by Manjula Martin
One in an irregular series of profiles of fabulous older women.
“There’s no doubt social media can make a number of work tasks infinitely easier. But it can also be a land mine of potential snafus that at best cause professional…
We are living in a golden age for breathless hyperbole. It is the default mode of online headlines.
— Nathan Rabin (@nathanrabin) February 24, 2014
“Peer pressure has dissipated since its ’90s heyday, but the adolescent flat world is harder to navigate”
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If you have not read the enormous and amazing Andrew O’Hagan thing on his long ordeal ghostwriting Julian Assange’s…
Facebook wants you to think lots of kids still use it while YouTube doesn’t want you to think too much about the fact that lots kids actually do still use it. It’s a crazy world!
“I’ve heard rumors. It would be a milestone moment. And if and when it happens, we will throw a huge party to celebrate. I throw salt over my shoulder daily in hopes that it happens.” — Can you guess?
★★★★ A crushed rat, a large one, lay in the street, its guts a chopped-looking red pile beside it. The…
“A few weeks ago, over dinner with half a dozen entrepreneurs and venture capitalists, the question came up again. The table, which included a few people already worth more than $100 million, went quiet. One man in his late…
“’True Detective’ reeks of the [macho nonsense]. The series, for all its good looks and its movie-star charisma, isn’t just using dorm-room deep talk as a come-on: it has fallen for its own sales pitch. To state the obvious: while the male detectives of “True Detective” are…
“Some Observers Say Rookie Mistakes Shouldn’t Affect Mayor’s Ability to Govern” — I guess the good news for supporters of History’s Worst Mayor is that even his critics are forced to concede that maybe 55 days in is a little premature to declare the…
