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In the late 1990s, a lonely teenager on the West Coast fired up his dial-up modem to find someone to talk to. He was a shy kid, too introverted to feel fully comfortable in the real world, and he logged on to the early internet’s bare-bones web forums for a sense of connection. via Pocket

The organization’s leadership is focussed on external threats, but the real crisis may be internal.

Scandals. Backstabbing. Resignations. Record profits. Time Bombs. In early 2018, Mark Zuckerberg set out to fix Facebook. Here's how that turned out.

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You learn to believe in your child’s existence. What happens when she’s killed by a piece of your daily environment?

The New York Times is launching an ongoing examination of privacy. We’ll dig into the ideas, history and future of how our information navigates the digital ecosystem and what’s at stake.

Quality is overrated. Disheartened by all of the noise in the mobile ecosystem, speakers Alex Schwartz and Ziba Scott set out to determine the lowest bar for success on App Stores. They flooded the market with over 1,500 auto-generated slot...

Our subconscious programming — developed through our youth and on into adulthood — plays a huge role in how we survive or thrive at work. Here’s how your “attachment style” may affect your office relationships.

Millions of Americans have taken antidepressants for many years. What happens when it’s time to stop?

Five years ago, Lenz (one of our co-founders) wrote : At iwantmyname everyone earns the same. This sounds strange to many and I get asked a lot of questions how…

‘Time management’ is not a solution — it’s actually part of the problem. Erik Winkowski March 28, 2019 A few years ago during a break in a leadership class I…

AS WE SIT, THE ENDLESS SPINNING in our heads reveals to us our strategy. If we label our thoughts long enough we’re going to recognize our strategy. It’s the strategy itself that generates the buzzing thoughts. Only one thing in

Why quieting the ego strengthens your best self

Designers Carly Ayres and Andrew Herzog of HAWRAF INTL. talk about accessibility, flowcharts, the importance of finding inspiration outside of design circles, and why they're not afraid to highlight privilege or discuss process.

For more than a century we’ve counted on calories to tell us what will make us fat. Peter Wilson says it’s time to bury the world’s most misleading measure

“Human capital” is at the center of our economy. Thanks to Rick Singer, we now know its going rate.

I think I know more than investors do because they keep calling me for advice pic.twitter.com/sRsSCWPHXG— Dr Sarah Taber (@SarahTaber_bww) March 11, 2019

An archive of the best articles from Marc Andreessen’s now defunct blog

Suppose I asked you to generate a random sequence of ones and zeroes. Every time you add another 1 or 0 to the sequence, I am going to predict your next choice. Do you think you can make your sequence random enough that I fail to guess more than ~50% correct? Read this post to find out. Spoiler — you are not so random.

Running around getting things done is always better, right? Wrong. Have you tried lowering your speed limit?

For the college-educated elite, work has morphed into a religious identity—promising transcendence and community, but failing to deliver.

Twenty-five years ago, Sven Birkerts published “The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age.” Have his fears and projections come to pass?

For years, designers have been using grids to bring order to pages. Grids as a design tool are associated with the Swiss who formalized it as a way of thinking about layout in the 1940s, according to…

“The commons is the cultural and natural resources accessible to all members of a society,” quoth Wikipedia, “held in common, not owned privately.” We live in an era of surveillance capitalism in a symbiotic relationship with advertising technology, quoth me. And I put it to you that privacy is not just a virtue, or a […]

Working with clients is hard, but—like any healthy relationship—it starts with a strong sense of self worth and confidence in your value.

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