By Ziyue Wang and Xi Zhang “Language creates reality” — — Ludwig Wittgenstein. In Boroditsky’s experiment, the researchers asked Spanish- and German- speaking subjects to describe an object, such as a key, that had a different grammatical gender in the two languages. The team showed subjects a key, but did…

By Jiachen Zhou I originally joined Thoughtworks as a graduate, and now that I am about to celebrate my two-year anniversary I would like to share some of my experiences with other people, especially grads. I hope this article can help them adapt faster as a grad. …

By Simon Clarke Product-led growth (sometimes shortened to PLG) has gone “mainstream”. …

By Matheus Tait I will start with some (overly simplified) concepts because people sometimes mix shyness and introversion. Shy: A shy person is frightened of public exposure. There is a component of fear involved. They don’t necessarily want or like to be alone. …

By Sachin Dharmapurikar Sticky transformations are those where engineering teams adopt productive practices as a habit and need no external influence to go through with them. But engineering transformation requires a change in organizational mindset and a successful transformation requires continuous change. During a transformation exercise, coaches, teams and leadership…

By Pooja Arora and Shraddha Surana Nearly a hundred years ago, antibiotics became mainstream. Since then, antibiotics have saved countless lives. However, its widespread and irrational usage over the last century has made bacteria resistant to them. …

By Pawan Prasad and Ajit Kumar The confidence people have in their beliefs is not a measure of the quality of evidence but of the coherence of the story the mind has managed to construct. Daniel Kahneman, Renowned Psychologist and Economist, 2002 Nobel Prize Winner Humans are influenced by biases…

By Wilson Gao and Sichu Zhang In Agile delivery, we often face a variety of problems, not just limited to technology but also across processes, tools, capabilities, customer constraints, ways of working, management and more. All of these things will affect the outcome of delivery, and in some cases, even…

By Patricia Chmielowiec I joined the Thoughtworks recruiting team in Spain 6 months ago. What is fascinating about my job is that every day I get to meet new people and discover what it’s like to be a developer here. The other day I got the chance to chat with…