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Maybe You Should Read the Book: The Sheryl Sandberg Backlash

On February 22nd, the New York Times published a fifteen-hundred-word story about Sheryl Sandberg on its front page. It wasn’t the first time Sandberg, Facebook’s chief operating…
PUBLISHED: March 4, 2013
LENGTH: 8 minutes (2119 words)

The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Mediocre People

I’m pretty mediocre. I’m ashamed to admit it. I’m not even being sarcastic or self-deprecating. I’ve never done anything that stands out. No “Whoa! This guy made it…
LENGTH: 9 minutes (2347 words)

Deconstructing: Trent Reznor’s Legacy

I was listening to An omen_, the just-released EP from Trent Reznor’s How to destroy angels­_, and it made me feel a little warm inside. Odd, considering I was sitting in a frigid office…
PUBLISHED: Nov. 27, 2012
LENGTH: 6 minutes (1551 words)

The 1 Percent’s Problem

Adapted from The Price of Inequality, by Joseph Stiglitz, to be published in June by W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. (U.S.), and in July by Allen Lane (U.K.); © 2012 by the author. Let’s start by…
PUBLISHED: May 31, 2012
LENGTH: 12 minutes (3155 words)

What Makes Countries Rich or Poor?

Gary Knight/VII Women in Darfur returning from Kutum market to the Fata Borno camp for internally displaced persons under the protection of African Union soldiers, January 2007; photograph by Gary…
PUBLISHED: June 7, 2012
LENGTH: 9 minutes (2295 words)

What Isn’t for Sale?

There are some things money can’t buy—but these days, not many. Almost everything is up for sale. For example: • A prison-cell upgrade: $90 a night. In Santa Ana, California, and…
LENGTH: 9 minutes (2385 words)

We're Underestimating the Risk of Human Extinction

Unthinkable as it may be, humanity, every last person, could someday be wiped from the face of the Earth. We have learned to worry about asteroids and supervolcanoes, but the more-likely scenario,…
LENGTH: 19 minutes (4950 words)

Steve Jobs Was Always Kind To Me (Or, Regrets of An Asshole)

I met Steve Jobs while I worked at Gizmodo. He was always a gentleman. Steve liked me and he liked Gizmodo. And I liked them back. Some of my friends who I used to work with at Gizmodo…
LENGTH: 7 minutes (1965 words)
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