Weekly

Meet developer icon David Heinemeier Hansson, aka DHH, who explains the need to build lasting products and why he doesn't always listen to customers.

This week I was supposed to start working on launching my summer online course. But I was dreading it. I could logically reason myself into taking action or not taking action. I meditated on it and asked, "What does my heart want." The answer was clear. I don't want to teach this course this summer.

A better understanding of the emotions of consumers would help control inflation risks

A life of leisure was once the aspiration of the upper class. But now, bragging about busyness is how people indicate their status. Could a pandemic change the way busyness is glorified?

"It's a high-risk, high-payoff situation."

"It's an escape hatch from tyranny," writes the Human Rights Foundation's Alex Gladstein. "It's nothing less than freedom money."

What the pandemic revealed about scientific publishing

The market for furry friends has been hounded by a supply-demand shock that’s now resulting in a kind of bull(dog)whip effect.

We built a concept corpus and recommendation network for science fiction.