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Human-centered design is not enough. We must look past the individual to society itself. We must design for the collective.

The creators of SimCity had a division that made Sim games for corporations. They were never released to the public. For the first time ever, this is the story of Maxis Business Simulations.

There is such a thing as a free lunch

It took Lisa Piccirillo less than a week to answer a long-standing question about a strange knot discovered over half a century ago by the legendary John Conway.

Waste removal is one of the most dangerous jobs in the country. On the darkened streets of New York City, it’s a race for survival.

The Wonders of World Engineering website is designed to share information about this magazine published as 53 weekly instalments from 2nd March 1937 through to 1st March 1938. A vast range of engineering subjects was covered.

A special project exploring conspiracy thinking in America, from @TheAtlantic.

You don’t need a massive budget, media connections, or industry experience to launch a breakthrough creative project

It turns out that people on Confederate Facebook are not very good at the internet.

At 22, he single-handedly put a stop to the worst cyberattack the world had ever seen. Then he was arrested by the FBI. This is his untold story.

We need to remake the world we left behind. And we need to start with how we care for one another.

What if everyone's wrong?

Variable is a generative design and data visualisation studio based in London, UK. We blend design, software and aesthetics emerging from data, processes and human behaviour.

They're not more tired than the rest of us, according to a new study—they're just better at sleeping

My floor was never made of lava. Usually my floor was made of quicksand. This was partly because of that one scene in The Princess Bride, but mostly because of going to the beach and feeling the wet grainy sand shift under my bare feet, wiggling my toes into it, imagining that this time—this time—it might suddenly give way. This time I might finally get to use all of my eagerly-acquired expertise in how to escape (throw away anything you’re carrying; sit or lie down to increase...

A guide to making sense of a problem that is now too big for any one person to fully comprehend

UPDATE Several years ago on my 68th birthday I wrote up 68 bits of advice for my adult children, and posted them here. Here are the first five bits: Learn how to learn from those you disagree with, or even … Continue reading →

Lee Holloway programmed internet security firm Cloudflare into being. Then he became apathetic, distant, and unpredictable—for a long time, no one could make sense of it.

Part I - What is a Weird Internet Career? Lately, as I’ve been doing fancy things like publishing a NYT bestselling book about internet linguistics and writing a column about internet linguistics for...

On JavaScript, frameworks, and how giving a damn doesn’t scale.

“The Spotify model” got a bunch of companies talking like Taylor Swift about startup culture, but four former Spotify employees reveal the truth: its eponymous way of working failed before it scaled.

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When the gurus on your block outnumber the tradespeople or teachers or artists, surely that's a sign that the world has lost its footing. Because even as the

Tracy Alloway strikes one of the more ridiculous trades in commodities history.