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Recently I met a new coworker, a now-former professor who left academia.

As I was getting ready to write this post I spent some time thinking about some of the coding tools that I have used over the course of my career. This includes the line-oriented editor that was an intrinsic part of the BASIC interpreter that I used in junior…

Street Epistemology is a way to help people critically reflect on the quality of their reasoning through civil conversations.

The layoffs impact many different teams.

Leadership has traditionally been taught as a set of larger actions, such as having a difficult conversation or coaching someone. In reality, leading well is an integrated activity, in which one is doing many things simultaneously. One way to learn to do…

Elevated temple platforms exist worldwide. On the flood plains of Mesopotamia, ancient peoples built artificial divine mountains that represent human ascent to the world of the gods.

Nature - Meteorologists are forecasting a third consecutive year of La Niña. Some researchers say similar conditions could become more common as the planet warms.

Video streaming company Netflix said it has laid off 300 people — which represents 3% of its workforce — because of slowing growth and the economic downturn. This is the firm’s second layoff spree in two months, after it let go of 150 staffers in May. In…

We’ve reached a significant milestone of $1 million in annual recurring revenue (ARR) with Plausible Analytics. This post is a recap of how we got to this point.

If it seems like today’s kids have gotten “softer” compared to the kids decades ago, perhaps it’s because playgrounds have gotten softer as well.

The Federal Trade Commission announced today that it will crack down on education technology companies if they illegally surveil children when they go online to learn.

Some folks claim that Apple's mandated inadequacy for browsers and their engines is somehow beneficial to the cause of ensuring a diverse pool of web engines. Nothing could be farther from the truth, but to understand why, we need to understand how browsers…

Stanford Medicine researchers and their collaborators have identified a molecule that staves off hunger post-exercise.