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The private and public seductions of the world’s biggest pop neuroscientist.

So you want to be an artist. Do you have to start a TikTok?

Editor’s note: This is a guest post from Patty Smith.

This time, though, developers are speaking out.

Playstack and I recently partnered with Fangamer to create an official Balatro themed playing card deck. I want to talk a little bit about playing cards to explain why we decided to do this instead of a more ‘collectible’ merch idea. Playing cards have always been a part of my life. I don’t think t

Corruption everywhere, even in YouTube's kids content

These are the two most-streamed children's shows. Joe Brumm's personal touch for Bluey trumps Cocomelon's engagement-hacking approach.

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A global network of violent predators is hiding in plain sight, targeting children on major platforms, grooming them, and extorting them to commit horrific acts of abuse.

I once believed university was a shared intellectual pursuit. That faith has been obliterated

The problem with too much consumption is that it can leave us feeling utterly empty inside. Ironically, it creates something: One big void. A small dose of creativity is good for us. It can help us become more present, less anxious, and much more fulfilled. And it doesn't take much to live a creativ

A metascience post of sorts that argues we should take human capital more seriously

In their rush to conform, to obey, are tech industry leaders planning to discriminate against me?

Enterprise sales don't have to be crazy.

Wanna listen to this story instead? Check out this week's Better Offline podcast, "The Man That Destroyed Google Search," available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and anywhere else you get your podcasts. This is the story of how Google Search died, and the people responsible for killing it. The story begins

In the past 12 months my body’s mobility and flexibility went from abysmal, a source of persistent pain impacting my quality of life, to pretty darn good. I’m not about to become a stretching influencer, but after a year of researching, trial and error, and hard work I feel back on track and like I... Continue reading →

I’m going to tell you about how I took a job building software to kill people. But don’t get distracted by that; I didn’t know at the time.

Don't give your true love a partridge, turtledoves, or (especially) French hens

Data on plastic chemicals in Bay Area foods

Being an extrovert at work and introvert in friendship

My colleague Julius par Ploum - Lionel Dricot.

Spotify’s plot against musicians

The emerging golden age of home-cooked software, barefoot developers, and why the local-first community should help build it

What I learned after reading 14 studies about flow state

Credit card rewards are mostly funded out of interchange, a fee paid by businesses to accept cards.

Immerse your Alien RPG sessions with our 4-hour Retro Spaceship Terminal Interfaces ambient video. This compilation features vector images that simulate the ...