Business Skills
Being data literate does not require becoming a data scientist. It does require enough understanding to interpret what data people show you, ask useful questions about methodolo...
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Culture
Over the past year working from cafés in a dozen cities across three continents, I have developed an informal anthropology of café working culture. The unwritten rules vary enor...
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Opinion
Longtermism — the philosophical position that we should weight the interests of future generations heavily in our current decisions — has gained influence in tech circles. I wan...
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Wellness
The wellness app market has grown substantially in recent years, with meditation, sleep, fitness, and mental health apps collectively reaching hundreds of millions of users glob...
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Personal Finance
We tested six leading budgeting apps over three months of real usage, tracking actual income, expenses, savings goals, and investment accounts. The goal was to assess not just f...
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Technology
The acute semiconductor shortages that defined 2021-2023 have largely resolved. Lead times for most commodity chips have returned to pre-pandemic norms, though specific advanced...
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Media
The creator economy — individuals producing content for audiences outside traditional media companies — has grown from a cottage industry into a structural force. By 2026, estim...
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Opinion
Somewhere in the last fifteen years, a specific way of thinking about problems became dominant in technology circles. Every social inefficiency, every imperfect institution, eve...
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