Leaders are under relentless pressure to perform in an environment of increasing uncertainty and change. Many feel stuck, relying on planning, control, technical expertise, and other familiar ...

Children as young as 4 years old are capable of finding efficient solutions to complex problems, such as independently inventing sorting algorithms developed by computer scientists. The scientists ...

Many authors have written about the harm of oversimplification, pointing out that it distorts reality, leads to shallow understanding, impairs problem-solving, and fuels biases. In culture wars, it ...

Every company today wants to scale quickly, innovate fearlessly and stay ahead of the curve. The default playbook? Entering new markets, implementing the latest tech and diversifying product lines. It ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 1950 the Italian physicist Enrico Fermi was discussing the possibility of intelligent alien life with his colleagues. If alien ...

Source: ChatGPT modified by NostaLab. There’s a curious irony in the world of artificial intelligence that has really gotten me thinking. In fact, I've often discussed the nature of "thought" in the ...

The mail merge process in Outlook 2025 has been redesigned to prioritize simplicity and usability. You can now initiate the feature directly from the “New Mail” dropdown menu or through the “Options” ...

Merging disk partitions is useful to optimize disk space, especially when managing multiple partitions on a single disk. However, Windows Disk Management can only merge adjacent partitions, and it ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Computer scientists often deal with abstract problems that are hard to comprehend, but an exciting new algorithm matters to anyone who ...

Over the years, I’ve seen leaders wrestle with the hidden impact of complexity on their businesses. They suspect it’s there, slowing everything down and piling on costs, but figuring out where it’s ...

The cloud computing giant has finally realized it must deal with complexity, by adopting a six-step framework it calls ‘simplexity.’ It doesn’t scale. At AWS re:Invent 2024, Amazon Web Services ...