Human Inquiry in the Age of Algorithms

A review and discussion guide for System Error, required reading for technologists and citizens alike.

Jeremy Weinstein, Hilary Cohen, Mehran Sahami and Rob Reich of Stanford. Photo Credit: Christie Hemm Klok

In early 2014, the war was on for software engineering talent.

I was Head of People at Medium, and we were losing the fight to Uber, Airbnb, and Big Tech incumbents. At first I thought this could only be…