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February 24, 2018
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Perspective | To beat President Trump, you have to learn to think like his supporters
President Trump at the White House in December. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post) Almost a year later, Donald Trump is still president. Powerful men in entertainment, media and even politics have seen their public lives implode under scandal almost instantly for months now, but Trump holds on. If…
February 18, 2018
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How do you do it? How do you ooze compassion and…
Anonymous asked: How do you do it? How do you ooze compassion and kindness in every word you write? Were you always like this? Is it a skill you learned and then how? I think I’ve gotten nicer and better at communicating over the course of the last few years. It’s a skill, like most things, and…
February 12, 2018
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When Things Go Missing
Over a lifetime, we will lose some two hundred thousand items apiece, plus money, relationships, elections, loved ones. Illustration by Bianca Bagnarelli A couple of years ago, I spent the summer in Portland, Oregon, losing things. I normally live on the East Coast, but that year, unable to face…
February 6, 2018
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Too Much Music: A Failed Experiment In Dedicated Listening
The futurist artist Luigi Russolo (left) with his noise machine, invented for futurist "symphonies," one of which was performed at the London Coliseum in June 1914. Hulton Archive/Getty Images In Charlotte Zwerin’s 1988 film Straight, No Chaser , Thelonious Monk road manager Bob Jones tells a story…
January 31, 2018
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The Author of the Acacia Seeds, Ursula K. Le Guin
This story is copyright 1974 by Ursula K. Le Guin . It is transcribed from Le Guin’s collection The Compass Rose because I’d like my friends to read it ( context ). And Other Extracts from the Journal of the Association of Therolinguistics MS. Found in an Anthill The messages were found written in…
January 20, 2018
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The Technium: 1,000 True Fans
This is an edited, updated version of an essay I wrote in 2008 when this now popular idea was embryonic and ragged. I recently rewrote it to convey the core ideas, minus out-of-date details. This revisited essay appears in Tim Ferriss’ new book, Tools of Titans . I believe the 1,000 True Fans…
January 10, 2018
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Phishing for Phools – Words That Matter – Medium
Illustration: Sunday Büro W e are all fools in one way or another. Fools for love, fools for vanity, fools for greed and arrogance, laziness and envy. In the fourth century AD, the Egyptian hermit Evagrius the Solitary classified human failings into eight major groups. In 590, Pope Gregory I revised…
December 31, 2017
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The Rise and Fall of Hype Machine, the Internet’s Forgotten Fave
“A juggernaut of growing influence,” “[one of] 100 essential websites,” “the future of all media” – in the late 2000s, Hype Machine was being fêted as few sites ever have been. Founded in 2005 by then 19-year-old college student Anthony Volodkin, the music blog aggregator unexpectedly exploded.…
December 25, 2017
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The “Nathan for You” Finale, My New Favorite Love Story
Perhaps “Nathan for You” is ultimately about our unfettered capacity for credulity—not just the suspension of disbelief but the acceptance of the preposterous. Photograph Courtesy Comedy Central Yet often the pretender begins to love truly after all, and oftenbecomes what he has feigned to be.…
December 20, 2017
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William Gibson interviewed: Archangel, the Jackpot, and the instantly commodifiable dreamtime of industrial societies
William Gibson’s 2014 novel The Peripheral was the first futuristic book he published in the 21st century, and it showed us a distant future in which some event, "The Jackpot," had killed nearly everyone on Earth, leaving behind a class of ruthless oligarchs and their bootlickers; in the 2018…
December 15, 2017
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Coalitional Instincts | Edge.org
A daunting new augmented reality was neurally kindled, overlying the older individual one. It is important to realize that this reality is constructed by and runs on our coalitional programs and has no independent existence. You are a member of a coalition only if someone (such as you) interprets…
December 10, 2017
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Collectors’ corner: book and music libraries – in pictures
Shares 78 78 With sales of vinyl and print on the up, British artist Mark Vessey celebrates the joy of personal, physical collections • Read an interview with Mark Vessey here Kathryn Bromwich @kathryn42 more galleries With sales of vinyl and print on the up, British artist Mark Vessey celebrates…
December 6, 2017
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Future Historians Probably Won’t Understand Our Internet, and That’s Okay
What’s happening? This has always been an easier question to pose—as Twitter does to all its users—than to answer. And how well we answer the question of what is happening in our present moment has implications for how this current period will be remembered. Historians, economists, and regular old…
December 5, 2017
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We reviewed 60 studies on what makes for a dream job. Here’s what we found.
We all want to find a dream job that’s enjoyable and meaningful, but what does that actually mean? Some people imagine that the answer involves discovering their passion through a flash of insight, while others think that the key elements of their dream job are that it be easy and highly paid. We’ve…
November 30, 2017
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Orson Welles on Cold Reading
Orson Welles discusses the nature of ‘cold reading’, a type of analysis used by many phony psychics and fortune tellers to trick their customers into thinking they indeed do have special powers, and how some can become so skilled at it that they actually trick themselves into believing they are…
November 27, 2017
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She was the PTA mom everyone knew. Who would want to harm her?
