Tech & Science & Business stories
Stories about tech & scientific endeavours, as well as business ones. People who have done stuff, whether they succeeded or not.
Collection by Martina Pugliese
21 Lessons From Jeff Bezos' Annual Letters To Shareholders
Each year, Jeff Bezos writes an open letter to Amazon's shareholders. Over the last two decades, these letters have become an unparalleled source of insight into how the world's richest man — and his…
The Complicated Economy of Open Source Software
A look at the complicated business of funding open source software development.
Against metrics: how measuring performance by numbers backfires
More and more companies, government agencies, educational institutions and philanthropic organisations are today in the grip of a new phenomenon. I’ve termed it ‘metric fixation’. The key components…
A Mysterious Infection, Spanning the Globe in a Climate of Secrecy
The rise of Candida auris embodies a serious and growing public health threat: drug-resistant germs.
Product Graveyard: Commemorating the most memorable deceased products
Commemorating the most memorable products that have gone away. And finding some alternatives along the way. View products <
Scientific computing’s future: Can any coding language top a 1950s behemoth?
Cutting-edge research still universally involves Fortran; a trio of challengers wants in.
What Is Disruptive Innovation?
Twenty years after the introduction of the theory, we revisit what it does—and doesn’t—explain.
How Darknet Sellers Build Trust
Trust used to be a very personal thing: You went on the recommendations of your friends or friends of friends. By finding ways to…
Thousands of scientists publish a paper every five days
To highlight uncertain norms in authorship, John P. A. Ioannidis, Richard Klavans and Kevin W. Boyack identified the most prolific scientists of recent years.
Does Theranos Mark the Peak of the Silicon Valley Bubble?
Silicon Valley has a term for startups that reach the $1 billion valuation mark: unicorns. The term is instructive. It suggests not…
A fetish for falsification and observation holds back science
Demanding that a theory is falsifiable or observable, without any subtlety, will hold science back. We need madcap ideas
