Otis Chandler

A recent paper by two economists at the Federal Reserve found that Mr Trump’s targeted tariffs did not work as intended. Looking at manufacturing industries such as household appliances and car parts, they found a small jobs boost from the import protection conferred by tariffs. But this was more than offset by drags from both retaliatory tariffs... See more

The efficiency and overall offensive brilliance of Gilgeous-Alexander (with an impressive 38 points on 12-for-21 shooting) should be the talking point of Game 2 — especially on a night he was awarded the MVP in front of the passionate Oklahoma City fan base — but the Thunder’s ball movement remains supreme in this series.

The average age of first-time home buyers recently hit a modern record of 40. Just as poor people buy lotto tickets when they feel their income is “low relative to an implicit standard,” perhaps young people today are drawn to get-rich-faster schemes precisely because middle-class hallmarks, such as homeownership and children, feel like luxuries... See more

Facebook was born from a website made for elite students to rank their classmates’ sexual attractiveness; Twitter was a watercooler where bored office workers could get attention by telling jokes in public. It’s as if 3M’s accidental invention of Post-It notes while failing to make space glue landed them a UN veto.

When I’m writing in Google Docs, any time I get stuck with a concept, I can select a sentence, press “CTRL” + “R”, and Sublime’s browser extension (available in Chrome, Safari, Firefox, and Arc) will pull up relevant ideas, like this:

Watching this from inside the media, I’ve experienced two contradicting feelings. First is a kind of powerlessness from working in an industry with waning influence amid shifting consumption patterns. The second is the notion that the craft, rigor, and mission of traditional journalism matter more than ever.

Smashing, a new app curating the best of the web from Goodreads co-founder Otis Chandler, is now available to the public.