Surviving Hell

We will always view censorship as a last resort, because we believe open discourse is better for writers and better for society.

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“Brainstorming” — the problem-solving technique of coming up with as many ideas as possible in a short period of time — has been showing up on a lot of my leadership meeting agendas lately. Many of my peers are employing brainstorming in the belief that,…

Why do we fail to use so many of the subjects we learn in school? Are they useless, or do we simply fail to learn them well enough?

Amazon will pay $2.25 million, stop its “Sold by Amazon” third-party seller program SEATTLE — Attorney General Bob Ferguson today announced that, as a result of his office’s price-fixing investigation, Amazon will shut down the “Sold by Amazon” program nationwide.

I'm the author of the best-selling book System Design Interview-An Insider’s Guide. 11 days ago, two fraudsters hijacked the "Buy Now" button on Amazon, fulfilling all orders with a different book. I'm helpless to do anything. A sad story on self-publishing:…

Fox News Channel host Dan Bongino on Wednesday became among the most-followed conservative personalities to be permanently banned from YouTube, a week after the Google-owned video service said he had posted COVID-19 misinformation.

Young developers on the platform used by many millions of children claim they have been financially exploited, threatened with dismissal and sexually harassed

Continuing the recent spate of conservative book-banning initiatives, The Mcminn County School board just voted to ban the Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel "MAUS" by Art Spiegelman from all of its schools, citing the inclusion of words like "God Damn"…

Spotify "regrets Neil's decision"; Young objected to COVID misinformation.

This short post describes my hypothesis for why poor software engineering practices are more viral. Simply stated: Worst practices spr...

Musician Neil Young is following through on his threat to pull his extensive and well-loved sonic catalogue from Spotify. Young took a stand against the company’s relationship with podcaster Joe Rogan this week, accusing Spotify of propagating Covid-19 misinformation…

Intel's latest chip is faster than Apple's but there are caveats.

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