Have editors ever known so much about their readers? And known, in particular, how little and how badly they read? Today even the Weekly Standard and Democracy: A Journal of Ideas announce up front ho
December 2014 I've read Villehardouin's chronicle of the Fourth Crusade at leasttwo times, maybe three. And yet if I had to write down everythingI remember from it, I doubt it would amount to much mor
The views expressed here are solely those of the author and do not represent positions of IEEE Spectrum or the IEEE. THE ENGINEER’S PLACE Steve Jobs took LSD 10 to 15 times and said that taking the dr
January 2016 Life is short, as everyone knows. When I was a kid I used to wonderabout this. Is life actually short, or are we really complainingabout its finiteness? Would we be just as likely to feel
December 2019 Before I had kids, I was afraid of having kids. Up to that point Ifelt about kids the way the young Augustine felt about livingvirtuously. I'd have been sad to think I'd never have child
November 2019 Everyone knows that to do great work you need both natural abilityand determination. But there's a third ingredient that's not aswell understood: an obsessive interest in a particular to
Every decision we make carries an opportunity cost. If we don’t budget wisely, we end up wasting time and energy on things that don’t matter. Here’s how to do it right. *** The disregard of tradeoffs
In a Chaotic World, Dungeons & Dragons Is Resurgent The role-playing game has made a surprising return to mainstream culture. “Rivals of Waterdeep” is a Dungeons & Dragons show on the live-streaming s
Credit... Mustafah Abdulaziz for The New York Times Opinion Finland Is a Capitalist Paradise Can high taxes be good for business? You bet. Credit... Mustafah Abdulaziz for The New York Times By Anu Pa
“Combinatory play seems to be the essential feature in productive thought.” *** There is a view, to which we subscribe that a lot of innovation and creativity comes from the combination of worldly wis
The less rigid we are in our thinking, the more open minded, creative and innovative we become. Here’s how to develop the power of an elastic mind. *** Society is changing fast. Do we need to change h
‘Dopamine fasts’ reboot your brain and make you appreciate everyday pleasures more, proponents say. But is there any science to back it up? When James Sinka starts his dopamine fast, he cuts himself o
A surprisingly potent technique can boost your short and long-term recall – and it appears to help everyone from students to Alzheimer’s patients. This story is featured in BBC Future’s “Best of 2018”
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Top Secret Russian Unit Seeks to Destabilize Europe, Security Officials Say Investigating the poisoning of Sergei V. Skripal in Britain in 2018. Western officials say an elite unit of the Russian inte
How Early-Career Setbacks Can Set You Up for Success Failure is just part of the process. Credit... Hanna Barczyk By Published Oct. 27, 2019 Updated Oct. 29, 2019 Welcome to the Smarter Living newslet
Published 24 November 2019 Share page About sharing Media caption, "An electric baton to the back of the head" - a former inmate described conditions at a secret camp to the BBC Leaked documents detai
How to Move Abroad Millions of Americans move overseas every year, some for love, some for jobs and others to embrace new cultures. Here’s how you can join them. Credit... Alvaro Dominguez By Publishe
How to Have Closer Friendships (and Why You Need Them) Even if you find it easy to make friends — and it’s not, for most people — getting truly close to people is still difficult. Here’s how to make i
Internet Companies Prepare to Fight the ‘Deepfake’ Future Researchers are creating tools to find A.I.-generated fake videos before they become impossible to detect. Some experts fear it is a losing ba
One of three timber construction buildings recently completed for the Swatch Group in Switzerland. Credit... Swatch Group The Trees and the Forest of New Towers As engineered wood evolves as a constru
How to — Literally — Sound More Confident and Persuasive Speak up, it’ll help. Credit... Rose Wong By Nov. 10, 2019 Welcome to the Smarter Living newsletter! Every Monday, S.L. editor Tim Herrera emai
China Defends Crackdown on Muslims, and Criticizes Times Article Hotan, in the western Chinese region of Xinjiang, in August. The low yellow buildings once housed a re-education camp. Credit... Gilles
In the fall of 2015, a rash of posters appeared around Copenhagen. One, in pink letters laid over an image of chicken eggs, asked, “Have you counted your eggs today?” A second — a blue-tinted close-up
Journal Reports: Retirement We talked to the expats who had previously written for us about retiring outside the U.S. Do they still like it? Have any returned home? By Glenn Ruffenach Nov. 15, 2019 11
Modern Love He’s Never Going to Put Away That Shirt Sometimes it’s the uneventful stretches of marriage that can be the real stress test. Credit... Brian Rea By Nov. 15, 2019 Leer en español I would n
The decisions we spend the most time on are rarely the most important ones. Not all decisions need the same process. Sometimes, trying to impose the same process on all decisions leads to difficulty i
For the first time in memory, adults in the United States under age forty are now expected to be poorer than their parents. This is the kind of grim reality that in other times and places spurred youn
The United States is less happy and more depressed than it’s been in a long time, and people are trying to figure out why. The World Happiness Report shows us down for 3 years in a row , and we’re cur
Published 4 November 2019 Share page About sharing Image source, Getty Images By Zoe Kleinman Technology reporter, BBC News Microsoft Japan said sales had been boosted by nearly 40% during an experime
It’s old news that people no longer stay with one company for their whole career. While it was commonplace to get a job and stick with it for four decades, professionals have to look out for No. 1. Wi
Work done for a reward is much lower than work done in the Yoga of wisdom. Set thy heart upon thy work, but never on its reward. Work not for the reward; but never cease to do thy work. —The Bhagavad
In a Field Notes post from 2014, LeadingAgile consultant Andrew Fuqua considers Brooks' Law in the context of the Theory of Constraints. Brooks' Law is the adage that adding manpower to a late softwar
Malcolm Gladwell writes about a fascinating episode in history. Neville Chamberlain’s first plane ride was a trip to meet Adolf Hitler. The British Prime Minister was taken by Hitler’s charisma. He be
I'm not into self-help . I don't buy self-help books, I don't read productivity blogs, and I certainly don't subscribe to self-proclaimed self-help guru newsletters. Reading someone else's advice on t
We made a fancy PDF of this post for printing and offline viewing. Buy it here. In a post last year , we laid out the human lifespan visually. By years: By months: And by weeks: While working on that
"Everything with a power point is probably connected, or will be shortly," says Christopher Neal, chief information security officer (CISO) of Ramsay Health Care. "Increasingly that connectivity is cr
According to my iPhone, I pick up my phone 177 times a day and spend 26 hours a week on social media. These aren’t hours allotted to a hobby I view as a priority. Rather, these are hours lost to what
You may not have known this, but there's such a thing as a World PowerPoint Championship. This year it had around 850,000 students from 119 countries, and has a state, national, and world competition.
There is a connection between my research into behavioral models of information security and my Black Hat USA talk with Dr. Forsgren from last week regarding DevOps and the future of information secur
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