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
This is not the time to obsess about symbolism.
By David Brooks
Opinion Columnist
There are five gigantic changes happening in America right now. The first is that we are losing the fight against Covid-19. Our behavior doesn’t have anything to do with the reality around us. We just got tired so…
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
It’s been a long and bumpy ride for loyal users Published inOneZero · 9 min read· May 19, 2020 -- Photo: SOPA Images/Getty Images You are — I am, I should more accurately say — officially old if you c
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 My Restaurant Was My Life for 20 Years. Does the World Need It Anymore? Forced to shutter Prune, I’ve been revisiting my original dreams for it — and
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
London 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 mayor, declared a state of emerge
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
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 sphere of fatty l
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
Last summer, Tyler Haney, the founder and chief executive of Outdoor Voices, appeared to be golden.
In just five years, the Instagram-friendly athletic apparel company that she created in her 20s had become a sensation. There was more than $50 million in funding, nine stores and appearances on the…
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 By An Opinion columnist a
For Alyssa Watrous, the medication mix-up meant a pounding headache, nausea and dizziness. In September, Ms. Watrous, a 17-year-old from Connecticut, was about to take another asthma pill when she realized CVS had mistakenly given her blood pressure medication intended for someone else.
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13 min read· Jan 20, 2020 -- 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 looking t
When it comes to cycle clothing, one brand polarises cyclists like no other: Rapha. The very word will leave some purring at the thought of their next visit to its Soho store, while others will twitch
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, including
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 f
7 min read· May 30, 2018 -- There have been two main changes in dietary habits from the 1970s (before the obesity epidemic) until today. First, there was the change is what we were recommended to eat.
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
by August 12, 2019 Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email 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.
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 abandon
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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.