This is not just another read on how to succeed. I should know. I spent years plowing through book after book on success. Illustrations by @MikeBowser The problem was that most of what I read didn’t really apply to a 20-something young professional. These books were written by people who were at the…

Share Tweet Share Send Link “Dan” seems at first to perfectly embody that popular object of scorn these days in San Francisco: the privileged tech worker. He’s a developer-turned-manager at a thriving startup, the type of guy you would expect to see dodging protesters at a Google bus stop or…

There is one common practice among successful entrepreneurs to which many of them attribute their wild success. Most of us barely make time for this activity, but entrepreneurs spend hours doing it. What is it? The simple act of reading. Billionaires and Their Books: Why the Rich Love Reading A huge…

Andrew W.K. Photo by DMP [ Editor’s note: Every week, New York City’s own Andrew W.K. takes your life questions and sets you safely down the right path to a solution, a purpose, or — no surprise here — a party. ] Dear Andrew, Since I was very young, I’ve always wanted to be a successful musician. I…

A single mother of two teenage boys loses her job. Then she loses her car. Then her house. Then she can’t pay her bills. When this happened to Michelle Bergeron a few years ago, it was a slow-motion spiral out of control. Her boys took part-time jobs to help. Then, her friends outside Tampa, Fla. —…

Growing up in suburban Connecticut, my mom was the most together person I knew. She has always been extremely articulate, a feminist, over-prepared and confident, with bright red lipstick and a statement scarf. She is 5’11” and a regular wearer of heels. She was an executive at a huge corporation my…

ITV’s Good Morning Britain is encouraging people to upload unfiltered, unedited selfies. Because internet.Photograph: ITV S elfie-esteem might be the worst portmanteau since smartch (smart watch), and it’s definitely worse than phablet (phone and tablet). But selfie-esteem , we are told, is tied to…

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Habits & Routines Habits & Routines The Field Notes designer on building a varied (and successful) creative career. 0 If you asked Aaron Draplin how he gets so much done, he’ll pretty much tell you that he doesn’t know any other way. Outsiders can easily attribute the designer’s success to “hard…

THE FUTURE of the Toronto Blue Jays wakes up in a 1978 Volkswagen camper behind the dumpsters at a Wal-Mart and wonders if he has anything to eat. He rummages through a half-empty cooler until he finds a dozen eggs. "I'm not sure about these," he says, removing three from the carton, studying them,…

While most design objects need to shrink to fit onto the screen of your phone, postage stamps do not—nor do clothing labels, matchbooks, or machine badges. With car insignia, there is slight shrinkage; the same with vintage packaging. But a detail that you might have overlooked on an old object…

Mann: Ted, we are both intimately affected by the issues discussed in Cory Doctorow’s book Information Doesn’t Want to Be Free . I was very apprehensive about how to approach it. I thought, “If I’m going to be reading a bunch of suggestions about how I can tweet for couches to sleep on after shows,…

DZHOKHAR TSARNAEV is facing the death penalty or life in prison for the Boston Marathon bombing. But what if, instead, the maximum prison sentence were just 21 years? That was the sentence that Anders Behring Breivik received in 2012 after killing 77 people, most of them teenagers attending a summer…

Some of the best designs never hit our screens Author and designer Golden Krishna believes that we’re quickly becoming a society that’s obsessed with our screens, and that the companies making and marketing apps aren’t doing us any favors. “Our love for the digital interface is out of control,” he…

T echnology, we are told every week or so, is rewiring our sentences. The open structure of text messaging makes periods seem angry , while its quickness turns formalities like an em dash into signs of marriageability (at least to this woman ). But to see man outpace machine, look no further than…

I realized that my digital life was getting too complex, so I turned off chat. Then I removed myself from a bunch of Slacks. I filtered a number of mailing lists into automated folders, muted some conversations in Gmail, and switched from Gmail to mutt to do some basic inbox management. I…

A teenager trying to take a selfie in front of the Queen in Belfast.Photograph: Peter Macdiarmid/PA O ur social networks have a banality problem. The cultural premium now placed on recording and broadcasting one’s life and accomplishments means that Facebook timelines are suffused with postings…

THIS STORY BEGINS LAST MONTH... Chris Ritter for BuzzFeed I was sitting on my couch in the living room looking at my photo stream, you know, looking for something to Instagram. That's when I noticed a bunch of pictures I hadn't taken. Like, a lot of them. They were mostly of this man taking selfies…

Imagine your goal is to climb the highest mountain. The problem is you are ina foreign land with no map. You might decide to follow what engineers wouldcall a greedy algorithm: at every step you simply take the one that increasesyour elevation the most. You will likely find that you are soon…

