Irene T. Cheng, SM ’78

“Thinking big, aiming high, and making a difference were rules of the road embedded during my time at MIT,” says Irene Cheng, SM ’78, who went on to a successful Wall Street career as a managing director at Lazard Asset Management after earning a graduate degree in chemical engineering from […]

Substack wants to be seen as a pure infrastructure provider, akin to Cloudflare, but a platform can’t claim to be simple software when it recommends content (Casey Newton/Platformer)

Casey Newton / Platformer:Substack wants to be seen as a pure infrastructure provider, akin to Cloudflare, but a platform can’t claim to be simple software when it recommends content  —  Some thoughts on platforms and Nazis  —  Most days, this column looks at controversies unfolding on other tech platforms.