Photo: Joe Darrow; Filippo Bacci; Michael Kovac/Getty Images; Getty Images/Getty Images In early January, employees of the We Company, formerly known as WeWork, gathered in Los Angeles for its annual summit. As with many of the company’s events, it was more tent revival than corporate off-site. The…

THERE IS A PLUSH, VELVET SEAT in the lift of The St. Regis Hotel in Singapore. The trip to the 20th floor lasts mere seconds. Would anyone really need to sit down and rest their feet in this short time? As if reading my mind, Head butler of the St. Regis Singapore, Priscila Ochoa remarks, “When The…

Scott B. Weingart is an historian of science, a data scientist, and a librarian at Carnegie Mellon University. Find him on twitter @scott_bot . This article originally appeared on Weingart’s blog, the scottbot irregular . My leg involuntarily twitches with vibration—was it my phone, or just a…

iStock The captain jumped from the deck, fully dressed, and sprinted through the water. A former lifeguard, he kept his eyes on his victim and headed straight for a couple who were swimming between their anchored sportfish and the beach. “I think he thinks you’re drowning,” the husband said to his…

NEW YORK — “Are you going to write about my meal?” Chasten Buttigieg asks, scanning the breakfast menu of a Manhattan cafe last month. He had oatmeal with a side of fresh fruit. And tea. The 29-year-old former drama teacher has often courted attention, but he has never been more watched than in…

When Uber hired Dara Khosrowshahi in 2017, the company board was solving the wrong problem. The ride-hailing app was in the midst of a media firestorm over the culture fostered by founding chief executive Travis Kalanick and Mr Khosrowshahi’s reputation as a smooth, calm, professional manager seemed…

Last week, Pete Buttigieg, the young mayor of South Bend, Indiana, who recently announced that he is exploring a Presidential candidacy, arrived in New York to meet the press. First up, on Thursday, was an interview on “CBS This Morning,” where the show’s hosts seemed slightly impatient, like…

On any given weekday, millions of office workers descend on downtown streets in search of a decent lunch. At noon on a Tuesday in December, some have found themselves at Dig Inn on East 52nd Street in New York, in line for a healthful-but-hearty grain bowl. Four employees dish out portions of brown…

Laurel Schwulst: Late last summer you tweeted: What made you start thinking about restaurant websites then? Toph Tucker: At the time, I was about to meet with my friend at the Astro Restaurant, a diner in midtown Manhattan. I wanted to check the menu before I arrived. So I looked at the website. It…

“Expedition: Robinson,” a Swedish reality-television program, premièred in the summer of 1997, with a tantalizing premise: sixteen strangers are deposited on a small island off the coast of Malaysia and forced to fend for themselves. To survive, they must coöperate, but they are also competing: each…

Jun 29th 2018 Not since Dilbert has truth been spoken to power in soulless work settings. But the cartoon character’s successor may be David Graeber. In 2013 he achieved viral fame with cubicle zombies everywhere after he published a short essay on the prevalence of work that had no social or…

I can’t tell you about a specific day as a cable tech. I can’t tell you my first customer was a cat hoarder. I can tell you the details, sure. That I smeared Vicks on my lip to try to cover the stench of rugs and walls and upholstery soaked in cat piss. That I wore booties, not to protect the…

The upgraded Apple store in London features trees in the “Genius Grove” and has the goal of being a space for people to just hang out in.Photograph: Leon Neal/Getty Images S teve Jobs wanted customers to understand the Apple store “with one sweep of the eye,” as if gods standing on Mount Olympus.…

There is a stretch of road that runs through the Adirondack national park, just a few miles of houses and barns and truck stops and trees, that makes up Woodgate, New York. But just off from this road is a rough track that leads down to a lake, and a beach, and a cluster of old buildings. “And…

Brooklyn's bus network needs a 21st-century makeover. Here's what it might look like. Alon Levy/Eric Goldwyn Perspective A Fantasy Map for Brooklyn’s Buses That’s Grounded in Reality We redesigned Brooklyn’s struggling bus network based on evidence from other cities about how to boost ridership.…

Friend, have you heard the good news? Bread is back. After a 20-year period of privileged carb-fearing in America, our hunger for hearty artisan bread has returned in a way that we haven’t experienced since the ’90s . It’s once again romantic — healthful even — to eat preservative-free, crusty,…

It was still dark outside when Amanda woke up to the sound of her alarm, got out of bed and decided to kill herself. She wasn’t going to do it then, not at 5:30 in the morning on a Friday. She told herself she would do it sometime after work. Amanda showered. She put on khakis and a sweater. She fed…

Mark Gardiner was a former VP of marketing and an advertising consultant before taking a job as a crew member at a Trader Joe’s store in Kansas City six years ago. Despite being a bit overqualified, he had an agenda: a personal mission to uncover the secrets behind the grocery chain’s huge success.…

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The sun hadn’t yet risen over Gurtar Sandhu’s 7-Eleven store near downtown Los Angeles on Jan. 10 when four plainclothes U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents swarmed inside. The place was busy; a lot of Sandhu’s customers are day laborers and other working people who start early. As…

