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6 Links That Will Show You What Google Knows About You

Article In this article, there are 6 links featured that, when clicked, give you a peek into the data Google has...
Adblocking: How About Nah?

Article In this article, the author discusses the ethics of using an ad blocker, and highlighting the position that ad blockers give users...
Advertising is a cancer on society

Article In this article, the author argues that modern advertising is similar to how cancer takes over the human body. After...
After Working at Google, I'll Never Let Myself Love a Job Again

Article In this article, Emi Nietfeld describes what happened to her at Google, a company she once loved.
Airbnb Was Like a Family, Until the Layoffs Started

Article In this article, Erin Griffith depicts the conflict that occurred when Airbnb's company culture faced the realities of the global...
Amazon cloud sputters for hours, and a boatload of websites go offline

Article In this article, Brodkin reports on the IoT devices that went down during Amazon S3 outage.
An anonymous response to dangerous FOSS Codes of Conduct

Article In this article, an anonymous writer pens a response to what he believes are Dangerous FOSS Codes of Conduct. He argues the...
Andrew Yang Is Full of It

Article In this article, the author pushes back against Andrew Yang's dystopian warnings about automation and mass unemployment that have motivated...
An Oral History of the L0pht

Article This series of articles is an oral history of one of the more influential hacker groups, the Boston-based hacker group,...
Apple, Facebook, Google, Amazon Top Interviewer Reveals Secrets of Landing Dream Job

Article In this article, one of Silicon Valley's top interviewers tells all about how to win a highly coveted job at the...
Apple, Google will pay 64,000 engineers to avoid trial on “no-poach” deal

Article In this article, Joe Mullin talks about a class-action lawsuit against Google, Apple, Adobe, and Intel over how they recruited employees which was...
Apple I

Digital Artifact This article details the technical development and contextual history of the Apple I, originally released under the name Apple Computer. This...
Ask HN: How much do you make at Amazon?

Other In this forum, software engineers share how much they make at Amazon.
Ask HN: How much do you make at Google?

Other In this forum, software engineers share how much they make at google.
Back Orifice

Digital Artifact This article details the digital artifact Back Orifice (a play on Windows Back Office) created by the hacking group Cult of the...
Big Data Business Plan Lecture Slides

Lecture / slides In these lecture slides for the Ethical and Professional Issues course in Notre Dame's Computer Science and Engineering department, the following...
Coding Freedom: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Hacking

Book This book was written by scholar Gabriella Coleman about the ethics and history of the hacking community. The particular chapter read...
Companies Say Trump is Hurting Business By Limiting Legal Immigration

Article This article explores some of the downsides of limiting legal immigration. The article profiles business owners and managers in a variety...
Consolidation in the Internet Economy

Article In this article, answer "How will consolidation impact the Internet’s technical evolution and use?"
Dear Silicon Valley: America’s fallen out of love with you

Article In this article, the author tells Silicon Valley that America has fallen out of love with it. The author lists...
Dialogue Group 1

Dialogue Group This dialogue group meeting prompt was used in the Ethical and Professional Issues Course in Notre Dame's Computer Science and...
Dialogue Group 2

Dialogue Group This dialogue group meeting prompt was used in the Ethical and Professional Issues Course in Notre Dame's Computer Science and...
Dialogue Group 3

Dialogue Group This dialogue group meeting prompt was used in the Ethical and Professional Issues Course in Notre Dame's Computer Science and...
Dialogue Group 4

Dialogue Group This dialogue group meeting prompt was used in the Ethical and Professional Issues Course in Notre Dame's Computer Science and...
Digital Equipment Corporation PDP-11

Digital Artifact This article details the history and technical developments of the PDP-11, a series of 16-bit microcomputers sold by Digital Equipment Corporation...
Don't Give Silicon Valley More H1B Visas

Article In this article, the author argues again giving Silicon Valley more H1B Visas. The author argues that the H1B Visa...
Economic Inequality

Article In this article, Graham sheds light on the roots of economic inequality.
Employees Who Stay In Companies Longer Than Two Years Get Paid 50% Less

