Challenging those faux-profound bits of knowledge so often taken for granted Some great advice I once got was “Be less yourself.” This was in 2016, a couple of months after I left the Gawker website in part because I live-tweeted a meeting during which my boss hit his head on a lamp. I was 27, and…

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella was frustrated. Microsoft’s Edge web browser, released in 2015, hadn’t made much progress by the summer of 2017. “Satya came to us and said, ‘Hey, I’d like to see us make more progress on the browser,’” says Microsoft’s Joe Belfiore, in an exclusive interview with The…

The two 30-somethings drove the modest streets of South Bend, double-checking the microphone volume as they poked one another over their elite academic credentials and offered at times a nerdy, low-production attempt at a buddy comedy. Behind the seatbelts: Pete Buttigieg and Mark Zuckerberg. The…

Sem tempo irmão. Essa frase é de um meme que ficou popular nos últimos tempos e que, apesar de muita gente usá-lo ironicamente, ele reflete nosso sentimento diário de não ter tempo pra fazer o que que

Welcome to the Age of Pop 'Plagiarism' In 2019, the question of if and how a song has been copied is an incredibly complicated one. Illustration: Mike McQuade and Photos by Kevin Winter/Getty Images, Joseph Okpako/WireImage and Ethan Miller/Getty Images. Allegations of copying and cultural…

Simone Weil (1909-43) belonged to a species so rare, it had only one member. This peculiar French philosopher and mystic diagnosed the maladies and maledictions of her own age and place – Europe in the first war-torn half of the 20th century – and offered recommendations for how to forestall the…

“I never pretended to be an expert on millennials,” writes Bret Easton Ellis halfway through White, and the reader desperately wishes this were true. Ellis is best known for American Psycho, the contr

The day was young and full of promise, electrified by the moon in Sagittarius. An astrologer named Aliza texted me that I was on the cusp of a new cycle. It was time to tantalize my “Venusian sensibilities.” Power emoji: 💆 I had found Aliza while beta testing a new app called Sanctuary. The app,…

(This article is adapted from a forthcoming book, “Cult of the Dead Cow: How the Original Hacking Supergroup Might Just Save the World”) > Some things you might know about Beto O’Rourke, the former Te

El golpe fue muy fuerte para el gobierno de Abdo Benítez porque el país no se encuentra en absoluto preparado para iniciar esta negociación, no ha habido un debate interno sobre el tema, no existe un

12 years ago, Timothy Ray Brown, an HIV-positive cancer patient, received a blood stem cell transplant. Brown, who was later dubbed the “Berlin patient,” emerged from surgery free of cancer — and, to the world’s astonishment, free of HIV. Until recently, he was the only person known to be “cured” of…

Illustration: The Project Twins/Synergy A friend of mine died recently – still only in his 30s. People keep telling me how sorry they are, and of course I’m sad. He was such a presence that I feel almost haunted by his absence. But it’s also more complicated than that. I met N at university, where…

The philosopher Gillian Rose wrote a line I think about a lot. In her book Love’s Work, she says, “There is no democracy in any love relation: only mercy.” It is a very beautiful way of articulating a hideous truth: that we do not consent to be hurt or abandoned by those we love, and that the most…

I got my first MacBook in 2009. It was big and silver and one of the first things I did with it was spend an entire Tuesday afternoon in my dorm room trying to record a cover of Kanye West’s “Love Lockdown” on GarageBand by sampling the sound of my hands slapping the computer’s metal body and…

A few weeks ago, I came across this Achewood comic strip via the No Context Achewood Twitter account, in which Ray (the cat in the chain and glasses) asks Roast Beef (the other cat) if he ever wants kids. “Seriously!” says Ray, “You ever picture a little one on your knee, same face as you?” To which…

Three men cross an intersection, under the header “‘Chadestrians always have the right of way’ — Chad, Chád, & Chäd.” They are young, they are analyst-types, and they are all dressed in matching navy slacks, grey vests, and blue, collared shirts. They work in finance; they may dream of the Hamptons;…

Published inThe Awl · 7 min read· Feb 25, 2010 -- by Daniel D’Addario Matt Cherette is 25 and lives in Grand Haven, Michigan, about fifteen minutes from his parents’ house. He traveled to New York in the second week of February and while he was here, he signed the paperwork for a job at Gawker.TV.…

When I joined Postlight as an engineer last year, my first task was a big one: Rewrite the Readability Parser API. For those unfamiliar with the Readability Parser, it was the API that powered the pop

Since its founding by Elon Musk and others nearly two years ago, nonprofit research lab OpenAI has published dozens of research papers. One posted online Thursday is different: Its lead author is still in high school. The wunderkind is Kevin Frans, a senior currently working on his college…

Profiles Dan Mallory, who writes under the name A. J. Finn, went to No. 1 with his début thriller, “The Woman in the Window.” His life contains even stranger twists. February 4, 2019 At Oxford, Dan Mallory studied Patricia Highsmith’s Tom Ripley novels, which are about a charming, brilliant…

