Machine learning and digital marketing: Why melding human and machine is important to your business In digital, you can easily spot two opposing camps — the artists and the quants. Artists are folks like the New York… Read More
Why are we working on this? You’re a recent grad from a top engineering school. You come to a hot startup, and in your second week,… Read More
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Dogfooding: Find a way to be your own customer In early ‘90s, while working on Windows NT, Microsoft popularized an idea to make everyone on the team use early… Read More
Hackathons at startups: Creative ‘fresh air’ Every now and again, we hear about hackathons: Startup Weekend, Facebook’s famed all-nighters, Hack Week at Dropbox. However, in a… Read More
Measuring interruptions: How to keep your team in the ‘zone’ When you look at productive output from a software development team, there’s one factor that almost always predicts problems. You… Read More
Facebook: The personalization engine for all of the Web Facebook and its third-party applications today know a hell of a lot about each us: what content we read (Washington… Read More
