Defining the role of CTO can be tricky. Each company has a different

​With research suggesting that companies can save money, boost morale and attract top candidates by offering work-at-home options, why are some employers calling their telecommuters back into the main office?

Violent crime in the US is at its lowest rate in decades. But you wouldn’t know that from a crop of increasingly popular social media apps that are forming around crime.

“To sell well is to convince someone else to part with resources—not to deprive that person, but to leave him better off in the end. That is also what, say, a good algebra teacher does.”

Stripe has engineering hubs in San Francisco, Seattle, Dublin, and Singapore. We are establishing a fifth hub that is less traditional but no less important: Remote. We are doing this to situate product development closer to our customers, …

This an introductory guide to readings in resilience engineering, aimed at software engineers. Key

I live in Montreal. 4 years ago, I decided to take a job working remotely for a company based in San

Recently I wrote about sizing engineering organizations, and how you can think about it as an exercise in managing concurrency. In understanding org size I talk about the mental exercise of thinking about how the number of concurrent work …

“Vertical Change”, Bjorn Copeland.

Recently, I had the opportunity to present to a group of early-stage

Mission command, also referred to as mission-type tactics, is a style of military command, derived from the Prussian-pioneered mission-type tactics doctrine, which combines centralized intent with decentralized execution subsidiarity and …

If there’s one thing you can’t avoid on the Internet, it’s Likes. They’re in nearly every software platform where people post photos or write text messages.

Making better decisions is one of the best skills we can develop. Good decisions save time, money, and stress. Here, we break down what makes a good decision and what we can do to improve our decision-making processes.

This post is part of an HBR Spotlight examining leadership lessons from the military.

Back in 2008, I co-founded KISSmetrics, an analytics company.

Huawei’s been a fixture in the news cycle for a while now. Here’s why.

Yesterday, a colleague looked at me and deadpanned, “aren’t you supposed to have a long beard?” When you remote-work for an extended period (it’s been six months since my last visit to the mother ship), you can expect to hear your share of …

For almost one year, NASA astronaut Scott Kelly circled the planet on the International Space Station, completing three spacewalks, conducting experiments on plants and playing ping-pong with a ball of water. His earthbound twin, Mark, …

Complexity bias is a logical fallacy that leads us to give undue credence to complex concepts.

At the end of February, 2019 I left my employer and began working independently. One of my first initiatives was a research project.

Working remotely can be really tough. To get some insight into how to do it better, Google conducted a two-year study involving data from 5,600 employees across the US, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. Approximately 30% of the …

Julia Haigh Jan 30

Five years ago, Lenz (one of our co-founders) wrote :

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You’ve discovered something new.

Startup strategy is like Kung Fu. There are many styles that work. But in a bar fight, you’re going to get punched in the face regardless.

When most new employees join a company, they’re left to fend for themselves. Which means they spend their first few months tentatively stumbling around with their first few projects.

Note from the author: this post was written in collaboration with Justin Cowperthwaite, engineering manager, with additional input from Jeff Palmer, VP Engineering.

Like many of us these days, lots of our authors work remotely—whether from a home office or on-the-go as they travel. So we asked them how they make smart work of working remotely. Here’s what they said:

Every December, Adam Savage—star of the TV show MythBusters—releases a video reviewing his “favorite things ” from the previous year. In 2018, one of his highlights was a set of Magic Leap augmented reality goggles. After duly noting the …