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Fisher feared that we were losing our ability to conceptualize a tomorrow that was radically different from our present. Photograph by Georg Gatsas / Verso Books Mark Fisher was a writer and academic

It’s not too late for summer travel. In the mood for a city beach, some “coastal kitsch,” a cruise? We got you. Want to head farther afield—say, Siberia? Outer space? Explore the special folio on walk

This is part 2 of a 3-part series where I take a look at the design process at some of the world’s top companies. 3M is a global company of scientists, researchers, and marketers with operations in mo

The Age That Women Have Babies: How a Gap Divides America

Last week, Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, asked me to come and see a project he has been working on almost as long as the web itself. It’s a crisp autumn day in Boston, where Berners

6 min read · Oct 4, 2018 -- The internet and near-costless scaling of digital has allowed the concentration of too much power in too few hands. Our systems for accountability can’t or won’t keep up. B

Can a melody provide us with pleasure? Plato certainly thought so, as do many today. But it’s incredibly difficult to discern just how this comes to pass. Is it something about the flow and shape of a

The agile workplace is becoming increasingly common. In a McKinsey survey of more than 2,500 people across company sizes, functional specialties, industries, regions, and tenures, 37 percent of respon

Villa Savoye [Editor’s note: The following is an excerpt from Alain de Botton ‘s new book The Architecture of Happiness .] In the spring of 1928 a Parisian couple named Pierre and Emilie Savoye approa

By Tiago Forte of Forte Labs The history of employment can be summarized as “companies vs. employees.” The history of employment This tug-of-war was always viewed as zero sum: any gain by labor was, b

This post is a transposition of my Fluent talk Becoming a team lead: a survival guide . It’s been edited to better fit a blog post format. If you prefer to see the original format, you can watch the v

The Real Product Market Fit by Michael Seibel 6/27/2016 I often talk to founders who believe they’ve found product/market fit when they haven’t. This is a huge problem because they start hiring people

“The King” is a stirring new documentary that addresses Elvis Presley’s complex cultural legacy and how it figures into our readings of the American Dream—it’s a movie about frontiers, and what it mea

Photo by Layla Burford. Whether you’re learning to meditate or ride a bike, says Ajahn Jayasaro, it’s not about how good you are or how far you get. The point is simply to practice with a sincere and

This is a deeply disturbing time in American history. The basic rights and protections of the country’s most vulnerable are under attack, distrust in every institution — education, science, journalism, and of course, government — is at an all-time high, and every day’s headlines brings new horrors.…

Published in UX Power Tools · 8 min read · Jun 28, 2018 -- I hate to break it to you, but to make it in the UX profession, you have to network . I’ll be the first to admit that I hate large networking

Sarah Perry is a contributing editor of Ribbonfarm. If we hear the metaphor “life is a joke,” our usual inference is a negative one: that a joke is a pitiful and sad thing for life to be, that life sh

George Plimpton and Donald Hall. Donald Hall served as The Paris Review ’s first poetry editor from 1953 to 1961. His vast knowledge of contemporary poetry and demand for excellence helped set the Rev

Artists and scientists throughout history have remarked on the bliss that accompanies a sudden creative insight. Einstein described his realization of the general theory of relativity as the happiest

image via Alexey Kljatov By Tiago Forte of Forte Labs We’ve been told for years now that what our parents and kindergarten teachers told us is not, in fact, true — we are not each and every one of us

Good food, good eating, is all about blood and organs, cruelty and decay. It’s about sodium-loaded pork fat, stinky triple-cream cheeses, the tender thymus glands and distended livers of young animals

There are many practices that have emerged in recent years to accelerate progress at work: daily stand-ups, weekly review meetings, and my favorite – sprints . In this context, a sprint is a set perio

In 2006, inventor Ray Kurzweil released the book The Singularity Is Near (Amazon Affiliate Link) , with a bold prediction that by the year 2049 we’d enter a “technological singularity.” Around that ti

For many, “it’s crazy at work” has become their normal. But why's that? At the root is an onslaught of physical and virtual real-time distractions slicing work days into a series of fleeting work mome

In the Meditating on Psychedelics podcast series my intention is to gain a deeper understanding of the relative merits and dangers of the mixing Buddhist contemplative practice and ritualized psychede

M editators are psychonauts,” says Vincent Horn, a Buddhist teacher and podcaster who has lately explored the common threads in Buddhist and psychedelic communities and practices. “There is that gener

I’ve written about René Girard’s ideas once before , to try my hand at identifying mimetic crises in the world of George R. R. Martin. Today I’d like to apply Girard’s ideas to another world in which

I want to tell you a story today. A sprawling epic mess of a story which began with two histories intersecting awkwardly just over a hundred years ago in a small tribal village nestled in the dense fo

[Note: I have a nagging feeling I’ve spent a few thousand words spelling out something completely obvious. Still, I hope there’s value in actually spelling it out.] It depends on what the meaning of t

It will soon be three months since the Metropolitan Museum of Art instituted its new admissions policy: pay what you wish for New Yorkers and tristate students, a discount for the elderly and groups,

A lot of people are waiting for something dramatic to happen, some line to be crossed, an epic event like the firing of special counsel Robert Mueller III that will allow them to say that now we have

The sweetest sounds I’ve ever heard are still inside my head. — Richard Rodgers We discussed the widespread contempt in which ukulele players are held – traceable, we concluded, to the uke’s all-but-e

Today, the design consultancy Ideo announced that it has acquired Datascope , a Chicago-based data science company. The acquisition is meant to help Ideo, one of the country’s most prominent firms, re

I could have seen it only there, on the waxed hardwood floor of my elementary-school auditorium, because I was young then, barely 7 years old, and cable had not yet come to the city, and if it had, my

Mail to Print page Submit a letter: Email us letters@nybooks.com Reviewed: Scale: The Universal Laws of Growth, Innovation, Sustainability, and the Pace of Life in Organisms, Cities, Economies, and Co

The title is misleading. Kramer and Alstad started writing a book about problems in guru-disciple relationships. However, they realized two things: such problems are partly due to common “spiritual” m