Tim Urban
A Story of Stories — Wait But Why
20+ min · · Remember the time our species’ random primate tribes transformed into world-conquering beasts? That was weird. · Shared by 131, including Matthias Lampe, jz, Marin Lorant, Gianfranco Palumbo, Carly, blinch, fnord
CNBC
Google uses Gmail to track a history of things you buy — and it's hard to delete
3 min · · Google collects the purchases you've made, including from other stores and places like Amazon, and saves them on a page called Purchases. · Shared by 127, including Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, George M 🇪🇺, Yvette Dubel, Matt Cutts, Builtvisible, Charles Baldwin, Prof. Arun Kumar वाघचौरे, cbz, Grégoire Japiot 🌻, Kiki, Javi Cantón @javicanton@mas.to, Ralph Hutter, Kaspar Manz
nature
What’s next for psychology’s embattled field of social priming
10 min · · A promising field of research on social behaviour struggled after investigators couldn’t repeat key findings. Now researchers are trying to establish what’s worth saving. · Shared by 125, including Nir Eyal, Zach Weinersmith, Faik Ersoy, Thomas Pleil, Brian D. Earp, Ph.D., Matthias Lampe, Uta Frith, Gabriele, Vaughan Bell
The Guardian
Facebook admits huge scale of fake news and election interference
3 min · · Company deletes 2.8bn fake accounts as it pours resources into protecting EU elections · Shared by 97, including Wesley Fryer, Ph.D. 🌎🎙🚀 wesfryer.com/after, Mathew Ingram, Bill Johnston, Javi Cantón @javicanton@mas.to, luis antónio santos, Chris Messina, Amber Mac, Azeem Azhar, Charles Baldwin, Matt Navarra, Mark Kaigwa, Thomas Power, Adrienne Fichter, Richard Deitsch
ReadWrite
7 Critical Time Management Skills to Boost Your Productivity
7 min · · One of the biggest keys to productivity is time management. These 7 skills can help boost your time management abilities to increase productivity. · Shared by 90, including Joe Martin, Ines Bieler, Michelle Garrett
UX Collective
The MAAD approach to personas: what UX can learn from marketing
7 min · · A practical guide for creating better UX personas, borrowing from marketing and media best practices, based on the four criteria of measurable, actionable, addressable and differentiated. · Shared by 88, including Andrea Ausili, Christoph Wilke, Gianluca Diegoli, Niklaus Gerber, Gabriele
Behavioral Scientist
How to Go to Burning Man Without Going to Burning Man
6 min · · You don’t have to suffer through a dust storm to experience radical inclusion, generosity, and self-expression. How one behavioral scientist brought Burning Man home. · Shared by 87, including Brian D. Earp, Ph.D., Burning Man Project, Miguel Angel Escotet, Liliane Ferrari ™, Tauno, M.J. Crockett, Gabriele, Dave Nussbaum
The Washington Post
Perspective | Alexa has been eavesdropping on you this whole time
6 min · · Our tech columnist listened to four years of his Alexa archive, and discovered Amazon tracks us in more ways than we might want. · Shared by 81, including BrendanEich, Loughlin O'Nolan, Luca Like, ❤️ Umair, Thomas Power, Marsha Collier, Mathew Ingram, Aimee Meifeu ✍️⚖️, Shoshana Zuboff, Brian Tomlinson ⚡️
Scientific American
Authenticity Under Fire
5 min · · Researchers are calling into question authenticity as a scientifically viable concept. · Shared by 33, including Gregg Caruso, Brian D. Earp, Ph.D., Bob Sutton, Steve Faktor, John Hagel, Daron Larson, luis antónio santos
TED Talks
Want to make something, but have no idea where to begin? Here’s some inspiration from Adam Savage
6 min · · Special-effects designer and Mythbuster Adam Savage offers a call to action and vision map to every would-be maker and dreamer out there. · Shared by 33, including Stephanie A Kowalski
SearchEngineJournal®
Study Reveals the Top 5 SEO Mistakes Made by Marketing Agencies
1 min · · A study of top marketing agencies reveals the most common mistakes made when it comes to SEO. · Shared by 26
The Guardian
Britain is run by a self-serving clique. That’s why it’s in crisis
5 min · · Government and culture are dominated by the same narrow section of the population. It’s no way to run a country, says Guardian columnist Gary Younge · Shared by 18, including Eve Livingston, Thomas Power
The Guardian
Torn apart: the vicious war over young adult books
13+ min · · Authors who write about marginalised communities are facing abuse, boycotts and even death threats. What is cancel culture doing to young adult fiction? · Shared by 10
The Guardian
The Battle for People’s Park, Berkeley 1969: when Vietnam came home
4 min · · A year before Kent State, police shot at protesters in California, killing one. A new oral history of the clash is a searing read · Shared by 8
New Scientist
The father of all men is 340,000 years old
3 min · · We had thought that all men share a common male ancestor who lived within the last 140,000 years – but one African American man has broken the mould · Shared by 8
Entrepreneur
10 Star Wars Quotes That All Entrepreneurs Should Take to Heart
4 min · · There is no try, but there is always the pivot. · Shared by 7