The Best of The Outline
10+ most popular The Outline articles, as voted by our community.
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The Outline on Apple
The Outline on Fiction
We should all be reading more Ursula Le Guin
Her novels imagine other worlds, but her theory of fiction can help us better live in this one.
The Outline on Gig Economy
No one makes a living on Patreon
Who is really benefiting from the crowdfunding site for artists?
The Outline on Lifestyle
I got my life together and now I’m constantly bored
Is this really what being an adult is like?
The Outline on Logic
The magical thinking of guys who love logic
Why so many men online love to use “logic” to win an argument, and then disappear before they can find out they're wrong.
The Outline on Skincare
The skincare con
Skin has withstood millions of years of evolution. How could we be getting it so wrong now?
The Outline on Sports
The fight to make soccer less fun
The Video Assisted Referee is transforming soccer. It is also revealing some of the deepest contradictions about the ways we think about law, power, and politics.
The Outline on UX
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Resolved: Debate is stupid
Wow, that is correct and there is no counterargument. Debate is indeed very stupid.
The thesaurus is good, valuable, commendable, superb, actually
In defense of the much-maligned reference book.
The rise of the ambient video game
‘The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild’ and its contemporaries are sensory soothing software several decades in the making.
Long live the group chat
A look at the beauty, ubiquity, and therapy of group chats for black and brown people.
Why does Google think Obama is planning a coup d'etat?
Google's featured snippets are often alarmingly bad.
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