Karan Goel

Like most college kids, I had a college job. For almost two years, I was providing IT support in the School of Social Work (“A brown guy working in IT support? You don’t say”).
A big part of my job was to talk to the staff and faculty of this liberal arts school. When I looked left and right, I saw most of them were women. Most students in the classes were women....

New York Times publisher Arthur O. Sulzberger Jr. is now defending the newspaper’s decision to hire a climate change denier Bret Stephens last month. As Slate pointed out, “Stephens suggests that the rational way to go forward with a conversation about...

This is a very cool design pattern I learned on the job.
Say you have a few related states that you want to represent. These states are static and immutable. Think of a collection of states where what actions can be taken depends on the state of object....

We know that when the President-Elect of the USofA tweets about a company, the market reacts. When he tweeted about Boeing, the stock fell 2%. When he tweeted about cutting contracts with Lockheed Martin, the company’s stock went as much as 5% in the...