by Paola Moretti. My father is one of those men who are terrible at choosing presents for women. I’m not sure whether his insistence on giving me perfume, dresses and cute necklaces is a hint that I should be a little more feminine, or if he simply has no clue about what I actually like. This year,…

by Katrin Strohmaier. So Berlin is over. We’ve heard, read and – let’s be honest – said it ourselves on numerous occasions: while we were standing in line for two hours last time we wanted to go to that open air club that only a year ago was still an insiders’ tip; when we went to that new IPA place…

We live in an age of nerds. Sometimes I try to explain to my kids that I grew up in a time — a dark age known as The Eighties — when reading comic books, playing fantasy-based card games, watching Doctor Who, or being really into computers could get you publicly pantsed. There was a clear social…

There is an infamous rejection letter that has been circling the internet for the last eight years. “Dear Miss Ford,” the 1938 letter to a would-be animation trainee begins. “Women do not do any of the creative work in connection with preparing the cartoons for the screen, as that work is performed…

I am not usually comfortable in a bar by myself, but I had been in San Francisco for a week and the apartment I sublet had no chairs in it, just a bed and a couch. My friends in town were married or worked nights. One Tuesday I had lentil soup for supper standing up at the kitchen counter. After I…

KaterHolzig, a club recently closed because of property development Every year or so, without fail, the press pull at that dependable news hook: Is Berlin ‘over’? Is Berlin ‘no longer the coolest city in the world’? Everyone jumps all over this old trusty, and you wonder simultaneously: what do they…

by Rebecca Huval Startup offices tend to look the same; they save the “innovation” for the apps. Exposed pipes or concrete pillars provide an industrial flourish, so web developers can romanticize their work as hard labor. White walls function as a blank page, just begging to have buzzwords…

We can think of the propositions the so-called “smart city” is built on as belonging to three orders of visibility. The first is populated by exotica like adaptive sunshades, fully-automated supply and removal chains, and personal rapid transit (“podcar”) systems. These systems feature prominently…

chapter 6. Leisure The Importance of Dancing Like an Idiot One of the strangest but also most intriguing and redemptive things that humans get up to, in almost any culture one cares to study, is occasionally to gather in large groups, bathe in the rhythmic sounds of drums and flutes, organs and…

Amazon employees entering the company’s offices in Seattle. It recently became the most valuable retailer in the country.Credit...Ruth Fremson/The New York Times See how this article appeared when it was originally published on NYTimes.com. SEATTLE — On Monday mornings, fresh recruits line up for an…

Worlds are being saved by Chris Pratt, Seth Rogen, and Paul Rudd—men who, just a movie or two ago, looked like me, a guy who could probably be the guardian of his own lunch but definitely not a whole galaxy. Now, somehow, these funny schlubs have transformed into the shredded, shirtless muscleheads…

I reach for my phone to check the forecast and wonder at what point did I get so lost that I need a weather app to confirm what’s happening.

I am more and more fascinated by how tied together online social media and (social as well as spatial) mobility have become. As a so-called Millenial, I often wonder what life would be like if my generation didn’t have the instant means to get information about any- and everything they’re looking…

Matt Haughey: “The Web We Have to Save” by @h0d3r is fantastic https://t.co/cWlmf5EUMf I wrote a bit about it here http://t.co/LN7PDV6CuJ

Colin James Nagy: Nils Frahm: Two hands and two feet http://t.co/JBnWxmmYIE

Why are the most important people in media reading The Awl? In February, at the Code/Media* conference in Dana Point, California, some of the most powerful people in media found themselves discussing an unsettling story published two weeks prior. The piece predicted that the future of the internet…

The collective response to the mobile news app Circa’s shutdown on Wednesday has largely cast it as a noble news experiment that failed — a company that tested an interesting idea for mobile news delivery but ultimately fell victim to overhype, lack of use, and neglect of a business model. Quite a…

Last night, Dylann Roof walked into a Charleston church, sat for an hour, and then killed nine people. Roof’s crime cannot be divorced from the ideology of white supremacy which long animated his state nor from its potent symbol—the Confederate flag. Visitors to Charleston have long been treated to…

Michelle Rial/BuzzFeed Dick Costolo is bouncing in his chair. He's just vibrating. It's a Tuesday afternoon, less than 48 hours before he will make public his resignation as Twitter's CEO. And right now, he's ebullient. "So," he asks, excitedly, spinning side to side in his chair a bit. "What did…

Last winter, William MacAskill and his wife Amanda moved into a Union Square apartment that I was sharing with several friends in New York. At first, I knew nothing about Will except what I could glean from some brief encounters, like his shaggy blond hair and the approximation of a beard. He was…

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Why “Compassionate Capitalism” is kind of a scam. Published inBackchannel · 7 min read· Jun 12, 2015 -- At a private pre-party for TOMS’ “One Day Without Shoes” campaign, at TOMS Flagship Store on in Venice, California. (Stefanie Keenan/Getty Images) Imagine a store in your neighborhood that sells…

Screengrab from the “Hilltop” ad. So, after seven seasons of speculation about what peak Don Draper would jump from, the show ends with … a Coke ad? Unsurprisingly, Matt Weiner and company gave us an ending we’ll be debating for years, but the final moments make more sense if you know a bit about…

Threads Bluesky Mail to Print page Submit a letter: Email us letters@nybooks.com 1. It was with great anticipation that I arrived for my appointment at the editorial offices of BuzzFeed on West 23rd Street in Manhattan. Among journalists, no other website has stirred more interest, resentment, or…

Disclaimers: 1) This is a very long read. Thinking about a company and using its product obsessively for nine years straight will do that to you. 2) My funds and I own a lot of Twitter stock. 3) I do not speak for Twitter. 4) I have no inside information about Twitter. The company could already be…

By Heart is a series in which authors share and discuss their all-time favorite passages in literature. See entries from Karl Ove Knausgaard, Jonathan Franzen, Amy Tan, Khaled Hosseini, and more. Doug McLean Every memoirist, at least implicitly, advances a fraught claim: My life makes a good story.…

A few weeks ago, I read this tweet, and found myself nodding my head in vigorous agreement. The Next Feature Fallacy: the fallacy that the next feature you add will suddenly make people want to use the entire product. — Joshua Porter (@bokardo) May 14, 2015 For people who love to build product, when…

You can listen to an audio version of Web! What is it good for? I have a blind spot. It’s the web. I just can’t get excited about the prospect of building something for any particular operating system, be it desktop or mobile. I think about the potential lifespan of what would be built and end up…

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