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There are plenty of junior developers, but not many jobs for them

In a new book, an argument for giving children more of a sense of control over their lives

The Society Pages (TSP) is an open-access social science project headquartered in the Department of Sociology at the University of Minnesota

Wednesday afternoon. 3:30. Tanya and I walking through a complex political scenario involving Product and Engineering. Nothing devious. Just complex. Many moving parts. I’ve had some version of this conversation five times today. The whiteboard is my savior. I’m using it to draw a picture that anch

“slack empowers your worst people to overwhelm your best”

Share this Late one balmy August night in 2016, Owen Harvey stood outside Manhattan’s Bryant Park, nervously awaiting an encounter that would determine the next…

Frank Chimero’s Personal Website

A trivial problem reveals the limits of technology.

Line is down the hall again, maybe even worse than yesterday! Looks to me like it's more reporters than lawyers this morning but jeez, it's still 6— sarah jeong (@sarahjeong) February 6, 2018

Welcome to WeWork, the eight-year-old, $20 billion “shared space” nerve center of the New New Economy—in which the corporate ladder has been replaced by a rent-a-desk, the benefits package consists of free WiFi and La Colombe, and the retirement plan is IPO or bust. But hey, at least there’s no one to boss you around anymore, right? Eric Konigsberg clocks in to find out just what the hell people actually do there all day.

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Welcome to the Zone.

My doctor told me that feeling pain during recovery from surgery is normal. Why was I so resistant?

According to a new analysis, the number of US teens who felt “useless” and “joyless” grew 33 percent between 2010 and 2015, and there was a 23 percent increase in suicide attempts.

Everyone wants to be popular online. Some even pay for it. Inside social media’s black market.

Stockmarket investors are wrong to expect an enormous surge in advertising revenues

If you want to improve your UI design skills, try looking at chess. Sounds contrived, maybe, but in Erik Kennedy’s hands, it’s sublime. Marvel and learn as he uses a concept from chess to build a t…

Silicon Valley CEOs are supposed to be sacrosanct. So how did it all go wrong at Uber?

“Experience is something you don’t get until just after you need it.” — Steven Wright.

Women are chimeras, with genetic material from both their parents and children. Where does that leave individual identity?

A decade ago, smart devices promised to change the way we think and interact, and they have – but not by making us smarter. Eric Andrew-Gee explores the growing body of scientific evidence that digital distraction is damaging our minds

The revolution will be ushered in by young people who are also cryptocurrency millionaires. Oh wait, they may be broke already.

on making small changes