“Why do you kill me?—What! Do not you live on the other side of the stream, my friend? If you lived on this side I should be an assassin, and it were unjust to kill you in this fashion, but since you live on the other side, I am a brave soldier, and it is just.” – Blaise Pascal, Penseés Ever since…

In response to recent articles about socialism (I’m sorry, I promise I will write about something else soon–have you seen my article about the Vietnam War ?), I received a couple of thoughtful notes that deserve replies. Here they are. Hi Nathan, I found your recent piece on “3 Arguments Against…

FUTURE HUMAN The wealthy are plotting to leave us behind Douglas Rushkoff Jul 5, 2018 · 9 min read Illustrations: Matt Huynh L ast year, I got invited to a super-deluxe private resort to deliver a keynote speech to what I assumed would be a hundred or so investment bankers. It was by far the largest…

So you finally bit the bullet and bought that gym membership you’ve been talking about. Now what? You probably have a lot of questions: What should you wear? What workout should you do? How do the machines even work? Here’s a primer on how to make your first gym experience awesome—or at least,…

Virtual Chronicles Game Analysis Time is running out to get your affairs in order. Go! March 19, 2018 7:00 AM Read + Mission control for @ retronauts ; former EIC of http:// 1UP.com and http:// USgamer.net ; taking dapper (and frogs) back from the Nazis. Nintendo has finally shed light on its…

It's impossible to pick up a health magazine or diet book without reading about "metabolism," and how to kick-start, ignite, rev up, or otherwise recalibrate yours to get a trimmer, leaner physique. In most cases, diet promoters and fitness gurus use "metabolism" as fancy sounding short-hand for the…

It was a Friday evening in Phoenix and 110 in the shade. In the studio of a local independent television station, the compact, cocky, balding, white-haired man who, earlier in the decade, reigned as the nation’s most popular politician, and two years ago was the Republican Party’s unlikely…

I t’s a hazy Saturday afternoon in July and some of the greatest improvisers in the country are assembling in a nondescript office building on Sunset Boulevard in East Hollywood. One by one, they enter Earwolf Studios and greet each other like the old friends they’ve become. There’s Jon Gabrus,…

How to Maintain a Project List that Doesn't Crush Your Soul How to Maintain a Project List that Doesn't Crush Your Soul How to Maintain a Project List that Doesn't Crush… You're great at ubiquitous capture, you process your inbox every day, but somewhere between a… The Root of Procrastination Many…

“Celebrate endings, for they precede new beginnings.” ~Jonathan Lockwood Huie We often think of quitting as failure. We commend people for carrying on when times get rough. The heroes in our action movies don’t just give up when things get difficult. When was the last time you saw Steven Seagal walk…

Why taking a step back is as necessary as moving forward Shreya Dalela May 12, 2017 · 11 min read Credit : emmatissier.com/ From everything that I recall about my life so far, I can say one thing with absolute certainty. I have been an extremely passionate person. Passionate about everything. Be it…

F ive hundred years ago cartographers believed California was an island. Doctors believed that slicing your arm open and bleeding everywhere could cure disease. Scientists believed fire was made out of something called phlogiston. Women believed rubbing dog urine on their face had anti-aging…

It was high school. I was 16, and I was pissed off. My English teacher gave us a creative writing assignment: write anything about being in high school. Anything. So I wrote a story about a school shooting . And not just that — in my story, once police cornered the shooter, instead of blowing his…

Comedy fans have been tracking Aziz Ansari for a long time, and across a wide variety of comedy platforms. He earned national attention on TV with sketch troupe Human Giant. He broke into films with Observe And Report , Funny People , and 30 Minutes Or Less , among others. He’s involved in…

All photos courtesy of Alex Tizon and his family 点击这里阅读中文版本 (Chinese) | Alex Tizon passed away in March. He was a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and the author of Big Little Man: In Search of My Asian Self . For more about Alex, please see this editor’s note . T he ashes filled a black plastic…

On Perfectionism Perfectionism is the unreasonable and self-defeating ambition of getting something absolutely right – which makes us difficult to be around and punishing to live within. The origins of perfectionism lie in the imagination, in the ease with which we can conjure up a picture of an…

Shutterstock Tax Day is a horror for many procrastinators. For many people, a little procrastination isn't harmful — like 15 minutes lost in Facebook or putting off doing the laundry for a few days. But then there are things like taxes. And all the people who keep meaning to start saving for…