Brand | Social Influence | Blog | Twitter Case Studies | 3 min read Written by Rachel May Quin Feb 17, 2015 3:28:51 PM Love was in the air last weekend for couples all over the world, as Valentine's Day approached. With an estimated 91% of Americans planning to splash the cash on their significant…

The Shortcut To Bonding With A Romantic Partner On A Deeper Level From Sam Gosling’s book, Snoop: What Your Stuff Says About You : Arthur Aron, a psychologist at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, is interested in how people form romantic relationships, and he’s come up with an…

How To Be Someone People Love To Talk To When do we really learn good conversation skills? Well, we don’t. We’re just kind of expected to pick them up… And we wonder why people aren’t better communicators. How can you be that person people love to talk to? I’ve posted a lot of research and expert…

As she made the long journey from New York to South Africa, to visit family during the holidays in 2013, Justine Sacco, 30 years old and the senior director of corporate communications at IAC, began tweeting acerbic little jokes about the indignities of travel. There was one about a fellow passenger…

The next time you’re feeling sad and depressed, pay close attention to your posture. According to cognitive scientists, you’ll likely be slumped over with your neck and shoulders curved forward and head looking down. While it’s true that you’re sitting this way because you’re sad, it’s also true…

Crisis Text Line has received five million texts, providing a unique corpus of data. Illustration by Cristiana Coucerio; photographs: Top to Bottom: Nick Vaccaro / The Image Bank / Getty; Anna Eckold / Moment / Getty; Atsushi Yamada / Photodisc / Getty In 2011, a young woman named Stephanie Shih was…

Get off my lawn, Snapchat. Photo from iStock There is no excuse, at this point, for a professional technology writer to be confused by Snapchat. It has something like 200 million active users. It is, by some metrics, the fastest-growing social app in the world. It has been the subject of Wall Street…

I constantly feel pulled between two worlds: one where I’m hyper-connected and one where I’m not. I think about the space in our lives that we increasingly fill with texting, emailing, scrolling, pinning and liking, and I wonder: Is that space important to defend? For me, the answer is yes. When I…

WATCH NOW: Embedded with Al-Qaeda in Syria - http://bit.ly/2ynOxnn The Islamic State, a hardline Sunni jihadist group that formerly had ties to al Qaeda, has conquered large swathes of Iraq and Syria. Previously known as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), the group has announced its…

Get More Done Get More Done When trying to build a rock-solid routine, it is a question of "when" and not "if" you will face an unexpected obstacle. 0 As I sit down to write this, I am in the midst of a streak. I have written every day for the last 373 consecutive days. That consecutive day streak…

I recently finished a gig which entailed looking at and writing about the well-appointed homes of various New Yorkers, which made me eager to do something to make my own home more well-appointed. We have glass front bookcases in the dining room, which doubles as playroom for my two kids, and is also…

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"How a Radical New Teaching Method Could Unleash a Generation of Geniuses." @JoshuaDavisNow, @Wired http://t.co/UlrzIt5W2y #longreads

Meet Mama Hill, who has selflessly dedicated her life to bringing joy to everyone who enters her home. This is a piece of her story. Share this video! http://on.fb.me/17ovaEs Featuring Millicent 'Mama' Hill and SoulPancake correspondent Mariana Van Zeller. Subscribe to SoulPancake for new videos…

Idea Generation 0 About this presentation Inventor Jane ni Dhulchaointigh recounts the roller coaster journey from having a crazy idea about being able to hack everyday objects to the creation and launch of Sugru, an incredible self-setting rubber. Or, as Jane puts it: the six-year process of going…

When Bob Goff answers the phone, it’s a bit of a shock. It shouldn’t be. His phone number is one of the world’s most easily accessible—available at any bookstore in the country. He printed it in the back of Love Does , his best-selling collection of stories about a few ways he’s managed to…

Murakami wakes at 4am. Susan Sontag by 8. Us? Noon-ish. The Daily Routines of Famous Authors http://t.co/BMGf128W (via @brainpicker)

Recently I was going through some old things I had put away for safekeeping, and I found these: Business card and interview tape, circa 1993. In 1993 I interviewed film director Ang Lee before the US premiere of his second movie, “The Wedding Banquet,” at the Seattle International Film Festival (at…

This article was taken from the December 2012 issue of Wired magazine. Be the first to read Wired's articles in print before they're posted online, and get your hands on loads of additional content by subscribing online . Scott Harrison, the founder and president of charity:water , has stolen away…

Typekit is the easiest way to use web fonts. Simple to set up, easy to use, and already trusted by some of the biggest names on the web, Typekit’s library of high-quality web fonts will make your site look great. Interview Describe your path to what you’re doing now as an editor and writer. I…