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What do we aim to achieve with that?How do we know when we’re successful?What other alternatives have you considered?You may receive the classic top-d
The hard parts are still stubbornly human: deciding what is worth doing, inspiring people to care, the last mile of building high craft products, the
At the same time, Drupal continues to operate within a broader and changing technological landscape. Modern web development increasingly involves mult
Within this context, Drupal’s role appears increasingly aligned with long-term systems rather than rapid expansion cycles. Much of the work around Dru
Real influence is closer to craft than performance. It’s about understanding the system you’re working in—its incentives, fears, histories, and fault
If you’re trying to lead real change, the most important question is not “How do we drive adoption?” It is “How will this system try to stay itself?”
3. Maintain a standard Jalen yelled at me a few times for not getting my eyes on coach Jay Wright. We used to have this thing at Villanova: When the c
The hard parts are still stubbornly human: deciding what is worth doing, inspiring people to care, the last mile of building high craft products, the
5. Middle age is really the time, I think, that the tamped-down parts of yourself, anything you’ve ignored, any dreams you left behind, come first tri
Your extreme local, embodied community is your only truly real one. Think of it this way: Whose bodies are closest to yours when you’re sleeping at ni
The ingredients of ‘good’ curationI think great curation comes down to five key elements that span the processes of searching, selection and contextua
The hard parts are still stubbornly human: deciding what is worth doing, inspiring people to care, the last mile of building high craft products, the
So, what’s going on? Well, the result is more structural than anything to do with machine learning or consumer preferences. It’s because YouTube conte
The content marketers who will have a place in the new normal will be the ones who never approached content as a product, or publishing and distributi
What do we aim to achieve with that?How do we know when we’re successful?What other alternatives have you considered?You may receive the classic top-d
The hard parts are still stubbornly human: deciding what is worth doing, inspiring people to care, the last mile of building high craft products, the
Technical debt is the pollution of the digital world, invisible until it chokes the systems that depend on it. In an era of mass automation, we may fi
Online discourse has debased and trivialized the concept of obsession. People love to post about how they’re “obsessed” with a pair of jeans, or with
When you look at what actually goes into good delegation documentation, it’s remarkably consistent: What are we trying to accomplish, and why? Where a
There is a link between music streaming platforms and social content, yes, but it goes in the opposite direction. A big artist releases an album on Sp
To correct the state of AI discourse today, we need to channel this same spirit and train our attention on the messy facts of the human, material worl
In “This Is for Everyone,” Berners-Lee argues that the web’s lack of compassion is “a design issue” that can be fixed. “There’s still time,” he writes
When everything is cheerfully “retro,” Fisher argued, we lose our grasp on history—and, without a sense of why the past happened the way it did, our a
And investor Turner Novak wrote on X, “‘Everyone will vibe code their own DoorDash’ is the 2026 version of ‘everything will be an NFT’.”While I agree
n this sense, Labubus do seem to be a defining moment of 2020s culture. For those interested in moving culture away from fads such as these, resistanc
By contrast, when “everything is at our fingertips” — when art is compressed into the same omnipresent and infinite digital non-time as every random p
The question of our time is how do you artistically rebel — and win — against a totally flat cultural landscape? And before my readers, who I assume a
Online discourse has debased and trivialized the concept of obsession. People love to post about how they’re “obsessed” with a pair of jeans, or with
All this should seem obvious, which is most troubling: the lack of communal love — the indifference we have towards neighbors, strangers — is not only
The internet has fundamentally altered the conditions under which genuine self-expression can exist. The solution isn’t to perform authenticity harder
The question of our time is how do you artistically rebel — and win — against a totally flat cultural landscape? And before my readers, who I assume a
Your extreme local, embodied community is your only truly real one. Think of it this way: Whose bodies are closest to yours when you’re sleeping at ni
the decline of third places means there are fewer places to just hang out and bump into each other. Other economic and social factors have surely cont
Everyone’s posting about 2016, with a heavy dose of nostalgia.In 2016, Instagram switched their default feed from purely reverse chronological feed to
All this should seem obvious, which is most troubling: the lack of communal love — the indifference we have towards neighbors, strangers — is not only
Your extreme local, embodied community is your only truly real one. Think of it this way: Whose bodies are closest to yours when you’re sleeping at ni
“All of my hobbies involve basically micro-dosing epiphanies,” Nguyen said at one point. “Every time you’re yo-yoing, you’re like, If I change my angl
The internet has fundamentally altered the conditions under which genuine self-expression can exist. The solution isn’t to perform authenticity harder
The question of our time is how do you artistically rebel — and win — against a totally flat cultural landscape? And before my readers, who I assume a
All this should seem obvious, which is most troubling: the lack of communal love — the indifference we have towards neighbors, strangers — is not only
In any case, it’s enough to make anyone feel crazy. Over the last decade we’ve watched — and while I’m talking about the tech industry, I think we can
One hallmark of our current moment is that when an event happens, there is little collective agreement on even basic facts. This, despite there being
The question of our time is how do you artistically rebel — and win — against a totally flat cultural landscape? And before my readers, who I assume a
To put it more plainly: As you grow older, you face the interconnected questions of which parts of yourself to preserve, which parts of yourself to ev
5. Middle age is really the time, I think, that the tamped-down parts of yourself, anything you’ve ignored, any dreams you left behind, come first tri
n this sense, Labubus do seem to be a defining moment of 2020s culture. For those interested in moving culture away from fads such as these, resistanc
