Emilie Kormienko

Algorithm-friendly design need not be user-hostile. It simply takes a different approach as to how to best serve the user’s interests. Pagination may insert some level of friction to the user, but in doing so, it may provide the algorithm with cleaner signal that safeguards the quality of the feed in the long run.

  DeFi refers to “decentralized finance,” an effort to transform the financial-services industry by making transactions faster, cheaper, and more secure.

But we can also ask the opposite question: Are there regions that are more active among bad readers and whose activity decreases as one learns to read? The answer is positive: in illiterates, the brain’s responses to faces are more intense. The better we read, the more this activity decreases in the left hemisphere, at the exact place in the cortex... See more

One area where talent markets are malfunctioning: people who can make things happen, coordinate a team, or drive a project.

Historically, U.S. women have taken on more responsibilities at home because they have not been able to work outside the home or have worked fewer hours and earned less, because of limited access to higher-paying jobs. But since the 1970s, even as women’s participation in the labor force and salaries have risen, men have still not taken on an... See more

Managing digital assets on public ledgers makes it clearer which assets exist and who owns what, which was previously a struggle on the web. 

Option #1: The walk-through approach: Rather than letting a user wander aimlessly through your product to work it out for themselves, it’s a great idea to walk them through the process from the second they land.