The New Yorker
The Pitfalls and the Potential of the New Minimalism
5 min · · The mantra of “less is more” still obeys a logic of accumulation—but it hints at genuinely different ways of thinking. · Shared by 245, including Stephanie A Kowalski, Stowe Boyd, Bjorn Larsen, Kyle Chayka, Mars Rebello, Rich, Liv 😷, Agnese Folli
The Guardian
The empty promises of Marie Kondo and the craze for minimalism
15+ min · · The long read: From the ‘KonMari method’ to Apple’s barely-there design philosophy, we are forever being urged to declutter and simplify our lives. But does minimalism really make us any happier? · Shared by 600, including Liliane Ferrari ™, Jane, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Javi Cantón @javicanton@mas.to, Agnese Folli, Fern, Katja Evertz, Stephanie A Kowalski, Kyle Chayka, Esther Schindler, Tillmann Allmer, Guy Kawasaki, Ceferino Díaz, Felix M, Johannes Dornisch, Mars Rebello, Liv 😷
MIT Technology Review
Why an internet that never forgets is especially bad for young people
7 min · · As past identities become stickier for those entering adulthood, it’s not just individuals who will suffer. Society will too. · Shared by 211, including Liliane Ferrari ™, Casie Gillette, Kelsey D. Atherton, now available on Bluesky, Mike Butcher, ΛLΞX TRΞJʘ, Remo Uherek, Brad Brooks, Mark Kaigwa, Rick Powell, Neeraj K Agrawal, Anthony Hamelle, Brian Roemmele, Mars Rebello, Javi Cantón @javicanton@mas.to, Hugo Amsellem, Chris Gledhill
New Scientist
A type of brainwave may help clean your brain while you sleep
2 min · · Slow waves of electrical activity through your brain may help rinse away its waste products while you sleep. The process seems to go awry in Alzheimer's disease · Shared by 140, including 瑞拿頭, Mars Rebello, Prof. Sally Eaves, Liv 😷, commander zero, George J Huba PhD
The Guardian
How our home delivery habit reshaped the world
20+ min · · The long read: The great trick of online retail has been to get us to shop more and think less about how our purchases reach our homes · Shared by 138, including Gianluca Diegoli, Jill I-Am-Permanently-OFF-Bird-Site Duffy, Ines Bieler, Mars Rebello, Javi Cantón @javicanton@mas.to, Till Quack, Dominik Grolimund, @grzewap@mastodon.social, Bernhard Huessy, Brian Laung Aoaeh, CFA, Jane, Daniel
TED Talks
5 effective exercises to help you stop believing your unwanted automatic thoughts
8 min · · Most of us live with a constant stream of internal criticisms, statements and commands running through our heads. But we do have a choice: We don’t have to let them define us — or our d… · Shared by 317, including Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Rich, Mars Rebello, Carly, Jonathan Kogan, Lee Keyes
Fast Company
The 4 fastest ways to protect your online privacy, starting right now
5 min · · Here’s how to keep Google, Facebook, and your ISP out of your personal data, with just a few steps. · Shared by 40, including Mars Rebello, Niklaus Gerber, Katja Evertz
Ars Technica
A 43,900-year-old cave painting is the oldest story ever recorded
6 min · · Archaeologists say it might also contain the oldest known religious images. · Shared by 78, including Stephanie A Kowalski, Jennifer Ouellette, Ward Plunet, Mars Rebello, Javi Cantón @javicanton@mas.to, Faik Ersoy
Vox
Millennials have dinner parties, they just don’t call them that
11+ min · · Like many things millennials "killed," the dinner party has simply adapted for the post-recession era. · Shared by 28, including Esther Schindler
BuzzFeed News
100 Best Memes Of The Decade
· From planking to VSCO girls. · Shared by 257, including Tom Connor, Johannes Lenz, Matthew Perpetua, Fern, Virginia Hughes, Gisele Navarro, Mark Kaigwa, jennifer daniel, Rob Kniaz 🛬🇬🇧, Simon Carless, Luis Roig | @darum@indieweb.social, Klaus Eck, Marcus Schwarze 🚀, Daniel, Katja Evertz
The Atlantic
The Instagram Aesthetic Is Over
6 min · · The look made famous by the platform just doesn’t resonate anymore. · Shared by 223, including Builtvisible, Dominik Grolimund, Javi Cantón @javicanton@mas.to, Jörgen Camrath, Matthias «Delay» Göbel, hiten.eth, Shawn Venasse, Matt Navarra, Ste Davies, Marsha Collier, Oliver Reichenstein, Design Shack, Jan Firsching 🆒, Anthony Hamelle, Raphael Raue, Johannes Lenz, Christopher Lauer™, fernand0, Thomas Pleil, TaylorLorenz.Substack.com
The New Yorker
The Age of Instagram Face
5 min · · How social media, FaceTune, and plastic surgery created a single, cyborgian look. · Shared by 400, including 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Jane, Dr. Alec Couros, Kyle Chayka, TonyParisi.eth, Wesley Fryer, Ph.D. 🌎🎙🚀 wesfryer.com/after, MIT Press, John Nosta, Mathew Ingram, Ian M Calvert, David Wallace-Wells, Marsha Collier, Richard Gutjahr, Liliane Ferrari ™, Thomas Power, Amber Mac, MΛRC VIDΛL, Gabriele, Mark Kaigwa, Matt Navarra
anildash.com
“Link In Bio” is a slow knife
3 min · · We don’t even notice it anymore — “link in bio”. It’s a pithy phrase, usually found on Instagram, which directs an audience to be aware that a pertinent web link can be found on that user’s profile.… · Shared by 232, including Sachin Rekhi, Marko Saric, Ines Bieler, Scott Jenson left for Mastodon, Florian Hanke 🍎, Ross Hudgens, Mari Smith, Mark Kaigwa, Ethan Marcotte, Mars Rebello, Chris Messina, Fabricio Teixeira, Matthias «Delay» Göbel, Gabriele, Mark Little, @rastrau@mstdn.social, sascha aßbach, Vincenzo Tremonte
The Verge
32 moments that made the decade
16+ min · · From Tinder swipes to self-driving cars, these were the moments that shaped the decade. · Shared by 320, including Tauno, Ines Bieler, Keith Keller, Tom Connor, luis antónio santos, Desmond Williams, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Josep M. Ganyet
MIT Technology Review
First Evidence That Online Dating Is Changing the Nature of Society
8 min · · Dating websites have changed the way couples meet. Now evidence is emerging that this change is influencing levels of interracial marriage and even the stability of marriage itself. · Shared by 870, including Bjorn Larsen, Oliver Gassner https://mastodon.social/@oliverg, Azeem Azhar, Thomas Power, Nir Eyal, Luzius Meisser, Chris Messina, Victor Tolosa, Steven L. Johnson (he/him) @steven@cville.online, ⎝Stéphan Lam⎠💬, Jane, Sascha Brossmann (he/him) 🇪🇺🇺🇦, Dominik Grolimund, Nico Luchsinger, Taylor Pearson, Ines Bieler, Philip Stehlik, Grégoire Japiot 🌻, Sachin Rekhi, Esther Schindler
The New York Times
I Was Once a Socialist. Then I Saw How It Worked.
8 min · · Two cheers for capitalism, now and forever. · Shared by 61, including Chris Burniske, Christina Hoff Sommers, Katja Evertz, Jonathan Haidt, Ted Coiné, Matthias Lampe, Bill George, Alain, Paul Graham, Steve Case