Collections

Many of us spend our lives pursuing private acceptance through external success. But no matter the award or honor, our inner doubts will remain. True

There’s also a great anecdote from Nobel-winning physicist Richard Feynman, where he talks about how physics used to delight him when he used to play

There's another more subtle lesson in the list of fields with superlinear returns: not to equate work with a job. For most of the 20th century the two

We have inherited from all this a deeply bizarre idea of what it means to spend your time off “well”—and, conversely, what counts as wasting it. In th

These are examples of simply reframing existing problems and solutions, recognizing innate value. In my eyes, strategies to dial up humanity and empat

Everyone knows that in animation, notes are key. Here's a comprehensive thread of everything wrong with this goddamn abomination (see below.)

The decision to have children, which she views as the “ultimate vote of confidence” in the future, may also be affected by how optimistic people are a

Introduction | Bidoun

The marketplace of attention was supposed to solve this problem; we were told that the good channels would be elevated by the platforms and that peopl

As a venue for interaction I view the current social landscape as an online version of WWE. A lot of what I see (maybe it’s my algorithm) are people p

The internet is still so young that it’s still momentous to see a social network of some scale and lifespan suddenly lose its vitality. The regime cha

Unfortunately, advertising has been ingrained into the internet as the basic model for so long and to such an extent that it’s hard to envision online

Berlin, baby! This is a city infected with a pre-teen’s idea of “being edgy.”

John Cleese: “Now I suggest to you that a group of us could be sitting around after dinner, discussing matters that were extremely serious like the ed

I’m drawn to the idea of an art of living much more so than to the compulsive search for life hacks, regimens of self-improvement, or self-optimizatio

that while grief is persistent and cannot be diminished, it can be carried together.

But in “Braiding Sweetgrass,” you write about nature as capable of showing us love. If that’s true, doesn’t it also have to be capable of showing us t

Conceiving of something as a gift changes your relationship to it in a profound way, even though the physical makeup of the “thing” has not changed. A

Reading about Historical Muses Started this research project after reading about Georgina Weldon. She’s notorious for having a litigation addiction bu