In chapter 3 we looked at the difference between “problem solving” and “capacity building” consultants. Reframing consulting as capacity building opens up the ability to work on long open-ended projec

America Is Facing 5 Epic Crises All at Once This is not the time to obsess about symbolism. Opinion Columnist Marchers on the Brooklyn Bridge on Juneteenth. Credit... Demetrius Freeman for The New Yor

Zach Hickson arrived in San Francisco to stay three years ago, at twenty-seven, because nowhere in America seemed more appealing at the time. The city was mild and fragrant. The streets on clear days

A version of this article first appeared in the Harvard Business Review VC’s have just changed the ~50-year old social contract with startup employees. In doing so they may have removed one of the key

Cosmo Catalano May 19 · 23 min read [via the other Cosmo ] Strava, the since-forever social fitness service, announced yesterday that a number of features previously available for free to any user wer

Leer en español Why is it that between 25% and 50% of people report feeling overwhelmed or burned out at work ? It’s not just the number of hours we’re working, but also the fact that we spend too man

Under social distancing, we’re all doing our best to stay sane, and one of the best ways to maintain sanity is to go out for some nice fresh air. But venturing outside can be stressful if you’re worri

It seems many people are breathing some relief, and I’m not sure why. An epidemic curve has a relatively predictable upslope and once the peak is reached, the back slope can also be predicted. We have

Credit... Philip Montgomery for The New York Times Forced to shutter Prune, I’ve been revisiting my original dreams for it — and wondering if there will still be a place for it in the New York of the

There are certain moments that stand out as true game-changers. These are the kinds of moments that divide time into "before" and "after" periods. With tomorrow marking its fifth anniversary, I think

This is the full-length version of this post. You can read the condensed version, which appeared as an opinion article in the Washington Post , here . The coronavirus pandemic pits all of humanity aga

The trackpad is tiny. After all these many years of gargantuan trackpads, this one feels ever so small. Like a trackpad for ants, measuring 10cm x 4cm. For comparison the trackpad on a 2018 13" MacBoo

Bloomberg / Getty / The Atlantic L ondon Breed wasn’t going to wait around for COVID-19. San Francisco had yet to confirm a single case of the coronavirus when Breed, the city’s 45-year-old first-term

3/22/2020 The Cultural Constants of Contagion News Abroad Ed Simon is the associate editor of The Marginalia Review of Books, a channel of The Los Angeles Review of Books. He holds a PhD in English fr

(Adapted from a keynote I gave at Lean Digital Summit in Lisbon this month.) Good help is hard to find. I dread calling the credit card company, the phone company, any service provider, including and

emarys / Getty One of the few mercies during this crisis is that, by their nature, individual coronaviruses are easily destroyed. Each virus particle consists of a small set of genes, enclosed by a sp

To stop coronavirus we will need to radically change almost everything we do: how we work, exercise, socialize, shop, manage our health, educate our kids, take care of family members. We all want thin

First the continuing shortage or unavailability of test kits has vanquished all hope of containment. Moreover it is preventing accurate estimates of key parameters such as reproduction rate, size of i

Outdoor Voices, founded by Tyler Haney in 2014, became a lifestyle choice as much as a clothing brand. Credit... Sarah Karlan for The New York Times The founder was pushed out after clashing with expe

Update 08/06/2020: After the startup Owl Cameras Inc. dissolved rather untidily earlier this year (see original news story below for more on that), users were stuck with expensive dash cams and no sup

Editor's note: The author of this essay asked for anonymity for fear of reprisals by authorities for speaking critically of the Chinese government. The government lockdown orders in Wuhan, China, have

First let’s start with why we decided to do this in the first place. Many of you ask: what is Other Internet? Other Internet is a nimble organization focused on cultivating agency for the world we cur

Credit... Sammy Harkham Opinion The Age of Decadence Cut the drama. The real story of the West in the 21st century is one of stalemate and stagnation. Credit... Sammy Harkham An Opinion columnist and

Credit... Video by Jeremy M. Lange For The New York Times Pharmacists across the U.S. warn that the push to do more with less has made medication errors more likely. “I am a danger to the public,” one

Michael Rhodes Jan 20 · 13 min read Flickr San Francisco is a city of many layers. Whether you’re new to the city or a long-time resident, there is always more to discover and understand. If you’re lo

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In the first week of the second decade of the third millennium, it was 68 and sunny southeast of Baghdad. At an outpost known as Contingency Operating Station Hammer, intelligence analysts for the U.S

Happy New Year! This week is an opportunity to ponder decade-long trend arcs and make grandiose pronouncements of what the last ten years were “about,” and I’ll gladly indulge. During the holidays, I usually watch more movies and TV shows than I do the entire rest of the year (time I’d otherwise…

Omar Jhury and Joshua Molina, right, at Rikers Island manning the espresso machine. Credit... Todd Heisler/The New York Times The Rikers Coffee Academy Can teaching prison inmates to make lattes give

Why Are Young People Pretending to Love Work? I saw the greatest minds of my generation log 18-hour days — and then boast about #hustle on Instagram. When did performative workaholism become a lifesty

The name “James Niehues” may not strike home immediately, but if you’re a skier , you’ve undoubtedly held his work. Niehues has painted roughly 255 ski trail maps, for 175 different resorts , includin

At its core, budgeting is setting aside money from each paycheck to go towards a specific goal or category of expenses. That’s it. You get paid, you give those dollars a job, and then you only spend whatever you have saved for a particular category. To give you an idea of what this looks like, here…

A few years ago I read some short financial advice by Scott Adams, the author and creator of the Dilbert cartoon . It’s great advice–it’s perfect for 95% of Americans’ finances and investing. Without

Dr. Jason Fung May 30, 2018 · 7 min read There have been two main changes in dietary habits from the 1970s (before the obesity epidemic) unti l today. First, there was the change is what we were recom

When people eat a food containing carbohydrates, the digestive system breaks down the digestible ones into sugar, which enters the blood. As blood sugar levels rise, the pancreas produces insulin, a h

Illustrated | 13ree_design/iStock It's fat times for credit card companies. Visa made $10.3 billion in profits in 2018 on just $20.6 billion in revenue, up from $6.7 billion and $18.3 billion respecti

SMF1, an Amazon fulfillment center on the edge of Sacramento, California, is a low, gray, utilitarian building. Amid the yellowing fields of the Central Valley, it resembles a cluster of Legos abandoned in an untended back yard. The facility is named for Sacramento’s SMF airport, which is just…

TEMPLATE NOT FOUND: blank Written by Eliza Shapiro ; Photographs by Brittainy Newman Darnell, 8, lives in a homeless shelter and commutes 15 miles a day to school. Sandivel shares a bedroom with her m

Away, the fast-growing direct-to-consumer luggage startup, has mostly managed to avoid controversy in its four years of existence. Not this week: The Verge’s Zoe Schiffer posted a feature story at 11a

There was a time, just a few decades ago, when coffee was a simple affair. You’d wake up, mosey over to a diner or coffee shop, and drink whatever coffee they had brewed in their industrial-size pot.