If I have to listen to one more banal ode to “hard work”, I’m going to puke. It’s such a trite tribute that keeps getting heaped on anyone who’s ever become even mildly successful, as though it was so
A common debate in software development projects is between spending time on improving the quality of the software versus concentrating on releasing more valuable features. Usually the pressure to del
The Surprising Benefits of Relentlessly Auditing Your Life We tend to think that good marriages and happy families are born of love and care, not spreadsheets. But what if that’s wrong? May 25, 2019 C
The Big Bang Theory gang will gather one last time Thursday night. CBS Emily St. James was a senior correspondent for Vox, covering American identities. Before she joined Vox in 2014, she was the firs
A new science of happiness has blossomed. Observing that wealth has not made people happier, some economists have proposed that Western nations should focus on happiness rather than growth. Psychologi
Many writers rely more heavily on pronouns than I’d suggest is useful. For me this sort of thing comes under the heading Remember that Writing Is Not Speaking. When we talk, we can usually make oursel
Alcohol plays a dominating role in American social, political, and economic life — particularly for urban professionals, getting drinks can be as important a form of social currency as it was in colle
Get That Money Brought to you by: Abigail Disney. Photo: Jemal Countess/Getty Images Get That Money is an exploration of the many ways we think about our finances — what we earn, what we have, and wha
What makes a great manager isn’t the problems they solve, but the questions they ask. Start with these 16 questions here. An employee comes to you and says, “I have a problem.” If you’re trying to be
Paul Garland Idea in Brief The Challenge Managers today are bombarded with calls to give feedback—constantly, directly, and critically. But it turns out that telling people what we think of their perf
Just stumbled onto this story from 2007 about how a woman who just played Tetris at home to kill time accidentally discovered she was the best Tetris player in the world. https://t.co/IiuzH2TbOu
Been thinking about this article a lot since I read it.
When everything in our lives becomes centred around convenience, we become defined by the things we're happy to inconvenience ourselves with.
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Meghan Daum Post-divorce, I’ve returned to my old ways Published in GEN · 13 min read · Feb 6, 2019 -- Credit: fona2/Getty Images Plus F riday evening, 8 p.m., early summer, New York City. I sit at my
The past few weeks have brought bad news to the hardworking scribes of the news business. Three leading digital outlets—BuzzFeed, the Huffington Post, and Vice—announced layoffs that left many accompl
If there’s one thing I know about love, it’s that people who don’t find it have shorter life spans on average. Which means learning how the Tinder algorithm works is a matter of life and death, extrap
Yesterday my 13-year-old daughter said to me: ‘Hey fam, can I yeet a heckin’ sandwich?’ Reader, I stared at her for a full ten seconds. I knew most of the words. I’d even used them myself. But I had t
In her novel Gone Girl , Gillian Flynn defines the concept of the Cool Girl : “Men always say that as the defining compliment, don’t they? She’s a cool girl. Being the Cool Girl means I am a hot, bril
Enlarge / L-R: One of the hundreds of characters in the 2013 video game Papers, Please ; game developer Lucas Pope, standing in his hometown of Saitama, Japan; the captain of a cursed pirate ship fom
And this is what they taught me about food, labor, and (my toxic) masculinity 22 min read · Jan 9, 2019 -- The short order line can be understood as a symbol of male rites of passage. Photos: Andrew T
Forget resolutions—these simple, proven methods can make lasting changes in your life 10 min read · Dec 21, 2018 -- Illustration: Yagi Studio/Getty Images J ust about everyone wants to cultivate bette
The Future Book was meant to be interactive, moving, alive. Its pages were supposed to be lush with whirling doodads, responsive, hands-on. The old paperback Zork choose-your-own-adventures were just
On the 20th anniversary of The New York Times ’ popular Vows column, a weekly feature on notable weddings and engagements launched in 1992, its longtime editor wrote that Vows was meant to be more tha
Chapter 1 : Hello, Goodbye Apathy Chapter Text Harry Potter was not a normal boy. Most teenagers lived for summer, where Harry hated it. Most spent their days outdoors, Harry didn't. Most spent their
When I was a teenager I often used fantasy as a vehicle for escapism. Some people, when they fantasise, think about sex or dragons or wildly unlikely events like winning the lottery. I fantasised abou
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Everyone has an opinion about who you are and what you've done. They like to think they know the whole story, but few people ever will. They don't know that you were just a naive girl who fell in love at the wrong time. And gave your heart to the wrong man because nobody ever taught you what good…
Maybe commitment could be a path toward the person I wanted to be, not a reward for becoming her Published in The Cut · 7 min read · Dec 3, 2018 -- Photo: Natasha Fernandez/EyeEm/Getty Images By Ashle
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Nikki, a 22-year-old journalism student from Minneapolis, is telling me about the worst date she’s ever been on, with a man called Athens she met at college. “He talked about his goals, his week, his
Written By Mark Manson Filed Under Dating Advice Decision Making Happiness Listen to this article 00:00 00:00 T hink about this for a moment: Why would you ever choose to be with someone who is not ex
12 min read · Aug 27, 2018 -- Going through trauma therapy is a lot harder than I anticipated. Shocking, I know. I’m not sure what I was expecting; I’m not sure I was really expecting anything. It’s c
EDITOR'S NOTE: After this article was published, reporting by Willamette Week revealed that Steve Stanich has a documented history of domestic abuse as well as other legal and financial issues. Those
Want Healthy Relationships? Ditch Loyalty This tired ideal does a lot more harm than good. Published in splattered · 5 min read · Nov 14, 2018 -- Photo by Jon Ly on Unsplash L ove triangle didn’t quit
No Democrat has won statewide office in Texas since 1994. This month, Robert Francis “Beto” O’Rourke almost did, losing the race for a US Senate seat to Republican incumbent Ted Cruz by an astonishing
Logic vs. Designers In my early days as a designer, I relied on Photoshop or CSS to tell me whether something was right or wrong. If Photoshop indicated that two shapes were aligned, then they were aligned. If two different shapes were the same size, then that was the case. If two colours had the…
tl;dr In this article I want to explain a few things about enterprises and their software, based on my experiences, and also describe what things need to be in place to make change come about.Have you
By Ira Iosebashvili Oct. 5, 2018 11:46 am ET When Anand Kalelkar started a new job at a large insurance company, colleagues flooded him with instant messages and emails and rushed to introduce themsel
The state of the Apple Watch is good. Tim Cook continues to hail its popularity, albeit without any hard sales figures. Most pundits felt it outshined the iPhone at last month’s Apple media event. The
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