Dr. Leif Singer

Paper Jam #21 will be our first without an actual paper!

What happens when a company simply orders its engineers to ship twice as much?

It's 11pm on a Tuesday.

We'll be meeting for Paper Jam #19 on Friday, July 17 at 1pm UTC.

Wasn't AI supposed to make software development easier?

Do large language models trained on human data respond to the same psychological levers that sway us?

What factors make developers working in teams thrive?

How do identity, content, and interaction transparency affect online interactions and collaboration?

I love working on meaningful things with others.

Software developers use computers not only for writing programs — they also use them to communicate and collaborate with one another.

When you build software, sooner or later you will want to think about human behavior — most notably about what motivates humans.

If you build software products, chances are that you’ve worried about adoption before.

Developers use many, many tools to collaborate.

Software developers use many tools to support their work.

Studies have shown that about 30% to 50% of what we do in a day can be called habitual [1].