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America’s self-reliance obsession makes it more acceptable to applaud working yourself to death than to argue that doing so points to a flawed economic system.

Uber is not only a scofflaw, but, as Mike Isaac of the New York Times reported last week, the company has been running an elaborate program to deceive and evade cops and other local officials in ci…

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Outside your door stands a line of a few hundred people. They are patiently waiting for you to answer their questions, complaints, pull requests, and feature requests. You want to help all of them,…

A retrospective on the technical interview process based on three months of searching for a job.

A number of prominent web folks have been asking for “container queries.” I think they’re right to do so, and here’s why.

Interesting pre-post hike analysis of health.

Concrete Shopify Theme Framework

As most of you know, I left Uber in December and joined Stripe in January. I've gotten a lot of questions over the past couple of months about why I left and what my time at Uber was like. It's a strange, fascinating, and slightly horrifying story that deserves to be told while it is still fresh in

Tens of thousands of people every year are sent to jail based on the results of a $2 roadside drug test. Widespread evidence shows that these tests routinely produce false positives. Why are police departments and prosecutors still using them?

In 1923, the father of modern architecture, Le Corbusier, was commissioned by a French industrialist to design some homes for workers in his factory near Bordeaux. Le Corbusier duly delivered brigh…

A town plagued by mysterious fires turns to science, the church, and the law in a search for answers.

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By Jeremy Keith

For problem behavior, spanking and even time-out are a waste of time. Try this instead.

What a close study of "inner speech" reveals about why humans talk to themselves

Economists believe in full employment. Americans think that work builds character. But what if jobs aren’t working anymore?

In years gone by Halfbrick had a tradition.

[Note: I tweeted all of this yesterday, and got some requests to have it all in blog post form. I’ve linked each point to the original…

Five novels, five books of nonfiction and two graphic memoirs to read before you hit 30.

Learning to value smart work over hard work requires a paradigm shift, but pays dividends. Workaholics aren’t heroes. They don’t save the day, they just use it up. The real hero is already home because she figured out a faster way to get things done. – Jason Fried & David Heinemeier Hansson, Rework In March of 2011, I was in... Read More ￫

Workers, including children, labor in harsh and dangerous conditions to meet the world’s soaring demand for cobalt, a mineral essential to powering electric vehicles, laptops, and smartphones, according to an investigation by The Washington Post.

Retronator Do It Yourself

Photo: A sample "daily rind" from my notebook For years my task and schedule management lived across various apps — OmniFocus, Basecamp, Google Calendar, and others (and more recently, as I pared down...