To get to the other side… where there are millions of dollars in tax breaks.

Focusing on core competence and outsourcing the rest has made U.S. companies lean, nimble and productive. It has also left lots of people worse off.

On the new triangle trade, and the surprising connection between modern slavery and ecological disaster.

Nobody was better, half a century ago, at thinking about the biggest solutions for the problems of his age than Bobby, whether that be race riots roiling in cities across America, and especially in Ca...

I am scared of Facebook. The company’s ambition, its ruthlessness, and its lack of a moral compass scare me.

Learn how to get started with Jekyll on an Ubuntu VPS.

Plague, famine, heat no human can survive. What scientists, when they’re not being cautious, fear climate change could do to our future.

Update: I’m co-authoring a book about the mental models from this post. Get notified when the book comes out here. Around 2003 I came across Charlie Munger’s 1995 speech, The Psychology of Human…

An excerpt from Ellen Pao’s ‘Reset,’ about sexism in Silicon Valley and her lawsuit against Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.

A while back at the awesome maintainerati Ichatted with a few great fellow maintainers about how to scale really big opensource projects, and how github forc...