This is a lengthy discussion, so I’ll begin with a summary. The basic idea in this post is to consider capitalism as a highly efficient objective function (or “AI”) with its parameters optimized for t

danah boyd Follow Apr 26, 2019 · 8 min read On April 17, 2019, Data & Society Founder and President danah boyd gave a talk at the Digital Public Library of America conference (DPLAfest). This is the t

Q: “Hi Budi, I want to keep growing, but sometimes I don’t know what to grow. Do you have tips for this?” Take a pause To take a pause and reflect is as important as make an action. Being to busy make

Stop and think for a moment about how many ads you saw in the last 24 hours, on Instagram or Facebook or anywhere else. How many did you scroll through and glaze over? What if the number was capped at 2 or 3 a day? How would that change how you felt about the platform? Similarly, think about how…

Excerpted from “ FALTER: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out? ” by Bill McKibben. Published by Henry Holt and Company April 16th 2019. Copyright © 2019 by Bill McKibben. All rights reserved. Oh, it could get very bad. In 2015, a study in the Journal of Mathematical Biology pointed out that…

I write weekly newsletter about how the new forms of social, cultural, and environmental capital change brand strategy. If you enjoy this issue, please like it above, share it with anyone you think ma

Success largely boils down to a simple distinction. It’s glaringly obvious once you see it, but also easy to find ingenious ways of ignoring it: do the real thing and stop doing fake alternatives. Con

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United States of Plastic ‘There was this moment I realized … I can account for all humanity’s plastic.’Illustration: Susie Cagle/The Guardian Until recently we didn’t know how much plastic was piling up around us. When we found out, the picture wasn’t pretty Global investigation reveals where…

In early March, as it became clear that the coronavirus pandemic really wasn’t a hoax but was about to upend American life, I started texting my friend Paul, an investment adviser, about the stock mar

Why is it that some people seem to be able to read a book once and remember every detail of it for life, while others struggle to recall even the title a few days after putting down a book? The answer is simple but not easy. It’s not what they read. It’s how they read. Good reading habits not only…

Sometime in June 2003, Mel Karmazin, the president of Viacom, one of the largest media conglomerates in the world, walked into the Google offices in Mountain View, California. Google was a hip, young tech company that made money – actual money! – off the internet. Karmazin was there to find out how.…

A minuscule island in the azure sea … Ata, Tonga, where the boys were stranded for 15 months.Photograph: Arne Mueseler arne.mueseler@gmail.com www.arne-mueseler.com/Public domain F or centuries western culture has been permeated by the idea that humans are selfish creatures. That cynical image of…

When politicians fail to look beyond the next election – or even the latest tweet – they are neglecting the rights of future generations, argues public philosopher Roman Krznaric. “The origin of civil government,” wrote David Hume in 1739, is that “men are not able radically to cure, either in…

Every Western institution was unprepared for the coronavirus pandemic, despite many prior warnings. This monumental failure of institutional effectiveness will reverberate for the rest of the decade, but it’s not too early to ask why, and what we need to do about it. Many of us would like to pin the…

Listening to new music is hard. Not hard compared to going to space or war, but hard compared to listening to music we already know. I assume most Americans—especially those who have settled into the groove of life after 30—simply don’t listen to new music because it’s easy to forgo the act of…

Loading… Loading… Working… Loading… Loading… Working… Sign in to report inappropriate content. Loading… Loading… A different kind of marathon; running one lap an hour, for 24hrs, around my perfectly mile long block. The rest of the time I do as much as possible; making things, odd jobs, fixing…

My iPad Pro desktop setup. When I started my iPad-only journey in 2012, I was stuck in a hospital bed and couldn’t use my Mac. It’s a story I’ve told many times before : I had to figure out a way to get work done without a Mac, and I realized the iPad – despite its limited ecosystem of apps and…

How to Stop Freaking Out and Tackle Climate Change Here’s a five-step plan to deal with the stress and become part of the solution. Ms. Marris is the author of “Rambunctious Garden: Saving Nature in a Post-Wild World.” Credit... Evan Cohen You are scrolling through the news and see yet another story…

Amazon, Facebook, Instagram und co. Tarek Müller und Alexander Graf diskutieren, wie sich der Markt entwickelt und welche Chancen und Risiken dabei entstehen können. Facts K5 2019: 3000+ Teilnehmer // 150+ Speaker // 125 Aussteller // 60+ Sessions & Masterclasses // 3 Bühnen // 83%+ E-Commerce…

The global economy is in crisis. The exponential exhaustion of natural resources, declining productivity, slow growth, rising unemployment, and steep inequality, forces us to rethink our economic models. Where do we go from here? In this feature-length documentary, social and economic theorist…

Multimedia Satellites See Us by Ben Suliteanu Space technology has given us a wider perspective of our place within the universe, but these satellite-captured time-lapse videos bring our gaze in a bit closer, revealing the profound impact we are having on our planet. It is difficult to imagine how…

View Gallery Photo essay Lovely Monster by Camille Seaman View gallery This photo essay captures the beauty, awe, and fear of the natural world through portraits of storms from across the American landscape. I wasn’t born a storm chaser. When I was a small child of six years, my Shinnecock…

Hey readers! Quick note before we jump in: This is a post about something I’ve been wanting to write about forever: careers. Society tells us a lot of things about what we should want in a career and what the possibilities are—which is weird because I’m pretty sure society knows very little about…

It was sometime in September, around the one-year anniversary of the publication of Joyful , and I was talking to my therapist about it. I described the feedback I’d received in the last year, the stories I’d heard, and how gratifying it was to feel like this thing I had been working on for so long…

T he idea that made Mariana Mazzucato one of the most influential economists in the world came to her in early 2011. It had been three years since the financial crisis of 2008 and, in the UK, the coalition government of Conservatives and Liberal Democrats had chosen to pursue a fiscal policy of…

Amber Case Mar 18 Productivity Future Vision Microsoft, 2011. No matter the setting, shiny futurist scenarios are often the same: Perfect people in perfect settings, using tech that never fails. The world seemingly becomes more perfect with the addition of expensive, battery-intensive, and visually…

Last month, my lovely colleagues and I attended the B Inspired event in London, organised by the inspiring and hardworking team at B Lab . It was an event for certified B Corporations and those who aspire to run a positive business that genuinely puts purpose before profit, with a focus on serving…

In this short video essay, David Attenborough succinctly describes the main problem of the anthropocene (that modern humans are not living sustainably as they once could as hunter gatherers), explains the effect we’ve had on the planet, and then suggests how we can fix things (italics mine): The…

Glaciers dramatically lit up at night by a drone - Sep. 28th 2018 6:27 pm ET Photographer Reuben Wu has been using drones in very creative ways to light up mountains and display signs in the air . This time he traveled to Pastoruri in South America to photograph glaciers that were lit up at night.…

Experience Earthrise by Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee & Adam Loften For the best experience of this story use your headphones. On mobile or tablets turn your device in landscape mode Turn sound on Seek % buffered 00:00 00:00 In 1968, three NASA astronauts became the first humans to leave Earth’s orbit and…

In this post I will talk about my personal knowledge management system, how it developed into a Zettelkasten, what Zettelkasten is, and why I think iA Writer is pretty much perfect for it. Background Finding a stable, reliable, and pleasing way to digitally organize personal knowledge has been a pet…

The vaunted human capacity for reason may have more to do with winning arguments than with thinking straight. Illustration by Gérard DuBois In 1975, researchers at Stanford invited a group of undergraduates to take part in a study about suicide. They were presented with pairs of suicide notes. In…