The premise of a feedback loop is simple: Provide people with information about their actions in real time, then give them a chance to change those actions, pushing them toward better behaviors. Photo: Kevin Van Aelst In 2003, officials in Garden Grove, California, a community of 170,000 people…

View this image › In the last three years, perhaps the boldest thing Chef David Chang has done with food is let it rot. In his tiny Momofuku research and development lab in New York’s East Village, Chang and his head of R&D Dan Felder have obsessed over the many delicious things that happen when…

Here’s a shortlist of things that running has definitively solved for me over the years: relationships, pitches, stories, existential problems, petty problems, medium problems, and my great tax-filing mishap of 2011. It’s the world’s cheapest workout. It’s the world’s cheapest therapy. It’s the…

In recent months there has been a visible struggle in the media to come to grips with the leaking, whistle-blowing and hacktivism that has vexed the United States military and the private and government intelligence communities. This response has run the gamut. It has involved attempts to condemn,…

This week, we feature another awesome guest-blogger  Tim Cull  who runs a boutique software consultancy called Pollen , specialized in the needs of cloud and SaaS applications. Today, he helps us get over that awkward phobia we often share: how to talk about the green stuff. Freelancers and…

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We love Android, but rooting your phone can give you the opportunity to do so much more than your phone can do out of the box—whether it’s wireless tethering, speeding it up with overclocking, or customizing the look of your phone with themes. Here’s what you need to know about the rooting process,…

Una noche de 1988, la mujer de Andrew Moravcsik osó decir en voz alta que el Muro de Berlín iba a caer de manera inminente. A su marido, por aquel entonces un joven y brillante analista graduado en las mejores universidades de Estados Unidos , le dio un ataque de risa. “En el mundo académico el…

My grandpa, Bill Hurst, was a journal writer his entire life. His journal was quite simple. He just kept a small notebook in the pocket of his pearl snap shirts and jotted down a short description of the things he did and the people he did it with. This is something he did pretty much every day for…

     It was recently suggested that I write a post on the strengths and weaknesses of each type. As this would be awfully time consuming and exhausting, I've decided to let readers make their own profile by selecting the order of their eight functions. Below is a description of what each function…

Editor’s note: We’ve talked before about how and why to become a regular journaler/diary writer. (I like to call it a journal myself, but “diary” didn’t used to have the feminine connotations its acquired in the present day.) Writing in my journal every night is something I strive to do, although I…

You wake up in the middle of the night with a brilliant idea that is completely impractical and can’t get back to sleep until you’ve worked out every little detail. You indulge in (and are quite renowned among friends for) making completely random, yet very accurate observations. You have a million…

INTJs and INTPs are both inwardly focused abstract thinkers. This results in the two types having many overlapping interests and behaviors. However, if you look beyond superficial common interests, the thinking processes are very different. J vs P Misunderstanding the differences between J/P is one…

Colin stopped by my office and asked me to come by to see his most recent project.  He had disassembled his monitor  switch-box  (used to switch a single monitor between two computers) and it was sitting open on his desk.  He had rewired it with parts from RadioShack, built a server and client in…

Life is too short to be wasted, we all know that. Yet, most people live a default life , forcing themselves to think they are happy even though they are not. Why? Because, we let the society dictates how our lives should be lived and what success and happiness should be like. Things like money and…

You may have recently noticed that after a long hiatus, Digg is back. And it’s sort of cool again. The once dominant website used to be such a commanding destination on the web people talked about the “Digg effect” where content went viral after it was featured on the site. But Digg didn’t remain an…

I was an active kid growing up, so I didn’t worry much about food until I left home for college and wanted to avoid the “Freshman 15.” I began experimenting with different eating habits to find the balance between being healthy and not entirely sacrificing foods I loved (chicken burritos with…

A professional thinker named Thomas Hobbes got it into our heads for an embarrassingly long time that our ancestors were pitiful, lonely, mean people. Three and a half centuries later Hobbes is still revered for his smarts, even though he’ll always be most famous for that unfortunate soundbyte in…

A while ago, I wrote about Chabudai Gaeshi , Nintendo’s design philosophy that entails effectively restarting a project when it is already well underway. Here’s another one of Nintendo’s design philosophies: Lateral Thinking with Withered Technology («Kareta Gijutsu no Suihei Shikō»). 1 You only…

By Charlie Hall @Charlie_L_Hall on September 04, 2013 at 12:10p S Nakamoto is the creator of Bitcoin. Over the years since the virtual currency’s inception, there have been several quixotic expeditions to find him. Some have been more thorough than others. Investigators have alternately concluded…

