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By Victoria Gill By Victoria Gill In the past six months there have been at least 40 reported incidents involving orcas off the coasts of Spain and Portugal. “I don’t frighten easily and this was terr

Radish is technically a chihuahua (but I’m not convinced). And after a year of misery, she was everything I needed. I know 2020 has been a disaster, but personally, my 2019 was worse. First I lost my

Jeff Tweedy mentioned this Dolly Parton philosophy in his memoir, Let’s Go (So We Can Come Back) : Dolly Parton once said that her advice to anyone wanting to be an artist was to “Find out who you are

Idea in Brief The Challenge Major companies competing in many industries struggle to stay abreast of rapidly changing technologies. One Major Cause They are typically organized into business units, ea

Photo sources: Artur Debat/Moment/Getty Images, Nico de Pasquale Photography/Stone/Getty Images The Death and Life of the Greatest American City Welcome to New York City’s #NoFilter era Glynnis MacNic

Moises Saman / Magnum Editor’s Note: The Atlantic is making vital coverage of the coronavirus available to all readers. Find the collection here . O n April 13 , Robert Redfield, the director of the U

What exactly is Amazon? This is the question that has consumed me for the last ten years. I have sold to and bought from Amazon in about as many ways as one person can; I built an auto parts brand tha

O f all the calamities that befell tourists as the coronavirus took hold, those involving cruise ships stood apart. Contagion at sea inspired a special horror, as pleasure palaces turned into prison h

October 1, 2020 by It’s been fascinating to follow Dawes over the course of its decade-plus existence and never more so than since 2016’s We’re All Gonna Die . Produced by former group member Blake Mi

I first noticed it a t the coffee shop nearest my house. I went to go and get a soy latte as I had a thousand times before and someone had crossed out the word “soy” on the menu and replaced it with “

This article is by Paul Arnold , angel investor and advisor, who has helped several startups achieve hyper-growth. It’s 3 a.m. and my phone vibrates. “This can’t be good,” I think, rolling over to rea

While some supermarkets are better than others, it's probably not unusual to find a few stray shopping carts littering the parking lot to the dismay of shoppers who may think that a parking spot is op

Every year, I try to take some time to reflect on September 11th and how it has affected me. In 2001, I was a junior at Stuyvesant High School, which was a five minute walk from Ground Zero. Lately, i

Why did an American city beset by inequality and dysfunction face the onset of the pandemic so well? Because history left it ready for this moment. To live in San Francisco for the past 20 years has b

In a famous 1995 pronouncement that has since become a Silicon Valley trope, Jim Barksdale, the CEO of Netscape at the time, declared that there are two ways to make money in business: bundling and un

I wanted to follow up to Jeremy’s post about our recent outages with a deeper, more personal look behind the scenes. We call our major incident response efforts “CODE REDs” to signify that it is an al

Everything You Know About ‘Good Posture’ Is Wrong Could the way you’re aiming to hold your body be making pain worse? Amelia Harnish Sep 3, 2020 · 12 min read Illustration: Cha Pornea H ead up, should

Business Tom Harrison, a Californian cartographer, explains what goes into a good map and why making one can take nearly two years. Bourree Lam March 1, 2016 Tom Harrison Rebecca Clarke Mapmaking is a

The last newsletter I sent that wasn’t haunted by COVID-19 went out on February 21, a day I remember vividly. I went to a Knicks game that evening and then flew to Mexico City the next day, returning

This year, we’ve spent more time than ever in our homes. Not surprisingly, our relationship to them has intensified. As the only bubbles of private space that most of us fully control (along with cars

Analyze this. Photo: Roberto Schmidt/AFP via Getty Images David Shor got famous by getting fired. In late May, amid widespread protests over George Floyd’s murder, the 28-year-old data scientist tweet

The case for Spotify The year is 2008. Now You’re Gone by Basshunter has spent its fifth week at No 1 and you can’t get enough of it. Your options are as follows: head to the shops and buy the single

Text size Logan Cyrus/AFP via Getty Images The U.S. Postal Service—an organization older than the nation—is getting more press than it probably wants as a debate about funding and cost cuts heats up.

Being able to walk down your local supermarket and fill your cart with cashew-based ice cream, gluten-free vegan pizza, almond milk, and “meatless” meat a decade ago wasn’t very likely. Today, it’s re

Runners like to focus on getting faster, but especially if you’re new to running, you might be missing a key part of your training: learning to run slower, too. You need several “gears” in slow, mediu

Photo: Jade ThaiCatwalk (Shutterstock) Suffering is not a necessary part of exercise, nor is it a measure of a good workout. Think about what we associate with the idea of a “good workout”: someone sw

It was a gray day in late 2005. I was sitting at my desk, writing code for the next year’s iPod. Without knocking, the director of iPod Software—my boss’s boss—abruptly entered and closed the door beh

Fools and their time metaphors February 11, 2019 × Aaron Z. Lewis × Oakland, CA We need to talk about the way we talk about time. Calendar apps were supposed to make us feel at peace and in control. I

Photo by Ashley Cooper / Getty . Elite tennis players have an uncanny ability to clear their heads after making errors. They constantly move on and start fresh for the next point. They can’t afford to

In 2017, about a year after the election, I started to pay attention to music again. Music had always been the art form, aside from literature, to which I felt closest. It allowed me to think and feel

The DIY musician's membership platform set out to provide a livelihood for artists on the internet. Is it more than just a band-aid for a broken system? It's 11:16 am on a Saturday , and Jack Conte—br

This is my first time writing a mid-year review. This year has brought so many unexpected changes that I needed to gather my thoughts and reflect on the ways my life has transformed. I had planned to

Since becoming mayor of San Francisco in 2018, London Breed has simultaneously strived to protect and represent her city’s endangered Black community. It’s been a tough balancing act. The tech capital

Dear A.G., It is with sadness that I write to tell you that I am resigning from The New York Times. I joined the paper with gratitude and optimism three years ago. I was hired with the goal of bringin

Alicia Kennedy is like many writers these days. A few months ago, the magazine for which she regularly freelanced cut its budget. Kennedy, a food and beverage writer in San Juan, Puerto Rico, was at a

Last fall, walking down Mission Street, in San Francisco, I noticed a new addition to an otherwise unremarkable parking lot at the base of Bernal Heights Hill: a large, white trailer, about the size of three parking spaces, plastered with a banner that read “food pick up here.” On one side was a…

Maryellis Bunn, 28, built a business that promised customers happiness, sprinkles and ice cream. The playground-meets-art installation was an instant hit with the Instagram generation. But ex-employee

This is part 4 of the Yes! And… series. Start with part 1 here . In chapter 3 we looked at the difference between “problem solving” and “capacity building” consultants. Reframing consulting as capacit

America Is Facing 5 Epic Crises All at Once This is not the time to obsess about symbolism. David Brooks Opinion Columnist June 25, 2020 Marchers on the Brooklyn Bridge on Juneteenth. Credit... Demetr