How Dollar General Took Over Rural America
As the chain opens stores at the rate of three a day across the U.S., often in the heart of ‘food deserts’, some see Dollar General as an admission that a town is failing.
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Day Two to One Day
Amazon.com was showing signs of being a Day Two company, including the alleged manipulation of search. There is reason, though, to be optimistic that the company has gotten back to Day One. Plus, w…
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The case for ditching the city and moving to the country
Plenty of people dream of doing it. Christopher Ingraham’s new book makes a pretty solid case about why you should.
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The Water Wars Are Here
In a warming world, fights over water usage have become ideological battles.
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Workflow systems turn raw data into scientific knowledge
How workflow tools can make your computational methods portable, maintainable, reproducible and shareable.
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Starting and Scaling a Growth Team
Growth teams, like growth tactics, need to evolve. I describe the most common ways I see growth teams start and evolve over time.
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Can We Survive Extreme Heat?
Listen to audio version of this story below: On a scorching day in downtown Phoenix, when the temperature soars to 115°F or higher, heat becomes a lethal force.…
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20 years of Dreamcast: Readers look back on Sega’s final console
After two decades, how do fans feel about Sega’s iconic Dreamcast? They tell us why the console still holds a place in their hearts.
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122 degrees for days: the looming Phoenix heat wave that could harm thousands
How climate change could bring the Katrina of extreme heat to Arizona.
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Chapter 16: How to Build a Pyramid – The Analog Antiquarian
Exactly how did the Egyptians build the Pyramid of Khufu and its two great successors on the Giza Plateau? That question has been debated at least since the…
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RabbitMQ for PHP Developers
In my last article Easy Peasy RabbitMQ Squeezy, I wrote how RabbitMQ works. I tried to mention in-depth with easy examples so that even if…
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A Cynic’s Guide to Killing It at Stanford
Disclaimer: We don’t actually know who these people are — which ones are billionaires and which ones will soon be. Photo: Connie J. Spinardi/Getty Images Google…
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What Statistics Can and Can’t Tell Us About Ourselves
Making individual predictions from collective characteristics is a risky business. Illustration by Ben Wiseman Harold Eddleston, a seventy-seven-year-old from…
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The Adults In The Room
Screenshot: HBO There is a version of the story of this company in which idealistic journalists, unconcerned with profit, are posed against ruthless…
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The Rise of the 'One-and-Done' Family
The average American family has gone from 2.5 children to 1.9 since the 1970s. Why? Experts weigh in on why more parents than ever are opting to have an only child.
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Write code that is easy to delete, not easy to extend.
“Every line of code is written without reason, maintained out of weakness, and deleted by chance” Jean-Paul Sartre’s Programming in ANSI C. Every line of code written comes at a price: maintenance. To...
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Why Teslas aren't the future
Electric cars are a transportation evolution. But we need a revolution.
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"Friends" Hasn't Aged Well
Friends' 25th anniversary is in September, but here's the thing — this show has always been awful.
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