One way that first principles thinking fails is when you build your analysis up from a deficient set of base principles. Everything is correct and true, but you still end up mistaken. Here's how that looks like in practice.

Former engineer says Tesla forced her out and then libeled her. Her lawsuit against the company is testing the limits of the arbitration agreements that bind millions of American workers.

Overweight men and women who exercised six days a week lost weight; those who worked out twice a week did not.

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When Sanjay Shah lost his job during the financial crisis more than a decade ago, he was one of thousands of mid-level traders suddenly out of work.

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Updates to our work supporting the integrity of the 2020 U.S. election.

YouTube said Wednesday it will start removing any content uploaded to its platform that contains allegations of widespread fraud or errors in the 2020 presidential election after Tuesday's so-called

The city state is the world's first country to approve Eat Just's "breakthrough" chicken nuggets.

An underperformer on your team may not realize they have an inflated view of their own less-than-stellar performance. Clearer feedback or stronger supervision may help them thrive, but it’s also possible that they’re not able to recognize that they’re struggling.…

DoorDash is the first company that I’ve had the opportunity to follow all the way from YC application to IPO, so to celebrate I thought it would be fun and interesting to share what a great company like DoorDash looks like at the earliest stages.

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The Federal Trade Commission today sued Facebook, alleging that the company is illegally maintain

According to a report from The Korea Economic Daily, Hyundai Motor will acquire Boston Dynamics for $921 million (1 trillion won).

With hundreds of millions of people using over 250,000 items in the Chrome Web Store, extensions have become essential to how m...

In the late 1970s and early 1980s MDMA was often utilized to help facilitate positive results in couples counseling. A few dozen pioneering psychotherapists in the United States explored the drug’s therapeutic uses until the US government declared MDMA a…

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Ensure MemoryStore disables compression by default. Reverts behavior of
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