The world is often a bummer, but a whole ecosystem of podcasts and Facebook pages have sprung up to assure you that things are actually great. | Continue reading
Companies like Facebook and Google continue to unfairly burden English-speaking workers abroad with their worst kinds of labor. | Continue reading
The Times should know better than to credulously write an entire story around one study funded by its own industry — but they did so anyway. | Continue reading
The cutesy phrase is a staple of home decor, as well as a mantra for tough times. How did that happen? | Continue reading
It’s free and it’s wonderful. | Continue reading
Producing teeny-tiny amounts of garbage is not the pinnacle of environmentally conscious behavior. | Continue reading
Debt isn’t simply a financial burden, as more and more millennials like me are finding out. | Continue reading
Pre-gig economy requirements make renting unnecessarily difficult for New York City freelancers. | Continue reading
Smart locks allow property holders to harass tenants by locking them out, monitor their comings and goings, and more. | Continue reading
It’s the ideal amount of time for all tasks. | Continue reading
David Foster Wallace’s journalism is, in many ways, inaccurate. But he’s hardly the only venerated journalist to have made stuff up. | Continue reading
The company, which is now publicly traded, should really stop saying its drivers aren’t employees. | Continue reading
Seeing your favorite band live will probably cost you more in data than in dollars. | Continue reading
PredictIt, which calls itself “The Stock Market for Politics” combines political punditry with legal gambling. | Continue reading
There’s little data to back up the efficacy of city-, state-, and country-wide reading initiatives. | Continue reading
There is no end to simulators like ‘SimCity’ and ‘Roller Coaster Tycoon’. There is only terrifying perfection. | Continue reading
Why does the looming end of a discount shoe retailer make me so sad? | Continue reading
I was a gifted kid, so how do I deal with being an average adult? | Continue reading
It’s the font we deserve, but is it the one we need right now? | Continue reading
Its butterfly keyboard design has failed, but Apple has yet to substantially admit that it has made a very big mistake. | Continue reading
For an adjunct professor, having a stapler is living the dream. | Continue reading
Tourism is increasingly oriented toward and designed for the rich. How do we make it for everyone? | Continue reading
A sociologist shares stories from members of the new American underclass. | Continue reading
Take a better lesson from philosophy and me, a reformed loudmouth | Continue reading
Its butterfly keyboard design has failed, but Apple has yet to substantially admit that it has made a very big mistake. | Continue reading
Its butterfly keyboard design has failed, but Apple has yet to substantially admit that it has made a very big mistake. | Continue reading
Is there anything more heroic than never giving up no matter how often people say that you suck? No. | Continue reading
In defense of the much-maligned reference book. | Continue reading
Why do people love yelling about random historical figures online and how do we stop it? | Continue reading
Chronic, passive suicidal ideation is like living in the ocean. Let’s start talking about how to tread water. | Continue reading
Chronic, passive suicidal ideation is like living in the ocean. Let’s start talking about how to tread water. | Continue reading
The container designed exclusively for Apple employees | Continue reading
The “private governments” created by companies such as Amazon, Google, and Facebook are as stupid and corrupt as conservatives think our real government is. | Continue reading
Sure, that couch you bought on Wayfair is too uncomfortable to sit on, but at least it looks nice. | Continue reading
Teachers haven’t cracked down because the watches are tricky to police and only a few kids — the richest ones — have them. | Continue reading
Algorithms are so good at racism that it will hopefully become impossible to ignore. | Continue reading
Law-abiding citizens: Please do NOT download. Thank you. | Continue reading
Everyone’s least-favorite social network has a new scheme to beam ads directly onto your phone. | Continue reading
The free stock-trading service puts both retirement planning and recreational gambling in your pocket. | Continue reading
In July, Apple was on its way to becoming the first U.S. company worth a trillion dollars by betting on a system everyone said would keep it small. | Continue reading
Long before Elon Musk, a visionary automaker showed how ugly the American Dream could be. | Continue reading
The vanishing edge pool represents a very public nexus of travel and performative wellness. | Continue reading
A new book argues that words like “innovation” are doing more than telling you who to avoid at parties. | Continue reading
As crazy as it sounds, the way a strong chess player approaches the game can reveal a lot about who they are as a person. By JJ Lang | Continue reading
Not prestige drama, not mindless reality, but something somewhere in the middle. | Continue reading
We were promised better worlds, and all we got was this lousy headset. | Continue reading
The political history of Fred Perry, white supremacy’s favorite athleisure brand | Continue reading
We were promised better worlds, and all we got was this lousy headset. | Continue reading