Elizabeth Gilbert’s latest book, Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear , has been called a must-read for anyone hoping to live a creative life. Reviewers have said that it’s completely changed their approach to creating, thanks to Gilbert’s practical advice for demystifying the creative process. As…

Scott Breitenstein has been called an “internet terrorist,” “the worst man on the internet,” and worse. His work has left behind an Everest-size pile of broken relationships, destroyed reputations, and ruined lives. He's been targeted by lawsuits, court orders, vigilante hacker groups, and the…

Get More Done Get More Done Seeking out a mid-task distraction is our subtle way of avoiding life's more vexing questions. 0 If your work depends on finding undisturbed time for deep focus and creative thinking, you know all about the modern curse of distraction. (If you’re never distracted, you’re…

Photographs by Anna Maria Barry-Jester A s the new year begins, millions of people are vowing to shape up their eating habits. This usually involves dividing foods into moralistic categories: good/bad, healthy/unhealthy, nutritious/indulgent, slimming/fattening — but which foods belong where depends…

B lack people cannot time travel. Every comedian has a joke about this. On a July episode of the BuzzFeed podcast Another Round , hosts Tracy Clayton and Heben Nigatu play a game that, they joke, was clearly written by white people because of the multitude of time travel questions. “Only white…

Photo illustration by Lisa Larson-Walker. Photo by Tang Ming Tung/Getty Images. Every time you open Facebook, one of the world’s most influential, controversial, and misunderstood algorithms springs into action. It scans and collects everything posted in the past week by each of your friends,…

Next video in seconds Share "Wine Is Healthy—Isn't It? It Is—No?" Supported by http://www.theatlantic.com/video/index/374280/wine-is-healthy-isnt-it-it-is-no/ If Our Bodies Could Talk Jul 11, 2014 | 40-part series Video by The Atlantic James Hamblin prepares to impress his date with knowledge about…

Hamblin. | Stephen Voss for Capital New York James Hamblin, M.D., is 31, but he looks a decade younger. This was a curse when he worked as a radiologist at the University of California, Los Angeles Medical Center: patients mistook him for a student and doubted his competence. Worse, they remarked on…

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WANT a better 2016? Try thinking more about your impending demise. Years ago on a visit to Thailand, I was surprised to learn that Buddhist monks often contemplate the photos of corpses in various stages of decay. The Buddha himself recommended corpse meditation. “This body, too,” students were…

Paper can make the abstract tangible in a way that digital devices don't. Alejandro Escamilla/Unsplash I confess. I'm a notebook nut. I own dozens and dozens of them. Everything from cheap reporter's notebooks to hand-crafted Italian leather beauties. I wondered: Am I an analog dinosaur, or are…

HARTFORD — “Where did I learn about sexual consent?” Jonathan Kalin was standing before an auditorium of Trinity College freshmen, pressing play on a clip from the movie “Superbad.” The 2007 film, you may recall, tells the story of two schlubby high school friends on a quest to lose their virginity…

You find yourself in a hotel room in a strange city, like a character in the first scene of a videogame. Take a second to get oriented, to remember where fate has delivered you. Seattle. OK. You have come here to meet Ryan Green, who has made a videogame about his young son Joel’s battle with brain…

A 29-year-old man named Juan Carlos Castillo Ponce was renting a basement apartment in the New Jersey city of Elizabeth when he befriended his landlord’s daughters, who were aged three, six and 10. While he lived there between 2000 to 2008, he would take the girls out to dinner, and became a trusted…

Julia Phillips Author Erin Lux Illustrator If you spent from January to November living under a rock, then you’ve emerged at the right moment to sample the best – and worst – the year had to offer. Each December, critics organize the past year into endless lists, ranking the top movies , albums ,…

Email, ughhhh . There is too much of it, and the wrong kind of it, from the wrong people. When people aren’t hating their inboxes out loud, they are quietly emailing to say that they’re sorry for replying so late, and for all the typos, and for missing your earlier note, and for forgetting to turn…

Evan Thomas, the best-selling biographer of Robert F. Kennedy and Dwight D. Eisenhower and the author of a half-dozen other books, has seen those books reviewed over the years by The New Yorker, The Washington Post and The Atlantic. But with the recent publication of his latest work, “Being Nixon: A…

Daniel Dalton / BuzzFeed Two months after I quit drinking, I fell dick-first into a fling with a co-worker at the bar where I collected glasses. She was 21, four years my senior. It was fun at first, but it wasn’t long before my insecurities, and up to 20 phone calls a day, tore it apart. When she…

