How do you determine whether to motivate your colleague towards progress or to respect their autonomy?

A new anonymous essay published every day in December in the countdown to Christmas.

A few weeks ago, internet culture writers and link aggregators were sharing a voyeuristic site that randomly plays YouTube videos titled with the default file names that iPhones assign.

Something has shifted at OpenAI.

Yes, Peter Thiel was the senator’s benefactor. But they’re both inspired by an obscure software developer who has some truly frightening thoughts about reordering society.

A vision for empowered computing that reaches back forty years. Our research lab examines why it has been so hard to achieve.

What would be possible if hand-drawn sketches were programmable like spreadsheets?

Every interoperable app becomes a super-app.

For an embodiment of the word singlehanded you might turn to the heroine of the recent movie Woman at War. It’s about an Icelandic eco-saboteur who blows up rural power lines and hides in scenic sp…

We know from experience and empirical analysis that open source and open standards projects drift into oligarchies that struggle to reform themselves and become ossified. Often, we can simply let them die and replace them with fresher alternatives, but when that's a costly option we can learn from theoretical models of institutional change to understand how to compost the oligarchy and regrow the project from within.

The complex of ideas I’m going to call the Dark Internet Forest emerges from mostly insidery tech thinking, but from multiple directions.

What if your company could have only one single advantage over the competition? This exercise will make your positioning and strategy stronger.

A friend who went back to school recently asked for public speaking tips, here's what I told her.

5 secrets behind Steve Jobs’ iconic keynote speeches.

Think of software design patterns but for your mind and thoughts.

A year or two ago, I wrote about the connection between fashion and programming. For reasons I don’t totally understand, it’s my second most…

As engineers, we love our technical solutions, but business leaders speak a different language. Learn how to turn your technical proposals into outcomes that the business cares about.

In The Psychology of Human Misjudgment, Charlie Munger explains why we behave the way we do. This is a transcript of the fully updated talk.

You might be the Tech Lead, but you don’t decide how your team develops software — their cultural ecology does.

I recently found a backup of my browser bookmarks from 2009. …

A guide on turning your diary into dollars.

Someone asked me this and here's my answer.

How to manage time as a Senior/Staff Software Engineer

Wisdom from Linus Torvalds, the creator of Git and Linux

Clear communication, empathy and good collaboration becomes very important!