Article In this article, Cameron Keng provides evidence that staying employed at the same company for over two years on average is...
Engineers Are Leaving Trump’s America for the Canadian Dream

Article This article highlights the stories of former United States H-1B workers who moved to Canada because of its more welcoming immigration policy. It...
Ethics and the Second Law of Thermodynamics

Article In this article, the author discusses the reality that many engineers who have gotten into trouble because of ethical violations...
Exclusive: Here's The Full 10-Page Anti-Diversity Screed Circulating Internally at Google

Article In this article, a now infamous memo from a male Google employee (James Damore), titled “Google’s Ideological Echo Chamber,”, is...
Exploding the Phone

Book This book provides an in-depth historical perspective and study of phone phreaking and hackers of the telecommunication industry known as phone...
Facebook, Google and Netflix pay a higher median salary than Exxon, Goldman Sachs or Verizon

Article In this article, the author discusses how employees at several major tech corporations make more than their counterparts in major business/banking corporations....
Facebook Knows Instagram Is Toxic for Teen Girls, Company Documents Show

Article In this article, take a look at Facebook's own in-depth research which shows a significant teen mental-health issue. Thus far, Facebook has...
Facebook Tried to Make Its Platform a Healthier Place. It Got Angrier Instead.

Article In this article, the authors discuss Facebook's internal memos which show how a big 2018 change rewarded outrage and how CEO...
FACT CHECK: Do Robots Or Trade Threaten American Workers More?

Article This article fact checks claims made by Elizabeth Warren and Andrew Yang in a 2019 Democratic presidential debate regarding if...
For Young Female Coders, Internship Interviews Can Be Toxic

Article In this article, it discusses a survey conducted by Girls Who Code where teen female engineers report that even their very...
Give Up On Work-Life Balance

Article In this article, Olga Khazan argues that the best way to stay sane while managing work and life is to...
Gmail and other popular Google services experienced a partial service outage at a very bad time

Article In this article, Oreskovic reports on some of Google's most popular services, including Gmail and Google Calendar, that experienced technical...
GNU General Public License, v.2

Digital Artifact This digital artifact is a well known legal hack also known as a "copyleft" (a play on copyrights). The GNU Public License,...
Google Employee Alleges Discrimination Against Pregnant Women in Viral Memo

Article In this article, the authors discuss a memo written by a Google employee who was discriminated against for being pregnant,...
Google Employee Writes Memo About ‘The Burden of Being Black at Google’

Article In this article, a memo from a former Google employee is discussed. In the memo, the ex-employee criticized the internet...
Google Plus Finally Gives Up on Its Ineffective, Dangerous Real-Name Policy

Article This article celebrates Google Plus's riddance of a policy that required users to use their real names with their Google Plus...
Group Project 00: Your Upcoming Career in Tech

Group Project In this group project, students in the Ethical and Professional Issues course in Notre Dame's Computer Science and Engineering department...
Guardian of the GPL: Online advertising is becoming “a perfect despotism”

Article In this article, the author provides an overview of Eben Moglen (Guardian of the GPL)' s thoughts on why online...
H-1B: Foreign citizens make up nearly three-quarters of Silicon Valley tech workforce, report says

Article In this article, Ethan Baron reports on the reality that a majority of Silicon Valley and Seattle-area tech workers are...
Here's How Google Makes Sure It (Almost) Never Goes Down

Article In this article, take a look at a new book that peers into the system that keeps Google up and...
History of Gnu, Linux, Free and Open Software

Video This video depicts the history of the open source and free software movements including the history and technological development of Gnu and...
How bosses are (literally) like dictators

In this article, Elizabeth Anderson argues that businesses are a form of government, and that workplaces are predominantly spaces of...
How Companies Learn Your Secrets

Article In this article, the author tells the story of how Target learned to identify when women are pregnant to target...
How Computer Science at CMU Is Attracting and Retaining Women

Article In this article, it discusses how CMU has attracted a higher rate of women in its computer science program than...
How Facebook Hobbled Mark Zuckerberg’s Bid to Get America Vaccinated

Article In this article from the Wall Street Journal's Facebook Files, the authors describe how despite Facebook's best efforts to promote true...
How Jair Bolsonaro used ‘fake news’ to win power

