Hope you were able to sleep in. Enjoy these reads on your Saturday morning.
The co-living lifestyle is booming (Buzzfeed) Last week’s earnings calls’ insights (SKrisiloff) A critique of the Mindfulness Movement. Is the war on distraction going to be a success? (Good) Ten topics to ruin your summer, Pages 8-23 (GMO) Dozens of Katrina victims were rescued by a drug-dealing, 10th grade dropout (BuzzFeed) The part of the web that we have to save (Medium) A case study in how a jailed gets corrupted (New Yorker) Have a great weekend!
The best stuff from all around the web; read, learn and prosper.
Mythbusting millennials (The Economist) Google is set to disrupt the insurance industry (Re/Code) Breakthroughs in understanding the connection between the brain and immune system (Scientific American) Twitter might be making itself available for a takeover from Google or Facebook (Bloomberg) The six myths that are driving down oil prices (Oil Price) Be sure to share your favorite links. The best stuff from all around the web; read, learn and prosper.
What an elite goalie think about when trying to stop the NHL’s best shooters (Player’s Tribune) Oral history of how Tom Cruise’s Les Grossman came to be (Grantland) Making the case for Jack Dorsey (Stratechery) Five highly effective practices for teachers (Edutopia) Uber’s phantom cabs, a study of the behavior of Uber drivers (Motherboard) Give it up Pats fans, Brady and the Pats cheated (Boston Globe) How to go out on top (James Altucher) The five best ways to waste you money (DeadCompaniesWalking) Listen to more music (Sync Project) Uber wants your parents to start driving for them (Time) Be sure to share your favorite links.
Aiming for quality and quantity with your weekend's dose of digital media.
Astronomers have discovered a black hole that has outgrown its galaxy (Cosmos) A comprehensive breakdown of the music industry’s money problems (LinkedIn) VERY LONG - School is broken, let’s reimagine it and stop killing dreams (Seth Godin) How to network your way to world class mentors (Forbes) Peak Coffee? Climate change is affecting the future of coffee farming (BBC) Wyatt Cenac on being “the only one in the room” (NPR)
The best stuff from all around the web; read, learn and prosper.
Tips for hacking Instagram and building a large follower base (Gleam) Don’t assume frozen yogurt is healthier than ice cream (CNN) Coding is becoming the new realtors license - the common path for career changers (NYT) How Americans die abroad (Bloomberg) The automation myth - a message for techno-pessimists (Vox) Understanding the huge logistics system that keeps the world running (theVerge) Advances in assisted driving will help extend how long Baby Boomers keep driving - staving off the unpleasant scenario of taking away an aging parent’s keys (Forbes) The federal government is too big (Cato Institute) Be sure to share your favorite links.
Go deeper this afternoon with these reads
The “one-way honor code” between employers and employees (Salon) Telling love from lust (Brain Pickings) PEDs, In defense of the beta blocker (Atlantic) Charlie Munger on interest rates (Forbes) Be sure to share your favorite links.
The best stuff from all around the web; read, learn and prosper.
How Chipotle has affected the pizza industry (Business Insider) Male escorts and legalized prostitution in Australia has a lot to teach about human sexuality (Aeon) Bullies have high self esteem, status and low rates of depression? (National Post) The world will be remade by remade by DNA editing (Wired) Camille Paglia draws parallels between Cosby and Clinton (Salon) The impact that John Stewart has had on Washington (Politico) Be sure to share your favorite links.
The best stuff from all around the web; read, learn and prosper.
Allowing Oliver Sacks to teach us about the art of dying (the Guardian) Rise of heroin related deaths in Maine are tied to prescription pill use (Washington Post) Chicago is getting the world’s largest rooftop greenhouse (Business Insider) How we learn to stop worrying and love the bots (Wired) Bulletproof coffee is preparing to take on Starbucks (Buzzfeed) Two months of Soylent (Dan Wang) Twitter is deleting tweets over copyright law (theVerge) How to take better vacations (WSJ) How much does experience matter? (Irrelevant Investor) Concerns of the uber-rich (the Week) Be sure to share your favorite links.
The best stuff from all around the web; read, learn and prosper.
LFL and the lingerie football trap (Grantland) America has a lot to learn from Switzerland when it comes to work-life balance (Vox) The future of the podcasting industry will be defined by audio discovery (TechCrunch) The Apple Watch will be a success… soon enough (NYT) Understanding Silicon Valley (the Economist) 12 Lessons from Marketing the 4 Hour Body (4HourWorkWeek) “The EPA determined that hydraulic fracking poses a minimal threat to groundwater supplies but we know that shale gas has been a game-changer for cost-effectively reducing carbon-dioxide emissions” (Washington Times) BUT, What 12 months of record-setting temperatures around the globe looks like (fivethirtyeight) Rule-breakers tend to outearn those who follow (Quartz) Joe Weisenthal is coming to Bloomberg (DigiDay) Be sure to share your favorite links.
A few quick hits as you wrap up your weekend.
The man who taught Cristiano Ronaldo how to sleep (the Guardian) In praise of boredom (Harpers) Are fears over political correctness killing free speech? or worse, comedy? (Salon) Salt Lake city will install micro-turbines in its pipes to generate electricity (KSL) |
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