If the universe is indeed run—as users of cutting-edge psychedelic drugs will occasionally suggest—by nine-foot-tall interdimensional locusts with lawn-mower voices and glittering, loveless minds, who
This story appears in the August 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. Nearly every night of our lives, we undergo a startling metamorphosis. Our brain profoundly alters its behavior and purpose
I walked past the stage and sat down at the bar, the neon lights illuminating my pink teddy, shadowed eyes, and crimson lips. I ordered my first drink of the night and took inventory of the club. Ther
Apple recently marked the 10th anniversary of the App Store—its online vehicle for distributing iPhone and iPad applications—with a retrospective on its website , noting that developers have earned mo
Just because they’re fun to solve doesn’t mean they’re relevant 9 min read · Jul 21, 2018 -- Ox powered boat — sourced from the Wikimedia Foundation on Pintrest You can read this article on my own blo
Chances are that you’ve never heard of General Magic, but in Silicon Valley the company is the stuff of legend. Magic spun out of Apple in 1990 with much of the original Mac team on board and a bold n
Interface #1: Calculator Button This is a button that mimics the behavior of buttons in the iOS calculator app. Key Features Highlights instantly on touch. Can be tapped rapidly even when mid-animatio
The finale of Steven Spielberg’s Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) sees the quest for the Holy Grail reach a dramatic conclusion. The film’s villain – the Nazi collaborator and artifact hunter
Inhuman Resources July 12, 2018 Inhuman Resources July 12, 2018 Mike Picarella wanted to protect a co-worker from humiliating sexual harassment. He didn't expect his own life to be destroyed in the pr
Credit... Eleni Kalorkoti Opinion Motherhood in the Age of Fear Women are being harassed and even arrested for making perfectly rational parenting decisions. Credit... Eleni Kalorkoti By Ms. Brooks is
Yes I am very late to this. But I am also very annoyed so I am adding my voice to the now sustained chorus of complaints about Apple’s redesigned Mac keyboard: How very much it sucks. Truly, madly, deeply. This is the keyboard that Apple “completely redesigned” in 2015, in its quest for size zero…
Some years ago, I had a colleague who would frequently complain that he didn’t have enough to do. He’d mention how much free time he had to our team, ask for more tasks from our boss, and bring it up
Vacation is exhausting when you go places. It’s often a time of awkward experiences—donning bathing suits, struggling with foreign tongues, trying to have fun where you know no one and none of the cus
A rooster crows and awakens my family at the farm where we are staying for a long weekend. The air is crisp, and stars twinkle in the sky as the Sun rises over the hill. We walk to the barn, where hor
So excited to finally share the fruits of an investigation I've been obsessing over for months. The fruits themselves are..... bittersweet https://t.co/PXZ5Wk7g4J
In his wonderful book The Evolution of Useful Things , the author and civil engineer Henry Petroski shares one of the most famous case studies in the history of design: Before it was destroyed by fire
When I moved down to London , on the morning of my 18th birthday, to become a young, idiotic, yet hopefully noble lady rock critic, I had a bin bag full of clothes, a laptop, a dog, and one terrible f
You can't tell people anything This is sort of Morningstar’s version of Murphy’s Law. When we were assembling our catalog of the things we had learned over the past decade and a half in this business,
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Ever had a woman remind you to call your mom on her birthday? Ever had a woman remember to send around a card for the boss’s birthday, then proceed to buy the card, pass it around, double check that e
Consumer Electronics, an Origin Story Sometime in late 1971, Peter Nelson, from Hewlett-Packard’s Corporate Relations Department in Palo Alto, enlisted Karen Cambria, from the Automatic Measurement Di
You and Kara are designers of a product at a mid-size company. Kara wants to add an icon to your product. You think the icon is wrong. You’ve added similar icons in the past and they were complete fai
Small tweaks to incentivize engaging with a book’s content. 5 min read · Apr 13, 2018 -- I’ve been using Kindles on and off ever since they launched. Our relationship has been contentious but I’ve alw
Guys and videogames. There they sit: asses glued to the couch, eyes transfixed, their attention leaving the screen only for as long as it takes to tell you about their latest achievements — how no, yo
6 min read · Apr 15, 2018 -- I don’t remember a version of me that isn’t anxious. There is no point in my memory where I can look back and sense a calm, unburdened mind — certainly I have a thousand h
Photo-Illustration: Stevie Remsberg/Getty Images Self/Reflection is a week of stories on the Cut about how we feel, versus how we look. Here, a woman in her late 50s tells Alexa Tsoulis-Reay how her l
Rick and Morty is a cartoon for adults that airs as part of the Cartoon Network’s after-dark Adult Swim lineup. If you have an incredibly high IQ , maybe you’ve watched it. Otherwise, you may have fir
Hi, welcome to the team. I’m so glad you are here at $COMPANY. It’s going to take a solid quarter to figure this place out. I understand the importance of first impressions, and I know you want to get
At some point in your leadership career, you’ll need to care about performance management. My first bit of advice is the hardest: don’t ever let yourself think or say the words “performance management
At Apple, design is the driving force, with manufacturing and engineering fully dialed in to support that vision. In practice, that means that Apple’s designers make choices nobody else would be able to make. The amount of custom CNC milling that goes into Apple’s unibody laptops is incredibly hard…
Yesterday, Google co-founder and CEO Larry Page let investors know that he wouldn't be able to attend every single earnings call as he has made a habit of in the past. Some speculated that it's becaus
Tim Wu, writing for The New Yorker “News Desk”, has done us all a grand favor by penning a sort of grand unified theory on how the “open beats closed” axiom can be true in the face of Apple’s decade-l
“When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.” — Max Planck, German quantum theorist and Nobel Prize winner There are two primary mental shifts that occur in the lives of
Published in Learning By Shipping · 8 min read · Feb 12, 2018 -- The following was shared as a twitter thread. Here’s the medium version. Screenshot from twitter (by author) 1/ Apple has a software pr
Punctuation, largely invisible and insignificant for normal people, as it should be, is a highly personal matter for writers. Periods, commas, colons, semi-colons: in their use or non-use and in their
Who decides what men are? Is it decided by decree? By popular vote? Or is it decided by you, individual men? A little while back I was talking with a man I knew about consent. He was commenting on an article I had shared earlier that day on men who get women drunk in the hopes that it will increase…
New blog post: "Network latencies and speed of light" https://t.co/ETlI4keBp1 they aren't as good as it gets, but they're closer than you probably think
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