Profit Is Good — Predictability Is Better. Here’s the Mindset Shift That Changed How I Run My Company.
The real measure of a healthy business isn’t today’s profit; it’s tomorrow’s confidence.
The Download: introducing the Engineering issue
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Introducing: the Engineering issue We can’t fix everything, but we can be ambitious. We can take on the challenge of making the world better through human ingenuity. That’s what the new…
How to Build Sustainable Trust and Sustainable Valuations for Your Company Post-IPO
For CEOs preparing to take a company public or already past the bell, here are the four pillars that determine whether your valuation holds or quietly collapses in the first year.
Think Managing Payroll on Your Own Is Saving Your Business Money? Here Are the Costs You’re Not Seeing.
The decision to manage payroll on your own often starts as a practical, cost-saving one. But as small businesses grow, here are the hidden costs business owners should keep in mind.
Superhuman acquires AI detection startup GPTZero
Superhuman, which also has an AI detection tool as part of Grammarly, has snapped up GPTZero.
Heads in the game
The Argentina v. France final of the 2022 Men’s World Cup in Qatar was shaping up to be one of the most epic games in soccer history. With just 12 minutes remaining in the extra time added to the game to break a tie, the referee had a critical decision to make—and fast. Lionel Messi,…
Super Mario is mathier than you think
Here’s a problem you probably didn’t solve in school: You’re an ambitious young plumber from Brooklyn in a world inhabited by violent human-size mushrooms called Goombas. The love of your life has been kidnapped, so you embark on a quest to rescue her, venturing through stretches of pipe-filled and monster-ridden terrain where your only means…
A man of many words
Brian Sietsema has a favorite word. It’s somewhat surprising that he can choose just one. He’s the person spellers rely on to confirm pronunciations and answer questions about the roots of the words they’re given at the Scripps National Spelling Bee—arguably the world’s most prestigious competition of its kind. The story of how the word…
Sharing a love for calculus
The national conversation about the value of education is currently dominated by speculation about the risks and positive potential of AI. Whatever your own perspective on that debate, I hope you’ll be glad to know that MIT is also working on a deeply important but comparatively old-fashioned challenge: American high school students’ startlingly uneven access…
Stand Up for Research, Innovation, and Education
Right now, MIT alumni and friends are voicing their support for: America’s scientific and technological leadership Merit-based admissions and affordable education Advances that increase US health, security, and prosperity Our community is standing up for MIT and its mission to serve the nation and the world. And we need you to join us at this…
Opening a door to mental-health help online
Rob Morris, SM ’09, PhD ’15, didn’t know where to turn when he first felt symptoms of depression as a teenager: “I had no exposure to healthy coping strategies. I had no vocabulary for what was happening to me.” That experience, he says, has driven his work on Koko, a tech nonprofit that grew out of…