The world is disturbingly comfortable with the fact that women sometimes leave a sexual encounter in tears. When Babe.net published a pseudonymous woman's account of a difficult encounter with Aziz Ansari that made her cry, the internet exploded with "takes" arguing that the #MeToo movement had…

Very Intriguing Person is a series about people who fascinate us, for better or worse. One of the worst things about sex is that it involves more than one person. Unfortunately, this is also its chief appeal. An impossible problem that unites us all, the fact that most people want to mash themselves…

Maria Solange Ferrarini.Credit...Dado Galdieri for The New York Times On a sunny summer day in Montauk, Ipek Irgit was in the familiar situation of not knowing what she was doing with her life. It was 2012, and she was 34 years old. Earlier in the year, after having her heart broken, she had taken a…

In our new monthly column, YA of Yore, Frankie Thomas takes a second look at the books that defined a generation. Joseph Christian Leyendecker, Man Reading Book, 1914 My micro-generation—that is, the subset of millennials who were born in the second term of the Reagan administration and graduated…

“Suddenly everyone in Paraguay is interested in birding,” says Tatiana Galluppi, a conservationist with NGO Guyra Paraguay. “Citizen science is booming, and guides are starting to get calls from international tour operators.” We're heading out of Asuncion, the capital of Paraguay, toward San Rafael…

Managing yourself November 13, 2018 Shana Novak/Getty Images Summary. Leer en españolLer em português Mark was always one of the smartest kids in his class. He’s done well in his career, but when he checks Facebook, he sees people he outperformed at school who have now achieved more. Likewise, there…

Nuestra lengua Credit...Peter Arkle Las palabras son la principal herramienta de comunicación de cualquier periodista. En The New York Times en Español nos tomamos muy en serio nuestra lengua y cómo la usamos: entendemos que el español es un idioma con muchas variantes, pero que entre los más de 500…

Shotgun-toting guards patrol an anonymous warehouse on the outskirts of Ciudad del Este. Perched on the triple border where Paraguay meets Brazil and Argentina, the melting-pot city is often associated with smuggling, cartels and drugs. But inside, a new hot commodity is piling up by the second.…

Postscript September 9, 2018 “I really wouldn’t want just happiness,” the twenty-six-year-old rapper Mac Miller said, in an interview published on Thursday, the day before his death. “And I don’t want just sadness either.”Photograph by Jamie McCarthy / Getty On Friday afternoon, the rapper and…

Eis-me aqui mais um dia, vendo as imagens que amigos e familiares compartilham no WhatsApp sobre a grande fraude que estão querendo esconder de você. Às vezes, antes de dormir, toco um vídeo em que al

Before this year, I would been satisfied drawing deep on the little straw of my feelings, voting for Cynthia Nixon, then forgetting about Andrew Cuomo for another four years. But today, when we are told our capacity for rational political thought is being overwhelmed by propaganda, social media…

Apple released a new flagship iPhone yesterday, the iPhone XS. This isn’t exactly ground-breaking news: it is exactly what the company has done for eleven years now (matching the 11-year run of non-iOS iPods, by the way1). To that end, what has always interested me more are new-to-the-world…

An essay should explain why a student wants to attend a particular college and not others.Credit...Gretchen Ertl for The New York Times Here are some tips compiled from experts for writing that all-important application essay, which can often mean the difference between getting accepted — or…

Leave Rupi Alone Zoë Hu considers the ways in which wildly successful "instapoet" Rupi Kaur is mocked and criticized. By Zoë HuNovember 4, 2017 To talk about Rupi Kaur is to talk about numbers. Known for her unorthodox rise through social media, Kaur combines the intimacies of personal confession…

“What ruins relationships and causes most fights is insecurity” — Olivia Wilde Source: wavebreakmedia/Shutterstock Insecurity is an inner feeling of being threatened and/or inadequate in some way. We’ve all felt it at one time or another. But while it’s quite normal to have feelings of self-doubt…

Buckle up, folks, because we know a lot more about Antarctica than we did yesterday—and it is not good. According to several Antarctica-related studies all published today, a series of natural processes protected the Antarctic ice sheet from melting completely 10,000 years ago. Now, we’re pumping…

10 Each Sunday, Pitchfork takes an in-depth look at a significant album from the past, and any record not in our archives is eligible. Today, we explore the righteous anger of Hole’s 1994 album, Live Through This. Try to imagine a famous woman who screams for a living today. Not alternative,…

Imagine a new, happier internet. Illustration: Pablo Delcan So far, the biggest perceived effect of the most important data-privacy law ever has been a sharp increase in emails from social networks and web services alerting me that those endless contractual walls of text you thoughtlessly click OKAY…

The Expanse There are two great moments in the history of life that should always inform the science fiction of human space travel and settlement. One is when life made the huge leap from prokaryotic cells, which are mostly simple and very tiny, to eukaryotic cells, which are very large and complex.…