The New Yorker
The Pitfalls and the Potential of the New Minimalism
5 min read · From 2020 · The mantra of “less is more” still obeys a logic of accumulation—but it hints at genuinely different ways of thinking.
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The Guardian
The empty promises of Marie Kondo and the craze for minimalism
~15 min read · From 2020 · 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?
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MIT Technology Review
Why an internet that never forgets is especially bad for young people
7 min read · From 2019 · As past identities become stickier for those entering adulthood, it’s not just individuals who will suffer. Society will too.
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New Scientist
A type of brainwave may help clean your brain while you sleep
2 min read · From 2019 · 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
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Guardian Tech
How our home delivery habit reshaped the world
20+ min read · From 2019 · 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
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TED Talks
5 effective exercises to help you stop believing your unwanted automatic thoughts
8 min read · From 2019 · 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…
Reader View · Shared by 305, including Merkstatt, Rich, Mars Rebello, Carly, Jonathan Kogan, Lee Keyes
Fast Company
The 4 fastest ways to protect your online privacy, starting right now
5 min read · From 2019 · Here’s how to keep Google, Facebook, and your ISP out of your personal data, with just a few steps.
Reader View · 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 read · From 2019 · Archaeologists say it might also contain the oldest known religious images.
Reader View · Shared by 77, including Stephanie A Kowalski, Jennifer Ouellette, Ward Plunet, Mars Rebello, Javi Cantón, Faik Ersoy
Vox
Millennials have dinner parties, they just don’t call them that
~11 min read · From 2019 · Like many things millennials "killed," the dinner party has simply adapted for the post-recession era.
Reader View · Shared by 28, including Esther Schindler
BuzzFeed News
100 Best Memes Of The Decade
From 2019 · From planking to VSCO girls.
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The Atlantic
The Instagram Aesthetic Is Over
6 min read · From 2019 · The look made famous by the platform just doesn’t resonate anymore.
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The New Yorker
The Age of Instagram Face
5 min read · From 2019 · How social media, FaceTune, and plastic surgery created a single, cyborgian look.
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anildash
“Link In Bio” is a slow knife
3 min read · From 2019 · 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.…
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The Verge
32 moments that made the decade
~16 min read · From 2019 · From Tinder swipes to self-driving cars, these were the moments that shaped the decade.
Reader View · Shared by 317, including Tauno, Ines Bieler, Keith Keller, Tom Connor, luis antónio santos, Desmond Williams, Merkstatt, Josep M. Ganyet
MIT Technology Review
First Evidence That Online Dating Is Changing the Nature of Society
8 min read · From 2017 · 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.
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The New York Times
I Was Once a Socialist. Then I Saw How It Worked.
8 min read · From 2019 · Two cheers for capitalism, now and forever.
Reader View · Shared by 58, including Chris Burniske, Christina Sommers, Katja Evertz, Jonathan Haidt, Ted Coiné, Matthias Lampe, Bill George, Alain, Paul Graham, Steve Case