Posted: October 30, 2018 | Author: | Filed under: Uncategorized | Books increasingly don’t have covers. Most still do, but a growing percentage of published books appear on the screens of Kindles and tablets rather than bound paper, and this is even more true for other forms of print media, as…

Will Leitch’s Games column runs weekly. Email him at will.leitch@nymag.com . Barstool Sports fans. Photo: Sam Greenwood/Getty Images I never saw Barstool Sports coming. I probably should have. I am the guy who founded Deadspin, after all, and during the years I actively ran the site — now more than…

“I am convinced the devil lives in our phones.” Leer en español 阅读简体中文版 閱讀繁體中文版 SAN FRANCISCO — The people who are closest to a thing are often the most wary of it. Technologists know how phones really work, and many have decided they don’t want their own children anywhere near them . A wariness…

From the 16th century to the 19th, scurvy killed around 2 million sailors, more than warfare, shipwrecks and syphilis combined. It was an ugly, smelly death, too, beginning with rattling teeth and ending with a body so rotted out from the inside that its victims could literally be startled to death…

Gregory Reid Mary Hamm was in pain, though it was hard to tell. She bustled around the Starbucks, pouring drinks, restocking pastries, and greeting customers with an unshakable gaze perfected during 25 years of working in hospitality. Her smile said, How can I help you? Her eyes said, I know you’re…

February 28, 2018 12-minute read For the past four years, I’ve worked as a software developer at Google. On February 1st, I quit. It was because they refused to buy me a Christmas present. Well, I guess it’s a little more complicated than that. The first two years Two years in, I loved Google. When…

It’s difficult to believe now, but there was a time when the internet was nowhere instead of everywhere. Before the social internet had mapped so completely onto our social lives that attempting to separate the two or call life away from the internet “real” became a ridiculous endeavor, online was…

Professor Laurie Santos didn’t set out to create the most popular course in the history of Yale University and the most talked-about college course in America. She just wanted her students to be happy. And they certainly look happy as they file into a church — a literal church, Battell Chapel,…

This article is long and will make you think. I recommend saving it to pocket and reading it in a comfy chair with a cup of earl grey tea. How do you lose weight? If we were to plug that question into Google, we’d be barraged by millions of pages explaining tactics for weight loss. Foods to eat,…

© James Ferguson An Uber car normally arrives in five minutes but I’ve already been waiting 10 for the company’s chief executive, Travis Kalanick. One of the joys of the driver-hailing app is watching the little car icon inch around its onscreen map towards your location, counting down the minutes.…

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A year ago, I hosted a small conclave of fellow (early) explorers of the post-html Internet. And while we are not of the SnapChat generation, most of us grew up connected. There were some who helped build the gear that runs the post-1999 Internet, and some who built the space ships. A…

At Friends Seminary, an elite private school in Manhattan, an awkward parody of a Nazi salute opened a proxy battle in a larger war over values. C a n G o o d T e a c h i n g B e T a u g h t ? A r i z o n a L a w m a k e r s C u t E d u c a t i o n B u d g e t s . T h e n T e a c h e r s G o t A n g…

New York magazine’s Grub Street recently released its list of The Absolute Best Wine Shops in New York, with Chambers Street Wines deservedly at the top. It’s not easy to be the best wine store in New York. The city has some of the best wine stores in the world. So how does Chambers Street Wines…

A letter carrier in Atlanta makes a delivery. David Goldman/AP Man of Letters Stephen Meyers July 24, 2018 What I learned about America, and myself, working as a mail carrier. My fourth day delivering mail for the U.S. Postal Service, it snowed-one of those heavy, wet, spring-in-Colorado snows that…

For the past ten years, carbohydrates have been labeled as public health enemy number one by many popular diet books, websites, and health gurus. They have been thoroughly excoriated as almost single-handedly causing the obesity epidemic in the West. This actually isn’t the first time carbs have had…

Top row: escargots, sardines, and fava beans (Crete); naan in salty yak-milk tea (Afghanistan); fried geranium leaves (Crete); boiled crab (Malaysia); raw beetroot and oranges (Crete); chapati, yak butter, and rock salt (Pakistan). Middle row: dried-apricot soup (Pakistan); boiled plantains…

T he beverage that was once relegated to Perrier-sipping sophisticates is now among the most popular in America, and for obvious reasons: Who wants to drink boring still water when you can titillate your taste buds with a snappier alternative like LaCroix Pamplemousse? Especially for erstwhile (or…

I grew up watching anime like Neon Genesis Evangelion , which depicts a future in which machines and humans merge into cyborg ecstasy. Such programs caused many of us kids to become giddy with dreams of becoming bionic superheroes. Robots have always been part of the Japanese psyche—our hero, Astro…

T he letters arrived from the San Diego County medical examiner’s office, informing clinicians that one of their patients had died from a prescription drug overdose. These letters appear to have had an impact — prescriptions of addictive painkillers dropped. In a small, randomized trial, researchers…