The Big Bang Theory gang will gather one last time Thursday night. CBS One of the biggest TV shows in recent history is about to end, after a long, hugely successful run. Viewers are sharply divided. Some have argued that the show is a massively enjoyable example of the power of the monoculture,…

A new science of happiness has blossomed. Observing that wealth has not made people happier, some economists have proposed that Western nations should focus on happiness rather than growth. Psychologists, too, have offered formulas for well-being. Jonathan Haidt’s ideas about the sources of…

Many writers rely more heavily on pronouns than I’d suggest is useful. For me this sort of thing comes under the heading Remember that Writing Is Not Speaking. When we talk, we can usually make ourselves understood even amid a flood of vague “he”s and “she”s. On the page, too many pronouns are apt…

Alcohol plays a dominating role in American social, political, and economic life — particularly for urban professionals, getting drinks can be as important a form of social currency as it was in college. But the odds are getting higher that liquor stores, bars, and restaurants will start to offer…

Get That Money Brought to you by: Abigail Disney. Photo: Jemal Countess/Getty Images Get That Money is an exploration of the many ways we think about our finances — what we earn, what we have, and what we want. Abigail Disney, 59, is an activist and Emmy-winning documentary filmmaker. She is also…

What makes a great manager isn’t the problems they solve, but the questions they ask. Start with these 16 questions here. An employee comes to you and says, “I have a problem.” If you’re trying to be a great manager, what do you do? Your initial instinct might be to roll up your sleeves. “Time to be…

Idea in Brief The Challenge Managers today are bombarded with calls to give feedback—constantly, directly, and critically. But it turns out that telling people what we think of their performance and how they can do better is not the best way to help them excel and, in fact, can hinder development.…

Just stumbled onto this story from 2007 about how a woman who just played Tetris at home to kill time accidentally discovered she was the best Tetris player in the world. https://t.co/IiuzH2TbOu

Been thinking about this article a lot since I read it. When everything in our lives becomes centred around convenience, we become defined by the things we're happy to inconvenience ourselves with. https://t.co/6xhfbmdMVo

F riday evening, 8 p.m., early summer, New York City. I sit at my desk, face aglow in Macintosh luminescence. On the desk sits the detritus of the hour, of the day, the week, the season. There is dinner of sushi in the little takeout tray from the supermarket. There is leftover coffee in a mug from…

The past few weeks have brought bad news to the hardworking scribes of the news business. Three leading digital outlets—BuzzFeed, the Huffington Post, and Vice—announced layoffs that left many accomplished journalists unemployed. The fingers of blame quickly pointed to the great bogeymen of our…

If there’s one thing I know about love, it’s that people who don’t find it have shorter life spans on average. Which means learning how the Tinder algorithm works is a matter of life and death, extrapolating slightly. According to the Pew Research Center , a majority of Americans now consider dating…

Yesterday my 13-year-old daughter said to me: ‘Hey fam, can I yeet a heckin’ sandwich?’ Reader, I stared at her for a full ten seconds. I knew most of the words. I’d even used them myself. But I had to stop and translate, because she is a product of the internet and on the internet, language and…

Gillian Flynn defined the Cool Girl. It’s time we reverse the frame. Tesia Blake Dec 28, 2018 Photo by Andrew Worley on Unsplash In her novel Gone Girl , Gillian Flynn defines the concept of the Cool Girl : “Men always say that as the defining compliment, don’t they? She’s a cool girl. Being the…

The trailer for Papers, Please "There's a game here" The couple's next project, to port Rocketbirds to the PS3 (which eventually racked up its own IGF nominations), required temporarily living in Singapore for roughly a year. This afforded the couple a low-cost opportunity to travel to the Southeast…

Theodore Ross Jan 9 And this is what they taught me about food, labor, and (my toxic) masculinity The short order line can be understood as a symbol of male rites of passage. Photos by Andrew Thomas Lee The grocery store in my part of Brooklyn has a small diner tucked away in the back, with a short…

J ust about everyone wants to cultivate better habits. The problem is, very few of us want to do the work to make those habits a reality. We hope they will magically develop, that one day we’ll just wake up (early, without even considering the snooze button) and head straight to the gym. Then we’ll…

The Future Book was meant to be interactive, moving, alive. Its pages were supposed to be lush with whirling doodads, responsive, hands-on. The old paperback Zork choose-your-own-adventures were just the start. The Future Book would change depending on where you were, how you were feeling. It would…

Joe Raedle / Getty On the 20th anniversary of The New York Times ’ popular Vows column, a weekly feature on notable weddings and engagements launched in 1992, its longtime editor wrote that Vows was meant to be more than just a news notice about society events. It aimed to give readers the backstory…

Chapter 1: Hello, Goodbye Apathy Chapter Text Harry Potter was not a normal boy. Most teenagers lived for summer, where Harry hated it. Most spent their days outdoors, Harry didn't. Most spent their time dreaming of girls, Harry refused to dream. When he did, he dreamed of a man, Sirius Black. He…

