Annals of Fashion The brand conceives of itself as a distribution system for utopian values as much as a clothing company. Can it become the world’s biggest clothing manufacturer? September 15, 2025 Uniqlo, founded in Japan in 1984, is the universal donor of fashion, intended to go with any…
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Being good isn’t enough 06 Sep, 2025 Giving good career advice is hard. Maybe it’s because careers can look more alike than they really are. Two people can have the same title but what helps one could be rubbish for another. Or maybe it’s that “good advice” itself is fuzzy. It depends entirely on…
As children, we think things just exist. Buildings, parks, institutions. They’re just there, like mountains or rivers. Part of the landscape. Then we grow up and realize that, oh, someone built that. But that realization doesn’t do it justice. We equate “someone built that” with “someone made…
Ibiza coast. August 2025. I went through a phase where I Anki’d every useful-seeming Japanese word I came across as well as all of the standard 2,136 kanji. I was teaching English in Japan at the time, which meant I was thinking about language learning all day. I’d arrived with no knowledge of the…
1. Meditation is easy! Just patiently relax the invisible eyeball with infinite pupils in the center of your brain until is-ness softens. 2. Hum until your whole head is buzzing, then relax and let the tingles settle at the bottom of your feet like you are a snow globe. 3. Many animals use hair to…
Jacques-Louis David (francês, 1748–1825). Madame François Buron, 1769. Óleo sobre tela, 66.3 × 55.5 cm. Instituto de Arte de Chicago. Tati Bernardi comprou um martelo — e se ressente de situações que exigem qualquer outra ferramenta. A Boba da Corte, seu livro mais recente, é uma tentativa de…
Critic’s Notebook The artist’s latest album, “The Passionate Ones,” catches your weariness, and, with a dreamer’s irrationality, asks if you would consider transforming it, even for a while. August 30, 2025 Photograph by Hannah Murrell You’re reading Critic’s Notebook, our weekend column looking at…
‘I can’t explain it. He is a sweetheart. A beautiful boy inside and out, and so brilliant.” This was how a session with N, a longtime patient of mine, began some years ago. Her son, A, was a young teenager, and in spite of coming from a warm, loving family with attentive parents, he had started…
as someone who meets a lot of new people given my inclination to attend the opening of any envelope and as someone who dates quite a bit, i think a lot about what exactly makes a person interesting to me. this is obviously a very personal and malleable question, “interesting” is merely deemed by the…
I've been seeing this statement circulate online: "You have about 36 months to make it." And it makes sense: AI will continue to replace jobs no matter how much people fight against it. Money as we know it will change or even cease to exist because millions of ASIs (artificial superintelligences)…
Years ago I spent a lot of time reviewing coding challenges. The challenge itself was very straightforward - building a CLI tool that hit an API and allowed the user to page through and inspect the data. We allowed any language, so I saw all kinds of approaches1. At one point I came across a…
I see a lot of bad system design advice. One classic is the LinkedIn-optimized “bet you never heard of queues” style of post, presumably aimed at people who are new to the industry. Another is the Twitter-optimized “you’re a terrible engineer if you ever store booleans in a database” clever trick1.…
It’d be easy to talk about the long awaited fourth collection from Ben Lerner as excellent, or sophisticated, and both would be true, however I am more inclined to think of The Lights as a vertex, a plot on a chart to a heavenly body that Ben Lerner’s next collection, or the next, might take us to.…
Nonfiction The celebrated journalist's brief final book, “Still Pictures,” may well be her most personal, assembling photographs and vignettes of her family, friends and childhood as an immigrant to America. Janet Malcolm, in an undated photograph. “The past is a country that issues no visas,” she…
Janet Malcolm in New York in 1989. George Lange Janet Malcolm b. 1934 She could be harsh in her judgments but wrote with a deep understanding of human frailty. In the tributes that followed the death of Janet Malcolm, a clear pattern emerged: a word-cloud of severity. Malcolm was described as…
Will Storr, author and fellow Substacker, recently wrote about his “midlife identity crisis”. I was struck, while reading it, at how rare it is for people - men in particular - to admit that growing older can be tough. In the second half of life, we’re all expected to say how much happier we are…
The private chef job was for the most high-end estate I’d ever set foot in. And believe me, I’d private-cheffed for A-list celebrities by then, so this place was next level. Like, we literally cleaned the counters with gloves, Windex, and the Holy Bible. Everything was hyper-specific. My outfit had…
“We can’t put a date on Doomsday, but by looking at the 5,000 years of [civilisation], we can understand the trajectories we face today – and self-termination is most likely,” says Dr Luke Kemp at the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk at the University of Cambridge. “I’m pessimistic about the…
·Top highlight Medium’s recap, financial turnaround, and difficult path back to health. Tony Stubblebine 18 min read· Jul 11, 2025 I’m gonna write the wonky post of Medium’s turnaround. I’m not sure if a company is allowed to be this blunt about how bad things were. But it’s very much of the Medium…
