2U, the online education giant that acquired edX last year, just saw its stock price drop by half.

The first time you see Tailwind CSS, you might wonder whether someone accidentally pasted their stylesheet into the HTML. A single button can have a dozen classes just to control its spacing, colors, rounded corners, and hover effects. Are we really supposed to write all that? Each class does a small, specific job. Once you recognize them, you can style an element right where you’re building it, without jumping between files or thinking up another class name. The HTML gets busier, but making c

Confession: I used to think critical thinking meant being skeptical of everything. Question every headline, every claim, every source. Look beyond the face value. But critical thinking is structured evaluation, and knowing when to accept a good argument is as much a part of it as knowing when to reject a bad one. The people I know who are actually good at this are calmer, not louder. That’s what makes picking a course tricky. Two courses called “critical thinking” can teach almost nothing in c

Coursera announced job cuts on July 6, eight weeks after its merger with Udemy closed. The company didn’t say how many people were affected. The only number it gave was a cost, $8 million to $11 million. After digging around California’s website, I found that 59 people were laid off: 31 from Coursera’s Mountain View headquarters, and 28 from Udemy’s office in San Francisco. California only requires these notices for jobs in the state, so that isn’t the whole number. Based on what the two compa