Article This article tells the story of how Jair Bolsonaro was elected president of Brazil in 2018. His campaign strategy involved the...
How Millennials Became The Burnout Generation

Article In this article, Peterson explains how the stereotypes commonly associated with millennials - lazy, entitled, spoiled - can mostly be...
How Noncompete Clauses Keep Workers Locked In

Article In this article, the author discusses restrictions that were once limited to executives which are now spreading across the labor landscape....
How not to bomb your offer negotiation

Article In this article, Qureshi discusses what to do after you've landed your dream job. He takes a deep-dive into the negotiating process...
How Russian Trolls Used Meme Warfare to Divide America

Article This article describes how the Internet Research Agency (IRA), a Russian propaganda wing, infiltrated American social media users’ feeds with...
How to Deal With Deceptive Colleagues at Work

Article In this article, the author describes ways in which employees deceive their coworkers and how deceptive behaviors lead to a...
How to Recognize Burnout Before You're Burned Out

Article This article explains what burnout is and enumerates common work stressors, signs of burnout to watch for, and ways to combat burnout...
HyperNormalisation

Video In this video, Adam Curtis, a cult documentary maker, explores the falsity of modern life in his own inimitable style. Though he’s...
IBM Punch Card

Digital Artifact This article describes the history of the IBM Punch Card technology such as its technical development and its cultural impact. This...
‘I made Steve Bannon’s psychological warfare tool’: meet the data war whistleblower

Article In this article, Christopher Wylie, a young man who was the brains behind Cambridge Analytica, comes forward to share his...
Immigrants Help Solve the Looming STEM Worker Shortage

Article In this article, the author promotes a looser immigration policy for foreign skilled workers. The author argues that there are not...
In Silicon Valley, Working 9 to 5 Is For Losers

Article In this article, Dan Lyons describes the "Hustle Culture" phenomenon in Silicon Valley, where workers idolize overworking. Lyons outlines some...
In This Economy, Quitters Are Winning

Article In this article, the authors discuss an increase in job-hopping which may give way to wage growth and productivity in...
Introducing the LAN Turtle

Video This video is an introduction to the LAN Turtle by Hak5 an infosec company founded in 2005. From the video description, "The LAN...
Is Facebook Making Us Lonely

Article In this article, Stephen Marche talks about how even though social media has made society more densely networked than ever, it may be making...
Is the H-1B Program a Cynical Attempt to Undercut American Workers?

Article In this article, Derek Thompson looks at the pros and cons of the H1-B Visa program. While he concedes that...
I Was a Stranger Lecture Slides

Lecture / slides Through these lecture slides for Notre Dame Computer Science and Engineering's Ethical and Professional Issues course, the following learning goals are...
Just Because You Always Hear It, Doesn’t Mean It’s True: Gender Difference Explanations For Disparities in Tech Are Not Supported by Science

Article In this article, NCWIT explains why gender differences are not supported by science, and how most disparities between men and women...
Kindness is Underrated

Article In this article, the author responds to Linus Tovalds’s tendency towards blunt, crass criticism with an argument for kindness. The...
Lets talk about the H-1B Visa

Article In this article, the author describes the drawbacks of the current H-1B Visa program and proposes reforms so the program...
Linus Torvalds defends his right to shame Linux kernel developers

Article In this article, we see the interactions between the crass Linux creator Linus Torvalds and software developer Sarah Sharp. Sharp...
Linus Torvalds: 'I'll never be cuddly but I can be more polite'

Article In this article, Linus Torvalds admits that his interactions within the Linux developer community were rather strong while distancing himself...
Linus Torvalds on his insults: respect should be earned

Video In this video, Linus Torvalds (creator of Linux and Git), defends abrasive comments he makes towards other codes (e.g. "you...
Linux Operating System

Digital Artifact This article describes the digital artifact of the Linux Operating System which is a family of open-source Unix-like operating systems based on...
Low Orbit Ion Cannon

Digital Artifact This article describes the digital artifact Low Orbit Ion Cannon which was originally created by Praetox Technologies. The Low Orbit Ion Cannon...
Maybe We All Need a Little Less Balance

