New York Magazine
Andrew Sullivan: My Distraction Sickness — and Yours
Summary · 20+ min · · An endless bombardment of news and gossip and images has rendered us manic information addicts. It broke me. It might break you, too. · Shared by 940, including Mark Kaigwa, Katja Evertz, Jane, Chris Messina, Thomas Power, Inês Silva, Mark Bao, M.G. Siegler, @ShannaPeeples@mastodon.nl, Liv 😷, Stowe Boyd, Matthew Guay, Yann “不停” Heurtaux ⏚ @shalf@mastodon.social, Dominik Grolimund, Klaus Eck, Mathew Ingram, Nir Eyal, Rico Grimm, Aleyda Solis 🇺🇦, Michael Carroll
land-book.com
Land-book - the finest hand-picked website inspirations
1 min · · Design gallery with the best and most carefully collected websites. We help creatives find inspiration & motivation to do rad stuff. · Shared by 350, including ᴄʟᴀᴜᴅɪᴏ sᴄʜᴡᴀʀᴢ, Thomas Power, Courtney Bolton ★, Katja Evertz, Helmi, Shawn Venasse, Matthias Lampe, Chris Messina, Amanda Goetz, Mark Kaigwa, Dominik Grolimund, Rodrigo Prior, Josep M. Ganyet, thoughtbot, Klaus Eck, Rand Fishkin, Sunnie J. Groeneveld, Stephen C Sanders, Tibor Martini 🇺🇦 @tibor@mastodon.social, Daniel Williams
danluu.com
Programming book list
20+ min · · Programming book list There are a lot of “12 CS books every programmer must read” lists floating around out there. That's nonsense. The field is too broad for almost any topic to be required reading… · Shared by 129, including Kaspar Manz, Thompson Marzagão, Florian Hanke 🍎, Emerson Macedo, Twitty, Thomas Spreng, Kenneth Kalmer, Paddy Zab, Nils Hitze, Philipp Laurim, Chandan Jog, PotHix, Bm, Ferit (at 🏠) 🌙, Nico Müller 🇺🇦, Matthias Lampe, Leslie D, Stephen C Sanders, Veronika Lampion
Intercom
The marketing book for startups
· There are a thousand theories, practices, techniques and growth hacks for marketing your product. But which ones matter to startups? This marketing book will show you how to build your brand and sell… · Shared by 284, including Agustin, L. Taylor Banks, Dorota Lipczyńska, Chloe Abrasada, Gerald Soparkar, Weiting Chen, Victor Tolosa, kp, Ferran Sala, Klaus Eck, Philipp Laurim, Dominik Grolimund, Baadier Sydow 🇿🇦, Jacob Jarnvall, Chris Messina, Oleg Baskov, Vincenzo Tremonte, designshard, Luca M. Sergio, Herbert Bay
readinglist.design
Readinglist.design - Books Every Designer Should Read
· Some of industry's best designers answer the question 'What book should designers read and why?' · Shared by 78, including Diane Lee, Atul Pradhananga, Katja Evertz, Chris {he, they} , Neil Lee, Mike Taylor, Victor Tolosa, Marinel Bijmolt🤓, Maarten Mieras, Kam
Vox
Yuval Harari, author of Sapiens, on how meditation made him a better historian
11+ min · · What kind of mind creates a book like Sapiens? A clear one. · Shared by 81, including Vitor Furtado Silva, Howard Getson, Jane, Nathan Sudds
The Atlantic
How to Learn New Things as an Adult
20+ min · · A new book explores the psychology of mastering skills and absorbing information · Shared by 336, including Jane, Tom Connor, Tauno, Memen Isimo, Stephanie Draper
VANITY FAIR
How Two Trailblazing Psychologists Turned the World of Decision Science Upside Down
20+ min · · After his book Moneyball became a best-seller, Michael Lewis learned that many of the ideas it presented to the general public had actually been introduced decades earlier by a pair of Israeli psychologists: Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky. · Shared by 79, including Veronika Lampion, Nico Müller 🇺🇦, Thomas Power, Pat Kua, Katja Evertz, Dr. Nettra Pan 👁, Anthony Hamelle, hiten.eth, Tom Connor, Jane
The Guardian
Less ado: Boris Johnson's Shakespeare book delayed for 'foreseeable future'
1 min · · The incoming prime minister’s Shakespeare: The Riddle of Genius was scheduled for October 2016, but has been pushed back multiple times · Shared by 7
The Guardian
More than £1bn of food wasted before reaching supermarkets
2 min · · Wrap report finds 3.6m tonnes of food is thrown away or fed to animals each year in the UK · Shared by 18
Longreads
The First Book
20+ min · · Eleven women writers on this apocryphal publishing milestone. · Shared by 17
The Guardian
Donald Trump Jr writes Triggered, 'the book leftist elites don't want you to read!'
1 min · · President’s eldest child claims his literary effort will ‘expose tricks the left uses to smear conservatives’ · Shared by 9
The Telegraph
Human brain can store 4.7 billion books - ten times more than originally thought
1 min · · One petabyte is the same as 20 million four-drawer filing cabinets filled with text,13.3 years of HD-TV recordings, 4.7 billion books or 670 million web pages · Shared by 18, including Tiago Forte
Slate
100 Great Books for an Ambitious Teenage Reader
6 min · · Classics and contemporary novels, comics and plays, literature and trash. · Shared by 20, including NY Public Library, Gretchen Rubin, @ShannaPeeples@mastodon.nl
CBC
Margaret Atwood's sequel to The Handmaid's Tale, The Testaments, longlisted for 2019 Booker Prize
1 min · · The Booker Prize annually recognizes the best English-language novel published in the U.K. The Testaments will be published in Canada on Sept. 10. · Shared by 5
The Guardian
Margaret Fulton, trailblazing Australian food writer, dies aged 94
1 min · · The acclaimed author and cook is often credited with introducing generations of Australians to international cuisine · Shared by 6