This project began as an elaborate shitpost where posting gym selfies would pipeline people into reading socialist books. As stupid as that sounds — it has been wildly successful. More seriously, there has been an endless amount of mainstream media think-pieces that desperately seek to connect…
Claude now has Research capabilities that allow it to search across the web, Google Workspace, and any integrations to accomplish complex tasks. The journey of this multi-agent system from prototype to production taught us critical lessons about system architecture, tool design, and prompt…
PMO INSIGHTS BY AMERICO PINTO If you’ve spent enough time working with PMOs, like I have, you’ve probably seen this scenario play out more than once: The PMO team, full of energy, dedication, and the best of intentions, rolls out a new set of services with enthusiasm. The team feels productive,…
Profiles The reactionary blogger’s call for a monarch to rule the country once seemed like a joke. Now the right is ready to bend the knee. June 2, 2025 Yarvin wants to destroy democracy. Peter Thiel, Marc Andreessen, and J. D. Vance are among his fans.Photograph by Carolyn Drake for The New Yorker…
There were two anthologies of modern poetry in our house when I was a teenager and they both offered glimpses of the world outside that were more intense, more useful, than anything on television or on albums or in ordinary books. One was The Penguin Book of Contemporary Verse, edited by Kenneth…
Untitled (to a man, George McGovern) 2, Dan Flavin. Dia Beacon, 2024. Dear Arc members, You’re probably wondering what happened. One day we were all-in on Arc. Then, seemingly out of nowhere, we started building something new: Dia. From the outside, this pivot might look abrupt. Arc had real…
May 16, 2025 Thoughts on thinking I have been stuck. Every time I sit down to write a blog post, code a feature, or start a project, I come to the same realization: in the context of AI, what I’m doing is a waste of time. It’s horrifying. The fun has been sucked out of the process of creation…
Netscape 6.0 is finally going into its first public beta. There never was a version 5.0. The last major release, version 4.0, was released almost three years ago. Three years is an awfully long time in the Internet world. During this time, Netscape sat by, helplessly, as their market share…
This is an adaptation of an internal doc I wrote for Anthropic. Contents Recently I’ve been having a lot of conversations about how to structure and staff teams. One framework I’ve referenced repeatedly is to break down team leadership into a few different categories of responsibility. This is…
We starve it. Sweat it off. Freeze or carve it out. We claim that two thirds of Americans have too much of it, and then we take weekly injections just to shrink it. Body fat is generally demonized, and the way we treat people with larger bodies fills me with wrath. We build tiny airplane seats and…
Project Management Settings Profile Projects Inbox Network Favorites Log out Search PMI Search across PMI Search across PMI Search results loaded Popular Search Terms Content Index Advanced Search PMI Heartland Nebraska / Iowa Chapter - April 29, 2025 Joseph has worked in the intelligence field for…
Contents I’ve been thinking recently about what sets apart my coworkers who’ve done the best work. You might think that the main thing that makes people really effective at research or engineering is technical ability, and among the general population that’s true. Among my Anthropic coworkers,…
The Weekend Essay Much of what we see now is fake, and the reality we face is full of horrors. More and more of the world is slipping beyond my comprehension. May 3, 2025 Illustration by Mojo Wang I feel a troubling kind of opacity in my brain lately—as if reality were becoming illegible, as if…
Nephaster cyaneus (Cloudstar)(1997), Dorothea Tanning Many people are working far beyond their emotional capacity at all times. You might not realize it, but you’re taxing their systems just by being who you are. What’s worse, a lot of people promise way too much, both because they overestimate…
“I feel like the older I get the more freedom I have to write about a greater range of life experiences,” Sally Rooney says when we meet to discuss her new novel Intermezzo, which centres on two love stories with significant age gaps. “Because I’ve lived slightly more, not a whole lot more, but a…
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In the two decades I’ve been in this racket, I’ve never been angrier at myself for missing a story than I am about Apple’s announcement on Friday that the “more personalized Siri” features of Apple Intelligence, scheduled to appear between now and WWDC, would be delayed until “the coming year”. I…
Back in 2017, the iPhone X was announced alongside the iPhones 8 and 8 Plus in mid-September. The iPhones 8 shipped that month, and I published a review of the iPhones 8 on September 19. The iPhone X, though, wasn’t available to order until October 27, and didn’t start shipping to customers until…
Contents My few most productive individual weeks at Anthropic have all been “crisis project management:” coordinating major, time-sensitive implementation or debugging efforts. In a company like Anthropic, excellent project management is an extremely high-leverage skill, and not just during crises:…
I signed up for a three-hour Gordon Lish lecture earlier this summer, which was to be held on July 14th, 2018, at A Public Space in Brooklyn. It was titled “The Art of Revision.” I had no idea what to expect. It was wilder than I had anticipated. Gordon spoke without pausing once. I wrote nine pages…
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