It’s not a bad thing finding out that you don’t have all the answers. You start asking the right questions.

Quantum annealing promises quantum advantage, courtesy of quantum tunnelling. But a single, elusive quantity, the spectral gap, determines whether it works. And in almost all interesting cases, that gap is either vanishingly small, unknowable in advance, or both.

A lament for the gentle, and a reckoning with the rain that soaked them.

Imagine a world that is less angry, less anxious, less stressed.

Stress, anger, and anxiety do not only fray lives, they cost the global economy on a colossal scale.

When product managers become customers themselves, they seem to forget their craft and instead fire off wish lists as if they were talking to Santa Claus.

At Spotify, we once chased a problem that sounded straightforward enough: how does a listener reach the moment where they press play?

What if you could pause before an emotional outburst?

Our professional networks are sacrosanct. Every person you once sat next to is a long-term asset. Let any connection lapse and you are supposedly sabotaging your future.

The behaviour of any bureaucratic organization can best be understood by assuming that it is controlled by a secret cabal of its enemies.

Think of RSUs as a promise of a bonus, not guaranteed compensation or even ownership.

No hay plan, sólo pose. El presidente que prometió terapia de shock admitió en TV que no hay plan para mejorar el bolsillo de la gente.