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Acclaimed author of new short-story collection “Grand Union” underlines the effort in becoming fully human, particularly in an age where tech and tech companies create “a system which makes you manifestly unfree.”

Improving eco-efficiency within a capitalist growth-oriented system will not save the environment.

No goods or services are stand-alone

A description of the sand painting method that I usually use when making generative art.

It’s frustrating to lose a game to the same player every time. But help is at hand. Discover the ways you can make a game respond dynamically to participants so everyone has a chance of winning.

Pennsylvania’s Williamson College of the Trades provides a path to good jobs for kids not pursuing traditional four-year degrees.

An in-depth exploration of a new method used by tracking companies to disguise their third-party trackers as first-party trackers.

No one likes an office whistler or pen clicker – but for some people, these noises aren’t just a nuisance, they’re a full-blown aural assault. Why?

We love the web. In many ways, it’s the opportunity of our lifetime to communicate ideas, spread knowledge, and bring us together. If we’re going to fully realize its potential, we need to do good work. We believe good work on the web is purposeful, accessible, responsible, and trustworthy.

Facebook and Google’s pervasive surveillance of billions of people poses a systemic threat to human rights.

I grew up in Wisconsin, and have lived in Iowa, Minnesota, and New York. Except for a two-year stint in the Bay Area, I've experienced winter -- real winter, with lots of snow, below-freezing temperatures, and little d

One of the best ways to learn and come up with new ideas is to focus intensely on a problem, then let your mind wander. I’ve enjoyed doing this when problem solving and learning, and recently I’ve been thinking about how weird it is to build trust in your unconscious to do the work for you, especially when it comes to technical work. Letting your mind focus and letting your mind wander The first recommendation I have for anyone taking a meta look at learning is Barbara Oakley’s Learning How To Learn.

Something is stopping us from creating the families we claim to desire. But what?

The Berlin Study In the early 1990s, a trio of psychologists descended on the Universität der Künste, a historic arts academy in the heart of West Berlin. They came to study the violinists. As described in their subsequent publication in Psychological Review, the researchers asked the academy's music professors to help them identify a set of stand

Building an audience for your work is easier and harder than it’s ever been. It’s easier because we have the tools and resources to create our work, and the distribution channels to spread that…

How did feeling good become a matter of relentless, competitive work; a never-to-be-attained goal which makes us miserable?

People who trust more get better at knowing whom to trust, and so reap the benefits of more friends and more knowledge

A British historian famously wrote that work expands to fill available time – but what was he actually saying about inefficiency?

Also SoftBank governance and Hovnanian liens.

Chris Achard

In early October, Nat Friedman, the CEO of GitHub, the Microsoft-owned software development platform, sent an email to employees announcing that it would renew…

In 2018 $273bn was spent on digital ads globally. We delve into the world of clicks, banners and keywords to find out if any of it is real. What do we really know about the effectiveness of digital advertising?

Leaders are often faced with ethical conundrums. So how can they determine when they’re inching toward dangerous territory? There are three main psychological dynamics that lead to crossing moral lines. First, there’s omnipotence: when someone feels so aggrandized and entitled that they believe the rules of decent behavior don’t apply to them. Second, consider cultural numbness: when others play along and gradually begin to accept and embody deviant norms. Finally, when people don’t speak up because they are thinking of more immediate rewards, we see justified neglect. There are several strategies leaders can use to counter these dynamics, including relying on a group of trusted peers to keep you in check, keeping a list of things you will never do for profit, and looking out for ways you explain away borderline actions.

Researchers in Japan and at the University of Michigan said they have found a way to take over the voice-controlled digital assistants.