The Dark Side of Resilience.
(…) choosing resilient leaders is not enough: they must also have integrity and care more about the welfare of their teams than their own personal success.
Who Owns the Internet?
People who worry about the fate of democracy still write (and read) books. Those who are determining it prefer to tweet.
Rostock-Lichtenhagen
Vor 25 Jahren gab es das letzte Pogrom auf deutschem Boden.
Der NSU-Prozess läuft noch, aber immer schön mit dem Finger auf Charlottesville zeigen.
YAGNI, Cargo Cult and Overengineering – the Planes Won't Land Just Because You Built a Runway in Your Backyard.
Welcome to the nightmare future.
Biohackers Encoded Malware in a Strand of DNA.
Regardless of any practical reason for the research, however, the notion of building a computer attack—known as an "exploit"—with nothing but the information stored in a strand of DNA represented an epic hacker challenge for the University of Washington team.
What happened to “swindle”?
The great British Brexit robbery: how our democracy was hijacked.
A shadowy operation involving big data, billionaire friends of Trump and the disparate forces of the Leave campaign heavily influenced the result of the EU referendum. Is our electoral process still fit for purpose?
Companies already collect data about their employee demographics. Let's ask them to publish it.
Is the World Slouching Toward a Grave Systemic Crisis?
Here we are in this information age, with our more than $70 billion intelligence enterprise, and as a government and as a country, I feel we are less able to reconstruct the policymaking world in the really crucial, swing countries than we were in Marshall’s time 70 years ago. And U.S. capacities for working with foreigners to solve their problems were also smarter and more functional 70 years ago than they are now.
A snapshot of feminism and high school in the 1990s.
Um, no reference to Dunning-Kruger?
Are you surrounded by fools? Are you the only reasonable person around? Then maybe you’re the one with the jerkitude.