One thing that I’ve gotten wrong for years when buying anything has been to always think about price instead of cost-per-use (CPU), but this is generally an incorrect way of thinking spending money, or even worse, time. Wealth is found … Read more
An experiment from But…there is something we saw in the data that made us question the results. Can you help us reproduce the study and figure things out? Let’s do it Just skip to results please This experiment investigates how … Read more
Hey there, First time posting on Hacker News in about 2 years! The reason I’m posting is that I thought I’d write about the product I’ve been building, in hopes it resonates with people. Why build yet another social app? … Read more
It’s always been hard to hire engineers, but it’s only gotten harder in recent months. Read any publication that cares about business, from the NYT to the Wall Street Journal, and you’ll see a ton of hand wringing about The … Read more
How I think about writingI’m trying some experimental tiers on Patreon to see if I can get to substack-like levels of financial support for this blog without moving to substack! How I think about writing I see a lot of … Read more
This post is from my talk at Y Combinator’s Aspiring Founders Forum. There was a famous Apple ad campaign in the late 90s with the slogan “Think Different.” This is something you’re going to have to do as a startup … Read more
Water is weird. It’s absolutely vital to us as a human species and as a planet: we’re made of water, we consume a lot of water, and we can’t survive without water. It’s very precious to us. On the other … Read more
Neuroscientists are the cartographers of the brain’s diverse domains and territories — the features and activities that define them, the roads and highways that connect them, and the boundaries that delineate them. Toward the front of the brain, just behind … Read more
By Mark Guzdial June 18, 2021Comments (2) Credit: University of Michigan I recently had two CS colleagues (from different schools) make the claim that we shouldn’t worry about the programming language in the first course because it just doesn’t matter. … Read more
Pleasure is everywhere and yet it’s hard to work out quite what it is The sheer variety of ways that people procure pleasure is unsettling, as well as a testament to the plasticity of our species. The differences can be … Read more