How Yahoo Killed Flickr and Lost the Internet

Web startups are made out of two things: people and code. The people make the code, and the code makes the people rich. Code is like a poem; it has to follow certain structural requirements, and yet…
LENGTH: 21 minutes (5346 words)
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Six degrees of aggregation

Of the many and conflicting stories about how The Huffington Post came to be—how it boasts 68 sections, three international editions (with more to come), 1.2 billion monthly page views and 54…
LENGTH: 39 minutes (9907 words)

The White Savior Industrial Complex

If we are going to interfere in the lives of others, a little due diligence is a minimum requirement.Left, Invisible Children's Jason Russell. Right, a protest leader in Lagos, Nigeria / Facebook,…
AUTHOR:Teju Cole
LENGTH: 11 minutes (2961 words)
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