The artist in the age of online media
A lot of young artists are building brand equity and audience, but fame doesn't equal money and you can't eat brand equity.
Commentary
Independent perspectives on the state of business and technology.
P-values not quite considered harmful
The crisis of reproducibility is an opportunity to get better at doing science.
Programming, oaths, and users
The Programmer's Oath is missing one essential element: the customer.
Escaping the superstar syndrome
Sports show us the impact a superstar can have on the success of a team. But it's the team with the most superstars that wins.
Do one thing…
I don't want barely distinguishable tools that are mediocre at everything; I want tools that do one thing and do it well.
Building an automated future
Our fears of automation aren’t due to problems of artificial intelligence, but of human intelligence.
We’ve got this whole unicorn thing all wrong!
There’s another kind of unicorn: The breakthrough, once remarkable, that becomes taken for granted
Improving Uber’s surge pricing
Should algorithmic pricing be the norm rather than the exception?
How on-demand logistics could save brick and mortar retail
Retailers face another existential threat.
Amazon, boredom, and culture
Corporate leadership is as much about building people as it is about developing product.
A world of continous partial employment
Managers and workers benefit when both have access to data and control.
The rise of networked platforms for physical world services
A look at the economic shift led by software and connectedness.
Flattening organizations
It's easy to talk about eliminating hierarchy; it's much harder to do it effectively.
The computing of distrust
A look at what lies ahead in the disenchanted age of postmodern computing.
Uber is breaking bad
Uber has built a great service. Why do they feel the need to use dirty tricks to succeed?
The Internet of Things and Humans
The network, new data capabilities, and mobile devices rich in sensors have created fresh and unconventional possibilities to rethink workflows and processes in the real world.
What Amazon, iTunes, and Uber teach us about Apple Pay
Truly disruptive services don’t just digitize the familiar. They do away with it.
By People, For People
The failure of healthcare.gov was a textbook DevOps (or rather, lack of DevOps) case study. But it’s part of a wider pattern that reminds us that people should be at the heart of everything we build. In fact, getting the “people” part right is the key both to DevOps and great user experience design.