Farnam Street
Mental Models: The Best Way to Make Intelligent Decisions (109 Models Explained)
20+ min · · The smartest people in the world use mental models to make intelligent decisions, avoid stupidity, and increase productivity. Let's take a look at how ... · Shared by 1118, including Charlie Oliver, Taylor Pearson, Oleg Baskov, Korben, Dominik Grolimund, hardmaru, Jonathan Kogan, Liv 😷, ben, James Clear, André Borges, Konrad Weber, Mark Kaigwa, Christina, Nando 💪🇦🇺🇦🇷, hiten.eth, Mathias Böhm, Ross Dawson, DP, Thomas Pleil
Nicky Case · 🐘 mas.to/@ncase
How To Remember Anything Forever-ish
20+ min · · an interactive comic on the art & science of memory · Shared by 666, including MariadPDC, Daniel Cook (also on mastodon), Javi Cantón @javicanton@mas.to, Jens-Christian Fischer, Nando 💪🇦🇺🇦🇷, Korben, Vincenzo Tremonte, Mike Taylor, adrianleb.eth, Gabriele, @AlgoCompSynth@ravenation.club by znmeb, Cameron Yick ~ @hydrosquall@vis.social on mastodon, Mariella Petrigni 🌍 Translator, L. Taylor Banks, DP, Niklaus Gerber, Carlo Badini, 📁𝐦𝐫𝐯𝐧, MrChad 🔮
Farnam Street
How to Read a Book: The Ultimate Guide by Mortimer Adler
5 min · · In how to read a book, Mortimer Adler teaches us the four levels of reading to become a more effective reader. Learning how to read is more than just picking up a book and starting to read. · Shared by 661, including Mohit Rohit, Evan (he/him), Ruben Feurer, Josep M. Ganyet, Gio Tiongson, shishir das, maxadorno, Dennis Schvejda, Rich
The Atlantic
Workism Is Making Americans Miserable
11+ min · · For the college-educated elite, work has morphed into a religious identity—promising identity, transcendence, and community, but failing to deliver. · Shared by 269, including Katja Evertz, Data Science Renee, Liliane Ferrari ™, David Perell, Wesley Fryer, Ph.D. 🌎🎙🚀 wesfryer.com/after, Stowe Boyd, Tobias Kopka, Michael Seemann, Céline Gounder, MD, ScM, FIDSA 🇺🇦, Kaleigh Moore, Mac McCann, Aimee Lucas, Christopher Mims 🤌, Mark Kaigwa, Marsha Collier, Carly, Sergio Caredda, Joe Filcik, Tanmoy, Martin Recke
redef.com
REDEF ORIGINAL: Fortnite Is the Future, but Probably Not for the Reasons You Think
20+ min · · Much has been said about Fortnite’s revenue, users, business model, origin and availability. But these narratives are overhyped. What matters is what these, plus Epic Games, are collectively in the… · Shared by 85, including Mathew Ingram, Satya Patel, Johannes Haus, Weiting Chen, Tendayi Viki, Howard Getson, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, ThomNagy
New York Magazine
In the 2010s, BuzzFeed Made the World a Meme
20+ min · · Talking the dress, the dossier, and the next pivot to video with the CEO of the company that transformed digital media over the last decade. · Shared by 65, including Kat, Carl Morris, Richard MacManus, Jeremy Liew, #BLM #StopAsianHate, luis antónio santos, Mathew Ingram, Matt Navarra, Jonah Peretti, Ernie Smith is also @ernie@writing.exchange
Bloomberg
Terms of Service Violation
· Your usage has been flagged as a violation of our terms of service. For inquiries related to this message please contact support. For sales inquiries, please visit… · Shared by 55, including William El Kaim, jérémie Flück, Marko Saric, Thomas Power, Anthony Hamelle, Nicolas Granatino🌻, zeynep tufekci
The Guardian
Fortnite has reached The End – changing video game storytelling for good
5 min · · Season 10 of Fortnite climaxed in apocalyptic fashion – sucking gamers into a black hole. Whatever the future brings, it has transformed video-game storytelling · Shared by 32, including Glyn Britton, Keith Stuart, Dave Capuano
FiveThirtyEight
How Mapping Shots In The NBA Changed It Forever
4 min · · Kirk Goldsberry's new book examines the changing NBA landscape. · Shared by 29, including Mara Averick, Mark Kaigwa
The Verge
A Chinese AI startup is tracking lost dogs using their nose prints
1 min · · Facial recognition comes to pets — using their nose prints as unique identifiers. · Shared by 26, including Smita Nair Jain, Thomas Power, Ward Plunet
Hustle_says
Drunk shopping is a $45B industry. Here's what people are buying.
7 min · · What percentage of alcohol-consuming Americans shop drunk? How much do they spend? What do they buy? We ran a survey to find out. · Shared by 26, including Guy Kawasaki, Justin Cranshaw, Esther Schindler
youtube.com
There's Waldo is a robot that finds Waldo
· There's Waldo is a robot built to find Waldo and point at him. The robot arm is controlled by a Raspberry Pi using the PYARM Python library for the UARM Meta... · Shared by 21, including Chris Messina, Fabricio Teixeira, Workshare, Matthew Turland, Chris Coyier
The Cut
What We Learned About Sexual Desire From 10 Years of Pornhub User Data
12+ min · · Women are much likelier to watch porn on their phones, Pornhub traffic spikes on Christmas morning, and more fascinating insights. · Shared by 21
facebook.com
Andrew Bosworth (Boz)
· The NYT recently obtained a copy of a post I made to the wall of my internal profile within Facebook. I thought it worth sharing in its entirety here for those who are interested. It wasn’t written... · Shared by 19, including Howard Getson
Kotaku
The Year-Long, Undercover Plot To Blow Up EVE Online's Most Notorious Space Station
8 min · · In theory, anything can happen in EVE Online, but some things are considered impossible. Well, last month, one of the “impossible” things happened: The destruction of the game’s first-ever Keepstar battlestation, which was kept in a wormhole. Of course, it took 11 months of meticulous planning.
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Axios
Fortnite has taken on hallmarks of a social network
3 min · · Think of it as the new Snapchat. · Shared by 15, including Elena Neira, Chris Schultz✌️ & ❤️