Article In this article, Brad Stulberg argues that balance is not something we should strive for. Stulberg argues that people are...
Metasploit Framework

Digital Artifact This article details the digital artifact the Metasploit Framework or the Metasploit Project. This artifact is a computer security project that...
MIT Report Examines How to Make Technology Work for Society

Article This article describes the findings from MIT’s Task Force on Work of the Future. The report finds that while the...
More and Faster

Lecture / slides Lecture slides for Lecture 08 of Ethical and Professional Issues in Notre Dame's Computer Science & Engineering department. These lecture slides cover...
Most computer science majors in the U.S. are men. Not so at Harvey Mudd

Article In this article, it takes a look at Harvey Mudd where more than half of computer science graduates are women.
Nerdy Strutting: How to Put Women Off the Tech Industry

Article In this article, Judy Robertson discusses nerd-strutting, or "a style of interaction where people show off their knowledge by asking questions...
Nessus Proprietary Security Scanner.

Digital Artifact This technology is a digital artifact by Tenable which is the Nessus Properitary Security Scanner. This technology is properitary software from...
Noncomplete Clause Causes Pop Up in Array of Jobs

Article .In this article, the author shares their opinion on how supporters of the pending legislation argue that the proliferation of noncompetes is...
Note to employees from CEO Sundar Pichai

Article In this article, Google CEO Sundar Pichai responds to Damore's memo.
Not Everyone in Tech Cheers Visa Program for Foreign Workers

Article In this article, the authors highlight stories of American tech workers who lost their jobs to foreign H1-B Visa holders....
On Parenthood

Article In this article, prominent software developer Jeff Atwood describes his love of fatherhood and how parenthood has changed him for...
Owning Ethics: Corporate Logics, Silicon Valley, and the Institutionalization of Ethics

Article In this article, the authors study the attempts to institutionalize ethics within Silicon Valley tech companies. Through interviewing those responsible for thinking...
Paul Graham has accidentally explained everything wrong with Silicon Valley’s world view

Article In this article, the author counters some of the points that Paul Graham made in his article on Economic Inequality. She...
Political tension at Google is only getting worse

Article In this article, another former engineer has alleged that the company fired him over his political beliefs.
Posting less, posting more, and tired of it all: How the pandemic has changed social media

Article In this article, it examines how after one year, Covid-19 has altered how people use social media.
Privacy Fundamentalism

Article In this article, the author argues that there are alarmist privacy arguments out there and explains why one by Farhad...
Programmers: Stop Calling Yourselves Engineers

Article In this article, the author argues that programmers should stop calling themselves engineers. The author argues that "engineering" implies a...
Push for Gender Equality in Tech? Some Men Say It’s Gone Too Far

Article In this article, it discusses how some men have recently spoken out about their feelings on gender equality in tech.
Reading Quiz 02

Reading Quiz This reading quiz was used in the Ethical and Professional Issues course in the Computer Science and Engineering department at Notre...
Reading Quiz 03

Reading Quiz The third reading quiz for the Ethical and Professional Issues course in Notre Dame's Computer Science and Engineering department. The quiz...
Reading Quiz 04

Reading Quiz This reading quiz for the Ethical and Professional Issue course in Notre Dame's Computer Science and Engineering Department covers the following...
Reading Quiz 05

Reading Quiz This reading quiz covers the following readings: How bosses are (literally) like dictators (Anderson) The code I'm still ashamed of (Sourour)...
Reflecting On One Very, Very Strange Year At Uber

Article In this article, Susan Fowler discusses her reasons for leaving Uber.
Reflecting on Susan Fowler’s Reflections

Article In this article, Aimee Lucido reflects on the article written by Susan Fowler, discussing her negative experience with Uber.
“Repugnant” online discussions are not illegal thoughtcrime, court rules

Article This article describes a court ruling about disturbing sexual fantasies posted online. A US Federal Court of Appeals ruled that it is...
Salary Negotiation: Make More Money, Be More Valued

