It's been great to see that there's a bunch of large companies who've taken a step forward and said: “Do you know what all these misconceptions we have had about remote work? That unless we were all s
In the early two-thousands, Merlin Mann, a Web designer and avowed Macintosh enthusiast, was working as a freelance project manager for software companies. He had held similar roles for years, so he k
A bunch of neighbors were sitting around the other night, talking yard work, and the conversation returned to a frequent target: a certain ex-neighbor, now long gone, who was unduly fond of his leaf b
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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
I know 2020 has been a disaster, but personally, my 2019 was worse. First I lost my job, and then I went through a difficult breakup with my partner of several years. When I had to move as a result, I
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
The Death and Life of the Greatest American City Welcome to New York City’s #NoFilter era Published inGEN · 10 min read· Oct 26, 2020 -- A running joke on social media among New Yorkers who stayed put
On April 13, Robert Redfield, the director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, appeared on the Today show and assured viewers that the worst was nearly behind us. It had been a mon
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
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Let the milk wars begin Published inTenderly · 3 min read· Sep 1, 2020 -- Photo: Kaffee Meister via Unsplash [Tenderly editor’s note: Jack’s views do not represent the views of Tenderly Mag, Summer An
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
To live in San Francisco for the past 20 years has been to live with outrage that a society so innovative and compassionate can so reliably fail to meet even the most basic challenges of public life.
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
Head up, shoulders back, pain solved. That’s how it’s supposed to go. But what if everything you’ve been told about “good posture” is wrong, and in fact, is only making your pain worse? This is the qu
Mapmaking is a huge production these days: Google reportedly has over 1,000 full-time employees and 6,000 contractors working on its digital maps. So it’s easy to forget that detailed maps can be made
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
Transportation Sector Focus By Al Root Updated Aug 21, 2020, 10:21 am EDT / Original Aug 17, 2020, 2:05 pm EDT The U.S. Postal Service—an organization older than the nation—is getting more press than
This article describes how to optimize your glucose levels while on a plant-based diets using a continuous glucose monitor (CGM). Written By The Levels Team Updated: 10/15/2023 Published: 07/14/2020 6
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
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 sweaty while they’re doing it, breathing
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
It's 11:16 am on a Saturday, and Jack Conte—bright-eyed, bushy-bearded—is zigzagging around a cramped Los Angeles recording studio, dodging eight musicians, two cameramen, a sound engineer, and a prof
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 o
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