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I woke up yesterday to find that a string of mysterious credit card payments had wiped out my checking account. I spent the next few hours as a prisoner of the phone tree, being interrogated on the tr
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Account Kit helps you grow your app or website by giving people a choice to sign in with their phone number or email address without the need for a password. It's a complementary solution to Facebook
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Notebook Teaching Men to Be Emotionally Honest Credit... Ben Wiseman for The New York Times Last semester, a student in the masculinity course I teach showed a video clip she had found online of a tod
Z. At most Zaha. The way many of her friends referred to her conveyed the energy and the design signature both her buildings and she, herself, exemplified. Z’s buildings slashed and snaked their way into our consciousness and out of the sites to which they did not wish to be confined. She was the…
Published in The Campo Santo Quarterly Review · 15 min read · Apr 1, 2016 -- L ong before beginning development on Firewatch , I lived in a two bedroom apartment in San Francisco with Campo Santo co-f
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A new study shows that knowledge of government surveillance causes people to self-censor their dissenting opinions online. The research offers a sobering look at the oft-touted "democratizing" effect
I throw a Hall & Oates tribute party every year , and every year I get eye rolls and disbelief: “Seriously?” People insist that I “can’t really like them” and dismiss their output as elevator music. O
If heaven exists, what would it look like? It’s one of life’s big questions, and if you believe what you see in the movies, it’s a place full of white fluffy clouds and friendly angels pining for thei
I don't normally comment on the issues of the day, but everyone has a breaking point, and this is mine. I don't want to wait until it's too late to say something, and I'm far from the only one who fee
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The iPhone Crisis reignited a conflict that should have been settled in the 90s. The loser is our national security. Last week I arrived in San Francisco to hear good news: Whitfield Diffie and Martin
The inspiration for the authoritative book on power in New York City came from the author’s realization that he understood nothing of it. “I spent a lot of time thinking, if you’re really interested i
The American media, over the past year, has been trying to work out something of a mystery: Why is the Republican electorate supporting a far-right, orange-toned populist with no real political experi
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Nick Wingfield and Mike Isaac, writing for the NYT: The range of reactions highlights the complicated set of factorsinfluencing tech companies’ responses to government demands forcustomer data in the
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I’m not editing this, so I apologize if it’s long and rambly and messy. It needs to be. I’ve been measured and silent and obedient for so, so, so long, but if I’m going to write about denied humanity it needs to be like this. You need to see unsanitized, reckless honesty just as much as I need to…
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By now, the script is familiar: Terrorists attack a Western target, and politicians compete to offer stunned and condemnatory adjectives. British, Chinese, and Japanese leaders thus proclaimed themsel
I’ve been wrestling with talking to you about some things I think you need to know. I’ve wrestled with it because I feel my own sense of shame– shame that I didn’t know or understand these issues befo
Something is changing in the arts—now there’s a thesis we can all get behind. Perhaps you believe that video games will be the defining art form of the 21st century. Or maybe the widespread propagatio
M ost people think of the Obama White House as a boy’s club. But towards the end of his first term, and into his second, the women of the White House were quietly exerting more and more influence. Thi
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