Framed: Chapter 1 The cop wanted her car keys. Kelli Peters handed them over. She told herself she had nothing to fear, that all he’d find inside her PT Cruiser was beach sand, dog hair, maybe one of her daughter’s toys. They were outside Plaza Vista School in Irvine, where she had watched her…
October 31, 2017
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This Startup’s Artificial Voice Sounds Almost Indistinguishable From A Human’s
Photo via Voysis Voysis founder Peter Cahill An Irish startup has claimed a breakthrough in text-to-speech synthesis that improves on public demonstrations by Google’s DeepMind and Facebook. The result is an artificial voice that lacks many of the glitches in intonation heard from digital assistants…
October 25, 2017
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Empathy and “Orange Is the New Black”
The show’s theme has always been the refusal to see anyone as inhuman. Credit Illustration by Mikkel Sommer Nearly every moment of the fourth season of “Orange Is the New Black”—which this review discusses in full—feels refracted in a small sequence in the finale, a bubble of joy floating up through…
September 22, 2017
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The Challenges of Male Friendships
Photo Credit Paul Rogers Personal Health Jane Brody on health and aging. Christopher Beemer, a 75-year-old Brooklynite, is impressed with how well his wife, Carol, maintains friendships with other women and wonders why this valuable benefit to health and longevity “doesn’t come so easily to men.”…
August 31, 2017
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The Great A.I. Awakening
Prologue: You Are What You Have Read Late one Friday night in early November, Jun Rekimoto, a distinguished professor of human-computer interaction at the University of Tokyo, was online preparing for a lecture when he began to notice some peculiar posts rolling in on social media. Apparently Google…
August 20, 2017
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When Products Talk – The New Yorker
As startups and big tech companies alike plunge into developing chat bots with smart, defined personalities, the A.I. world of the 2013 movie “Her” doesn’t seem so far away. Credit PHOTOGRAPH BY WARNER BROS. PICTURES / EVERETT Last month, the Washington Post reported on a surprising new job in…
July 18, 2017
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Yes, There Have Been Aliens – NYTimes.com
Gérard DuBois LAST month astronomers from the Kepler spacecraft team announced the discovery of 1,284 new planets, all orbiting stars outside our solar system. The total number of such “exoplanets” confirmed via Kepler and other methods now stands at more than 3,000. This represents a revolution in…
June 15, 2017
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Braun SK55
Braun SK55 | 1963 | Dieter Rams & Hans Gugelot If you’re a designer, you already know what this is. This has always been one of my favorite design icons and in my opinion, is the most crucial product to Braun’s history. Sure, you could argue that something like the Thonet No. 14 chair is a more…
May 13, 2017
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Maria Bamford’s Melancholic, Hallucinogenic, and Very Funny “Lady Dynamite” – The New Yorker
Despite its serious themes, Maria Bamford’s “Lady Dynamite” is stuffed with jokes, visual and verbal, to the point that it’s like a tottery Jenga game. Credit Courtesy Netflix There’s a great song in the musical “[title of show]” that asserts, “I’d rather be nine people’s favorite thing / Than a…
April 10, 2017
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This is what causes people to purchase. — Jobs To Be Done
This Causes People to Purchase They have a Job to get Done. Your product gets hired to help customers solve a Job to be Done. That’s what causes purchase and use. It’s that simple. But, it’s also that complicated. As innovators, we are always chasing that question: What will cause someone to buy? To…
March 8, 2017
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Is Science Kind of a Scam?
Credit Illustration by Oliver Munday What makes science science? The pious answers are: its ceaseless curiosity in the face of mystery, its keen edge of experimental objectivity, its endless accumulation of new data, and the cool machines it uses. We stare, the scientists see; we gawk, they gaze. We…
February 3, 2017
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The Dangerous Lesson of GMO Science Denial.
The Dangerous Lesson of GMO Science Denial. “There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.” George Carlin A massive National Academy of Science review of hundreds of studies on genetically engineered (GE) food crops , comparing the US, where the crops have been used heavily…
January 1, 2017
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This is how fascism comes to America
Robert Kagan is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and a contributing columnist for The Post. The Republican Party’s attempt to treat Donald Trump as a normal political candidate would be laughable were it not so perilous to the republic. If only he would mouth the party’s “conservative”…
December 3, 2016
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Probability: A UX Designer’s Second-Best Friend | UX Magazine
“Design for the probable case; provide for the possible case.” – Alan Cooper Las Vegas was built by people who understand probability – and paid for by people who don’t. In UX design, applying a solid sense of probability often determines whether we come out ahead or behind. So, if a solid command…
November 25, 2016
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America Has Never Been So Ripe for Tyranny
Democracies end when they are too democratic. And right now, America is a breeding ground for tyranny. Illustration by Zohar Lazar As this dystopian election campaign has unfolded, my mind keeps being tugged by a passage in Plato’s Republic . It has unsettled — even surprised — me from the moment I…