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Among those involved in David Pokora's so-called Xbox Underground, one would become an informant, one would become a fugitive, and one would end up dead.

On YouTube, there’s a long tail of content that pretty much guarantees the inclusion of every potential human interest. There are skate videos, makeup tutorials, and backyard surgical removals of blackheads. And yet the presentation of a lot of this content — especially when it’s trying to attract a large audience — is remarkably similar. […]

The makers of conversational bots like Alexa and Siri insert unnecessary conversational fillips. "OK, here's what I found..."

The popular media is full of examples of bad leaders in government, academia, and business. But the most common kind of incompetent leader isn’t the ranting, narcissistic sociopath that might immediately come to mind. Rather, it’s the “absentee leader” — those in leadership roles who are psychologically absent from them. These people were promoted into management, and enjoy the privileges and rewards of a leadership role, but avoid meaningful involvement with their teams. Absentee leaders kill engagement and productivity. Research shows that being ignored by one’s boss is more alienating than being treated poorly, and that the impact of absentee leadership on job satisfaction outlasts the impact of both constructive and more overtly destructive forms of leadership. The chances are good, however, that your organization is unaware of its absentee leaders, because they specialize in flying under the radar by not doing anything that attracts attention. Nonetheless, the adhesiveness of their negative impact may be slowly and silently killing your organization.

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The scorekeeper vs. the pitcher-inner.

Breathing life into digital products

Women in their 30s and 40s exhibit a mix of wishful thinking and woeful ignorance when it comes to their fertility. Why?

It’s not that I want Bitcoin holders to suffer, really. As a technologist and entrepreneur, I’m sympathetic to and admiring of risk takers. But as a writer, I enjoy the sheer human-condition-revealing sport. I’m happy to watch other people play video games without playing myself.

In China and Japan, temples may be rebuilt and ancient warriors cast again. There is nothing sacred about the ‘original’

FACEBOOK really is spying on you...

Throughout the life of Orchestra and Mailbox, we have had some form of real-time ambient monitoring of the services. Now that we’ve shut…

A new approach to one of my biggest design weaknesses, using basic color theory, HSL, and Sass.

Patrick Reames had no idea why Amazon.com sent him a 1099 form saying he'd made almost $24,000 selling books via Createspace, the company's on-demand publishing arm. That is, until he searched the site for his name and discovered someone has…

For a long time Michael Harris convinced himself that a childhood spent immersed in old-fashioned books would insulate him from our new media climate, but he was wrong

How communities struggle — and sometimes fail — to stop sexual assault

Introduction This tutorial series will cover the creation of a complete game with Lua and LÖVE. It's aimed at programmers who have some experience but are just starting out with game develo...

'I didn’t start my journal with the idea of recording my progress toward the ultimate truth.' An excerpt from Barbara Ehrenreich's Living with a Wild God.

Dr. Marty Rohringer was ending a graveyard shift at the lone hospital on Saipan, the exceptionally remote U.S. island, when four Chinese men arrived with a…

An interactive guide that introduces and explores waveforms.

Frank Chimero’s Personal Website

Deadlines and daily chaos are the enemy of long-term thinking—we convened to find ways to create space to think