In 2017, about a year after the election, I started to pay attention to music again. Music had always been the art form, aside from literature, to which I felt closest. It allowed me to think and feel
It's 11:16 am on a Saturday, and Jack Conte—bright-eyed, bushy-bearded—is zigzagging around a cramped Los Angeles recording studio, dodging eight musicians, two cameramen, a sound engineer, and a prof
This is my first time writing a mid-year review. This year has brought so many unexpected changes that I needed to gather my thoughts and reflect on the ways my life has transformed. I had planned to
Since becoming mayor of San Francisco in 2018, London Breed has simultaneously strived to protect and represent her city’s endangered Black community. It’s been a tough balancing act. The tech capital
Dear A.G., It is with sadness that I write to tell you that I am resigning from The New York Times. I joined the paper with gratitude and optimism three years ago. I was hired with the goal of bringin
Future of Work By Digiday • July 1, 2020 • Ivy Liu Alicia Kennedy is like many writers these days. A few months ago, the magazine for which she regularly freelanced cut its budget. Kennedy, a food and
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Maryellis Bunn, 28, built a business that promised customers happiness, sprinkles and ice cream. The playground-meets-art installation was an instant hit with the Instagram generation. But ex-employee
This is part 4 of the Yes! And… series. Start with part 1 here . In chapter 3 we looked at the difference between “problem solving” and “capacity building” consultants. Reframing consulting as capacit
This is not the time to obsess about symbolism. June 25, 2020 Marchers on the Brooklyn Bridge on Juneteenth.Credit...Demetrius Freeman for The New York Times By Opinion Columnist There are five gigant
Search Letter from San Francisco As the homelessness crisis and the coronavirus crisis converge, what can we learn from one city’s struggles? May 25, 2020 Zach Hickson lived in a tent in San Francisco
A version of this article first appeared in the Harvard Business Review VC’s have just changed the ~50-year old social contract with startup employees. In doing so they may have removed one of the key
It’s been a long and bumpy ride for loyal users Published inOneZero · 9 min read· May 19, 2020 -- Photo: SOPA Images/Getty Images You are — I am, I should more accurately say — officially old if you c
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Under social distancing, we’re all doing our best to stay sane, and one of the best ways to maintain sanity is to go out for some nice fresh air. But venturing outside can be stressful if you’re worri
It seems many people are breathing some relief, and I’m not sure why. An epidemic curve has a relatively predictable upslope and once the peak is reached, the back slope can also be predicted. We have
Credit... Philip Montgomery for The New York Times My Restaurant Was My Life for 20 Years. Does the World Need It Anymore? Forced to shutter Prune, I’ve been revisiting my original dreams for it — and
There are certain moments that stand out as true game-changers. These are the kinds of moments that divide time into "before" and "after" periods. With tomorrow marking its fifth anniversary, I think
This is the full-length version of this post. You can read the condensed version, which appeared as an opinion article in the Washington Post , here . The coronavirus pandemic pits all of humanity aga
The trackpad is tiny. After all these many years of gargantuan trackpads, this one feels ever so small. Like a trackpad for ants, measuring 10cm x 4cm. For comparison the trackpad on a 2018 13" MacBoo
London Breed wasn’t going to wait around for COVID-19. San Francisco had yet to confirm a single case of the coronavirus when Breed, the city’s 45-year-old first-term mayor, declared a state of emerge
3/22/2020 The Cultural Constants of Contagion News Abroad Ed Simon is the associate editor of The Marginalia Review of Books, a channel of The Los Angeles Review of Books. He holds a PhD in English fr
(Adapted from a keynote I gave at Lean Digital Summit in Lisbon this month.) Good help is hard to find. I dread calling the credit card company, the phone company, any service provider, including and
One of the few mercies during this crisis is that, by their nature, individual coronaviruses are easily destroyed. Each virus particle consists of a small set of genes, enclosed by a sphere of fatty l
To stop coronavirus we will need to radically change almost everything we do: how we work, exercise, socialize, shop, manage our health, educate our kids, take care of family members. We all want thin
First the continuing shortage or unavailability of test kits has vanquished all hope of containment. Moreover it is preventing accurate estimates of key parameters such as reproduction rate, size of i
Outdoor Voices, founded by Tyler Haney in 2014, became a lifestyle choice as much as a clothing brand. Credit...Sarah Karlan for The New York Times The founder was pushed out after clashing with exper
Update 08/06/2020: After the startup Owl Cameras Inc. dissolved rather untidily earlier this year (see original news story below for more on that), users were stuck with expensive dash cams and no sup
Editor's note: The author of this essay asked for anonymity for fear of reprisals by authorities for speaking critically of the Chinese government. The government lockdown orders in Wuhan, China, have
First let’s start with why we decided to do this in the first place. Many of you ask: what is Other Internet? Other Internet is a nimble organization focused on cultivating agency for the world we cur
Credit... Sammy Harkham Opinion The Age of Decadence Cut the drama. The real story of the West in the 21st century is one of stalemate and stagnation. Credit... Sammy Harkham By An Opinion columnist a
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When it comes to cycle clothing, one brand polarises cyclists like no other: Rapha. The very word will leave some purring at the thought of their next visit to its Soho store, while others will twitch
In the first week of the second decade of the third millennium, it was 68 and sunny southeast of Baghdad. At an outpost known as Contingency Operating Station Hammer, intelligence analysts for the U.S
Happy New Year! This week is an opportunity to ponder decade-long trend arcs and make grandiose pronouncements of what the last ten years were “about,” and I’ll gladly indulge. During the holidays, I usually watch more movies and TV shows than I do the entire rest of the year (time I’d otherwise…
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The name “James Niehues” may not strike home immediately, but if you’re a skier, you’ve undoubtedly held his work. Niehues has painted roughly 255 ski trail maps, for 175 different resorts, including some of North America’s most iconic slopes. To the west: Alta, Big Sky, Park City, Heavenly,…
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