Advice

The political economy of bullshit.

Sitting alongside the neurons in your enteric nervous system are underappreciated glial cells, which play key roles in digestion and disease that scientists are only just starting to understand.

Carl Malamud, defender of civil liberties, wants more – not less government on the Internet. While many Internet pioneers have turned their attention toward getting rich, Carl Malamud has remained focused on the public interest. A passionate proponent of the public's right to access government documents, the pugnacious Malamud goaded the Securities and Exchange Commission […]

The Return of Reactionary Modernism

Experts say allowing brief doze may help businesses and employees boost productivity as well as health

New research shows that binge-drinkers’ brains have to put more effort into trying to feel empathy for other people in pain.

Whether it is a new product or a new feature, the attention you get at launch is a one time opportunity. So, what should you focus on building?

“Networking.” What a word. When I left grad school in 2015, networking was for slick-haired salesmen, former jocks, and social parasites in general. Real heroes built better mousetraps and the world beat a path to their doors. But then I looked at what real successes actually do - they lead...

Guest post by Ian Vanagas - Writer at Product for Engineers

Overview of the insights from the roundtable on Plato Elevate conference in San Francisco!

I was at Nando’s, waiting for my order of chicken wings. These days, I hardly carry my phone, bringing my pocket notepad instead. A lady working there approached me and asked if I was waiting for something. I said, “Yes,” and she replied, “Oh, okay, just checking.”

To be young today is to face the future – the planet’s as well as one’s own – at a time when social safety nets...

It really should be acceptable and normal to say “I don’t entirely understand what I just read, but I loved it.”

Why the most intuitive explanation for ideas getting harder to find is wrong