Help Needed

I was sitting inside a Pizza Pizza when a girl walked in. She approached Raj, the cashier, and introduced herself as Catherine.

Why Excel Excels

Microsoft Excel has always struck me as a great tool for dealing with data. It lets us manipulate data in a transparent…

Can a bot learn to ABC?

I look at a business and analyze it by its individual parts.

Snapchat Circles

Cultural relativism blew my mind when I first learned about it.

Automation

Automation is a more severe threat to the global economy than people think.

Up until now, most of the tasks we’ve automated were deterministic. Numerical computation is a good example of this. Calculating the value of a math expression (like “2 + 2 * 2”) follows the same rules each…

Messenger Integration (Part 1)

Email is the mother of all credentials — it’s the unique identifier for most accounts. After email, the…

Gamifixation (Part 1)

My first exposure to the NBA was probably seeing Vince Carter dunking on a highlight reel. However, it was NBA Live 2004…

Truth

Do people care about facts?

Since the election, Facebook (along with Google and President Obama) has declared a war of sorts on “fake news”. Here’s Zuck:

Of all the content on Facebook, more than 99% of what people see is authentic. Only a very…

Ideas and Words

Sometimes, words are not enough.

A stunning landscape with vibrant hues. A whimsical melody against a deep bass. A rich, leathery texture and a smooth, nourishing taste. In shallow terms, these things are easy to describe, but they bear a deeper, subtler meaning that can…