The stasis debate is actually just about two specific topics: (1) whether 21st century culture offers the feeling of artistic progress, where new styl
In any case, it’s enough to make anyone feel crazy. Over the last decade we’ve watched — and while I’m talking about the tech industry, I think we can
One hallmark of our current moment is that when an event happens, there is little collective agreement on even basic facts. This, despite there being
My experience of creating music and writing songs is finding enormous strength through vulnerability. You’re being open to whatever happens, including
Boredom is when you do the things that make you feel like you have life under control. Not being bored is why you always feel busy, why you keep “not
By contrast, when “everything is at our fingertips” — when art is compressed into the same omnipresent and infinite digital non-time as every random p
“All of my hobbies involve basically micro-dosing epiphanies,” Nguyen said at one point. “Every time you’re yo-yoing, you’re like, If I change my angl
The larger truth is that the Internet creates the illusion that all culture is taking place right now. Actual history disappears in the eternal presen
But there’s a whole universe that exists outside of your phone. All you need to do is turn away from the screen—even for just a short while—to underst
But that eternal present is a lie, an illusion, a fabrication of the digital interfaces. And this not only destroys our sense of the past but also und
By contrast, when “everything is at our fingertips” — when art is compressed into the same omnipresent and infinite digital non-time as every random p
When everything is cheerfully “retro,” Fisher argued, we lose our grasp on history—and, without a sense of why the past happened the way it did, our a
But there’s a whole universe that exists outside of your phone. All you need to do is turn away from the screen—even for just a short while—to underst
The stasis debate is actually just about two specific topics: (1) whether 21st century culture offers the feeling of artistic progress, where new styl
Brian Eno: why I sculpt sound: "The thrill of making music is not when you succeed in meeting the brief, but when something happens that you hadn’t ex
4/4. Be a good assistant to yourself. Prepare and gather, make notations and sketches in your head or phone. When you work, all that mapping, archite
Keepsakes—like luxury watches or rare books—are already finding their place in the second-hand market, attracting collectors and enthusiasts of contem
I can’t stop thinking about how objects hold me. How they alter the way I carry myself in a new room. Or hug me when surrounded by strangers. Clothes
During the Romantic era, keepsakes were albums of fine engravings, often given as gifts, that sealed an emotion or celebrated a special occasion. This
Collins suspected, as I do, that the books he can’t remember must have had an effect on his brain anyway, that the experience of reading and engaging
Part of it is me trying to navigate the external world, and the other side of it is me trying to navigate my internal world. That’s how I view fiction
Also what I mean by a good reader is not like a good student of literature but more like a good listener. They read/listen for why something is on the
In the artist of all kinds, I think one can detect an inherent dilemma, which belongs to the co-existence of two trends, the urgent need to communicat
Brian Eno: why I sculpt sound: "The thrill of making music is not when you succeed in meeting the brief, but when something happens that you hadn’t ex
To be clear, some people are great at making things and simply bad at dressing. But what inspires me about the examples above is the running theme of
To put it more plainly: As you grow older, you face the interconnected questions of which parts of yourself to preserve, which parts of yourself to ev
I can’t stop thinking about how objects hold me. How they alter the way I carry myself in a new room. Or hug me when surrounded by strangers. Clothes
“I don’t need them,” he admitted, sifting through his boxes containing thousands of old records. “No one needs them.” But he suggested they fulfill so
Complexity increases because adding is easy and removing is dangerous. Whenever there's a problem, we add: a new person, requirement, or process. We
I can’t stop thinking about how objects hold me. How they alter the way I carry myself in a new room. Or hug me when surrounded by strangers. Clothes
Decades ago, friction was what made a subculture. You had to figure out what punk or goth was about, learn its codes, seek out compatriots, and then m
As much as I share his concerns, this book repeatedly made we want to yell back at him for willfully underplaying obvious exceptions and counterargume
Now in his mid-30s, Chayka questions whether the nearly endless availability of cultural content to younger generations has made them value it less, c
Value-based marketing: “Marketing is about values. This is a very complicated world. This is a very noisy world. And we’re not going to get a chanc
Marketing Leaders as Institutional Navigators Chief marketing officers (CMOs), communications directors, and branding experts are no longer support
We rush because we’re late. We also rush because we want to move quickly away from discomfort. We rush to come up with solutions to problems that woul
In Marie Howe’s poem “Hurry,” she describes running errands with a child in tow. “Hurry up honey, I say, hurry,” she urges, as the little one scampers
I’m fascinated with Coppola partly because she does different things very well, something I think we all strive for. But the way she presents herself
But that eternal present is a lie, an illusion, a fabrication of the digital interfaces. And this not only destroys our sense of the past but also und
In their own way, that’s what Jeff Tweedy’s songs are usually trying to do, too. They can be beautiful but they’ve also got those holes, those scars,
My experience of creating music and writing songs is finding enormous strength through vulnerability. You’re being open to whatever happens, including
The idea is that literary representation is an act of transubstantiation. Literature pulls the real up out of the realm of temporality and insignifica
This, I think, is another reason why Updike has so many detractors. Ever since F.R. Leavis wrote The Great Tradition, there has been a school of liter
In previous generations, depression was likely to result from internal conflicts between what we want to do and what authority figures – parents, teac
Some companies have sought to alleviate the strain by offering sessions in mindfulness. But the problem with scheduling meditation as part of that wor
Susan would complain that the present, the life she was living moment to moment, felt unreal to her. Only the future really mattered, for that was whe
When Elliot protests that he can’t just do nothing, he is seeing and judging himself from the perspective of a culture that looks with disdain at anyt