This post originally appeared at LinkedIn . Follow the author here . Since 2004, Netflix employees have taken as many vacation days as they’ve wanted. They have the freedom to decide when to show up for work, when to take time off, and how much time it will take them to get the job done. As far as I…

So. About Janet. We feel within our rights to call her Janet because it was by that single name that Janet Wolfe — gleeful gadabout, archetypal Gothamite and the longtime executive director of the New York City Housing Authority Symphony — was known to readers of The New Yorker’s “Talk of the Town”…

Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner launched a highly successful email newsletter earlier this year called Lenny.Photograph: Matt Baron E mail newsletters boomed in 2015. The ubiquitous Lena Dunham even got in the game with Lenny , hiring young women writers like Doreen St Félix to produce a magazine-like…

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I grew up lower-middle class on the outskirts of Copenhagen. Anywhere outside of Scandinavia, the socioeconomic label would probably have been ‘poor’, but Danish safety nets and support systems did their best to suspend the facts and offer better. Me in the middle in home-made clothing to go with…

Greg Hochmuth was one of the first software engineers hired at Instagram. He worked on a team in 2012 that developed the first Android app for the slick photo-sharing service. In its first 24 hours, the app was downloaded more than one million times. But Mr. Hochmuth eventually came to realize that…

When I was 13, in the early 1990s, I dug through my parents’ cache of vinyl records from the ’60s and ’70s. We still had a phonograph, so I played some of them, concentrating on the Beatles. Their bigger hits were inescapably familiar, but a number of their songs were new to me. Were I a teenager in…

Late October '14 I woke up driving an eighteen-wheeler 60 miles per hour through a field east of Amarillo, Texas. My partner was screaming as he bounced around in the back; he had just woken up, too. Everything in the truck rattled and shook. Baggage rained down on me from the upper bunk. The view a…

Share this Share this... Facebook Ian MacKaye knows that I cannot look him in the eye. He shows me around a cluttered corner of Dischord House – the storied home of his record label since 1981 – and lets me peek inside the kitchen. The wall behind him rises like a cluttered tomb, enveloping him in a…

Exactly today I haven’t had a single drop of alcohol or coffee in 27 months. A couple of my friends on Facebook & Twitter asked me to write about my experience, so here it is, in a nutshell. > Read the full & updated article on my personal blog (click here)

Stay or Leave? The decision whether one should stay or leave is one of the most consequential and painful any of us ever has to make. On any given day, many millions of people worldwide will be secretly turning the issue over in their minds as they go about their daily lives, their partners beside…

Getty Images Smartphone-loving Adam Gopnik is no technophobe. But there's something stopping him from joining the social media revolution. "I do not twitter, and yet there are thousands who wait for me to tweet." That sentence, which would have been a spoken symptom of madness, a crazy man's…

I tend to get overwhelmed easily. I hate this about myself—mostly because I feel in a constant state of inner conflict, wanting to be a part of every gathering, spend time with every friend, travel to every place in the world and accomplish more and more in my career—and at the same time knowing…

Why Work Is So Much Easier than Love We’re a culture that’s highly attuned to what’s beautiful and moving about love; we know its high points and celebrate its ecstasies in films and songs. By comparison, work is the dull, tedious bit – the thing we have to do to pay the bills. And yet what’s…

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(MacMillan Publishers) Koons Crooks should not be mistaken for your proverbial tech guy, though he may look the part: “relatively young,” wearing a “pair of Neoprene cargo pants and a tattered fleece vest that said ‘Pixelon’ on the left breast.” After all, how many Silicon Valley dwellers could have…

Let me tell you how advertising agencies work. Agencies, by and large, sell hours. Unless they find a way to productise intellectual property or build a clever piece of proprietary technology, agency businesses scale by adding staff as they add clients. Win a client, hire people. Lose a client, fire…

November 5, 2015 Photo by Roman Kruglov Adam Gopnik — Practicing Doubt, Redrawing Faith The wise and lyrical writer Adam Gopnik muses on the ironies of spiritual life in a secular age through the lens of his many fascinations — from parenting, to the arts, to Darwin. He touches on all these things…

ONE evening early this summer, I opened a book and found myself reading the same paragraph over and over, a half dozen times before concluding that it was hopeless to continue. I simply couldn’t marshal the necessary focus. I was horrified. All my life, reading books has been a deep and consistent…

I am taking a year off to experiment with my life. I am attempting to be a living experiment to see what is the outcome of living a life that is as closely aligned to my philosophy, beliefs and values as possible. I want to: learn to love, trust and be present, with people and myself push my own…