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@patio11: Some people really benefit from hearing advice that everyone knows, for the same reason we keep schools open despite every subject in them having been taught before. In that spirit, here's some quick Things...…

The burnout crisis is real and the stakes have never been higher. Your people need a well-being platform that actually works.

We’ve gathered unusual solutions to unusual problems from resourceful coders across the industry. Delight at their ingenuity, marvel at their audaciousness, and

A Meritocracy is a Trailing Indicator:

65,321 votes and 2,670 comments so far on Reddit

Cognitive behavioural therapy has created interventions that truly help people to change. Here are the best of them

Silicon Valley makes billions of dollars peddling personal information.

Some topics make me more nervous than others, and this is one of them. I don’t have any doubts about whether I’m onto something, but I’m unsure if it’s really worth the dust and angst it’s going to kick up. At its heart, this is about our lack of self-awareness around our own abilities in

We discovered a massive network of fake Facebook profiles used to trap victims in sextortion scams. Here's how.

Open offices misunderstand psychology and design

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Poker machines use a range of design features that leverage psychology to keep people playing. In this feature, first published in 2017, we break them down so you can see exactly how slot machines are programmed to work, and how they affect people

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The benefits of reading are negated if you don't remember what you read. This article discusses a tested system to increase retention.

Google’s alternative facts.

We're building an artificial intelligence-powered dystopia, one click at a time, says techno-sociologist Zeynep Tufekci. In an eye-opening talk, she details how the same algorithms companies like Facebook, Google and Amazon use to get you to click on ads are also used to organize your access to political and social information. And the machines aren't even the real threat. What we need to understand is how the powerful might use AI to control us -- and what we can do in response.

You’re aware America is under siege, fighting an opioid crisis that has exploded into a public-health emergency. You’ve heard of OxyContin, the pain medication to which countless patients have become addicted. But do you know that the company that makes Oxy and reaps the billions of dollars in profits it generates is owned by one family?

This is Part 1 of a series examining techniques used in game graphics and how those techniques fail to deliver a visually appealing end result. See Part 0 for a more thorough explanation of the ide…

Sapiens and Collective Fictions Recently I read Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Harari. The basic thesis of the book is that humans require ‘collective fictions’ so that …

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Making a tool for "programming with plain words"! Here's me "programming" a line-drawing turtle: #ScreenshotSaturday

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