Overcoming Bias : The World Forager Elite

My last post was on Where’s My Flying Car? , which argues that changing US attitudes created a tsunami of reluctance and regulation that killed nuclear power,…

Star Trek: The Motion Picture | Typeset In The Future

Star Trek: The Motion Picture named a space shuttle, created a custom font pack, and relaunched the swashbuckling futurism of the greatest of all space franchises: Star Trek.

A wargame designer defines our four possible civil wars.

It matters which one we get.

2020 Bundles

The state of bundles in 2020: Netflix, Disney, Amazon, Microsoft, and Apple. Plus, Microsoft’s purchase of Zenimax.

Bruce Springsteen: Ghosts, Guitars, and the E Street Shuffle - Rolling Stone

How Bruce Springsteen confronted death, saw Clarence in his dreams, and knocked out a raw and rocking new album with the world’s greatest bar band

Scientists Found Phosphine on Venus—A Possible Hint of Life | WIRED

A simple molecule floating in Venus's atmosphere is now humans' best bet for finding companionship in the galaxy.

Mysterious carvings and evidence of human sacrifice uncovered in Shimao

The stones didn’t give up their secrets easily. For decades, villagers in the dust-blown hills of China’s Loess Plateau believed that the crumbling rock walls…

The battle over dyslexia

The long read: It was once a widely accepted way of explaining why some children struggled to read and write. But in recent years, some experts have begun to question the existence of dyslexia itself

How Work Became an Inescapable Hellhole

Instead of optimizing work, technology has created a nonstop barrage of notifications and interactions. Six months into a pandemic, it's worse than ever.

Uncertain Times Call for Trusted Facts

Under Deconstruction: The State of Shopify’s Monolith

Ruby on Rails is a great framework for rapidly building beautiful web applications that users and developers love. But if an application is successful, there’s usually continued investment, resulting in additional features and increased overall system complexity. Shopify’s core monolith has over 2.8 million lines of Ruby code and 500,000 commits. Rails doesn’t provide patterns or tooling for managing the inherent complexity and adding features in a structured, well-bounded way. That’s why, over...

The software engineering lifecycle: How we built the new Dropbox Plus

Ivo Zdarsky Is Waiting Out the End Times in His Own Utah Ghost Town - Atlas Obscura

The Iron Curtain escapee, DIY aviator, and thriving entrepreneur is ready for anything.

Roundtable

The trends and tactics of the nineteenth-century wellness industry.

Nassim Taleb: A Definition of Antifragile and its Implications

Here's the definition of Antifragility from Nassim Taleb. While a lot of people use the word, not many people know what it means and its implications.

The 'serendipity mindset': how to make your own luck | Life and style | The Guardian

‘See something in the unexpected and connect the dots.’Illustration: Eva Bee D r Christian Busch has had a lucky life. He narrowly escaped a catastrophic car…

Zoom Towns And The New Housing Market For The 2 Americas

One America is living in a housing boom. The other needs support from the government or family for an affordable place to live.

The Secret to a Great Planning Process — Lessons from Airbnb and Eventbrite

'Coffin confessor' paid to drop bombshells from beyond the grave at clients' funerals

Clients "knocking on death's door" engage this private investigator to crash their funerals and reveal awkward secrets some mourners would prefer remain eternally buried.

Books I Will Not Write #8: The Year of the Conspiracy - Charlie's Diary

Global viral pandemics, insane right-wing dictator-wannabes trying to set fire to the planet, and climate change aside, I'm officially declaring 2020 to be the…

How Three Tokelau Teenagers Survived Being Lost in the Ocean for 51 Days

Three boys. One boat. Fifty-one days at sea. A harrowing story of unlikely survival.

Hundreds of Americans Planted 'Chinese Mystery Seeds'

What I learned by reading thousands of internal emails about the Chinese mystery seeds.

One step beyond: the ascent of mountain runner Kílian Jornet

M ore days than not, Kílian Jornet runs up a mountain. A short run will take him between one and four hours. A long run will take him five or more. Usually…

Moore: Mike Budenholzer and the Complexities of Coaching Adjustments

Matt Moore explains why some coaches, specifically Mike Budenholzer, don't make adjustments in the NBA playoffs

Rick Rubin: My Life in 21 Songs

From LL Cool J to Kanye West, Slayer to Tom Petty, Johnny Cash to Dixie Chicks, the producer reflects on more than three decades of challenging music’s status quo.

The Myth of the Great Bike Savior - Patagonia

Outdoor recreation can be a lifeline for rural economies, but the industry has also benefited from the erasure of Indigenous peoples from their lands.

Parag and Ayesha Khanna on Artificial Intelligence in Singapore to Coding with their Kids | Tatler Singapore

He is the bestselling author of The Future is Asian and Connectography while she is the co-founder and CEO of artificial intelligence consultancy firm Addo AI.

We’re Not in This Together

One of the most common misconceptions concerning climate change is that it produces, or even requires, a united humanity.

How to Destroy ‘Surveillance Capitalism’

Illustrations: Shira Inbar Editor’s Note: Surveillance capitalism is everywhere. But it’s not the result of some wrong turn or a rogue abuse of corporate power…

We Don’t Know How to Warn You Any Harder. America is Dying.

We Survivors of Authoritarianism Have a Message America Needs to Hear: This is Exactly How it Happens, and It’s Happening Here.