Article In this article, McKenzie discusses why negotiation matters, how to shift your mindset to embrace negotiation, and when/how a negotiation happens.
Scheirer on Improving Tech

Video From the video description: Prof. Walter Scheirer (Computer Science, University of Notre Dame) thinks about the state of the tech...
Scheirer on Start-ups

Video In this video, Dr. Walter Scheirer discusses the benefits of starting your own start-up rather than working for an established company...
Senate passes controversial online sex trafficking bill

Article This article describes an online sex trafficking bill passed by the Senate in 2018. The bill, called the Allow States and Victims...
Sex and STEM: Stubborn Facts and Stubborn Ideologies

Article In this article, the authors discuss their thoughts on the "sex differences" in STEM.
Should I Always Listen to My Boss? Lecture Slides

Lecture / slides Slides for Lecture 10 of Ethical and Professional Issues in Notre Dame's Computer Science and Engineering Department. This lecture covers...
Silicon Valley Isn't a Meritocracy. And It's Dangerous to Hero-Worship Entrepreneurs

Article In this article, it discusses meritocracy and entrepreneurialism reinforce a closed system of privilege. It also reveals the threadbare nature...
Silicon Valley's “Body Shop” Secret: Highly Educated Foreign Workers Treated Like Indentured Servants

Article In this article, NBC's Bay Area Investigative Unit and The Center for Investigative Reporting report on an organized system for supplying cheap...
Silicon Valley's Unchecked Arrogance

Article In this article, the author argues that the idea of Universal Basic Income comes from Silicon Valley’s arrogant view toward...
Sniffer FAQ

Article This article is written by an early computer security company founded in 1994 and later was acquired by IBM in 2006....
So Much for Decentralized Internet

Article In this article, Georgia Tech professor Ian Bogost makes an urgent argument in The Atlantic that the commercialization and centralization of the internet puts...
Tech Giants, Once Seen as Saviors, Are Now Viewed as Threats

Article In this article, Streitfeld notes that at the start of this decade, the Arab Spring blossomed with the help of social media,...
Technical and Cultural Revolutions

Video This video is from OSCON 2014 and the keynote speaker Tim O'Reilly, the founder and CEO of O'Reilly Media. From the video...
Ten Rules for Negotiating a Job Offer

Article In this article, the author provides 10 rules that can help job searchers negotiate with potential employers.
The Capital of Meritocracy is Silicon Valley, Not Wall Street

Article In this article, the author explains that meritocracy and entrepreneurialism reinforce a closed system of privilege. It also reveals the...
The Case For Doing Nothing

Article In this article, Olga Mecking introduces the Danish concept niksen--doing nothing. Mecking highlights the benefits of doing nothing from time to time--it...
The code I'm still ashamed of

Article In this article, the author describes an experience he had as a young coder where his job required him to...
The compelling case for working a lot less

Article In this article, Amanda Ruggieri explores the compelling evidence against nonstop work, including that the work produced at the end...
The Convenience-Surveillance Tradeoff

Article In this article, Adrienne LaFrance discusses how Americans view the tradeoffs between privacy and surveillance based on a recent. Pew study....
The Culture Wars Have Come to Silicon Valley 560

Article In this article, the author discusses the culture wars that have consumed politics in the United States and have now...
The Empathy Gap in Tech: Interview with a Software Engineer

Article In this article, Claire Lehmann interviews a talented engineer who is "not neurotypical" and discusses the lack of empathy in the...
The First Women in Tech Didn’t Leave—Men Pushed Them Out

Article In this article, Mims discusses the prevalence of sexism in the tech industry. In this article, hear female entrepreneurs and...
The Light It Up Contest

Video This video is by the famous hacker George Hotz also known as Geohot. He is known for developing iOS jailbreaks, reverse engineering...
The metaverse is here

Article In this article, Bruno Maçães discusses the Metaverse. He explains the technical specifications needed to support the Metaverse, imagines the user...
The New Age of Surveillance

Article In this article, the author discusses how the emergence of the Internet of Things is ushering in a new age...
The Noncompete Clause Gets a Closer Look

Article In this article, Lauren Weber talks about Biden’s executive order which asks FTC to limit the use of agreements that keep workers...
The Reality of Developer Burnout

Article In this article, Kenneth Reitz shares his experience of software developer burnout and outlines mechanisms he put in place to...
The Real White Fragility: Does the White Upper Class Feel Exhausted and Oppressed by Meritocracy?

