Checking Jeff Bezos’s Math
Stakeholder Capitalism Deserves Clearer Metrics
Commentary
Independent perspectives on the state of business and technology.
The Wrong Question
What questions should we be asking about the future of social media? “Free Speech” isn’t it.
Patterns
Patterns give you a language for discussing solutions to problems.
What is functional programming?
Be as functional as you want to be
On Exactitude in Technical Debt
What does a metaphor like “technical debt” mean? And what doesn’t it mean?
Multi-Paradigm Languages
We need to learn how to effectively use multi-paradigm languages that support functional, object oriented, and procedural paradigms.
Our Favorite Questions
Asking very simple questions often leads to discussions that give much more insight than more complex, technical questions.
AI and Creativity
Creativity means making something new, not copying what exists already.
Pair Programming with AI
An Agent of Change
A look into the Covid-19 pandemic's influence on how we think, spend, and manage our businesses.
The Least Liked Programming Languages
What are some of the least liked/most dreaded programming languages? Why are they dreaded, and are they being evaluated fairly?
Power, Harms, and Data
Data is often biased. But that isn’t the real issue. Why is it biased? How do we build teams that are sensitive to that bias?
AI, Protests, and Justice
Society-Centered Design
How socially centered design differs from individualistic design
COVID-19 and Complex Systems
Decision-Making in a Time of Crisis
A Bad Outcome Doesn't Mean a Bad Decision
Machine Learning and the Production Gap
The Business of Open Source
How do you build a business around open source when you’re competing with AWS and the like? Chef’s answer: double down on Open Source.