by Benjamin Hart It’s hard to pinpoint the moment when New York and also technology started to feel like such a chore. Maybe it was when I urinated in a slim-fit adult diaper while waiting in line for the iPhone 4 for ninety-three hours and pronounced the experience “worth it,” or when I found…

Editor’s note: There are few more compelling digital journalism stories than the growth of Quartz, Atlantic Media’s business site. Though it was born with the advantage of a highly desirable target audience — the global business elite — it has still managed to do so much right: sharable content,…

En route from London to Tokyo, a pilot’s-eye view of life in the sky. TAKEOFF As we push back from our gate at Heathrow Airport we light the Boeing 747’s engines in pairs, starting with those under the starboard wing. A sudden hush falls in the cockpit as the air flow for the air-conditioning units…

Andy Baio: Facebook Instant Articles feels like the darkest timeline for journalism. http://t.co/ec9JxD0sJW

Design is important, but it’s not enough Published inUX Collective · 3 min read· May 4, 2015 -- I read this article Andrew Wilkinson published a couple of days ago by the agency who designed the branding and original UI for Slack. Full disclosure: I’m a designer at Atlassian and have been focused on…

404: Site Overview Hi! You got the wrong link. This is a 404 – kinda. Introduction : FINDINGBERLIN is a blog, meant to provide information about life in Berlin. It’s not necessarily a tourist guide. Most of the information you can find in English, some of it in German. Read more about FINDINGBERLIN…

In other languages: Swedish, Norwegian, Russian, German, Dutch, Portugese, Having heard so much good about petrol cars, we decided to test drive one. They are said to combine cheap price with long range and fast charging. A winning formula on paper – but how are they in real life? We sat us in the…

Tiffany Wardle: #mustread @Monteiro gives some of the most — if not the most — solid business design advice. http://t.co/z8QSKZrB5T

Or, can books save us from what digital does to our brains? 11 min read· Apr 22, 2015 -- Last year, I read four books. The reasons for that low number are, I guess, the same as your reasons for reading fewer books than you think you should have read last year: I’ve been finding it harder and harder…

Connor✨Tomas✨O'Brien: Wowowow. @olivialanguage's piece on isolation & digital spaces is rly incredible: http://t.co/lavrSzxz6B (cc @scarschwartz @tullyhansen)

Cennydd points to an article by Ev Williams about the pendulum swing between open and closed technology stacks, and how that pendulum doesn’t always swing back towards openness. Cennydd writes: We often hear the idea that “open platforms always win in the end”. I’d like that: the implicit values of…

Tiago Rodrigues: if you don’t understand why full stack anything is problematic: https://t.co/tzRLLcZelT

Spring 2015 This Magic Moment Eight years after it aired, the finale of The Sopranos continues to be hotly debated. David Chase explains how he created the excruciating tension of the last scene. What he won't say is what happened at the end. By James Greenberg Was Tony Soprano's quiet meal with his…

Longreads: "Last time we talked you said you had enough money" "Do you have enough money?" http://t.co/12YdHfPsrM #longreads http://t.co/Or1MS70q8L

The Mystery of Lê From Hop Sing Laundromat This much we know: Behind an unmarked door in Chinatown sits what may be America’s greatest cocktail bar, Hop Sing Laundromat. But the truth about the man who created it? That’s where things get trickier. Devoted foodies and restaurant newbies love Foobooz.…

Since the days that Mad Men depicts, blatant workplace sexism may have retreated, but it’s in no way been eradicated. In fact, a woman can go through a long career feeling like she’s been squeezed into being a Megan, then a Peggy, then a Joan, even taking a detour into being a Betty when she has…

Nikki Lee: I can't stop thinking about this. There's something really important and raw about it. http://t.co/bwWGBq2mV1

Vivienne Flesher Draft is a series about the art and craft of writing. I stared at the head counselor with a mixture of defiance, annoyance and heartbreak. She had just informed me that she was demoting me. Gone was the prestige position of senior counselor for a group of 13-year-old girls, and in…

In a tiny, picturesque valley, nestled in the southern alps of Japan’s Yamanashi Prefecture, lies a traditional Japanese hot spring hotel, or onsen. It’s not big. There are fewer than 40 rooms. Unlike other typical onsens, which operate during certain hours, the baths at this onsen are open 24 hours…

