I have figured out how to make it through my entire Instapaper queue, breaking the laws of Internet physics. Here’s how I did it. Matt Hartman Jul 20, 2015 · 2 min read Note: if you’d like to listen to this essay, a dramatic reading is located here:…

The Digg team is working feverishly to design and build a wave of new features and capabilities. We’d like your help! If you’re interested in weighing in, giving us your input and guidance, testing beta products, or just keeping tabs as things get ready for launch, join Digg’s Beta Testers list.

The world of software occasionally produces fruitful rivalries between applications that try to solve the same problem with different approaches: Omnifocus vs. Things , Alfred Vs. Launchbar , Rdio vs. Spotify , etc. These rivalries are great for consumers because each application is forced to hone…

Ezra Shaw/Getty Images CLEVELAND — It was nearly 1 a.m. ET when Joe Lacob emerged from a Champagne-soaked room, full of Champagne-soaked revelers and stepped into a Champagne-soaked hallway at the arena they call the Q following the Warriors' Game 6 title-clinching 105-97 win over the Cavaliers. His…

Warriors guard Andre Iguodala celebrates winning the NBA Finals MVP award. (Photo: Bob Donnan, USA TODAY Sports) CLEVELAND – When NBA Commissioner Adam Silver made that fitting announcement, telling the basketball world that the Golden State Warriors' Andre Iguodala was the Finals MVP late Tuesday…

Keeping Score Andre Iguodala started in place of Andrew Bogut in Game 4 and had 22 points and 8 rebounds for the Warriors. With the intricately structured salary cap in the N.B.A., depth is a luxury most teams cannot afford. The value of having options beyond your superstars was on full display in…

SEAL Team 6, the unit best known for killing Osama bin Laden, has been converted into a global manhunting machine, with limited outside oversight.

Let’s start by saying …. You are going to die . That means you’re alive . Do something(s) now, when you have the chance. Youth and the Individual. “Youth is wasted on the young.” — George Bernard Shaw Being young is about me, me, me. That’s okay, because we’re just finding a way to navigate Life.…

In 2013, acclaimed filmmaker and author Errol Morris ran a bold experiment. With the collusion of the New York Times , he asked 45,000 readers to take an online test. The test allegedly measured whether or not readers were optimists or pessimists. But in reality, Morris was trying to find out if the…

Stewart Butterfield Feb 17, 2014 · 12 min read The memo below was sent to the team at Tiny Speck, the makers of Slack , on July 31st, 2013 . It had been a little under seven months since development began and was two weeks before the launch of Slack’s ‘Preview Release’. It is presented verbatim, as…

Slack, maker of extremely expensive professional chatrooms, is annexing online work culture at a stunning rate. The industry narrative doesn’t quite cover it! Sure, a lot of companies are signing up and closing their Campfire chats, their Hipchats and their IRCs. But the thing about Slack that gives…

With the music business in an especially volatile state, Marc Hogan puts the industry’s woes in historical perspective and learns that the economics of music can be more dark art than dismal science. After more than a century of cultural flux, music is now priceless. Or is that worthless? The…

An extremely rare teddy-bear lookalike mammal has been spotted in China for the first time in 20 years. The tiny Ili Pika, an eight-inch long rabbit-relative, is one of the world's most endangered animals with less than 1,000 animals believed to be left in its natural habitat. The Ili Pika…

What the New York Times — and everybody else — gets wrong about California’s water crisis.

Lauren Smiley Mar 25, 2015 · 13 min read 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 describes the…

Mike Kruzeniski Mar 20, 2015 · 7 min read I was told a story about Jonathan Ive a few months ago that I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about ever since. As the story goes, about 6 or 7 years ago a big company tried to recruit Jony Ive to run Design for them. Ive respectfully declined. In declining,…

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Marc Kremers’ website Partnership / Represent Exploring Digital Design As part of the digital design showcase we are running with Represent, we interviewed Marc Kremers and found him in an unflinching mood as he detailed some of the issues he felt were affecting the industry. Such was the reaction…

Part of my conversion stems from an abiding distaste for corporate and government control-freakery. If we believe in liberty, we have to realize that we take risks to be more free. If we believe in competition, we sometimes have to intervene as a society to ensure that it’s fair. One way we try to…