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Want to see what’s ahead for America’s young? Pay attention to what’s already happened in Japan   This is a guest post from Charles Hugh Smith . His newest book is Why Things Are Falling Apart and What We Can Do About It Social recession is my term for the social and cultural consequences of a…

Entre las medidas adoptadas el pasado viernes 13 de julio se encuentra el incremento del 8% al 21% del impuesto del valor añadido (IVA) sobre el precio de las entradas a salas de cine, teatros, festivales musicales y conciertos. Es el definitivo golpe de gracia para un ramo que depende del gasto en…

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The Culture Package The Culture Package “So basically we’re doing a whole package about stuff that is terrible.” This was a colleague’s verbatim reaction to the idea of a culture package devoted to popular things. I don’t blame her — after all, it’s how we’ve been conditioned to think for the past…

CIO — We've just seen Samsung take the wraps off its Galaxy Gear Smartwatch. Next week, Apple will showcase new iPhones and maybe an iWatch. The biggest buzz still surrounds Google Glass, which one financial analyst says will be worth $3.27 billion in 2017. Everyone seems to be drinking the…

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Los gobernantes españoles no se cansan de repetir al presentar sus reiteradas reformas de la educación que buscan la excelencia. Como saben bien quienes conocen los sistemas educativos de otros países, hablar bien en público y manejarse en algún otro idioma suelen ser tareas en las que resulta…

Dear Lifehacker, As a side project/experiment, I’ve started my own blog. The problem is, now that I have one, how can get people to actually visit it? My traffic is dismal so far, but I’m hoping to some day make money off the blog or at least become a more prominent blogger. Signed, Beginner…

Davecat met his future wife, Sidore Kuroneko at a goth club in 2000, so the story goes. The less romantic but perhaps more true version is that he saved up for a year and a half to buy her online. She cost about $6,000. Sidore is a RealDoll, manufactured by Abyss Creations in the shape of a human…

I wouldn’t say that I am a slob, but most summer days as I work here in my home office or while out running errands you’ll find me dressed in cargo shorts, one of my assorted pirate-themed shirts from our beach vacations, and my Keen Newport Sandals . Sometimes when wearing my worn Tilley hat I look…

Cocina parece, Expedit es / IKEA HACKERS    Me fascina la gente manitas capaz de convertir una cosa en otra y que le salga bien. Siendo realista, me fascina la gente que tiene suficiente empuje como para dedicar su tiempo libre a hacer algo relacionado con el bricolaje. Son dones otorgados por…

  THE IRON by Henry Rollins I believe that the definition of definition is reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. Completely. When I was young I had no sense of myself. All I was, was a product of all the fear and humiliation I suffered. Fear of my…

We’re afraid of risk. It’s a normal part of life, but we’re increasingly unwilling to accept it at any level. So we turn to technology to protect us. The problem is that technological security measures aren’t free. They cost money, of course, but they cost other things as well. They often don’t…

Tomorrow i will be hitting the major milestone of 30 in my life. Some of you think I'm getting old, others know I have a long way to go before any real wisdom is possible. Regardless I wanted to pass some things off to my friends and also to make sure I'll be able to laugh at myself in ten years for…

The United States and allies are preparing for a possibly imminent series of limited military strikes against Syria, the first direct U.S. intervention in the two-year civil war, in retaliation for President Bashar al-Assad’s suspected use of chemical weapons against civilians. If you found the…

SARAH_JOURNALlarge Read part 1 here. People often ask me whether, as a writer, I prefer to write by hand or on a computer. Realistically, it depends on the kind of writing I’m doing, but for a long time I responded that I preferred writing on a computer because it’s more difficult to write by hand…

SARAH_JOURNALlarge Photograph courtesy of the author. When I decided to move to New York to pursue writing, I took all of the notebooks I’d kept in high school out back of my apartment and burned them on the sidewalk separating my building from my neighbor’s. I didn’t use an accelerant because I…

If you think cam girls—those flirty naked characters that plague porn site pop-up ads—are raking in easy money, you’re right. If you think cam girls are bleakly stripping online out of desperation, you’re also right. Peel away the sex and pixels and money and you’re left with the cloudy truth about…

Foto de Arturo Pérez-Reverte Un lector me preguntó el otro día por mi escepticismo político: mi falta de fe en el futuro y mi despego de esta casta parásita que nos gobierna, sólo comparable a la desconfianza que siento hacia nosotros los gobernados: sin víctimas fáciles no hay verdugos impunes.…