When I started my first job at Amazon.com, as the first analyst in the strategic planning department, I inherited the work of producing the Analytics Package. I capitalize the term because it was both
At Manresa , in Los Gatos, California , a perfectly poached halibut arrives topped with an auburn, whisper-thin crisp of eggplant. At Eleven Madison Park in New York, a clambake is re-imagined as a pa
111 N.F.L. Brains. All But One Had C.T.E. A neuropathologist has examined the brains of 111 N.F.L. players — and 110 were found to have C.T.E., the degenerative disease linked to repeated blows to the
Defendants awaiting their arraignments late on a Sunday night at the Kings County Criminal Court. Credit... Philip Montgomery for The New York Times Feature The Bail Trap Every year, thousands of inno
Ripe Geisha (or Gesha, depending on who you ask) cherries in Costa Rica. Photo courtesy of Cafe Imports. Every professional community probably has its own take on “toe-MAY-toe, toe-MAH-toe,” but are a
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André Staltz The Web began dying in 2014, here's how 30 Oct 2017 Before the year 2014, there were many people using Google, Facebook, and Amazon. Today, there are still many people using services from
I am on my way to meet James Freeman, founder of Blue Bottle Coffee, and every inch of Tokyo feels sun blasted and overstuffed — except where he is. Freeman is hunched over a cup of coffee inside a Tu
Product management by orders of magnitude Ken Norton Follow Dec 17, 2015 · 15 min read Ken Norton / Product Partner, GV This is based on a keynote I gave at the awesome Mind The Product conference in September 2015 at London’s Barbican Centre. Originally published at www.kennorton.com . F or more…
It's 11:30 p.m. on a Thursday , and Silicon Valley has gone quiet for the night. The streets are largely empty, the corporate campuses dark. But in a sea of vacant office parks, the lights are on in a
1. None More White “We're trying to make a whiter merino,” Tyler Clemens says. It’s a warm August afternoon, and Clemens is walking me through the hundreds of fabric swatches lining the Williamsburg s
When the Harvey Weinstein story broke, I thought of something my mother told me when I was a little girl. She said: To be a free woman, you have to be a financially independent woman. She wasn’t wrong
I don’t know I’ve reached Snap’s global headquarters until I am standing in front of them, leaning on the handle of my rolling suitcase and puzzling over a map app. A baby-faced security guard in brac
12 min read · Oct 15, 2017 -- At some point in 2006, or possibly late 2005, Noah Glass walked into our office all excited about something. That in itself isn’t news because Noah was always excited abo
(Also see my follow-up post on getting organized , and sign up to my tiny letter to get contacted about fixing housing affordability in SF ). San Francisco’s housing system is broken. The only way to
- - - - - - Apple TV 4K is more than just a new 4K streaming player from Apple. It represents the company’s foray into the world of 4K resolution and High Dynamic Range, with HDR being the more signif
The term Organization Man is a rich one. From it, we can conjure up an image and a life. It’s a man, not a woman. He’s white, standing somewhere between 6’0 and 6’2. He has a strong chin and medium length light brown hair parted on the left. He walks from one meeting to the next wearing a dark suit…
J ustin Rosenstein had tweaked his laptop’s operating system to block Reddit, banned himself from Snapchat, which he compares to heroin, and imposed limits on his use of Facebook . But even that wasn’
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From time to time, I’ve wondered what it must be like to live in a truly tribal society. Watching Iraq or Syria these past few years, you get curious about how the collective mind can come so undone.
The Dying Art of Disagreement Plato and Aristotle in discussion, by Luca della Robbia (1437) This is the text of a lecture delivered at the Lowy Institute Media Award dinner in Sydney, Australia, on S
As you walk down the picturesque stretch of Jægersborggade, a narrow residential street connecting Assistens Cemetery and Nørrebro Park on the northern side of Copenhagen, it’s hard to imagine it as a
Photo Marc Andreessen, a co-founder of the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz.Credit Keith Bedford/Reuters Editor’s note: Marc Andreessen’s venture capital firm, Andreessen Horowitz, has invested just under $50 million in Bitcoin-related start-ups. The firm is actively searching for more…
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“In an information-rich world, the wealth of information means a dearth of something else: a scarcity of whatever it is that information consumes. What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention…
In the Footsteps of Robert Moses Roadtripping across the bridges, highways, and parks of America’s most controversial urban planner Published in re:form · 33 min read · Jun 1, 2014 -- 1. “I anthropomo
A t the end of June, Mark Zuckerberg announced that Facebook had hit a new level: two billion monthly active users. That number, the company’s preferred ‘metric’ when measuring its own size, means t
In December 2010, Sheryl Sandberg gave a talk about women’s leadership in which she mentioned “sitting at the table.” Women, she said, have to pull up a chair and sit at the conference-room table rath
Welcome to the Potemkin Mall PARAMUS, N.J., Dec. 16 - At the Garden State Plaza, a sprawling marble and skylight-filled shopping center just outside Manhattan, discriminating consumers can find a $400
Louis Rossetto is the co-founder and original editor of Wired. He was also the first investor and the former CEO of TCHO chocolate company. Rossetto and his partner Jane Metcalfe were publishing pione
If there is one style of corporate branding that defines the 2010s, it is this: sans-serif lettering, neatly presented in black, white, and ultra-flat colors. Cobalt, for example. Its goal is noise reduction, accomplished by banishing gradients, funky fonts, and drop shadows, and by relegating…
Published on August 7, 2017 Our food critic works a shift to understand why top chefs are starting to give dishwashers their due. My dish hose has a mind of its own. Every time I use it to spray a geyser of water onto a dirty plate, it splashes clean whatever it touches — and shoots much of the…
Technology is commanding our attention in infinite, insurmountable loops. A country trip off-grid helped me escape. There are a thousand beautiful ways to start the day that don’t begin with looking a
Not long ago, I moved apartments, and beneath the weight of work and lethargy a number of small, nagging tasks remained undone. Some art work had to be hung from wall moldings, using wire. In the bedr
Photo: H. Armstrong Roberts/ClassicStock/Getty Images Recently, three economists—Oded Netzer and Alain Lemaire, both of Columbia, and Michal Herzenstein of the University of Delaware—looked for ways t
“You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.” ― M. Scott Peck *** The Basics The sense that we are not being listened to is one of the most frustrating feelings imaginable
Credit... Jamie Chung for The New York Times Feature What a Fraternity Hazing Death Revealed About the Painful Search for an Asian-American Identity When Michael Deng, a college freshman, joined an As
O ne day last summer, around noon, I called Athena, a 13-year-old who lives in Houston, Texas. She answered her phone—she’s had an iPhone since she was 11—sounding as if she’d just woken up. We chatte
TheDefinitive oral history of online travel By Dennis Schaal Two decades after the birth of online travel, more than two dozen founders and key players exclusively tell Skift how it all happened. If you lived through the mid-1990s and early 2000s, and even if you are younger and newer to the travel…
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