Imagine: you're lying in bed, the perfume of lovemaking still stinging your nostrils and firing your neurons, legs tangled with your partner. Baby, that sex with you was so good, you coo, rolling over—only to discover that your partner is wearing a gold miniature smartphone on his wrist. Don't ever…

No, this isn't a make-believe place. It's real. They call it "Ball's Pyramid." It's what's left of an old volcano that emerged from the sea about 7 million years ago. A British naval officer named Ball was the first European to see it in 1788. It sits off Australia, in the South Pacific. It is…

Design + “I was terrified, but I said yes.” Words by Margaret Rhodes Published on February 11th, 2015 The identity for Office US, at the U.S Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale. In 2010, at age 34, Natasha Jen got the call every young designer dreams of: Pentagram . The venerable graphic…

Brian Williams is our new Old Testament goat. It’s like being the new It Girl, although of course, not quite as festive. And I’m caught up in it, too. It’s hard to turn away, and a part of me, the dark part of me with bad self esteem, is cheered. The handsomest, richest, most perfect guy turned out…

If hiring managers were doctors, half of new patients would be dead in 18 months. Inside one man’s campaign to change a flawed system. Deborah Branscum Jan 26, 2015 · Unlisted It’s Saturday morning on the first day of November 2014. I’m sitting with about 24 others in a room in a coworking space…

Written by an actual teen Andrew Watts Jan 3, 2015 · 14 min read I read technology articles quite often and see plenty of authors attempt to dissect or describe the teenage audience, especially in regards to social media. However, I have yet to see a teenager contribute their voice to this…

Speed reading is a skill that almost seems like a superpower. The ability to quickly read and comprehend books, articles and other written materials would be life-changing for a lot of us. But is speed reading something you’re born having the ability to do, or is it something anyone can learn? A…

I n my life, I have given a fuck about many people and many things. I have also not given a fuck about many people and many things. And those fucks I have not given have made all the difference. People often say the key to confidence and success in life is to simply “not give a fuck.” Indeed, we…

I was standing in line, buying some roma tomatoes and serrano peppers to make Hemeon Famous Salsa, when out of nowhere the person in front me allowed me to check-out ahead of them. I was surprised and impressed. Polite gestures are easy to do and make a real difference in the happiness of…

Photo: ars technica In 1904, pilot Alberto Santos Dumont asked Louis Cartier to come up with a timekeeping alternative that would allow him to keep both hands on the controls while timing his performances during flight. Cartier responded by creating a time piece for Dumont to be able to view by a…

frog design Dec 11, 2014 · 4 min read The best gift I’ve ever given was a 1940s Parker 51 fountain pen. It was a birthday present to my best friend Taylor, a PhD student with a professorial look — round tortoise shell spectacles, elbow-patched blazer, a leather briefcase and loafers. The pen not…

Episode 144 There Is a Light That Never Goes Out Play Pause Category Objects Date 12.09.14 Producer Add to Queue Remove from Queue Download Hanging in the garage of Fire Station #6 in Livermore, California, there’s a small, pear-shaped light bulb. It is glowing right now. Still from Livermore’s…

Featured Stories And why simple manners can transform your relationships Paul Ford Aug 13, 2014 · 9 min read The Good Boy, 1837 M ost people don’t notice I’m polite, which is sort of the point. I don’t look polite. I am big and droopy and need a haircut. No soul would associate me with watercress…

Episode 76 The Modern Moloch Play Pause Category Cities Date 04.04.13 Producer Add to Queue Remove from Queue Download Transcript On the streets of early 20th-century America, nothing moved faster than 10 miles per hour. Responsible parents would tell their children, “Go outside, and play in the…

I want you to think about what you’re doing right now. I mean really think about it. As your eyes move across these lines and funnel information to your brain, you’re taking part in a conversation I started with you. The conveyance of that conversation is the type you’re reading on this page, but…

Inside the NBA Debacle: When Knee-Jerk Patriotism Meets Calculating Capitalism By Chiu-Ti Jansen

Cult New York party The Bunker turned ten this past weekend. RA's Michaelangelo Matos charts its story through the eyes of those closest to it. I recently brought a friend to The Bunker Limited, a boutique version of the New York dance institution, which takes place every month in Williamsburg,…

An overview of the artists, labels, and parties that are currently cultivating a new kind of NYC dance culture that's anything but beholden to the city's storied past. When LCD Soundsystem 's Shut Up and Play the Hits , the rockumentary about their final stand at Madison Square Garden in April of…