If Twitter is a place in which a user may be rewarded for exposing his most stupid self, Ira Glass put the medium to good use last week, when, after watching John Lithgow appear as King Lear at the Delacorte Theatre in Central Park, he tweeted his…

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Cap Watkins: Great advice on shipping great design from @dburka: https://t.co/rsXTu6FdJf

July 22, 2014 ‹ Previous 7 minute READ Next › To get a good perspective on our clients and their users, we start our projects with research. We go mobile first because it naturally gives prioritization, and we want all the content first so we can design in the browser. The process is so clear in…

dustin senos: By far the best article I’ve read on presenting designs successfully — https://t.co/VfJoolx38H thanks @joulee.

How can I contribute to building the internet I want to experience? 8 min read· Jul 9, 2014 -- When was the last time you felt a deep sense of connection with someone else online? Maybe it was today — reading a blog post that articulated something you’ve been trying to express for ages, or seeing a…

For centuries, the people of London and other big cities got their cooking and washing water from rivers or wells, limiting their consumption to pretty much what they could carry. They dumped their waste into brick-lined cesspits that would be emptied by the night soil men, who sold it as fertilizer…

Thoughts about reading and internet media use Published in[in beta] · 11 min read· Jul 11, 2014 -- Back in May Mike Hudack posted a rant about the state of the news media. The gist of it is: here we are in 2014, the Internet is at scale — the mobile internet is in the pockets of 30%+ of adults…

Member-only story Published inThe Message · 5 min read· Jul 2, 2014 -- Trench notes By Craig Mod Illustration by Luis Mendo How are apps made? Painfully with deliberation or effortlessly without thought. Blind inspiration. Eight hours over a lazy weekend. Fifty grand a day. A million dollars a…

Tim Van Damme: “we must make the goal conform to the individual, rather than make the individual conform to the goal” /ht @soleio http://t.co/uN6g1ruhqC

Something is missing from this blogger reunion in our inbox Published inThe Message · 5 min read· Jun 24, 2014 -- It has been more than a decade since I last saw a web ring. The Internet of Newsletters hints at something interesting about the rise of TinyLetter over the past year. A specific group…

simenge-deactivated20160805 ted.com Wizards in the Gaps mills I have to disagree with Simen’s critique of David Deutsch, whose theory of knowledge is based largely on the work of Karl Popper. Simen argues that Deutsch is wrong to criticize “explanationless theories” because explanation is itself a…

There are few things that can galvanize the news world’s attention like a change in leadership atop The New York Times. Jill Abramson’s ouster yesterday afternoon probably reduced American newsroom productivity enough to skew this quarter’s GDP numbers. We don’t typically write about intra-newsroom…

Kyle Meyer: Ebooks for All by @craigmod https://t.co/EchA7VnnjL

Or, where creatives fall into despair Published inThe Year of the Looking Glass · 7 min read· Feb 18, 2014 -- The last time I fell into the Pit was a week ago. It happened because I got Internet-lost, which is to say I was following links across the web indiscriminately when I stumbled across an old…

Posted April 16, 2014 I love questions about advice because they really force one to think carefully about what to say. My former colleague, Jackie Bavaro now at Asana, who recently co-authored a thoughtful book on the ins and outs of securing a role in product management, asked the following…

When iOS 8 hits, the notification center is going to be the most important screen in your iPhone. Think about it: Notifications already are the way you know about everything that happens without having to fire up an app. A notification lets you know you have a new email, a new text message, a new…

I’ve always loved this song, “Joan of Arc”, by the now defunct Actionslacks. It’s a cute little pop song about possibly unrequited love (do we listen to pop music because we’re miserable, or are we miserable because we listen to pop music?), and it’s got this seemingly obvious line: “The answer’s…

May 22 was World Goth Day! To celebrate, NPR’s main Twitter account, @nprnews, sent out a tweet to its 2 million-plus followers sharing a 2013 NPR story on Goth Barbie. It earned 156 retweets — among the highest of anything NPR shared that day. Happy World Goth Day! http://t.co/DUxua8wUR1 (2013)…

Opinion Credit...Jennifer Daniel LOS ANGELES — I CAN’T help it. Every few weeks, my wife mentions the latest book her book club is reading, and no matter what it is, whether I’ve read it or not, I offer an opinion of the work, based entirely on ... what, exactly? Often, these are books I’ve not even…

If I ask you how you spend your money, that’s a very different question than if I ask how you invest your money. Your goals for spending and investing are different, and as a result your actions for each are different. So isn’t it strange that we talk about how we spend time, but we never talk about…

I find questions about writers’ tools both fascinating and repulsive: fascinating because learning about the habits and techniques of people whose work you admire is endlessly interesting, and occasionally even imparts useful knowledge. (If John McPhee swears by index cards as a method for…

You can listen to an audio version of Seams. “The function of science fiction,” said Ray Bradbury, “is not only to predict the future, but to prevent it.” Dystopias are the default setting for science fiction. It’s rare to find utopian sci-fi, and when you do—as in the post-singularity Culture…

The User Engagement Death Spiral 3 min read· Sep 23, 2013 -- There is a horrifying term in aviation, called the death spiral, or the graveyard spiral, where a pilot believing that they are flying steady with the wings level is actually caught in a downward spiral, sometimes ending tragically with…