Article In this article, the author examines the question: does the white upper class feel exhausted and oppressed by meritocracy?
There's an Automation Crisis Underway Right Now, It's Just Mostly Invisible

Article This article describes the results of a research study on workplace automation’s impact on the individual worker. While the study...
The Secret History of Women in Coding

Article In this article, Clive Thompson recounts the history of women in coding, looking at many different female pioneers in the field.
The shock and pain of cyber-bullying

Article This article describes how cyberbullying can affect a family from two different perspectives: first, from the perspective of the family who lost...
The United States Isn't Doomed to Lose the Information Wars

Article In this article, Doowan Lee discusses the ways China and Russia have launched disinformation attacks online and suggests a few...
The US System for "Skilled" Migrants is Broken

Article In this article, the author provides an overview of the H1-B Visa, explains why it was created, and describes some...
The WeWork Documentary Explores a Decade of Delusion

Article In this article, Lizzie Widdicombe summarizes the documentary “WeWork: Or the Making and Breaking of a $47 Billion Unicorn." Widdicombe provides...
The Woman Bringing Civility to Open Source Projects

Article In this article, Coraline Ada Ehmke is featured as "the woman bringing civility to open source projects". Ehmke is the principal...
The Work-Family Imbalance

Article In this article, Anand Iyer discusses the importance of prioritizing work-family life balance, especially for fathers. Iyer presents research that...
Unix Use and Security From The Ground Up

Article This article written by the hacker The Prophet for textfiles.com about the security and uses of Unix. Hackers in the early 1990s would...
'Utterly horrifying': ex-Facebook insider says covert data harvesting was routine

Article In this article, we hear the concerns of Sandy Parakilas, a former Facebook employee who directly observed Facebook treating user...
Visa Rejections for Tech Workers Spike Under Trump

Article In this article, the author assesses the impact of the stricter H-1B Visa policies enacted under former President Trump. The author follows...
Walter Scheirer Interviews Kirsten Martin

Video In this video, Prof. Walter Scheirer (Computer Science, Notre Dame) interviews Dr. Kristen Martin, expert on technology ethics and privacy,...
Walter Scheirer Interviews Ron Metoyer

Video In this video, Prof. Walter Scheirer (Computer Science, University of Notre Dame) interviews Dr. Ron Metoyer, Professor of Computer Science...
Wearing Many Hats: The Rise of the Professional Security Hacker

Article This article in Data & Society is a discussion with Matt Goerzen and Gabriella Coleman about the evolving culture around exploits development....
We Hire the Best, Just Like Everyone Else

Article In this article, Jeff Atwood is skeptical about hiring the "best" people and advocates for different approaches.
Welcome to the Age of Privacy Nihilism

Article In this article, Ian Bogost provides an overview of the history of business intelligence. While the uncannily-appropriate nature of the targeted...
We only hire the trendiest

Article In this article, Dan Luu discusses the pitfalls of only hiring the "trendiest" people.
Were You Asked to Sign a Non-compete Agreement? Watch this first!

Article In this video, Michigan Ross Professor Norm Bishara shows you five simple steps to take before, and after, you sign...
What Do Programmers Care About?

Video In this video, Joel Spolsky from Stack Overflow speaks on 'What do top programmers really care about when looking for...
What happens when we work non-stop

Article In this article, José Luis Peñarredonda discusses the experience of overworked workers, despite overwhelming evidence that working a healthy number of hours increases...
What is an H-1B Visa?

Video This video explains what an H-1B Visa is, its history, and critical opinions of H1-B visas.
Where Do I Want To Work? Lecture Slides

Lecture / slides In these lecture slides from the Ethical and Professional Issues course in the Computer Science and Engineering department at Notre Dame,...
Who controls the Internet?

