THE WEEKEND READER
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The 12 Best Podcast Episodes You Need to Hear
The 12 Best Podcast Episodes You Need to Hear
This is a different kind of Weekend Reader. YOU became the curators when I asked for your favorite single podcast episodes. I couldn’t…
Does it Matter Where You Go To College?
Does it Matter Where You Go To College?
Happy 2019 everyone and welcome back!
The Newest and Best Way to Protect Kids from Online Porn
The Newest and Best Way to Protect Kids from Online Porn
Last week The Atlantic ran a bombshell cover story: “Why Are Young People Having So Little Sex?” They listed a lot of reasons, but the…
Five Maps That Will Change How You Think About The World
Five Maps That Will Change How You Think About The World
In this newsletter, I try to balance tackling hot topics (Like the Supreme Court edition two weeks ago) with less urgent, but no less…
The Price of Ambition
The Price of Ambition
Are you happy? Do you think you’ll be happier if you just reach the next goal you’ve set for yourself? If you get the promotion…If your…
The Future of Space Travel
The Future of Space Travel
In the midst of daily headlines about all the stressful stuff going on around the world (suspicion of the murder of a journalist by Saudi…
Facebook Depression
Facebook Depression
This is a throwback from 2016. Unfortunately — Still relevant today
Austin, Denver, New York, Chicago, and Atlantic City
Austin, Denver, New York, Chicago, and Atlantic City
Tales from Five American Cities
Why Innocent People Plead Guilty
Why Innocent People Plead Guilty
“If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to…
Where do good ideas come from?
Where do good ideas come from?
“To me there’s no creativity without boundaries. If you’re gonna write a sonnet, it’s 14 lines, so it’s solving the problem within the…
Why Don’t Men Have Friends Anymore?
Why Don’t Men Have Friends Anymore?
Male Loneliness in the 21st Century
Rise of the Hackers
Rise of the Hackers
Last week we learned that everyone one got hacked (at least nearly everyone). The Equifax security breach put the personal data of 143…
Startup Studios: The New Way to Build Great Companies
Startup Studios: The New Way to Build Great Companies
And an introduction to my new company: Saturn Five
What does White Nationalism really mean?
What does White Nationalism really mean?
I hesitate to cover the biggest stories of the moment. One of the reasons I write theWeekend Reader is to fight back against a news cycle…
Has an MIT scientist discovered the fountain of youth?
Has an MIT scientist discovered the fountain of youth?
It could be that this pill will change your life for the longer.
This is how the world ends
This is how the world ends
Are we going to be wiped out by artificial intelligence, global warming, avian flu, or something else?
What it would be like if North Korea were in America
What it would be like if North Korea were in America
Understanding the world’s strangest regime through an imaginative alternate American history
What’s really happening in North Korea
What’s really happening in North Korea
Six essential reads to understand the problem on the Korean Peninsula
The Huge and Secret Influence of Online Pornography
The Huge and Secret Influence of Online Pornography
The omnipresence of flesh