When I was a teenager I often used fantasy as a vehicle for escapism. Some people, when they fantasise, think about sex or dragons or wildly unlikely events like winning the lottery. I fantasised about things like having a family of twelve children, designing my own octagonal house and being an…

The Right Thing To Do by LovesBitca8 Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling Mature No Archive Warnings Apply F/M Complete Work 13 Apr 2018 Tags No Archive Warnings Apply Hermione Granger/Draco Malfoy Hermione Granger Draco Malfoy Harry Potter Ginny Weasley Narcissa Black Malfoy Lucius Malfoy Ron…

This is the price you pay. Photo by Med Badr Chemmaoui on Unsplash Everyone has an opinion about who you are and what you've done. They like to think they know the whole story, but few people ever will. They don't know that you were just a naive girl who fell in love at the wrong time. And gave your…

Maybe commitment could be a path toward the person I wanted to be, not a reward for becoming her Photo: Natasha Fernandez/EyeEm/Getty Images By Ashley Abramson We met in the middle of July, three weeks after I had moved back to Minneapolis. Tim, the Scandi-hip bassist of a local band my friends and…

Here’s ⁦@jrhennessy⁩ on the social compact of the work bathroom https://t.co/6CJq0IGiAa

Chapter 1 Chapter Text June 2012 Harry Potter: 10 years Draco Malfoy: 32 years The last thing Harry remembered was talking to a snake. The snake had talked back—or sounded like it had—and then the glass had disappeared, and the snake had escaped. Dudley had blubbered like a baby, and Harry had got…

Nikki, a 22-year-old journalism student from Minneapolis, is telling me about the worst date she’s ever been on, with a man called Athens she met at college. “He talked about his goals, his week, his career, his meditation, his favorite books, his respect for ‘real’ musicians and how most people…

T hink about this for a moment: Why would you ever choose to be with someone who is not excited to be with you? There’s a grey area in dating many people get hung up on — a grey area where feelings are ambiguous or one person has stronger feelings than the other. This grey area causes real, tangible…

Going through trauma therapy is a lot harder than I anticipated. Shocking, I know. I’m not sure what I was expecting; I’m not sure I was really expecting anything. It’s certainly not as easy as taking a pill and getting rid of the memories or erasing all the ways it shows up in your life now. What…

I n my office, I have a coffee mug from Stanich’s in Portland, Oregon. Under the restaurant name, it says “Great hamburgers since 1949.” The mug was given to me by Steve Stanich on the day I told him that, after eating 330 burgers during a 30-city search, I was naming Stanich’s cheeseburger the best…

This tired ideal does a lot more harm than good. Photo by Jon Ly on Unsplash L ove triangle didn’t quite cover it. We were more of a pentagram. My best friend had told my fiance a secret. One that he wouldn’t share with me. Until I threatened to dump him. That’s when he told the truth. My best…

No Democrat has won statewide office in Texas since 1994. This month, Robert Francis “Beto” O’Rourke almost did, losing the race for a US Senate seat to Republican incumbent Ted Cruz by an astonishingly close margin . Raised on the border, O’Rourke is fluent in Mexican culture and liberal values.…

Logic vs. Designers In my early days as a designer, I relied on Photoshop or CSS to tell me whether something was right or wrong. If Photoshop indicated that two shapes were aligned, then they were aligned. If two different shapes were the same size, then that was the case. If two colours had the…

tl;dr In this article I want to explain a few things about enterprises and their software, based on my experiences, and also describe what things need to be in place to make change come about. Have you ever found yourself saying things like: Why are enterprises so slow? How do they decide what to…

Read this in your twenties and understand it, don't wait until your thirties or forties. https://t.co/mE7kWz38tM

By Oct. 5, 2018 11:46 a.m. ET Can you help me with this Excel formula? When Anand Kalelkar started a new job at a large insurance company, colleagues flooded him with instant messages and emails and rushed to introduce themselves in the cafeteria. He soon learned his newfound popularity came with…

Apple The state of the Apple Watch is good. Tim Cook continues to hail its popularity, albeit without any hard sales figures. Most pundits felt it outshined the iPhone at last month’s Apple media event. The new Apple Watch Series 4 seems to have been received well by reviewers . watchOS 5 is a…

My friends at Six Apart recently asked me to make a list of blogs that I enjoy. I think they're planning to use it for their new Blogs.com project. Unfortunately, I'm late getting it to them (typical), but if it's still useful, I'll post it here in a day or four. As I think about the blogs I've…

I only wanted one thing out of 2018’s iPhone event: a new iPhone SE. In failing to provide it Apple seems to have quietly put the model out to pasture — and for this I curse them eternally. Because it was the best phone the company ever made. If you were one of the many who passed over the SE back…

Katie Martin; Adult Swim If the universe is indeed run—as users of cutting-edge psychedelic drugs will occasionally suggest—by nine-foot-tall interdimensional locusts with lawn-mower voices and glittering, loveless minds, who program our life patterns on cold locust computers and grind their…