Successful small businesses often stumble when they seek to get to an entirely different scale. It’s easy to believe that things are dramatically better when there’s more. More customer…
Insufficient effort creates work that’s wasted. If you do a slapdash job, then the roof leaks, the food is inedible, the car doesn’t start. Insufficient effort is a shortcut that wasn&#…
HTML, Curiosity, and Missouri Gov. Mike Parson’s Incredible Gaffe
The saga of the Missouri governor reflects a failure by the powerful to embrace curiosity—curiosity encouraged by the HTML language he fails to understand.
Facebook's Fall From Grace Looks a Lot Like Ford's
Before there was Big Tech, there were auto companies that prioritized profits over safety—until a leaked memo made it clear regulation was the only cure.
Early adopters change the world. While one person choosing not to eat meat will have a small impact on our climate, it will have a much bigger impact on the restaurants, groceries and food supplier…
Study reveals scale of data-sharing from Android mobile phones
An in-depth analysis of a range of popular Android mobile phones has revealed significant data collection and sharing, including with third parties, with no opt-out available to users.
13 Staircases Blanketed with Prismatic Murals Evocative of Andean Textiles Run Through Lima's Hills
Artist Xomatok (previously) translates the vibrant, geometric motifs of handwoven Andean blankets, or ilicllas, into large-scale works that mark the pathways through the hilly Alisos de Amauta neighborhood in Lima, Peru. Painted during the course of two months as part of Pinta Lima Bicentenario, the
When we remember this time, we’ll do so through a bunch of little boxes on a laptop screen. The photographer Thomas Dworzak captured our strange, sad year on Zoom.
A New Global Economic Consensus | by Mariana Mazzucato - Project Syndicate
Now that the COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the deficiencies of economic deregulation and market liberalization, a new policymaking paradigm is emerging. But its success depends on concrete reforms and the creation of new mission-driven institutions.
Building on Your DEI Foundation: Five Lessons from Twilio - HackerRank Blog
Twilio continues to evolve its DEI strategy, including recently implementing Racial Justice and Equity Initiatives that will drive forward the company’s antiracism commitment. Efforts like these shift the focus away from short-term goals toward lasting systemic change.
When plotting Russian election results, a structured grid patterns appear. From The Economist: When Dmitry Kobak and Sergey Shpilkin, two researchers, analysed the results, they found that an unusu…