Sun, Nov 10 2019

The actions you take during your first few months in a new job have a major impact on your success or failure. Build positive momentum early on and it will propel you through your tenure. Make some early missteps and you could face an uphill battle…

Over the last half decade, the world has witnessed a disturbing escalation in disruptive cyberattacks. In 2015 and 2016, hackers snuffed out the lights for hundreds of thousands of civilians in the first power outages ever triggered by digital…

The Guardian

A Tory prime minister with a stonking lead in the polls engineers an election pledging to get Brexit done and is up against an opposition leader so unpopular that many Labour candidates won't put his face on their leaflets. What could possibly go…

I just wrote a book called Against Empathy, and some of my friends tell me they are embarrassed to read it in public. Isn't empathy something only a psychopath would object to? Many see empathy as an unquestionable force for good; it makes the…

From the November–December 2019 Issue In the early days of the internet, the author was studying electrical engineering at Stanford, excited by the possibilities of the new technology. Later, working in the San Francisco office of the…