You collaborate with a lot of people, often over a long period of time. How do you find a good collaborator, and what do you think makes a good collaboration? There’s a different story with every collaborator. It’s really like friendships. Each friend you have or each person that’s in your life,…

SAN FRANCISCO — I’ve gone gray, and it’s great. In an effort to break my smartphone addiction, I’ve joined a small group of people turning their phone screens to grayscale — cutting out the colors and going with a range of shades from white to black. First popularized by the tech ethicist Tristan…

At 10pm last Thursday night, Jonny Gould took to the stage in the ballroom at London’s Dorchester Hotel. “Welcome to the most un-PC event of the year,” he roared. Mr Gould — who presented Channel 5’s Major League Baseball show — was there to host a charity auction, the centrepiece of a secretive…

Great strides: Shannon and Cheriece Hylton have been tipped by Andy Murray as Britain’s brightest sprinting stars.Photograph: The Observer W hen the Hylton sisters were teenagers – they are now 21 – they were netball ninjas, terrorising the courts of southeast London. “It was our second favourite…

A year ago, before the investor lawsuits and the federal investigations, before the mass resignations, and before the connotation of the word “Uber” shifted from “world’s most valuable startup” to “world’s most dysfunctional,” Uber’s executives sat around a hotel conference room table in San…

1. Somebody, somewhere does something bad. Tom Phillips / BuzzFeed / Getty Images 2. Somebody spots the bad thing. Tom Phillips / BuzzFeed / Getty Images 3. People quickly pick up on the bad thing. Tom Phillips / BuzzFeed / Getty Images 4. Tweets about the bad thing start to go viral. Tom Phillips /…

Every hardcore band you loved in the '80s and beyond, from Black Flag to Minutemen to Fugazi, had one unfortunate thing in common: Nazi skinheads occasionally stormed their concerts, stomped their fans, gave Hitler salutes in lieu of applauding, and generally turned a communal experience into one…

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L-r: Dom McGregor, Steve Bartlett, Hannah Anderson and Katy Leeson at Social Chain’s Manchester offices.Photograph: Gary Calton for the Observer O n a high wall in the corner of Social Chain’s Manchester office, with a look of serene exasperation, Jesus Christ looks down on the sea of millennials…

It’s happened twice in the last 24 hours – and three times in the last week. On Tuesday, grime artist Stormzy made headlines for using the words “faggot”, “fag”, and “proper gay” in tweets sent between 2011 and 2014. Also on Tuesday, YouTuber Jack Maynard left the reality TV programme I’m a…

An airplane is the perfect, and perhaps the only, place to actually read the globe-trotting lifestyle magazine founded in 2007 by Tyler Brûlé, a Canadian editor and erstwhile war correspondent. Its logo, an “M” with a twisted loop inscribed in a circle, lurks at airport terminal bookstores all over…

Illustration: Maya Robinson/Vulture A few weeks after the release of Kendrick Lamar’s “Humble,” the hard-charging lead single on his fourth album Damn. , the song landed at No. 1 on Billboard ’s streaming chart. It’s been on the chart ever since, never falling below No. 3 as users have played it…

You can (mostly) survive without Google, Facebook, PayPal and the others. Here are the pros and cons of the alternatives. I’ll just say this up front. If you’re trying to ditch the prevailing technologies in favor of those that are more secure and less exploitative, you’ll have to accept a level of…

http://bit.ly/2y26HdC Warren Buffett is undoubtedly considered one of the greatest investors of all times. His empire, Berkshire Hathaway, is worth $355 billion, an increase of 1,826,163 percent since 1964 when Buffett took over. He owns (or owns big chunks) of some of the biggest brands in the…

August15, 2017 19 min read This story appears in the September 2017 issue of Entrepreneur . Subscribe » This article is included in Entrepreneur Voices on Growth Hacking , a new book containing insights from more than 20 contributors, entrepreneurs, and thought leaders. On a Thursday afternoon in…

O n June 14, 2014, the State Council of China published an ominous-sounding document called "Planning Outline for the Construction of a Social Credit System". In the way of Chinese policy documents, it was a lengthy and rather dry affair, but it contained a radical idea. What if there was a national…

By ANDREW JACOBS and MATT RICHTEL Photographs by WILLIAM DANIELS for The New York Times SEPT. 16, 2017 Ler em português Leer en español FORTALEZA, Brazil — Children’s squeals rang through the muggy morning air as a woman pushed a gleaming white cart along pitted, trash-strewn streets. She was making…

Share this Share this... Facebook Jared O’Mara has just addressed a meeting of the Parliamentary Labour Party when I meet him in his office in the Houses of Parliament. It was, undoubtedly, the most uncomfortable and unpleasant meeting of his four month long Parliamentary career. And he deserved it…

“If they drop the bomb, you got 20 minutes to get here,” says André 3000. “We’re gonna need a whole lotta water to make it for two weeks.” We’re in the third-floor sub-basement of André Benjamin’s apartment building in downtown New York. André tells me that to survive a nuclear event, you have to be…

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Walter Isaacson: By the Book

An interview I gave that I think you’ll enjoy as I talk about reading, mental models, investing, learning and more. *** Shane Parrish is the curator for the popular Farnam Street Blog, an intellectual hub of curated interestingness that covers topics like human misjudgment, decision making,…

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A manifesto That’s what I’m talking about When I was around 32 years old, I made the decision to leave full time employment and work for myself — my aim was to be a creative; to make my life by making content. For me, this vocation represented something worthy and authentic — the 21st century…

‘Some of the fetishes are crazy, because they’re just so normal’: producers Dan and Rhiannon of Anatomik Media.Photograph: Bradley Meinz for the Guardian I am on the set of the porn film Stepdaughter Cheerleader Orgy. There’s a little trouble outside. The director, Mike Quasar, is trying to shoot an…

"I feel like I’ve always been a pretty raw and open nerve."-Ted Leo Mindy Tucker Ted Leo and the Pharmacists are playing tonight at the Crocodile at 8pm, in support of his fantastic new record, The Hanged Man . I wrote a short preview of the show in The Stranger 's online music section last week,…

‘A charity like Schistosomiasis Control Initiative that runs programmes against parasitic worms has a far wider impact than training a dog for a single blind person.’Photograph: PA G iving to charity goes up at Christmas time. Many of us, secretly repulsed by our gluttonous orgy of collective…

T he invention of the chilled packaged sandwich, an accessory of modern British life which is so influential, so multifarious and so close to hand that you are probably eating one right now, took place exactly 37 years ago. Like many things to do with the sandwich, this might seem, at first glance,…

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To hear the Christian right tell it, President Trump should be a candidate for sainthood — that is, if evangelicals believed in saints. “Never in my lifetime have we had a Potus willing to take such a strong outspoken stand for the Christian faith like Donald Trump,” tweeted Franklin Graham, the son…

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But in fact, Netflix’s extreme personalization goes even deeper than that. According to a new post by Netflix itself , the company goes so far as to customize the artwork you see for films and shows based upon what you’ve clicked in the past. Yes, that means that you and I may see at least nine…