Why Twitter’s Dying (And What You Can Learn From It) “But just as a meatpacking company that sold tainted beef, over and over again, that made people ill, would eventually see a decline in sales, so too a social web which is infected with the abuse will inevitably see a decline in usage. I can […]

The White Man in That Photo ““He paid the price with his choice,” explained Tommie Smith, “It wasn’t just a simple gesture to help us, it was HIS fight. He was a white man, a white Australian man among two men of color, standing up in the moment of victory, all in the name of […]

How School Shootings Spread – The New Yorker/Gladwell “He talked about how difficult it was for men—and for teen-age boys in particular—to admit to vulnerability.”

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How Tom Wolfe Became … Tom Wolfe Michael Lewis writes: “It’s not really a book about the space program. It turns out that it’s not even, really, about flying. It’s about the importance of status to men, and what happens when the rules of any status game change…No one noticed the best story. Process had […]

The remarkable thing that happens to poor kids when you give their parents a little money “Not only did the extra income appear to lower the instance of behavioral and emotional disorders among the children, but, perhaps even more important, it also boosted two key personality traits that tend to go hand in hand with long-term positive life outcomes. […]