Several years ago, Hannah Case decided to examine her personal credit history. Case, who was then a researcher at the Federal Reserve, hadn’t gotten her first credit card until she was 22. But as she discovered when she saw her file, she’d apparently been spending responsibly since 14. After looking…

The facts of Palmer Luckey’s life are so uniquely bizarre—combining elements of fantasy with lunacy and also world-altering change—that they could be printed on magnetic poetry tiles, rearranged in an endless number of indiscriminate combinations by a drooling baby, and yet every time, still manage…

By Ben Cohen | Photographs by Todd Meier for WSJ BOISE, Idaho—Brienna Hall has the most valuable role that you’ll never see at the most vital company that you’ve never heard of. Until she began working at ASML last year, she didn’t know the first thing about the company. She also didn’t know what…

The Shift A.I. insiders are falling for Claude, a chatbot from Anthropic. Is it a passing fad, or a preview of artificial relationships to come? Listen to this article · 7:39 min Learn more Credit...Andrea Chronopoulos By Reporting from San Francisco Published Dec. 13, 2024Updated Dec. 16, 2024 Leer…

With X‘s tailspin into an unusable platform—where you are aggressively served content that is unwanted, offensive, and a waste of your time while your own content is suppressed—I have really taken to Bluesky, where I am finding the most welcoming community I’ve encountered online in many years. It…

Just 50 days before his reelection, Donald Trump took the time to hawk a new crypto platform. If the country does not build out its cryptocurrency ecosystem, “we’re not going to be the biggest, and we have to be the biggest and the best,” Trump said on a livestream on X. “It’s very young and very…

Employee engagement If you want employees who are more engaged and productive, give them a purpose—one concretely tied to your customers and your strategy. by and Paul Leinwand From the Magazine (November–December 2019) Mark Smith Over the past decade, “purpose” has become a management watchword.…

Because I teach a course on product management at Harvard Business School, I am routinely asked, “What is the role of a product manager?” The role of product manager (PM) is often referred to as the “CEO of the product.” I disagree because, as Martin Eriksson points out, “Product managers simply…

Rules of thumb, and general philosophy Below you’ll find a collection of general principles we try to keep in mind at 37signals when communicating with teammates, within departments, across the company, and with the public. They aren’t requirements, but they serve to create boundaries and shared…

When I was taking German in college in the early years of this millennium, I once stumbled upon a word that appeared foreign even when translated into English: Diphtherie, or diphtheria. “What’s diphtheria?” I wondered, having never encountered a single soul afflicted by this disease. Diphtheria,…

Greg Pogorzelski 5 min read· Oct 9, 2020 -- Press enter or click to view image in full size “The thing about the Kobayashi Maru is,” says Jim, “you have to remember it’s a simulation.” “Everybody knows that, Jim”, Bones shoots back. The medbay is dimly lit, the liquor is out. Typical end of shift.…

American Chronicles Many now believe that the U.S. could descend into political violence. Some are joining survivalist communities, canning food—and buying guns. November 4, 2024 When Drew Miller established Fortitude Ranch, a network of survivalist compounds, foreign terrorist attacks were at the…

The blowout victory of Donald Trump and the Republican party on Tuesday night will lead to major changes in important policy areas, from immigration to Ukraine. But the significance of the election extends way beyond these specific issues, and represents a decisive rejection by American voters of…

My Two Cents Financial-advice columnist Charlotte Cowles answers readers’ personal questions about personal finance. Photo-Illustration: by The Cut; Photos: Getty Images Everyone loves to judge what rich people do with their money, and no one has a better front-row seat than those they keep closest:…

July 19, 2024 9 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAm What to Know about Project 2025’s Dangers to Science Project 2025 would jeopardize federal scientists’ independence and undermine their influence Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images Project 2025, the sweeping right-wing blueprint for a new kind…

A desalination plant in Torrevieja, Spain. The company that built the plant says that it can supply water for 1.6 million people.Credit...Emilio Parra Doiztua for The New York Times To supply water for a number of needs, from tourism to agriculture, the country and other dry nations are increasingly…

Since at least the 1970s, electrochemists have cast their gazes upon the world’s vast, briny seas and wondered how they could harness the endless supply of hydrogen locked within. Though it was technically possible to grab the hydrogen by running an electrical current through the water, the reaction…

