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A visual book recommender

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Working for a Dating Website (2015)

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A Reader Asks How to Avoid Working for Evil

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What would a “good” WebMD look like?

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You wouldn't download a back end

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Why does science news suck so much?

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The satellite imagery industry still has no idea what customers want

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Dislike button would improve Spotify's recommendations

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QNTM on memes, anti-memes, and knowledge that doesn't want to be shared

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You either die an MVP or live long enough to build content moderation

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User Retention

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Forget privacy: you're terrible at targeting anyway (2019)

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The New York Times uses the dark patterns it derides

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Why has no one made a better Goodreads

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‘YouTube recommendations are toxic,’ says dev who worked on the algorithm (2019)

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Amazon disallows pointing out paid reviews

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Goodreads’ reign over the world of book talk might be coming to an end

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Removing email registration improved retention

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I Want to Fix Goodreads

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The harmful impact of Audible-exclusive audiobooks

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If nearly all Airbnb reviews are positive, does that make them meaningless?

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How to Find New Music

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Why do companies with unbounded resources still have terrible moderation?

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Goodreads Is Broken

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I've reproduced 130 research papers about “predicting the stock market”

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Superhuman embeds tracking pixels in user emails

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YouTube “Let's Play”s are preserving video game history

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Credder Wants to Create an Equivalent to “Rotten Tomatoes” for News

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Forget privacy: you're terrible at targeting anyway

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How TripAdvisor Changed Travel

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Ratings inflation on Uber and elsewhere

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Making Millions by Distributing Pirated Movies

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Whom the Gods Would Destroy, They First Give Real-Time Analytics (2013)

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Is Rotten Tomatoes Killing the Movie Industry? No, Bad Movies Are

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Al Gore’s New Movie Exposes the Big Flaw in Online Movie Ratings

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Unsupervised machine learning with basket clusters

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Heretical Things Statistics Tell Us About Fiction

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The scourge of web analytics

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Why literature is the ultimate big-data challenge

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Search at Slack

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How to get your app noticed on Google Play

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How Big Data Creates False Confidence

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“I've been working at Mozilla for many years, from peak to decline”

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Introducing Guesstimate, a Spreadsheet for Things That Aren’t Certain

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“We Own You” – Confessions of an Anonymous Free to Play Producer

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Death to Bullshit

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The Web’s Cruft Problem

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Comparing how security experts and non-experts stay safe online

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Losing 80% of mobile users is normal

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Crystal promises to help you understand how best to talk to any person

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Stock Price Prediction with Big Data and Machine Learning

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Seven habits of highly fraudulent users

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School spyware in coursebooks

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Linux vs. Bullshit

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Machine Learning and Link Spam: My Brush With Insanity

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Google’s Matt Cutts: Don’t Be The Sucker That Buys The Spammy Domain

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Whom the Gods Would Destroy, They First Give Real-time Analytics

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Your Startup Is Spam

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Maddox on Link-Baiting Aggregation Sites

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Misadventures in VC Funding: The $24 Million Moz Almost Raised

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The Google Vortex

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Google responds to NY Times article by improving its algorithms

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A guide to the latest Mahalo spam techniques

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Flightcaster (YC S09) and the Future of Asymmetric Intelligence as a Product

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A real person, a lot like you

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Spam vs Mahalo: Matt Cutts Explains the Difference

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FlightCaster (YC S09) Takes Off With $1.3 Million In Funding And A New API

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Iamelgringo's first big project using Mechanical Turk

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Push notifications – What to push, what not to push, and how often

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Why it's impossible to agree on what's allowed

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Diseconomies of scale in fraud, spam, support, and moderation

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The lie of music discovery algorithms

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There Is No Antimemetics Division (2018)

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