Arriving at the chess board is like entering an eagerly anticipated party. All my old friends are there: the royal couple, their associates, the reassuringly straight lines of noble infantry. I adjust

S occer is boring. One of the misconceptions non-soccer fans have about soccer fans is that we don’t know this. The classic Simpsons parody of a soccer match — “Fast kickin’! Low scorin’! And ties? Yo

Introduction My recent article, The reshaped Mac experience , received a lot of attention judging from the response on Twitter and the WordPress analytics — apparently, among other places, it reached

If Joe Biden wins the White House, and Democrats take back the Senate, there is one decision that will loom over every other. It is a question that dominated no debates and received only glancing disc

A great perk of working with 9to5Mac from age 22 to 30 and counting is the privilege of revisiting writing from years ago with the perspective of time. My first Apple Watch review is something I’ve be

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By Larry Brilliant, W. Ian Lipkin, Lisa Danzig and Karen Pak Oppenheimer March 26, 2021 10:56 am ET The idea of “herd immunity” against Covid-19 has achieved almost magical status in the popular imagi

You think you need a COO. What you really need is an operating philosophy. Published in Craft Ventures · 13 min read · Jul 1, 2020 -- Let’s face it: most startups are a shitshow. Perhaps the most perv

For all the value Jon Stewart delivered as a political satirist and voice of reason during his 16-year-run as the host of ‘‘The Daily Show,’’ it’s quite plausible to suggest that the political and med

Editor’s Note: Surveillance capitalism is everywhere. But it’s not the result of some wrong turn or a rogue abuse of corporate power — it’s the system working as intended. This is the subject of Cory

“Let me be very clear: The scenes of chaos at the Capitol do not reflect a true America. Do not represent who we are,” President-elect Joe Biden said during Wednesday’s siege. “The behavior we witness

We are living in a time of bad metaphors. Everything is fascism, or socialism; Hitler’s Germany , or Stalin’s Soviet Union. Republicans, especially, want their followers to believe that America is on

A few weeks ago during a bout of nostalgia, we launched a new Spotify playlist called Blog Era Hits . That playlist and the songs and artists included (or missed) started a lot of conversations , and

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E ugene Goodman is an American hero. At a pivotal moment on January 6, the veteran United States Capitol Police officer single-handedly prevented untold bloodshed. Staring down an angry, advancing mob

Ted Lasso and his team captain Roy have a quick chat. AppleTV+ When AppleTV+ launched to tepid reviews and audience indifference in late 2019, the streaming service attempted to put its best foot forw

This is Part 3 in a series of articles in which we learn how to use Readwise to establish a reading workflow . In the first section , we learned that the basic components of a reading workflow are cap

sturti/Getty Images About a third of the employees of a regional bank have returned to working onsite, and the president holds a weekly all-staff town hall meeting by videoconference. Employees are en

Updated at 12:07 p.m. ET on February 19, 2021. As a radio broadcaster, Rush Limbaugh, who died yesterday, was a great success: He pioneered his genre, attracted millions of listeners for several decad

The 4 things you should do to make the most out of your next 1-on-1 meeting. You’re not prepared. Or at least that’s what employees think when it comes to one-on-one meetings. In a recent survey we co

Hey! Today I have something different for you. It’s a piece about the weird world of LinkedIn — from celebrity workfluencers to the strange social features that feel out of place. This is a guest essa

Paul Krugman, back in 1998 , was pretty sure he had this Internet thing figured out: The growth of the Internet will slow drastically, as the flaw in “Metcalfe’s law” — which states that the number of

Early last year in the Fox Hills neighborhood of Culver City, California, a man named Wilson Truong posted an item on the Nextdoor social media platform—where users can interact with their neighbors—

Don’t ask for permission, come with intent. I don’t read many business books, but last year I read one that had a profound effect on me: “ Turn The Ship Around ” by L. David Marquet. I guess it’s not

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Last month, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger issued a press release announcing that he had certified the results of the U.S. Senate runoff elections held on January 5. He concluded it wit

Published in Monday Note · 6 min read · Jan 24, 2021 -- by Jean-Louis Gassée Here we go again: Apple is rumored to build an electric and, hopefully, electrifying car. Are the rumors founded? If so, wi

The views expressed in this newsletter are solely my own, and do not represent the views of my employer. Well, they aren’t solely my own, because I’ve stolen most of them from people smarter than me.

Yesterday, a short Twitter thread by the excellent Jeff Johnson caught my eye. Since he often deletes past tweets, I’ll quote the relevant ones here (emphasis mine): The selling point of the Macintosh

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The Coup We Are Not Talking About We can have democracy, or we can have a surveillance society, but we cannot have both. Jan. 29, 2021 Credit... Robert Beatty By Dr. Zuboff, a professor emeritus at Ha

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Illustration by Slate. Images by Getty Images Plus. On Monday, members of the Electoral College are meeting in their respective states to cast their votes to make Joe Biden the 46 th president of the

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