Joshua Benton: “It has become normal for Apple employees to randomly stand during meetings because their Watch told them to” http://t.co/m9ghDaFoLD

Published inMatter · 13 min read· Mar 25, 2015 -- In the new world of on-demand everything, you’re either pampered, isolated royalty — or you’re a 21st century servant. By Lauren Smiley Angel the concierge stands behind a lobby desk at a luxe apartment building in downtown San Francisco, and…

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When I express any shred of doubt about whether I deserve or am qualified for something, people often try to reassure me that I am just experiencing impostor syndrome. About 10% of the time, it’s true. Amelia Greenhall’s excellent piece, however, has inspired me to clear up a big misconception about…

I was at a tech women's meetup organized by a close friend and colleague. She took the podium for a moment to talk about women in tech, to thank sponsors, and to share some encouraging words with the attendees. She suddenly called out to me from the spotlight. "Lara, do you remember when I said you…

Note: This review contains mild spoilers for the first episode of the show. The third golden age of television, which may or may not be coming to an end, has been defined largely by the male antiheroes: self-pitying schlubs trying to survive in a world of decay. This was the working theory of Brett…

More Transparent UI Code with Namespaces Written by Harry Roberts on CSS Wizardry. Table of Contents When we work at scale, we often find that we spend a large amount of our time reading, maintaining, and refactoring existing code, rather than writing and adding new features. This is the reason we…

Today’s new Bill Watterson book, “Exploring Calvin and Hobbes,” offers the definitive in-depth interview with the cartoonist. (2015 Bill Watterson / Andrews McMeel) YESTERDAY , Comic Riffs reviewed “Exploring Calvin and Hobbes,” the ravishing new retrospective of an exhibition catalog that includes…

On a recent Tuesday night in Berlin, Ulla Ziemann is watching a well-kempt Scandinavian man drink shots in front of a half-dozen people with laptops. “These people are so well styled and slick,” she complains in German, before the man yells, “This is how we party in Berlin!” and plops down onto a…

I’ve been surprised —stupidly— at the seeming resurgence of moralizing in pop culture (on all parts of all spectra) . I once felt that by aesthetic chance, pop culture had stumbled onto the position asserted by my favorite novelist, Milan Kundera: Suspending moral judgment is not the immorality of…

Like a great many such things, some of journalism’s most precious ideals were the happy result of geography and economics. That is, in any given geography, the dominant newspaper tended towards a natural monopoly for two reasons: When it came to costs, the ownership of expensive printing presses and…

Gretchen McCulloch last explained exactly how the Benedict Cumberbatch name generator works. If you spend time on the meme-ish corners of the internet, you’ve probably noticed a certain trend in captioning pictures of shiba inus, known as doge, although there’s considerable disagreement about how to…

Published inThe Message · 6 min read· Mar 6, 2015 -- You’ve likely seen this style of writing all over the place — on Tumblr, Twitter, Snapchat, Yik Yak, or anywhere that people communicate in writing. It goes like this: When you see stuff like this all over the place. Another common variation are…

Fat loss is at the front of everybody’s mind these days, even stormtroopers. If you want to lose weight, and you want to do so in the fastest way possible, what’s the best strategy? Is it hours on the treadmill? Sprints up a hill? Could it possibly be squats and bench presses? What about traveling…

When to use @extend; when to use a mixin Written by Harry Roberts on CSS Wizardry. Table of Contents This is a question I get asked a lot by my clients: When should we use a mixin, and when should we use @extend? There’s an old rule of thumb which states that mixins without arguments are bad—that…

This is a post about Medium, which is a fascinating company partly because it has a lot of money, and partly because its leadership team first brought you Blogger (the first really successful blogging tool) and Twitter (Twitter), and which released a whole slate of new features this week in a kind…

Many of us have random impulses, but Bill Murray is the man who acts on them, for all of us. Consider, for example, the time a couple of years ago when he caught a cab late at night in Oakland. Facing a long drive across the bay to Sausalito, he started talking with his cabbie and discovered that…

(This is an old essay.) by Zak Smith The Problem Is… (among other things) this painting… The problem with this painting starts with the fact that it is, as you may have guessed already, a magnificent painting. It is great art. It will, unfortunately, never be Great Art. And that’s what I’m on about…