I've never had trouble waking up in the morning. When the alarm goes off, I'm up and ready to work—but falling asleep was always another matter. If it feels like it's taking you hours of tossing and turning before you actually fall asleep, there are a few things you can do to help the process along.…

On Confidence What often distinguishes fulfilled from unfulfilled lives is an ingredient that’s not part of the educational curriculum and that can sound vague, silly and Californian in the bad sense: CONFIDENCE It’s humbling to realise just how many great achievements haven’t been the result of…

Since 1986, Dragon Quest has been an RPG institution in Japan, with each highly anticipated release garnering more attention and hype than our annual Calls of Duty or Assassin's Creeds. The series has a much different status in America, though. While Dragon Quest gradually gained a respectable…

Everyone remembers their first visit to Super Potato. Squished in a higgledy side-street, a plushie's throw from Akihabara station in eastern Tokyo, you climb a cramped staircase, past a parade of blue-tac'ed posters, into a cosy, glittering Aladdin's den of video games past. The shelves are as…

To some extent, you may already have had to make various changes in your life because of your heartbreaking situation. Perhaps you’ve had to leave your house or flat. Or maybe you’re still in the family home, but fear that in order to make ends meet you’re going to have to sell it. Perhaps you’re in…

Old habits die hard. You’ve probably experienced this when you vowed to eat all salads forever, only to crash and burn a few days later. Building new habits takes time. A lot of time. For me, turning my habits into calendar appointments made a huge difference. Here’s how this might work for you. Why…

You might still be planning a career in law or you might be a law student or a recent graduate. Have you thought about your long–term career goals? Have you considered all the career avenues that a law degree can open for you? This article will brief you about all the career options that you may…

Six years out of Boalt Hall School of Law, Laura Franco still feels the sting of that first semester. Like so many new law students, Franco spent her first few months floundering for the right studying strategy . In the end, she managed only middling grades. And although she nailed the rest of law…

“If you imagine less, less will be what you undoubtedly deserve,” Debbie Millman counseled in one of the best commencement speeches ever given , urging: “Do what you love, and don’t stop until you get what you love. Work as hard as you can, imagine immensities…” Far from Pollyanna platitude, this…

Candlewick Press Technology just made manifest with what was already happening — which is that to some extent, the modern person is not just engaging with advertising, we are partially created by it, too. Fifteen Years ago, M.T. Anderson started working on a novel called Feed. The book, now widely…

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 experience, who espouses extreme and often bizarre views? How has Donald Trump , seemingly out of nowhere,…

Ahhh, the elusive six pack. For many, it's the holy grail of fitness. But does your life really change after you've achieved one? Let's take a look at the ways that getting a six pack changes your life and when it's really just fool's gold. First, let's briefly talk about how to obtain a six pack.…

There are only so many things you can control in life, and your genetics isn’t one of them. Aside from hitting the gym and plastic surgery, you have little say over how your appearance turns out—and even then, you may have less control than you think. Blame Your Genetics Casting clothes, makeup, and…

« Previous 1 2 View All Next » The Power Of Nostalgia Memories is a funny thing. We like to think that a memory is a perfect snapshot of an event; a moment in time indelibly frozen in our minds that we can recall with perfect clarity and accuracy. Unfortunately, the reality is that memories are…

« Previous 1 2 View All Next » Your break up sucked. Sure, your relationship had it’s problems, but so does everybody’s, right? But hey, you put all that behind you. You’re past the “hiding in your own apartment, listening to angry music and writing bad poetry” stage. You’ve quit complaining about…

It’s been an interesting week for talking about masculinity. To start with, ABC’s 20/20 aired a story about the Manosphere and the Men’s Rights Movement (which, ironically enough seems to have touched off a weird Jay-Z/Nas-esque feud between two leading voices of the MRM ). The Daily Beast provided…

« Previous 1 2 View All Next » Identity and Resistance To Change One of the insidious things about accepting others’ definitions of who we are into our self-concept is how difficult it can be to get rid of them. After passively accepting certain labels into our identity, we begin to define ourselves…

I’ve talked a little before about how my life was back in the bad old days when my idea of wooing a woman was to follow her around like a newly hatched gosling in the hopes that she might somehow turn around and see all the amazingness I had to offer. I had all sorts of brilliant theories 1 but they…