NPR’s sites use cookies, similar tracking and storage technologies, and information about the device you use to access our sites (together, “cookies”) to enhance your viewing, listening and user experience, personalize content, personalize messages from NPR’s sponsors, provide social media … Read more
Jump to navigation Jump to search Avar stirrups from 7-8th Century Hungary. The Great Stirrup Controversy is the academic debate about the Stirrup Thesis, the theory that feudalism in Europe developed largely as a result of the introduction of the … Read more
We’re looking for someone with proven experience in a Business Development role, preferably for an SMB or enterprise-grade SaaS. You’ll need the following skillsets to be successful in this role: 1+ year of outbound sales experience (Sales Development Representative experience … Read more
I spent 20 years slaving away at companies doing development, maintenance, troubleshooting, architecture, management, and whatever else needed doing. For all those years I was a permanent hire, working on technology from within. I still work at companies doing similar … Read more
Regular readers would probably know that I have a love of batteries, and their associated test equipment. Maybe it was the fact that they were expensive, but pervasive, and my enjoyment as a child relied quite heavily on batteries to … Read more
One of the more outlandish proposals came from a Soviet scientist named Mikhail Gorodsky, who called for positioning an artificial dust ring—similar to Saturn’s rings—around Earth, to create a heat dome over the poles that would raise temperatures to the … Read more
Endnotes [1] Teletubbies Dipsy And Lala. Pinclipart. https://www.pinclipart.com/maxpin/iiRmooJ/. [2] Swain, G. (1997). “TELETUBBIES: Are they harmless fun or bad for our children?; THE QUESTION ON EVERY PARENT’S LIPS.” The Mirror, 23 May. [3] “Tele Tubby Mummy; Meet the woman every … Read more
Great Question is hiring Full Stack Engineers to help us on our mission to democratize user research – helping companies talk to their customers more to ensure they build software that people want! A well-funded seed-stage startup, backed by Y … Read more
Most engineering organizations focus on delivering projects. They should focus on milestones instead. Managing projects is hard. Companies contort themselves to do it well. Instead of playing chess, switch to checkers. Milestones are an easier game, and you get better … Read more
The concept of “offline” is built on the earlier concept of “wilderness,” inheriting its flaws and hazards Image: Detail from SanFrancouver, Spring (2008) by Torrie Groening. Courtesy the artist. In 1995, environmental historian William Cronon published “The Trouble With Wilderness; … Read more