Please put on sunglasses so that you are not blinded by the shininess of our newest author, Erika Nesvold. The mountains of Japan’s Yamagata prefecture are considered sacred by the Buddhists in the re

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This story comes from Lucky Peach #14: The Obsession Issue . For more great stuff like this, subscribe to the magazine! A bout a year ago, I was having lunch with my friend Frank Castronovo, the chef of Frankies Spuntino and Prime Meats. He was lamenting how much it pains him to eat pizza these…

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I enjoy the writing of Farhad Manjoo, tech columnist at The New York Times , but I was prepared for the hottest of hot takes when I saw his latest column, penned just hours after Apple’s latest produc

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Jessica Livingston, co-founder of Y Combinator, spoke at our Female Founders Conference. For weekly recaps of The Macro, sign up here . Here's Jessica's keynote from our third annual Female Founders C

Empathy is about standing in someone else’s shoes, feeling with his or her heart, seeing with his or her eyes. Not only is empathy hard to outsource and automate, but it makes the world a better place. – Daniel H. Pink In 1965, Bruce Tuckman proposed that all teams experience four stages of…

The constant in late night’s chaos Published on March 3, 2016 BURBANK, CALIF. THE VERY FIRST moments of Conan O’Brien’s short reign as host of “The Tonight Show” were soundtracked by one of his favorite songs. That inaugural episode in June 2009 started with a taped segment — goofy, funny and…

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In this part of the interview, Naval tells me about a few people in his life that he greatly admires, and why he does. I think these people represent certain ways of viewing life that he looks up to.

With major free-to-play hits like Hay Day, Clash of Clans , and Clash Royale under its belt, Supercell seems like a bona fide hit machine. But according to Supercell game lead and artist Jonathan Dowe

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Cap Watkins is the VP of Design at BuzzFeed in New York. He told me how he ended up in his current role and some of the growing pains along the way that influenced his career as a designer and eventua

Mike Hearn Follow Jan 14, 2016 · 18 min read I’ve spent more than 5 years being a Bitcoin developer. The software I’ve written has been used by millions of users, hundreds of developers, and the talks

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For six weeks last October and November, just before Myanmar held its landmark elections, I joined a team of design ethnographers in the countryside interviewing forty farmers about smartphones. A des

Saul Kaplan Aug 18, 2015 · 5 min read Ask any group of people if they’re doing today what they thought they would be doing when they started out. I begin every speech that way. Occasional a few people

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Originally published at www.zeldman.com on December 24, 2015 Translated into German (also here ) by Mark Sargent Translated into French by Jean-Baptiste Sachsé Translated into Turkish by omerbalyali .

Let’s get the name out of the way first: Devialet (pronounced: duv'-ē-a-lay). Now, say it with that insouciant and slightly louche delivery that makes every French word sound like a depraved sex act.

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This man, who shall remain nameless, keeps a very low profile. I happen to run into him and strike up a conversation, which led to another conversation over lunch. We sat down at an organic food marke

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Ramit Sethi joined James Altucher to talk about psychology, choice, and experimenting with systems to get them just right. Sethi is the author of the book, I Will Teach You To Be Rich and the blog of

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Let’s start with a bang: don’t keep a schedule . He’s crazy, you say! I’m totally serious. If you pull it off—and in many structured jobs, you simply can’t—this simple tip alone can make a huge differ

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