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…

Analyse a story or script, and you can break down the narrative into parts: exposition, inciting incident, rising action, conflict, climax, falling action, and resolution. Sex is much the same. Yet whether it’s a story or intercourse, we often focus our attention on the parts that bring us to climax…

I’m not dead yet. But try telling that to Google. For much of the last week, I have been trying to persuade the world’s most powerful search engine to remove my photo from biographical details that belong to someone else. A search for “Rachel Abrams” revealed that Google had mashed my picture from…

Nashville — The idea began in February 2009 over lunch with my friend Elissa, someone I like but rarely see. She walked into the restaurant wearing a fitted black coat with a high collar. “Wow,” I said admiringly. “Some coat.” She stroked the sleeve. “Yeah. I bought it at the end of my no-shopping…

For years, my female friends and I have spoken, with knowing nods, about a sexual interaction we call “the place of no return.” It is a kind of sexual nuance that most women instinctively understand: the situation you thought you wanted, or maybe you actually never wanted, but somehow here you are…

The first time I met Phil, there was instant chemistry between us. It was the spring of 1999, and he was interviewing me to be the costume designer for a play he was directing—his first—for the Labyrinth Theater Company, In Arabia We’d All Be Kings . Even though I’d spent the five years since moving…

Unsplash What matters to an active man is to do the right thing; whether the right thing comes to pass should not bother him. — Goethe Belisarius is one of the greatest yet unknown military generals in all of history. His name has been so obscured and forgotten by history that he makes the under…

Many critics have blithely ignored the long record of charges against Kelly while celebrating his hot-and-horny jams as hypersexualized kitsch. Photograph by Noam Galai / Getty Each day brings news of men who have abused their positions of wealth,fame, and power to engage in sexual harassment and…

In January, Medium founder Ev Williams announced that despite his company’s efforts to better the news industry, it would refocus. The reason? We believe there are millions of thinking people who want to deepen their understanding of the world and are dissatisfied with what they get from traditional…

The Washington Post / Contributor / Getty Images currency manipulation By on Dec 5, 2017 Share If you’re like me, you’ve probably been ignoring the bitcoin phenomenon for years — because it seemed too complex, far-fetched, or maybe even too libertarian. But if you have any interest in a future where…

‘It is eroding the core foundations of how people behave by and between each other,’ says the former Facebook executive Chamath Palihapitiya.Photograph: Toby Melville/Reuters A former Facebook executive has said he feels “tremendous guilt” over his work on “tools that are ripping apart the social…

Photograph by Elinor Carucci for The New Yorker Audio: Kristen Roupenian reads. Margot met Robert on a Wednesday night toward the end of her fall semester. She was working behind the concession stand at the artsy movie theatre downtown when he came in and bought a large popcorn and a box of Red…

As a young child, Caroline Casey was diagnosed with ocular albinism, a genetic condition that severely impairs your vision. She registered blind 20 years ago, and describes seeing the world as if through a thick smear of Vaseline over her eyes. Casey is only able to make out objects when right up…

Once upon a time, long before I began selling my face by the acre for features on VICE dot com, I worked other jobs. There was one in particular that really had an impact on me: writing fake reviews on TripAdvisor. Restaurant owners would pay me £10 and I'd write a positive review of their place,…