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Confessions of a Middle-Class Founder
During the boom times, I launched a start-up so I could become rich. Years later, I’m still looking for my exit.
Spotify Is Eating the Entire Music Business
As indie music platforms like Bandcamp deteriorate, artists must cater to a single, powerful streaming platform.
How Loro Piana Became Silicon Valley’s Favorite Flex
The luxury Italian fashion brand is no longer quite as understated as it once was.
COVID Lockdowns Were a Giant Experiment. It Was a Failure.
A key lesson of the pandemic.
New York Magazine on Activism
New York Magazine on Advertising
What Happens When Ads Generate Themselves?
AI is great at creating uncanny-valley product photos. Its utility for consumers is less clear.
New York Magazine on Business
The Junkification of Amazon
The “everything store” has gotten junkier and more chaotic. But, for the company, it’s only good business.
Are Apple’s New Goggles a Nightmare? Maybe.
The Vision Pro — think of it as a face computer — is surreal, fascinating, unsettling, and $3,500.
New York Magazine on Crime
The Case of the Fake Sherlock
Richard Walter was hailed as a genius criminal profiler at murder trials, at forensic conferences, and on true-crime TV. In reality, he was a fraud.
$100 Million Gone in 27 Minutes
After possibly the most expensive jewelry heist in U.S. history, Brink’s went after the victims.
New York Magazine on Crypto
How Did SBF Convince West Africans Crypto Was Their Future?
At least Madoff’s clients were rich.
Can Gary Gensler Survive Crypto Winter?
Following the Bankman-Fried debacle, SEC chief Gary Gensler is getting tough — and answering questions about his role in the mess.
New York Magazine on Politics
Your Moral Equation Must Have Human Beings on Both Sides
Ignoring universal humanity is the path to murder.
How to Make a Semi-Fascist Party
The hostile, paranoid, and increasingly authoritarian path ahead for American conservatism.
New York Magazine on Silicon Valley
Peter Thiel’s Origin Story
His ideology dominates Silicon Valley. It began to form when he was an angry young man.
«perhaps the most important influence in the world’s most influential industry.»
How to Major in Unicorn
Many of the 1,700 freshmen arriving in Palo Alto this September didn’t come for the Romantic poetry but to network, raise capital, and drop out.
New York Magazine on Trump
Donald Trump Didn’t Want to Be President
One year ago: the plan to lose, and the administration’s shocked first days.
The Final Campaign
Inside his sad, lonely, thirsty, broken, basically pretend run for reelection. (Which isn’t to say he can’t win.)
New York Magazine on Twitter
The ‘Twitter Files’ Is What It Claims to Expose
The purported exposé of Twitter’s political bias is itself an attempt to weaponize control of Twitter for political purposes.
Inside Elon’s ‘Extremely Hardcore’ Twitter
Twitter’s staff spent years trying to protect the platform against impulsive, ranting billionaires — then one made himself the CEO.
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The Rise and Fall of Wall Street’s Most Controversial Investor
Cathie Wood built a thriving brand out of price-prediction porn — then the tech bubble popped.
The Guru Burns Out
He sold 12 million copies of The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck. Then he started taking his own advice.
AI Art Is Here and the World Is Already Different
Work, communication, and even thought change when we can instantly command convincing images into existence.
My Week With America’s Smartest* People
The strange but affirming experience that is Mensa’s Annual Gathering.
Andrew Sullivan: My Distraction Sickness — and Yours
An endless bombardment of news and gossip and images has rendered us manic information addicts. It broke me. It might break you, too.
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New York Magazine on Social Media
The Rise of Influencer Capital
How social media, celebrity promoters, and banks looking for a quick buck transformed the markets.
Why Wartime Social Media Is Hellish and Disorienting
The Israel-Hamas war shows how platforms like Twitter are moving further downstream from reality.