Ben Casnocha has been Reid Hoffman’s chief of staff for the past 4 years and shared the following lessons he learned from him: 1. People are complicated and flawed. Root for their better angels. 2. Th
02/14/2011 13 minutes to read In this article No one I know at Microsoft asks those godawful "lateral-thinking puzzle" interview questions anymore. Maybe someone still does, I don't know. But rumour h
Once seen as a necessary skill only for marketing, PR and sales types, professional networking is now being recognized as an essential skill for just about every occupation . So what is networking? Si
Q: So what’s a full stack startup? You’ve mentioned that it’s a new, important trend, and a pattern of startups we’ve been seeing over the past couple of years. Chris Dixon: The old approach startups
Harmony in chaos, and the eternal now. Ariel Kalma at home in the 1970s. Photo courtesy of RVNG Intl. Never one to eschew opportunity, French-born Ariel Kalma has been following serendipitous roads to productive musical and spiritual beginnings since the 1970s. Rarely remaining in one place for…
By | Jan. 12, 2015 | 11:00 AM For over a decade, multi-instrumentalist Jefre Cantu-Ledesma has charted a wayward course that’s strayed through many different genres, labels, bands, and geographic locations. He might be best associated with the Bay Area’s fertile experimental music scene, where he…
Published in The Message · 6 min read · Jan 28, 2015 -- As Google abandons its past, Internet archivists step in to save our collective memory Google wrote its mission statement in 1999, a year after
Today's selection -- from Furious Cool by David Henry. Dick Gregory was a brilliant, pioneering black comedian who was among the first to break the color barrier in nightclubs: "Dick Gregory, along with Nipsey Russell, Bill Cosby, and Godfrey Cambridge, belonged to a new generation of black…
With each album she makes, Björk immerses us in a fantastical universe of her own design. Now, on Vulnicura , she’s letting us in to her world—though it is not necessarily one of her own choosing. The
It took me a long time to land on a title for this particular blog post since semantically nothing sounded too appropriate or “clean” enough for my liking. Contextually, I’m not starting over with Twi
Recently I wrote something similar for Twitter where I gave an overview of how I’d strategically and tactically leverage the social service if I were to start new (and from scratch) – I got a lot of g
From the inside, the National Centers for Environmental Prediction looked like a cross between a submarine command center and a Goldman Sachs trading floor. Twenty minutes outside Washington, it consi
Noah Brier Contributor Noah Brier is the co-founder of Percolate, a New York-based start-up that is transforming marketing using technology. He has been recognized as one of the 50 most creative peopl
B efore Bruce Pavitt founded one of the most influential record labels of the last 25 years and signed Nirvana, Sub Pop existed as a fanzine and then a column in the Seattle newspaper The Rocket. He w
Our new issue on the 20th anniversary of the Iraq War is out now. Subscribe today for just $20 to get it in print! Silvio Berlusconi Was the Iconic Political Figure of Our Times David Broder When Sina
Another week, another few design meetups—it's lovely chatting with other designers in the flesh. Today I met a graphic designer looking to make the switch to "UI/UX design." They certainly weren't the first, nor will they be the last; I found myself answering the same questions I've answered in…
The first things you see when walking into David Byrne's lower Manhattan office are his bicycle -- he really does ride to work -- and the Howard Finster original painting, which is almost identical to
We sent William Gibson to Singapore to see whether that clean dystopia represents our techno future. "It's like an entire country run by Jeffrey Katzenberg," the producer had said, "under the motto 'B
A northern-Italian miller in the sixteenth century, known as Menocchio, literate but not a member of the literary élite, held a number of unconventional theological beliefs. He believed that the soul
I. “That was the beginning of the sangha ” Eido Shimano, a Zen Buddhist monk from Japan, arrived at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport on December 31, 1964, New Year’s Eve. He was 32 yea
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William J. Bratton and George L. Kelling It has saved countless New York lives—most of them minority—cut the jail population, and reknit the social fabric. Winter 2015 Recent tragic incidents involving the New York City Police Department (NYPD)—including the summer 2014 death of Eric Garner, who was…
Kate Greenaway’s Mother Goose or the Old Nursery Rhymes (1881) was the first publication of “Ring Around the Rosie” in English. Her illustration was published in 1881 and is therefore in the public do
Contributor on 12.19.14 in Features ‘In the last three years, David Lowery has become perhaps most the important and ardent spokesperson for artist rights in the digital era. Who is he?’ In an instant, David Lowery realizes how best to explain his caustic reputation. “Have you ever heard this…
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Reacting to the Sony Hack First we thought North Korea was behind the Sony cyberattacks. Then we thought it was a couple of hacker guys with an axe to grind. Now we think North Korea is behind it agai
R elationship problems. Everybody has them. And sometimes you have them over and over and over. Most of the people giving advice don’t know the research. So where are the real answers? I decided to ca
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British Regulator Urges Home Births Over Hospitals for Uncomplicated Pregnancies LONDON — Reversing a generation of guidance on childbirth, Britain’s national health service on Wednesday advised healt
Around the time he graduated high school in the mid ’90s, Steve Gunn didn’t exactly have the most catholic musical tastes. Like many of his skateboarding cohorts in a Philadelphia suburb, he listened
T he first rule of Art Club? Don’t talk about how you run Art Club – that is, don’t talk about your risks, your losses and definitely don’t discuss your eccentric shortcuts or the expenditures that ul
T he first thing you notice about Camden, New Jersey, is that pretty much everyone you talk to has just gotten his or her ass kicked. Detroit’s Debt Crisis: Everything Must Go Instead of shaking hands
Rhyme is the rock on which thou art to wreck. I’d say that in high school. I’d think it. I’d fear it. Poesy is itself an intimidating word. The lexicon is no more inviting: iambs, pentameter, feet, tr
Published in 500ish · 2 min read · Nov 3, 2014 -- I have a little “hack” for writing that I think a lot of people use to some extent as well — even if they don’t realize it. Before I write most things
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"The Other America" Speech by Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. Grosse Pointe High School - March 14, 1968 Rev. Dr. Harry Meserve, Bishop Emrich, my dear friend Congressman Conyers, ladies and gentlemen. I
P eople who weren’t there like to say that my mother died at home surrounded by loving family. This is technically true, though it was just my brother and me and he was looking at Facebook and I was r
Most of the rock subgenres we reference today were coined between the 1980s and '90s. If you were living in the English-speaking world, rap aside, music played with guitars was still more or less the
Before his appearance at Platform's celebration of the year's darkest, coldest quarter in Glasgow this weekend, the prolific singer-songwriter takes a moment to reflect on how a flu jab, a family away
The Secret Life of Passwords Howard Lutnick had to rebuild Cantor Fitzgerald after losing nearly 700 people on Sept. 11, 2001, beginning with a search for the passwords only they knew. Credit... Lesly
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