Ben Scofield

19 Apr 2022

Some time ago, I was reading a book about the history of jazz in China, and something about it put me off. On reflection, I realized that my …

18 Nov 2018

I have a vision of a wonderful future. A future without arguments about camelCase and snake_case. A future without debates over tabs and …

15 May 2018

One of the reasons researchers focus on experts instead of expertise is that it seems easier to find the one than the other — you can look …

26 Apr 2018

Ragtag partners with Insightus to protect North Carolina voters

15 Mar 2018

One of the guiding principles of the Perl programming language is TMTOWTDI — there’s more than one way to do it (where “it” is “pretty much …

16 Feb 2018

The Winter Olympics are on! We’re in the first week of watching athletes who’ve spent years honing their skills and now get to amaze us with …

31 Jan 2018

I had so much fun doing my Reading and Podcast years in review for 2017 that I’ve decided to do more frequent look-backs this year. I don’t …

27 Jan 2018

One of the (many) things that makes research on the highest levels of expertise challenging is that — by definition — there aren’t that many …