The NYT headline, “Web Hunt for DNA Sequences Leaves Privacy Compromised,” blows this out of proportion. Wired’s article “Scientists Discover How to Identify People From ‘Anonymous’ Genomes” is onl...

If you want people to comment, say on a lifehacker post about going paperless, and you require sign-ins for commenting, don’t trash their comments when they forget a password. Among the least inter...

Dear Nathan, When I was in first grade, I was 6 at the beginning of school in September and turned 7 in the middle of the year. That was in 1974. I lived in a town called Spencerport, NY, with Gran...

File this under “incentives work, so think about them before you unleash the unintended consequences.” Alternatively, simplified mental models fail to capture the richness of actual reality and are...

I wrote this back in August 2012. It needed to sit a while to take the edge off. I couldn’t even read it to edit it. -Rick Recognizing it: I just watched the Seattle Children’s Hospital “Stronger” ...

We’re all afraid of things. Some real – heart attacks; some distant – terrorists; some vague – the lizard brain’s resistance to change; some too real and terrible to ever really be acknowledged. Th...