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By David Robson. The research continues to prove that the subject of wisdom is worthy of rigorous experimental study.

The author of We Need to Talk reveals how she learned to help -- and not help -- a friend with loss.

What even is a data-obsessed, project-juggling digital ninja?

Matthias Ott is an independent user experience designer and developer from Stuttgart, Germany. Besides design practice he teaches Interface Prototyping at the Muthesius Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Kiel.

Empathy is overrated. Empathy is full of assumptions, presumptions, and biases. I can be empathetic and still maintain a power imbalance. I can feel for you and still perpetuate a hierarchical, one-directional relationship. I can fake empathy. I can even outsource and mediate it to a virtual-reality headset.

[Frank Chimero](https://frankchimero.com/) has long been on our interview wish list. The Brooklyn-based designer, illustrator and author of The Shape ...

Interactive essay about principles attributed to both good writing and design.

At Facebook’s worst-performing content moderation site, operated by Cognizant in Tampa, FL one contractor has died, others have developed PTSD and fear for their lives.

I didn’t expect that spending a week with a couple thousand lesbians on a cruise ship would push me to radically reconsider the future I’d planned for myself.

Writer and photographer Teju Cole speaks at Class Day at the School of Design.

Prosecutors have stepped into the void left by Congress’s failure to say how far the police can go in using investigative technology.

“The whole premise of Facebook is to render not private” your activity, said company lawyer, fighting off lawsuits over Cambridge Analytica data collection.

Monitor your world with Enviro and Enviro + Air Quality for Raspberry Pi! There's a whole bunch of fancy environmental sensors on these boards, and a gorgeous little full-colour LCD to display your data. They're the perfect way to get started with citizen science and environmental monitoring!

Practical thoughts from a back-end team leader

Profit, money, shareholders: these are the priorities of most companies today. But at what cost? In an appeal to corporate leaders worldwide, Chobani founder Hamdi Ulukaya calls for an end to the business playbook of the past -- and shares his vision for a new, "anti-CEO playbook" that prioritizes people over profits. "This is the difference between profit and true wealth," he says.

Inside Spotify’s emotional surveillance-driven quest for total ad domination.

Since it began operations in 2010, Uber has grown to the point where it now collects over $45 billion in gross passenger revenue, and it has seized a major share of the urban car service market. But the widespread belief that it is a highly innovative and successful company has no basis in economic reality. An examination of Uber’s economics suggests that it has no hope of ever earning sustainable urban car service profits in competitive markets...

[Previously in sequence: Epistemic Learned Helplessness] I. “Culture is the secret of humanity’s success” sounds like the most vapid possible thesis. The Secret Of Our Success by …

Knots in Alphabetical Order. There are 196 knots listed (animated) and 374 total knots as some knots are known by several names. Select by Activity, Type or Search for Knots.

Ethan's powerful closing talk from New Adventures 2019.

It’s time we bridge the gap between feel-good Design & Ethics panels and the work we do everyday as digital product designers.

Illustrations by the brilliant Veronica Wood. Thanks

When I wrote about App-pocalypse Now in 2014, I implied the future still belonged to the web. And it does. But it's also true that the web has changed a lot in the last 10 years, much less the last 20 or 30. Websites have gotten a lot … fatter. While

How one disorganized and overwhelmed editor found her way out of years' of accumulated to-do list debt, and how you can too.

“Incels” are going under the knife to reshape their faces, and their dating prospects.