?” and you’ll eventually end up with the same answer. And that answer may be why conversational interfaces could get in trouble Cruz Marrero was texting. She felt a cold stone wall smash against her lower leg. The mall…
The arc of collaboration is long and it bends in the direction of functional workflows. Why Slack is an Else Statement, there is no distinction between productivity and collaboration, and why the Slac
I spent over 25 hours building a cut-down version of Sapiens. The goal? Future-me should be happy to read this once future-me forgets how we evolved. It’s massive for a blog post, just under 30 minute
In the film The Big Sleep (1946), the private eye Philip Marlowe (played by Humphrey Bogart) calls at the house of General Sternwood to discuss his two daughters. They sit in the greenhouse as the wea
Richard Hamming gave this talk in March of 1986. [1] It's one of the best talks I've ever read and has long impacted how I think about spending my time. I mentioned it to a number of people this weeke
I’ve observed thousands of founders and thought a lot about what it takes to make a huge amount of money or to create something important. Usually, people start off wanting the former and end up wanti
I turned 30 last week and a friend asked me if I'd figured out any life advice in the past decade worth passing on. I'm somewhat hesitant to publish this because I think these lists usually seem holl
Every now and again, someone emails me and asks for very general advice. ("How do I change the world?") With the caveat that I've only lived a fraction of one life, and am still trying to figure thing
Vicki Jauron, Babylon and Beyond Photography/Getty Images The top trophy hire in data science is elusive, and it’s no surprise: a “full-stack” data scientist has mastery of machine learning, statistic
'I stopped trying to make my life perfect, and instead tried to make it interesting.' News Office Caption : Drew Houston '05 displays his Brass Rat during his Commencement Address. Credits : Photo: Do
"My topic is the shift from 'architect' to 'gardener', where 'architect' stands for 'someone who carries a full picture of the work before it is made', to 'gardener' standing for 'someone who plants s
What Swimming Taught Me About Happiness Lesson No. 1: It’s not about how fast you can go. July 27, 2019 Credit... Adalis Martinez By Dr. Friedman is a psychiatrist and a contributing opinion writer. O
Amphora. Posted on 9 August 2019 I recently found myself on the official page for AMP Stories , the latest offshoot of Google’s Accelerated Mobile Pages ( AMP ) project . If you’re not familiar, an AM
THREAD: What is complexity? Concepts as introduced by @EcoLabs + @Ecocene / @cecanexus , with notes especially from the perspective of behavioural medicine. Full poster here: cecan.ac.uk/index.php/new
Managing data within an organisation can involve a large number of processes, people, and policies. The more data a company produces, collates, and holds across multiple systems, the more important it
Abstract Artificial neural networks (ANNs) have undergone a revolution, catalyzed by better supervised learning algorithms. However, in stark contrast to young animals (including humans), training suc
The point we will be making here is that logically, neither trial and error nor "chance" and serendipity can be behind the gains in technology and empirical science attributed to them. By definition c
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From a report in The Verge about the aftermath of the collision of the USS John S. McCain, which killed ten sailors and injured many more: The US Navy will replace the touchscreen throttle and helm co
The following opinion piece originally appeared on Journal #101 of e-flux , and has been replicated here with the author’s permission. With topographical memory, one could speak of generations of visi
Admitting a mistake can be incredibly difficult for some founders. They become so invested in proving the validity of their original idea that their businesses fail. Not every founder falls into this
UPDATE: March 30, 2020: Today in Nature Neuroscience , UCSF researchers Joseph Makin, David Moses, and Eddie Chang published the results of a recent study that set a new benchmark for decoding speech
A paper posted online this month has settled a nearly 30-year-old conjecture about the structure of the fundamental building blocks of computer circuits. This “sensitivity” conjecture has stumped many
Like many medications, the wakefulness drug modafinil, which is marketed under the trade name Provigil, comes with a small, tightly folded paper pamphlet. For the most part, its contents—lists of inst
“I have participated and contributed to events that have significantly reduced the power of middle management and which have placed powerful information tools into the hands of unlikely people." — Lee
July 25, 2019 × Aaron Z. Lewis × Glencoe, IL It’s 2013, and I’m lounging on the hardwood floor of my childhood bedroom with a blasphemous book that I smuggled home from college: Sam Harris' Letter to
I. Allen Ginsberg’s famous poem on Moloch: What sphinx of cement and aluminum bashed open their skulls and ate up their brains and imagination? Moloch! Solitude! Filth! Ugliness! Ashcans and unobtaina
Hello, and welcome to my new monthly(ish) column about language and linguistics in science fiction and fantasy! My name is Conni (CD) Covington, and I have MAs in both German and linguistics. I wrote my linguistics thesis on the effect of usage frequency on verbal morphology in a subset of German…
In 1988, the historian of science William H. Donahue published his article “ Kepler’s fabricated figures: covering up the mess in the New Astronomy ” in the Journal of the History of Astronomy . He ha
A ball in mid-bounce has its past and future trajectories determined by the laws of physics, but time will only flow into the future for us. While Newton's laws of motion are the same whether you run the clock forwards or backwards in time, not all of the rules of physics behave identically if you…
neuroscience To Remember, the Brain Must Actively Forget July 24, 2018 Researchers find evidence that neural systems actively remove memories, which suggests that forgetting may be the default mode of
“I t’s not true that no one needs you anymore.” These words came from an elderly woman sitting behind me on a late-night flight from Los Angeles to Washington, D.C. The plane was dark and quiet. A man
Infrastructure is everything you don’t think about. The roads you drive on. The rigs and refineries that turn fossil fuel into the gas that makes your car go. The electricity that powers the streetlig
Sarah Perry is a contributing editor of Ribbonfarm. Author’s note: The thinking that gave rise to this essay was committed in collaboration with St. Rev . Errors, suspicious implications, and dubious
How was this possible? Did they block the other end of the pipe with noise canceling foams or a chunk of concrete? No, nothing of the sort. The pipe was actually left open save for a small, 3D-printed ring placed around the rim. That ring cut 94% of the sound blasting from the speaker, enough to…
I received my copy of “A Pattern Language” as a high school graduation gift. I had already declared my intention to be an architect, so my aunt and uncle bought me the design equivalent of the Bible—t
Imagine for a moment the perfect organizational system. A system that told you exactly where to put every piece of information in your life – every document, file, note, agenda, outline, and bit of re
In the most utopian statement of what the internet might be, the late John Perry Barlow laid out the claim that cyberspace was free. “Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and
Dark mode. Worse for most, essential for a few These quotes… Except in extraordinary situations, Dark Mode is not easy on the eyes, in any way and Unfortunately, Apple’s marketing claims about Dark Mo
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