Courage is borne out of vulnerability, not strength. This finding of Brené Brown’s research on shame and “wholeheartedness” shook the perfectionist ground beneath her own feet. And now it’s inspiring millions to reconsider the way they live, parent, and navigate relations with members of the opposite gender. See more at www.onbeing.org/program/brene-brown-on-vulnerability/4928

Fuck Nuance “Theory is founded on abstraction, abstraction means throwing away detail for the sake of a bit of generality, and so things are always “more complicated than that”—for any value of “that”. Connoisseurship gets its aesthetic bite, and a little kick of symbolic violence, from the easy insinuation that the person trying to simplify […]

Wire Cutters Jack Anderson

Our Truth is Why Twitter is Struggling — Medium “On Facebook, for instance, a Christian evangelical can rest easy that every tidbit of information that they want to see will be tailored to their preferences: traditional marriage, Dave Ramsey quotes, any headline from the Drudge Report, and every happy moment produced by their closest friends. […]

The V.C.s of B.C. “In 1962 A.D., as our modern era of globalization was just beginning, the economist Jan Tinbergen — who would later share the first Nobel in economic science — noted something curious: Trade within and between countries followed a mathematical formula. He called it the Gravity Model, sort of an E=mc2 for […]