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Does your office need a "no-talk Thursdays" rule?

If what it takes to create are long stretches of time alone, that’s something women have never had the luxury to expect

How to deal with companies that misbehave

He understands men in America better than most people do. The rest of the country should start paying attention.

Good design is transparent.

We live in a global society that predominantly believes earning and having money is the route to a full existence. Not only is that untrue…

I dedicate this to the energy of We.

YouTube built its business on keeping users hooked. This has been a gift to extremist groups. An investigation in the company’s second-biggest market found serious consequences.

Everything I've learned from working remotely for 16 years

Sexual harassment. Hate speech. Employee walkouts. The Silicon Valley giant is trapped in a war against itself. And there’s no end in sight.

Earlier this year I left my job. I felt a strong urge to recharge physically and – more important – mentally. The role had created a series of positive connections and had me embark on …

An investigation into the infinite creativity of workers.

With my husband checked out of our marriage, I found flirtation at the office. It didn’t go well.

From Diogenes to Jane Goodall, the hypersane seem mad to the mainstream but perhaps they see more deeply than the sane

Leaving a community isn’t easy, but a subreddit and QuitMormon.com makes the process of leaving the Mormon Church (officially the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) simpler and more human

A detailed explanation of why I keep saying that advertising is a cancer on modern society.

Using two classics of magic, Kyle Eschen explores the psychological techniques that underlie theatrical deception. As people wander the world, they use assumptions and heuristics to filter out everything that they deem unimportant - Kyle gives a conjuror’s perspective on the brain’s predictable blind spots. More information on http://www.tedxvienna.at Magician Kyle Eschen thinks deeply about psychology of deception. Through a decade of performing he has seen that people possess gaping blind spots, which he will highlight through magic routines with audacious methods. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at http://ted.com/tedx

Over the past decade, everyone—and I mean everyone—with an online presence felt the pressure to become a content publisher. Coca-Cola. Costco. Tiny midwestern

Modern JavaScript frameworks are all about reactivity. Change your application's state, and the view updates automatically. But there's a catch — tracking state changes at runtime adds overhead that eats into your bundle size and performance budgets. In this talk, we'll discover an alternative approach: moving reactivity into the language itself. Your apps have never been smaller or faster than they're about to become. Slides: https://rethinking-reactivity.surge.sh/ YGLF 2019: Code Camp Blog - Rich Harris: https://www.israel.yglfconf.com/post/meet-the-speaker-rich-harris

Brooke Holden had all but given up on breaking into the video game business.

For more than a decade, consumer rights groups (including EFF) worked with technologists and companies to try to standardize Do Not Track, a flag that browsers could send to online companies

Sometimes what a company needs is a group that a manager can’t control.

Mindfulness promotes itself as value-neutral but it is loaded with (troubling) assumptions about the self and the cosmos

Essay on the benefits of speedy software, and how it affects user perception of engineering quality and overall usability

What's the number one prerequisite to building a high-quality wardrobe? Exactly: You need to be able to recognize a quality garment when you see one. You need to be able to tell the difference between a durable, well-crafted piece and one that looks pretty on the rack but won't last more than half a

Ten days after calling off her engagement, CJ Hauser travels to the Gulf Coast to live among scientists and whooping cranes.

When I became a manager, I realized I needed to listen a lot more. This is my journey with active listening, and the exercises that have helped me improve.