Article In this article, it attempts to answer the question "Who owns the internet". Decentralization means the Internet is controlled by...
Why Are Young People Pretending to Love Work

Article In this article, Griffith explores the phenomenon of "workaholism" in younger generations. She argues that this culture benefits those in...
Why Doesn’t Silicon Valley Hire Black Coders?

Article In this article, Vauhini Vara addresses the lack of representation of black coders at Google and why this occurs, looking specifically at...
Why hiring the ‘best’ people produces the least creative results

Article In this article, Dr. Page argues that hiring the "best" people produces the least creative results.
Why I Put My Wife's Career First

Article In this article, Andrew Moravcsik, husband of Anne-Marie Slaughter (who wrote this article about working mothers) describes his experience as a...
Why is hiring broken? It starts at the whiteboard.

Article In this article, open source extraordinaire Sahat Yalkabov explains why he has given up his search for a front end...
Why Millennials Are Leaving Six-Figure Tech Jobs

Video From the video description: "Tech jobs are known to have some of the most lavish benefits and perks, not to...
Why Recent Grads Don't Negotiate

Article In this article, Ross explores the reasons why recent grads choose not to negotiate job offers and why this may not be...
Why Silicon Valley is Embracing Universal Basic Income

Article This article describes how Universal Basic Income (UBI) works, and how it fits into Silicon Valley’s agenda. While some critics...
Why Software is Eating the World

Article In this article, Marc Andreessen argues that the rapid growth of tech companies will not lead to a dangerous new...
Why Tech Is the Leading Industry on Parental Leave

Article In this article, Bourree Lam profiles Etsy's updated parental leave policy from 12 weeks to 26 weeks. Lam cites two main...
Why Tech Leadership Has a Bigger Race Than Gender Problem

Article In this article, the findings of a new study from Ascend Leadership that there may be an overrepresentation of Asians in tech—but...
Why the Open Code of Conduct Isn't For Me

Article In this article, the author shares his opinion on GitHub’s new Open Code of Conduct. Specifically, the author critiques the...
Why the STEM gender gap is overblown

Article In this article, Denise Cummins explains that although women are just as capable of performing in STEM fields as men, this...
Why Using an Ad Blocker Is Stealing

Article In this article, the author discusses why using an ad blocker is stealing. The author argues that using an ad...
Why Women Don't Code

Article In this article, Stuart Reges discusses his opinion on why men and women are "different" and why these "differences" are responsible...
Why Women Don’t Negotiate Their Job Offers

Article In this article, the legitimate reasons women don't negotiate their salaries and how they can negotiate without a "social cost".
Why Women Still Can't Have It All

Article In this article, Anne-Marie Slaughter draws from her own professional experience to explain why it is incredibly hard for women...
Why You Should Embrace Surveillance, Not Fight It

Article From the article description: "The internet is a tracking and monitoring machine. We will ceaselessly self-track and be tracked. We’re expanding...
Workism is Making Americans Miserable

Article In this article, Derek Thompson outlines the new "workism" phenomenon. Despite predictions from 20th century intellectuals that Americans in the...
Writing Reflection 01: Jobs in the Tech Industry

Writing Reflection The second writing assignment for Ethical and Professional Issues in Notre Dame's Computer Science and Engineering department. The assignment asks...
Writing Reflection 02: What does success look like?

Writing Reflection In this writing reflection, students in Ethical and Professional Issues (in Notre Dame's Computer Science and Engineering department) are encouraged...
Writing Reflection 03: Valuable Time and Good People

Writing Reflection In this writing reflection from the Ethical and Professional Issues course in Notre Dame's Computer Science and Engineering department, the students are encouraged...
Writing Reflection 04: Social Media and the Internet

Writing Reflection In this writing reflection, students in the Ethical and Professional Issues course in Notre Dame's Computer Science and Engineering department...
Writing Reflection 05: Exposure of Anonymity?

Writing Reflection In this writing reflection for the Ethical and Professional Issues course in Notre Dame's Computer Science and Engineering department, students are...
You Should Plan On Switching Jobs Every Three Years For The Rest Of Your Life

Article In this article, Vivian Giang discusses why the stigma of being a flaky job-hopper is quickly becoming a thing of the...