What a 19th-century scammer can teach us about women, lying, and economic boom-and-bust cycles
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Irvine Welsh on Brexit, Existential Panic, and His Latest ‘Trainspotting’ Sequel
“The books from ‘Trainspotting’ onwards have been about deindustrialization … the cruel existential panic that we feel, in the sense that we don’t really know what we’re here for anymore.”
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What Being a Bike Courier Taught Me About Our Broken Economy
To earn money during a rough patch as a freelancer, Sam Riches worked as a bike courier, delivering food in Toronto during a six-month period. While the job lacked in pay, it offered one intriguing benefit: a crash course in human nature.
Posted inBusiness, Business & Tech, Current Events, Feature, Story, Uncategorized
Clocking Out
Can we imagine an economy built for free time?
Posted inNonfiction
Truly Seeing the River: An Interview with Writer Boyce Upholt
Writing about the culture and beauty of the Mississippi Delta requires seeing the mighty river as more than a line of water.
Posted inNonfiction
How Google Discovered the Value of Surveillance
In 2002, still reeling from the dot-com crash, Google realized they’d been harvesting a very valuable raw material — your behavior.
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On Vanishing
Dementia is a kind of erasure, a death before death, where the living discount the infirmed long before they’re gone.
Posted inBusiness & Tech, Crime, Current Events, Nonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes
Russian Malware Is Really Killin’ It Lately
When Russia attacked Ukraine with sophicated malware in 2017, it caused over $10 billion dollars worth of damage and revealed the whole world’s vulnerabilities.
Posted inCurrent Events, Essays & Criticism, Highlight, History, Quotes
‘Black Flight’ out of Chicago
By 2030, Chicago’s Black population will have decreased by half a million people in 50 years.
Posted inBusiness & Tech, Design, Quotes
Immature Architects Built the Attention Economy
The creators of addictive smartphone technology admit they were too immature to consider the downsides of persuasive design.