I’m so pleased that Gisnep is already up to thousands of people playing daily, and I’m seeing wonderful comments like “I’ve been hooked on it ever since I discovered it” and “I'm absolutely obsessed with this game.” If you haven’t played it yet, go play! Then come back to read the newsletter. Or…

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The oldest members of Gen X are turning 60 next year. Many can’t afford to stop working any time soon. Born between 1965 and 1980, Gen Xers launched their careers at the start of a massive shift in how Americans work. Companies moved from pensions that promise steady income after years of service,…

Credit...Matt Chase Twitter Blue, a revamped subscription service that let users buy verified badges, was the first big test for the platform’s new owner. It didn’t go well. Credit...Matt Chase Listen to this article · 22:22 min Learn more By Ryan Mac and Ryan Mac and Kate Conger are the co-authors…

In 2021, there were 2.4 million fewer men than women pursuing undergraduate degrees, with approximately 8.9 million women compared to 6.5 million men. There are about as many men on college campuses now as there were 15 years ago. As shown in Figure 4, the gender gap is largely the result of…

It was the kind of outlandish scheme that might bubble up in a bar around closing time. In May of 2022, a handful of senior Ukrainian military officers and businessmen had gathered to toast their country’s remarkable success in halting the Russian invasion. Buoyed by alcohol and patriotic fervor,…

Seven years ago, Alaska’s Kristen Faulkner didn’t know how to clip her bike shoes into her bike pedals. Now she’s a champion in Paris. Paris “Feel how heavy it is!” Kristen Faulkner says to her friends, grasping the gold medal around her neck. “It’s really heavy.” Crazytown. Not actually a word, but…

buying time David Keith wants to spray a pollutant into the sky to block some sunlight. He says the benefits would outweigh the danger. David Keith leads the Climate Systems Engineering Initiative at the University of Chicago.Credit...Mustafa Hussain for The New York Times buying time David Keith…

This is Work in Progress, a newsletter about work, technology, and how to solve some of America’s biggest problems. Sign up here. The paradox of the modern white-collar worker is that she is simultaneously more and less alone than her analogue in any previous generation. On a given weekday, the…

Image Credits:Strava // CEO Michael Martin AI Strava’s next chapter: New CEO talks AI, inclusivity, and why ‘dark mode’ took so long TechCrunch caught up with Michael Martin, who was previously at YouTube and Nike, six months into his new role Paul Sawers 8:00 AM PDT · July 20, 2024 There comes a…

Photo: Ted Wells This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. A few years ago, in Bozeman, Montana, a brain surgeon and his wife were walking through a farmers’ market when they came across a booth selling dogs. The…

America needs more plumbers, and Gen Z is answering the call. Long beset by a labor crunch, the skilled trades are newly appealing to the youngest cohort of American workers, many of whom are choosing to leave the college path. Rising pay and new technologies in fields from welding to machine…

Representative Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, a Democrat, was elected to Washington’s Third Congressional District in 2022.Credit...Holly Andres for The New York Times Marie Gluesenkamp Perez flipped a rural red district to get to Congress. Now she wants to help her party do more of the same.…

I was 10 when I first told my folks that I wanted to give up playing tennis. They didn’t yield then, and they never did. Tennis was our family business. I first picked up a racket at the age of three, and spent 15 years of my life travelling the world in pursuit of entry into major tournaments. I…

The Great Readon Comedy *That’s his opinion. And yet he’s setting a new standard for what life after late-night can look like. (Hint: It’s a lot like what he did on talk shows.) Conan O’Brien has built one of the most consequential careers in comedy. But while his late-night tenure is beloved, his…

square feet High-end gyms, many of which used to be an amenity, are now the star attraction, offering hotel rooms and workspaces as part of their appeal. They’ve also gotten a lot bigger. A group exercise class at Life Time, a gym that calls itself a “country club” version of a health club, in New…

This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. Something went suddenly and horribly wrong for adolescents in the early 2010s. By now you’ve likely seen the statistics: Rates of depression and anxiety in the United States—fairly stable in the 2000s—rose by…

Photo by krakenimages on Unsplash I hang out with a lot of people in the AI world, and if there’s one thing they’re certain of, it’s that the technology they’re making is going to put a lot of people out of a job. Maybe not all people — they argue back and forth about that — but certainly a lot of…

Someone in your life is using performance-enhancing drugs. I feel comfortable making that bet because I recently discovered how many people in my life are using performance-enhancing drugs. Maybe your dad scored human growth hormone at an “anti-aging” clinic. Maybe the woman you met on Hinge just…