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An Obama speechwriter's memoir, and a tale from the campaign trail, offer some valuable insights into contemporary American politics.

Many websites and applications these days are designed to trick you into doing things that their creators want. Here are some examples from timewellspent.io:

A tested approach to improve your focus and productivity

The ctenophore’s brain suggests that, if evolution began again, intelligence would re-emerge because nature repeats itself

Dear Jeff, Tim, and colleagues, In 2013, EFF was disappointed to learn that the W3C had taken on the project of standardizing “Encrypted Media Extensions,” an API whose sole function was to provide a

At least some of the incidents were confined to certain rooms with laser-like specificity, and some victims now have problems recalling specific words

Several months ago, I turned off notifications from Facebook on my phone. Last week, I went ahead and removed the Facebook app from my phone. Now, I genuinely enjoy Facebook. I use it for keeping up with with my family and my IRL friends, who are spread out all over the world. (The questions I as

Research on naps, meditation, nature walks and the habits of exceptional artists and athletes reveals how mental breaks increase productivity, replenish attention, solidify memories and encourage creativity

More comfortable online than out partying, post-Millennials are safer, physically, than adolescents have ever been. But they’re on the brink of a mental-health crisis.

The Newsprint is a web-column written and produced by Josh & Jaclyn Ginter.

"Remote" means very different things. Most teams are better co-located, but remote working can source better people.

Apartment renters need the landlord’s permission to install anything on their rooftops. This makes installing solar difficult for people who rent. Because most of the world lives in urbanized areas…

Biology textbooks tell us that lichens are alliances between two organisms—a fungus and an alga. They are wrong.

Every major version of Mac OS X macOS has come with a new default wallpaper. As you can see, I have collected them all here. While great in their day, the early wallpapers are now quite small in...

A new book investigates the ways people in pain are being swindled, and explains what actually works.

Do you still love design?

How leaders lose mental capacities—most notably for reading other people—that were essential to their rise

Snips adds a layer of artificial intelligence to your phone, connecting all your information and making it easy to find.

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The head of the most valuable company in the world talks to Bloomberg Businessweek Editor Megan Murphy.

“One million Syrian customers,” CEO Hikmet Ersek says. “Do you think they will ever forget Western Union?”

James Comey’s seven-page written statement, released by the Senate Intelligence Committee this afternoon in connection with Comey’s impending testimony tomorrow, draws no conclusions, makes no

There’s graft, and then there’s Odebrecht graft.

I generally have posted about things that I have been directly involved with — either code I wrote or projects I managed. In this post I am taking a different tack to write about my perspective on the underlying causes of the Windows Vista (codename Longhorn) debacle. While this happened over a decade ago, this was a crucial period in the shift to mobile and had long-running consequences internally to Microsoft. I have found many of the descriptions of Microsoft’s problems, especially around the shift to mobile, to be unconvincing and not to mesh with my understanding or experience of what went wrong. Vanity Fair’s article Microsoft’s Lost Decade, ascribed it to bureaucratic rot and infighting (“life … had become staid and brutish”) or culture rot due to the negative effects of a competitive stack ranking evaluation system. A more recent article in The Atlantic describes it as a classic “Innovator’s Dilemma” story.