There's a great Twitter thread from Tom Critchlow that responds to the narrative of the "status game" being played online. In particular,...

Jessica Lessin is founder and editor-in-chief of The Information. “It's very, very hard to predict the winners. A lot of investors try to do this. And I think sometimes where the press gets in trouble is trying to make a call.… It's not always

In 2009, I was in animation school. One thing that our teachers repeatedly emphasized was how fast the field of computer graphics evolves…

My second digital declutter officially ends tomorrow. There's a lot to unpack from this latest declutter, but that will come in time. Thi...

There's a button at the top of the Reddit homepage called "Random." When pressed, the algorithm will serve you up one of the 138,000 subreddits bobbing around the website's depths. We've all found our own languid methods to pass the time during the mounting months of quarantine, and this has been mine. Days and nights, passively logged on, pressing that button over and over again, greeting a new subcommittee of brilliant obsessives and weirdos. Reddit, by its nature, is home to both vast ultra-generalized superboards, (like the self-explanatory r/WorldNews or r/Politics,) and the microscopi...

The joy of the free-diver, the peace of the loon, the patience of the turtle, and a touch of the ingenuity and panache of the great sea explorers (a Jacques Cousteau or a Captain Nemo). Tending my depths, plunging into seas uncharted, dipping into mysterious pools and emerging to share the treasures and tales I find there (and perhaps hiding a few treasure maps of my own).

How did feeling good become a matter of relentless, competitive work; a never-to-be-attained goal which makes us miserable?

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How the networked age is reinventing our careers

Max Barry writes novels, creates web things, runs, and coaches kids' netball.

Reddit discussion with >100 comments here. Summary: in this post I explain why you should start a blog (to help others and to help yourself), what to write about, and how to start it. I hope to persuade you that you should start a blog even if you feel that you have nothing to say and even if almost nobody will read it. What to write about I looked over all of my writing and determined that it all originated from one of the following: I repeatedly gave the same advice to my friends Why You …