Digital Life

The Media Bubble Is Real — And Worse Than You Think
The Media Bubble Is Real — And Worse Than You Think
Jack Shafer & Tucker Doherty, Politico
We crunched the data on where journalists work and how fast it’s changing. The results should worry you.
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How Elon Musk Learns Faster and Better Than Everyone Else
How Elon Musk Learns Faster and Better Than Everyone Else
Michael Simmons, Quartz
How is it even possible that Elon Musk could build four multibillion companies by his mid-40s — in four separate fields (software, energy, transportation, and aerospace)? To explain Musk’s success, others have pointed to his heroic work ethic (he regularly works 85-hour weeks), his ability to set reality-distorting visions for the future, and his incredible resilience.
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Middle Class Contracted in U.S. Over 2 Decades, Study Finds
Middle Class Contracted in U.S. Over 2 Decades, Study Finds
Nelson D. Schwartz, The New York Times
“Compared with the Western European experience, the adult population in the U.S. is more economically divided,” said Rakesh Kochhar, associate director for research at Pew. “It is more hollowed out in the middle. This speaks to the higher level of income inequality in the United States.”
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My Two-Month Ride with Peloton, the Cultish, Internet-Connected Fitness Bike
My Two-Month Ride with Peloton, the Cultish, Internet-Connected Fitness Bike
Lauren Goode, The Verge
Peloton may just be the Next Big Thing in fitness or it could end up being a fad, but I can say this for sure: I kind of miss that bike now that it’s no longer in my living room.
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A New Tell-All About the Clinton Campaign Is a Searing Indictment of the Candidate Herself
A New Tell-All About the Clinton Campaign Is a Searing Indictment of the Candidate Herself
Jeff Stein, Vox
“[Clinton’s] campaign was an unholy mess, fraught with tangled lines of authority, petty jealousies, distorted priorities, and no sense of greater purpose. No one was in charge, and no one had figured out how to make the campaign about something bigger than Hillary,” Allen and Parnes write in the book’s introduction. “[But] no explanation of defeat can begin with anything other than the core problem of Hillary’s campaign — Hillary herself.”
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Can Facebook Fix Its Own Worst Bug?
Can Facebook Fix Its Own Worst Bug?
Farhad Manjoo, The New York Times
Nearly two billion people use Facebook every month, about 1.2 billion of them daily. The company, which Zuckerberg co-founded in his Harvard dorm room 13 years ago, has become the largest and most influential entity in the news business, commanding an audience greater than that of any American or European television news network, any newspaper or magazine in the Western world and any online news outlet. It is also the most powerful mobilizing force in politics, and it is fast replacing television as the most consequential entertainment medium. Just five years after its initial public offering, Facebook is one of the 10 highest market-capitalized public companies in the world.
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The Why of Cooking
The Why of Cooking
Joe Pinsker, The Atlantic
People start with How to Cook Everything for good reason: It is near-encyclopedic and approachably written. Moreover, it is highly reliable; when following one of its recipes, disappointments are rare, especially compared to what comes of cooking from the recipes that can appear at the top of Google results. All this, plus the fact that it includes many variations on each recipe, makes How to Cook Everything a fantastic book to have on hand, especially for beginners.
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Decluttering Your Digital Life
Decluttering Your Digital Life
Jeremy Anderberg, The Art of Manliness
In reading these commentaries on the effects technology is having on our lives, and considering both the negative and positive sides of the coin, it occurred to me that perhaps the best way of thinking about how we should engage our digital spaces, is to compare it to how we inhabit our physical ones.
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