A Man's Life , Personal Development The Problem With Minimalism While taking most of this week off from posting in order to get through a backlog of to-dos,

PR Image - Exit Polls by Matt Boulton Stability a deciding factor for supporters of Hepner in Surrey. Vancouver, BC – Vancouver’s mayor has been re-elected on

How do you overcome cynicism in an environment determined to maintain it? You overcome a toxic environment by walking out the door. Unless you happen to be a powerful person in the organization, it is not your fault that the environment is cynical, broken, dysfunctional, toxic, demented, twisted or…

Cards Against Humanity , before it became go-to entertainment for a generation raised on the Internet and saddled with a backward idea of political correctness, began as a crowdsourced, printable game

On Dec. 13, the largest of the recent waves of protests against racist, aggressive and militarized policing tactics — spurred by the failure to indict the…

The paperback edition of the Senate Intelligence Committee Report on Torture will be in bookstores on Tuesday: http://t.co/c2OVXZMY7e — blprnt (@blprnt) December 28, 2014 Tweeted by @blprnt

Can #Iceland become the '#Switzerland of data'? http://t.co/N6bcOODVHs pic.twitter.com/cQJ11Xgoxa — Al Jazeera English (@AJEnglish) December 28, 2014 Tweeted by @AJEnglish

Baseball is the sport of Cuba's revolution, but soccer is the sport of the arriving world http://t.co/miFCaIjuph pic.twitter.com/8eUF1ykUpE — The New York Times (@nytimes) December 28, 2014 Tweeted by @nytimes

A confident if slightly ungainly new talent emerges from Iceland in the form of award-winning stage-director Benedikt Erlingsson, whose big-screen debut Of Horses and Men (Hross i oss) is already his country’s most successful cinematic export since the pre-crisis, pre-volcano days. Selected for the…

Christmas Specials | In search of lost time Time poverty is a problem partly of perception and partly of distribution |22 min read THE predictions sounded like promises: in the future, working hours would be short and vacations long. “Our grandchildren”, reckoned John Maynard Keynes in 1930, would…

Opinion Gustave Caillebotte's "Paris Street; Rainy Day," from 1877.Credit...Erich Lessing/Art Resource Palo Alto, Calif. THE other day, while I was rummaging through a stack of oldish articles on the future of the Internet, an obscure little essay from 1998 — published, of all places, on a Web site…

By the time you read this, the provincial cabinet will have determined the wording of the question for the spring transit and transportation funding mail-in referendum. Full disclosure: I’m helping or

We hold people responsible for the decisions they make, so why not machines? Here comes "algorithmic accountability" http://t.co/SAOSUz3NNq — Christopher Mims (@mims) December 22, 2014 Tweeted by @mims

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.Albert Camus “Whatever you plan, just make sure there are lots of people there,”

"It’s not that writers should never work for free — it’s that they should not donate their labor to unfair bosses." http://t.co/Xil4CKK4jR — Scratch Magazine (@scratch_mag) December 20, 2014 Tweeted by @scratch_mag

I just published “Why I am in Love with Dragon Age: Inquisition” https://t.co/BD1tHuPOwG — Inquisitor Alexa (@xalking) December 21, 2014 Tweeted by @xalking

This image was removed due to legal reasons. Update 12/18: The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Uber has agreed to "suspend operations in Portland for three months while the city works to update

Foreign tourists at the Havana Cathedral last year. Canadians, in particular, worry that a huge influx of American tourists will change Cuba for the worse.Credit...Franklin Reyes/Associated Press OTTAWA — Oh no. Now they’ll spoil everything. The grumbling and dismay began on social media even before…

Of the many attractions offered by my hometown, a west coast peninsula famed for its deep natural harbor, perhaps the most striking is that you never have to leave the house. With nothing more technologically advanced than a phone, you can arrange to have delivered to your doorstep, often in less…

The OED blog talks about The Simpsons and evolution of language. http://t.co/pCQCZm6UYz via @gothamist pic.twitter.com/miu1N3dNvJ — Samuel Clay (@samuelclay) December 19, 2014 Tweeted by @samuelclay

Eric Jackson was sitting in his hotel room on Sea Island, Ga., watching his kids splash around in the pool, when he clicked “publish” on his latest blog post for Forbes.com. Jackson, an influential hedge-fund manager, had become fixated on Yahoo and the efforts of its chief executive, Marissa Mayer,…

"To the Cuban people, America extends a hand of friendship." —President Obama Watch the full video. #CubaPolicy http://t.co/Qrzp5zODZk — The White House (@WhiteHouse) December 17, 2014 Tweeted by @WhiteHouse

Travelling light: How just a mobile device (and Slack) were used by @shadirahimi to report from Ferguson for @ajplus: http://t.co/UZLZC3iJaI — Slack (@SlackHQ) December 16, 2014 Tweeted by @SlackHQ

Where's the IFTTT for text transformation? http://t.co/BzdCCNI7Ps — Jon Udell (@judell) December 16, 2014 Tweeted by @judell

How Apps Should Handle Bad News http://t.co/sVuPslS9xp pic.twitter.com/sSliRRhLx1 — In Real Life (@IRLbook) December 16, 2014 Tweeted by @IRLbook

Let's think about reading – about what it's like to read. And after we've thought about reading for a while, let's consider writing – and what it means to write. There are many ways of reading: we scan, we dip, we skip and we speed through texts we know to be intrinsically dull, searching out the…

Charles Murray: Natural ability is luck, massive redistribution is fair and inevitable, and basic income is the way: http://t.co/p8pZaloLKs — Noah Smith (@Noahpinion) October 18, 2014 Tweeted by @Noahpinion

two of the things I love most: mountain biking and Iceland http://t.co/rDaFxyd59p — Katrín/CCP Punkturis (@CCP_Punkturis) December 10, 2014 Tweeted by @CCP_Punkturis

The internet erupted after learning Charles Manson, 80, was granted a license to marry 26-year-old Afton Elaine Burton, who prefers the name “Star,” because Manson says she's a "Star in the Milky Way." A mousy young woman, Star looks eerily similar to one of Manson’s most fanatical murderous…

Did you read @knguyen's piece on racist Twitter harassment? Read it again. https://t.co/8LBKyDWjfR — Brendan O'Connor (@_grendan) December 12, 2014 Tweeted by @_grendan

Op-Ed Contributors Credit...Matt Chase UBER, the popular car-service app that allows you to hail a cab from your smartphone, shows your assigned car as a moving dot on a map as it makes its way toward you. It’s reassuring, especially as you wait on a rainy street corner. Less reassuring, though, was…

A little over two years ago , a small team within Google called Niantic Labs introduced Ingress , a game that adds a virtual reality layer on top of the entire

He also keeps a master list of words his bots are never allowed to use, such as racial slurs.

Here's a perspective you don't see much, by me. || In Defense of Landlords: By a Long-time Renter http://t.co/Wn4PfiBhN7 — Steffani Cameron (@SnarkySteff) December 2, 2014 Tweeted by @SnarkySteff

I'm mentioned in Andrew Cohen's column in the @OttawaCitizen today: http://t.co/ZwtsHZtFLa — Joseph Planta (@Planta) December 2, 2014 Tweeted by @Planta

Winter has reared its ugly head in Vancouver. Days are shorter and wetter, and the evening rush hour takes place in near pitch-black conditions. As in seasons past, the usual safety campaigns from ICBC and the VPD have emerged. Frustratingly for us, most literature we read on the topic focuses on…

"How to Deal With Professional Jealousy: A Primer" http://t.co/vxD3yYoEoZ — coreyisreading (@coreyisreading) April 23, 2014