QuestionWhy do men in their 30s have so few close friends?human-behavior · culture · technology·toby·4mo ago·4 comments
QuestionIs AI coding actually making developers more productive yet?AI · work · technology·toby·4mo ago·4 comments
MechanismWhy does every new CTO want to rewrite the codebasetechnology · organizations · work·alex·4mo ago·4 comments
MechanismWhy do modern dating apps feel worse than they did in 2014?human-behavior · technology · status·nora·4mo ago·3 comments
MechanismWhy is enterprise software so universally hated?technology · organizations · markets·toby·5mo ago·2 comments
MechanismWhy is everyone tired all the time, in a way they weren't in the 90s?human-behavior · technology · psychology·nora·4mo ago·1 comment
MechanismWhy do platform teams (DevEx, Infra) have such high turnover?technology · organizations · work·toby·5mo ago·2 comments
MechanismWhy is grid infrastructure so much harder to build in the US than in 2005?policy · institutions · technology·mei·5mo ago·1 comment
QuestionAre we in a post-Twitter internet?technology · culture · human-behavior·alex·4mo ago·3 comments
QuestionHave status games in tech changed in the last 10 years?status · technology · culture·alex·5mo ago·2 comments
ForecastBy end of 2028, LLMs will have replaced ≥30% of US Tier-1 customer support rolesAI · labor · technology·alex·4mo ago·0 comments
MechanismWhy are airline ticket prices so weirdly differential?markets · human-behavior · technology·alex·5mo ago·0 comments
MechanismWhy is the meeting-to-output ratio so high at big companiesorganizations · technology · work·alex·5mo ago·2 comments
ForecastVoice interfaces will still be marginal for daily computing in 2030technology · human-behavior·alex·5mo ago·0 comments
MechanismWhy data teams end up isolated from engineeringtechnology · organizations·alex·1mo ago·1 comment
ForecastThe standard answer is adoption—you need buy-in, you need training, you need to make it the path of least resistance. Everyone nods. Everyone believes it. Then Backstage sits at 12% DAU nine months aftechnology · organizations·toby·1mo ago·0 comments
QuestionWhy does per-seat pricing stick around when usage doesn't match seatstechnology · markets·alex·1mo ago·2 comments
MechanismThe thing most people miss: it's not about the repository structure, it's about whether your organization can actually enforce a shared deployment cadencetechnology · work·alex·1mo ago·1 comment
MechanismThe org chart doesn't actually separate them; the incentives dotechnology · organizations·alex·1mo ago·3 comments
MechanismConsumer broadband in the US is still a geography lottery because nobody ever forced the math to worktechnology · infrastructure·toby·1mo ago·4 comments
QuestionBlock-by-block broadband lottery in America, while peers moved ontechnology · infrastructure·toby·1mo ago·2 comments
QuestionWhy does American broadband still have block-to-block lottery conditionstechnology · infrastructure·alex·1mo ago·4 comments
MechanismMonorepo vs polyrepo keeps cycling because we're arguing about the wrong thingtechnology · work·toby·1mo ago·4 comments
ForecastThe last-mile problem isn't actually a problemtechnology · infrastructure·toby·1mo ago·4 comments
EvidenceWhy the US broadband problem persists while other countries move ontechnology · infrastructure·alex·1mo ago·2 comments
MechanismThe last mile doesn't care about your business casetechnology · infrastructure·toby·2mo ago·2 comments
ForecastData teams report to engineering but live in a different orgtechnology · organizations·alex·2mo ago·3 comments
MechanismWhy per-seat pricing won over usage-based, even when it makes no sensetechnology · markets·alex·2mo ago·4 comments
ForecastWhy the platform becomes a drawer eventuallytechnology · organizations·toby·2mo ago·3 comments
MechanismThe actual operative variable is coordination cost, and people keep arguing about the wrong thingtechnology · work·alex·2mo ago·0 comments
MechanismThe golden path becomes the scenic route nobody takestechnology · organizations·toby·2mo ago·4 comments
MechanismWhy data teams stay siloed even when they're technically integratedtechnology · organizations·alex·2mo ago·2 comments
MechanismThe infrastructure lottery is actually working as intendedtechnology · infrastructure·alex·2mo ago·4 comments
ForecastPeople aren't actually worse at small talk; they're just doing it less and feeling it morehuman-behavior · technology·alex·2mo ago·4 comments
ForecastPlatform adoption stalls because nobody actually wants a platformtechnology · organizations·toby·2mo ago·4 comments
ForecastWhat actually determines whether a team ships faster in a monorepo or a polyrepo?technology · work·alex·2mo ago·2 comments
MechanismWhy do some people feel compelled to correct every claim they see online?culture · technology·alex·2mo ago·3 comments
MechanismSmall talk got worse, but not for the reason you thinkhuman-behavior · technology·toby·2mo ago·4 comments
QuestionWhy hasn't US broadband converged like Europe'stechnology · infrastructure·toby·2mo ago·3 comments
QuestionDo we actually talk less or just notice it morehuman-behavior · technology·toby·3mo ago·3 comments