People change their behavior when they know they’re being watched. And on social media, somebody can always look at you. We used to hand-write personal thoughts in our diaries. Even when we dropped ou
Hi, Nathan here! It’s been too long, I know!! I’ve got a big piece on product wedges coming out next week, but today I am so excited to share with you this special guest post from one of my favorite w
This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Have an account? . This article was updated on July 8, 2021. As Black Lives Matter protest
a review of Anna Wiener, Uncanny Valley: A Memoir (Macmillan, 2020) by ~ Uncanny Valley, the latest, very well-publicized memoir of Silicon Valley apostasy, is, for sure, a great read. Anna Wiener wri
Dear Kate, On Memorial Day morning, I woke up in a $40 hostel in Bozeman, Montana. I wandered into a bathroom shared by a dozen other travelers, backpackers, and hikers. It smelled like sweat and stal
This article was featured in One Story to Read Today, a newsletter in which our editors recommend a single must-read from The Atlantic, Monday through Friday. Sign up for it here. In the hierarchy of
There’s a good chance most of the problems in your life and work come down to insufficient slack. Here’s how slack works and why you need more of it. Imagine if you, as a budding productivity enthusia
Justin Kan @justinkan Thank you to all the clients, investors, and Atrium team members who took a swing. Things didn't work out as planned and that is my responsibility. We took a swing at something b
In the late nineteen-sixties, the writer Peter Benchley and his wife, Wendy, were looking for a quiet place to live near New York City. They considered Princeton, New Jersey, but couldn’t afford it, s
The title of one of the Basecamp founders’ books Welcome to Galaxy Brain — a newsletter from Charlie Warzel about technology and culture. You can read what this is all about here. If you like what you
When Bill Gates was on Trevor Noah’s show it was amazing how much better quality his video was. I had experimented with using a Sony camera and capture card for the virtual event we did in February wh
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Logging on to a delivery site when you’re too tired to cook is an indulgence that can be hard to avoid, especially during a pandemic. But what happens when a restaurant pops up in your feed that seems
📚 I am writing a new book about the future of work, cities, and companies. Click here to read the first few pages . This piece is part of a series about the redistribution of income from creative work
Full-text audio version of this essay. In a 2000 piece for Wired, John Perry Barlow celebrated the rise of Napster and peer-to-peer file sharing while ridiculing the entertainment industry’s effort to
A song to read by: “ Everyone ,” by Van Morrison What I’m reading: “ The Sympathizer ,” by Viet Thanh Nguyen Share Medialyte Clubhouse in the dog house On Sunday night, Elon Musk did to Clubhouse what
If you've been wondering what these posts are doing on LessWrong and you haven't read this comment yet, I urge you to do so. Thanks to commenter FiftyTwo for suggesting I say something like this. To r
Flight attendants are the face of the airline — and now, they’re pleading with passengers to wear masks The airline industry has always had its ups and downs, from recessions to gas prices to coronavi
Trying to undo spoken words is like trying to pick up the feathers from a pillow. If doing Shabbat is about learning how to make time holy, the rule against Lashon Hara is about making speech holy. La
Some evenings, when pandemic cabin fever reaches critical levels, I relieve my claustrophobia by escaping into the dreamworld of Zillow, the real-estate website. From the familiar confines of my Washi
I turned 30 last week and a friend asked me if I'd figured out any life advice in the past decade worth passing on. I'm somewhat hesitant to publish this because I think these lists usually seem holl
The TL;DR We are experimenting with a new series that dives into financial metrics and their importance Revenue is deceptively complicated and has numerous permutations that can give you insight into
If progressivism can’t work there, why should the country believe it can work anywhere else?
By Ezra Klein
Opinion Columnist
You may have heard that San Francisco’s Board of Education voted 6 to 1 to rename 44 schools, stripping ancient racists of their laurels, but also Abraham Lincoln and Senator…
I think I’ll be ready for kids in about two years. Once I get my life sorted out and achieve a few of my big goals—which will definitely happen in my thirties—then I’m totally ready for a kid or two!
11 min read· Jan 26, 2021 -- During your working years, you will spend 40–60% of your waking life at your job. Yet most of us spend just a few hours prepping a resume, talking to a few contacts, and l
As the climate crisis intensifies, many people are looking to better understand it, and even help solve it (a reason for optimism in 2021). Yet ramping up, even to the point of basic orientation, can
published February 24th, 2019 This week’s essay is on how to be an effective executive. This is inspired by a talk Keith gives to some of our portfolio companies’ executives. Summary Running yourself
We can have democracy, or we can have a surveillance society, but we cannot have both.
By Shoshana Zuboff
Dr. Zuboff, a professor emeritus at Harvard Business School, is the author of “The Age of Surveillance Capitalism.”
Two decades ago, the American government left democracy’s front door open to…
Comparing notes with other unsatisfied owners of the Peggy sofa When I was a kid my grandma had a couch on her front porch that was, as a result of some sort of thrifty post-wartime craft project, stu
On March 10th, the day before Tom Hanks announced that he had tested positive for COVID-19, I drove my three-year-old daughter to her day care in Berkeley, California. The drive took us up College Ave
On November 1, 2018, more than twenty thousand employees and contractors of Google walked out of their offices. They walked out in fifty cities around the world: in Silicon Valley and Sydney, Dublin a
Every year since 2005, I’ve spent the better part of a week in late December planning my life for the next year. Overall, this is probably the best decision I’ve made in terms of working towards multi
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I don’t know what happened. But here’s my current theory of what the White House thought was going to happen. I don’t have any more information than you do, and here I’m not concerned with the broader
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Salesforce is paying $28 billion to purchase Slack, the intraoffice texting service that has turned the American workplace into a dystopian micro-Twitterverse. Sold as a tool to improve communication
In 2016, I interviewed an entrepreneur named Sean who had co-founded a small technology startup based in London. As with many organizations at that time, Sean and his team relied on e-mail as their pr
I did something strange and almost taboo the other day — I waved and said hi to some I passed on the street in San Francisco. He was a middle-aged, prosperous-looking white dude, just the kind of guy
E very friend I have with a job that involves picking up something heavier than a laptop more than twice a week eventually finds a way to slip something like this into conversation: “Bro, 1 you don’t