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If You’re Too Busy For These 5 Things: Your Life Is More Off-Course Than You Think
Despite turbulence and other conditions keeping airplanes off-course 90 percent of flight time, most flights arrive in the correct…
Benjamin P. Hardy
Sep 18
Dive into the details of iOS 11: Is Apple still detail-oriented?
The neglected UX details in iOS 11.
Ryan Lau
Sep 16
Up next: nothing? How information overload is impacting our brains.
15 years ago, I made two major choices before I went to school in the mornings. I picked what cereal I would have (how good were Ricicles?…
Vinny
Sep 18
Want to Really Understand What all the Hype of Cryptocurrency is About?
If you read the headlines you may well think cryptocurrencies are a either a radically new way of paying that is our savior from ossified…
Mark Suster
Sep 17
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Does the good still outweigh the bad?
Perhaps that’s a negatively-framed question, but if you can answer it positively, then you know it’s all worth it.
Cassidy Spencer
Aug 22
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Three Things We Don’t Understand About Climate Change
Thinking about climate change is not something that comes natural to humans — or ‘consumers’ as we have been called for decades. It is not…
Aarne Granlund
Aug 30
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How Many Miles to Babylon
By Megan Arkenberg
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Horror from Great Jones Street
Sep 14
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Slay it Forward
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Adrian Ludens
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Horror from Great Jones Street
Sep 12
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Criminals Thought Bitcoin Was the Perfect Hiding Place, but They Thought Wrong
Companies have popped up to help cops identify suspects who use Bitcoin, and savvy criminals are moving to other currencies.
MIT Technology Review
Sep 18
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China moves towards banning the internal combustion engine
Its government is developing a plan to phase out vehicles powered by fossil fuels
The Economist
Sep 18
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That’s Not a Star, That’s a Diamond
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Aztec Yoga
Sep 18
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Pagame
Fausto got a call from his homie Chuy out in Yacatecutli.
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Novel drugs for depression
A new generation of drugs could change the way depression is treated
The Economist
Sep 19
Reintrepreting Pop Culture
Reza Hasni is an illustrator and motion graphics artist from Singapore who creates colorful psychedelic pop art. Bringing together…
Neocha
Sep 8
There’s no such thing as a cultural élite
You’re not “elite”: you are in denial.
Anna Momigliano
Sep 14
72 Hours at the Largest Stay-At-Home-Dad Conference in the Country
Every September hundreds of dads gather to commiserate about what it’s like to be the primary caregiver
Tracy Moore
Sep 19
Left, Right, and Perpendicular
Like many folks, the November election of Donald Trump came as a shock to me. A little over a year prior, I was laughing as Stephen Colbert…
Matthew McAllister
Sep 15
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Welcome to Augmented Modernity.
An emerging techno-consumerism is taking aim at what makes us human: love, happiness, politics, the search for meaning and more. It amounts…
David Mattin
Sep 10
Outgrowing Our Internet: Caught Between the Intranet and the Decentralized Web
SaaS, Connectivity Service Platforms (CSPs), and the coming of the decentralized web.
Founder Collective
Sep 13
Apple’s Speciality Isn’t Hardware Or Software
The obvious point everyone misses when criticising Apple
Sarvasv Kulpati
Sep 17
iPhone X: The Demo Gods Are Cheeky
by Jean-Louis Gassée
Jean-Louis Gassée
Sep 17
ARKit and ARCore will not usher massive adoption of mobile AR
The AR Cloud Will.
Ori Inbar
Sep 12
Creativity
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Your Art May Never Go Viral or Change the World — Make It Anyway
If a piece of art is born and nobody sees it — does it mean anything?
Iris
Sep 16
On Creative Practice Part 1: Fear
Beating Fear as the First Step Toward Building a Creative Practice
Nick Smith
Sep 16
The Internet Is Killing the Art of Writing. Or Is It?
In a visual and digital world, what’s a fan of the written word to do?
Mistress Agency
Sep 15
The Meaning & Power of Words
Sticks & stones may break my bones, but words create or destroy
RobinB Creative
Sep 14
A Mental Model to Leverage Information Overload as Creative Fuel for Problem Solving
Surfing the internet feels like drinking from a fire hose of information.
Mohammed Ali Vakil
Sep 17
Entrepreneurship
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Dear Entrepreneurs: The Daily Grind Does Not Get Any Easier (But you’ll get better at it)
There is this moment when you’re a young startup, where you imagine what it will be like, years from now when everything is going…
Joshua Davidson
Sep 15
Startup Burn
I’m fortunate to have just returned from a week at Burning Man. It was my 3rd burn in as many years. It’s a special, different, and…
Jonathan Lowenhar
Sep 8
The two questions I ask every entrepreneur
These questions get to the heart of what season your company is currently in.
George Brooks
Sep 18
What Do You Do When Someone “Steals” Your Amazing Idea?
The subject line read: “did you see this?” The message was from my editor Jen. “Nir, I saw the headline on this story and thought it might…
Nir Eyal
Sep 14
Mock the Magic Quadrant at Your Peril
Two of the most lucrative IPOs from 2011-15, worth a combined $35B, feature their position on Magic Quadrant as their primary selling point…
Founder Collective
Sep 15
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Pray for PREACHER, y’all.
Thoughts on season 2 of the comic-book drama everyone’s growing more comfortable about ignoring.
Dan Owen
Sep 14
What “Big Little Lies” Reveals About America
Like America, the women in “Big Little Lies” are dripping in wealth, but cannot abate an overwhelming sense of frustration.
Nick Cassella
Sep 14
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5 Things I Learned Studying Fandom
By Elizabeth Minkel, co-host of Fansplaining, and writer on fan culture for New Statesman, The Millions, The Guardian, and The New Yorker.
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Opinion: The Shameful Embrace of Spicer at the Emmys
In this morally addled country, fame matters more than the reasons for it.
The New York Times
Sep 18
The Hobbit: How a 10-Year-Old Boy Helped Unleash Tolkien Upon the World
In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit . . .
Josh Hrala
Aug 18
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The Truth About Gut Instincts
When should we rely (and not rely) on our gut?
Melissa Chu
Sep 18
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Watching porn, and other things I am ashamed of
In photos
Jessica Semaan
Sep 14
Happiness is a Compass, Not a Destination
Shift your perceptions, articulate your goals, and find happiness in all possible worlds
Matthew Pirkowski
Sep 7
The Power of Decision
“A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” — Lao Tzu
Anthony Vicino
Sep 12
What if Every ‘No’ Meant ‘Not Yet’
Using the Magic of Disappointment to Reshape Your Dreams
Sandy Peckinpah
Sep 13
Politics
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On Final Passage Of The National Defense Authorization Act
Today, the Senate will vote on final passage of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2018. This is the culmination of…
John McCain
Sep 18
Catastrophe on the Yalu: America’s intelligence failure in Korea
By: Bruce Riedel
The Brookings Institution
Sep 13
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Ivanka Trump: ‘I will not be distracted by the noise’
Ivanka Trump is one of the most powerful first children in US history. Courtney Weaver talks to her about expectations, criticism and what…
The Financial Times
Sep 14
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Sanders Is Changing the Democratic Party
Single payer is a long shot, but this is how big ideas happen in America.
Bloomberg View
Sep 14
Wake Up GOP: Trump Is Not An Anomaly — This Is Who You Are
Republicans are no longer the conservative party and Trump is not an aberration. And conservatives need to face some hard facts…
Greg Fish
Sep 15
