Boadicea There's a story about Zig Ziglar, the motivational speaker. A woman approached him at one of his seminars, begging him for help. She said she hated her job. Her boss was horrible. Her coworke
We live in an Age of Uncertainty. Not just because of the global threats to societies, but many face unprecedented insecurity at a personal level, particularly the younger generations. None of us know
Ever since my early teens, I knew I wasn’t cut out for formal learning. When a topic excited me, I set my own pace and stayed well ahead of the class; this frustrated my teachers more than it impresse
An estimated 140 women and girls across the world die at the hands of their partner or family member every day, according to new global estimates on femicide by the UN. The report by UN Women found 85
Yesterday I was forwarded a bunch of messages that Prof. Ben Zhao (a computer science professor A full professor with tenure, so I feel entirely within my rights to call him out here. at the Universit
Maxwell Tabarrok is an economics researcher at Dartmouth College and the author of the Maximum Progress substack. Maximum Progress is a blog about the economics, history, science, philosophy, and cult
If it seems like things are kind of off these days, you’re not alone. Recently, more than 100,000 people liked a post marking the start of the pandemic that said, “[Four] years ago, this week was the
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10 years ago, I started my freshman year of college. This is the advice I needed to hear, not the advice you need to hear. In fact, some of it may be actively bad for you. See Should you reverse any a
What if luck was a skill? The proposition sounds absurd, and yet we all know people who seem to be good at being lucky. They don’t try that hard and nice things just keep coming: they meet the right p
Consider a hypothetical couple: Cathy and Max. Cathy tells Max she feels like it’s been too long since they had sex, and Max responds that it seems to him like they just had sex. They look at a calend
They are problems of success, really, these modern ills. Social media addiction, gaming disorders, the compulsive over-eating of sugar and processed gloop: they are products of a society with more tha
Technology What’s happening in America today is something darker than a misinformation crisis. Illustration by Ben Kothe / The Atlantic. Source: Getty. October 10, 2024 Subscribe to Listen1.0x 0:0011:
You want to order from a local restaurant, but you need to download a third-party delivery app, even though you plan to pick it up yourself. The prices and menu on the app are different to what you sa
Paul Graham wrote a 12,000-word mega essay on how to do great work but the essence of it is a small paragraph near the end: Curiosity is the best guide. Your curiosity never lies, and it knows more th
A small nuclear reactor that can run for eight years or more without water is scheduled to go online by 2029 in Saskatchewan, Canada. In November, Saskatchewan’s government announced an $80 million CA
I think every creator might need to make a core decision of whether they're doing: A PERSONAL brand on which you post pretty much everything, including possibly having a business aspect. A PROFESSIONA
about me I am 18, born in 2006. This is generally a good thing as I am in the prime of life currently. I am not one of those people who think they were “born in the wrong decade”, I think I was born a
By travelling to the centre of the Earth via seismic waves scientists have discovered a ring-like structure within the swirling pool of molten metal known as the outer core. Research published in the
Brain dump before you go to sleep Spend two minutes each evening sketching out how your tomorrow will look, on a notepad or in your Notes app, for more productive mornings, says Alex Soojung-Kim Pang,
This just in: money apparently does buy happiness. A new study conducted by a senior fellow at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania found an increasingly positive association between m
The collapse didn’t happen the way people expected. It was more like the Hemingway character who said when he went bankrupt that it happened “two ways, gradually, then suddenly.” Disasters were happen
Roma photojournalist Eszter Halasi follows a Romany family on their journey to the Appleby Horse Fair, an annual gathering of Gypsies and Travellers in Westmorland
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A year on from writing "Truth in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction", much of what I had feared has come to pass. In fact, in many cases things are worse than I expected. I would never have imagined a
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Here’s Dave Rupert (from my notes): the goal of a book isn’t to get to the last page, it’s to expand your thinking. I have to constantly remind myself of this. Especially in an environment that priori
3 min read·1 hour ago I’m drawn to concepts or book titles that appear contradictory. So, naturally, “Slow Productivity” by Cal Newport appealed to me at a basic level. I work in cybersecurity as a se
I see a lot of people who want to work in cybersecurity. I said the same when I got started, but now I think this is the wrong way to frame things, especially because of AI. My thinking now is that wo
It has been about a year and a half of working three days a week in response to burnout. It took me six months to regain the ability to do anything beyond resting the moment I was done working, and in
April 14, 2024 I’ve been thinking about art and punishment. That is, how we punish people for making art. There’s the more nuanced form, where we project our own insecurities onto a work. It’s not que
I’m going to divulge something rather embarrassing: earlier this year I got sucked deep into the “Hubersphere”, the cult-like following of Andrew Huberman, the controversial neuroscientist and podcast
It’s a common trope that big businesses are inherently corrupt; that there is something that happens when you incorporate in Delaware that strips you of all humanity. In fiction and in journalism, the
We had a great conversation during February’s UL Mid-month Meetup, where we discussed our careers, how vulnerable they were to AI, and how to become as resilient as possible. One member talked about t
Long-time readers might recall that I have a soft spot for Sokoban: an ancient but timeless computer puzzle game that involves tidying up warehouses by moving heavy crates into their designated spots.
"Do you want us to test you for HIV?" I'd come in for severe strep throat, only to find out what I had was a fungal infection that shouldn't have been happening. The staff was dumbfounded. "Do you hav
About the Episode Do you worry that you might be wasting your life? That you’re doing things that don’t feel important? Are you constantly anxious about your to-do list? Is your mind blown that it’s 2
Click for full size version I’ve been wanting to capture this for a while now. I’ve made multiple versions of this over the years, but I’m pretty happy with how this one turned out. The goal of the sy
Cybersecurity programs are infamous as gatekeepers, power tripping in their virtual CAT machines to dump roadblocks and jackhammer potholes on software delivery. This draws ire from nearly every other
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I have always taken it for granted that, just as my parents made sure that I could read and write, I would make sure that my kids could program computers. It is among the newer arts but also among the
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