The Best Articles in Digital Life

The most useful articles and videos in Digital Life from around the web—beginners to advanced—curated by thought leaders and our community. We focus on timeless pieces and update the list whenever we discover new, must-read articles or videos—make sure to bookmark and revisit this page.

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Top 5 Digital Life Articles

At a glance: these are the articles that have been most read, shared, and saved in Digital Life by Refind users in 2023 so far.

  1. Digital detoxes don’t actually work
  2. ChatGPT Is a Blurry JPEG of the Web
  3. Ranked: The Top 50 Most Visited Websites in the World
  4. why Japan's internet is weirdly designed
  5. The Strangely Beautiful Experience of Google Reviews

Videos

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Short Articles

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Long Articles

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Thought Leaders

We monitor hundreds of thought leaders, influencers, and newsletters in Digital Life, including:

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OM

Partner emeritus @Trueventures I was a reporter once. I write about tech @ http://om.co My Tumblr: http://Om.blog. Subscribe to my FREE Newsletter: http://om.co/newsletters/

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Seth Godin

Author, blogger, a lifetime of projects. This is a retweet of my blog.

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zeynep tufekci

Complex systems, wicked problems. Society, technology, science and more. @Columbia professor. @NYTimes columnist. My newsletter @insight http://www.theinsight.org

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Mark Manson

3x #1 NYTimes bestselling author. Best known for F-Bombs and uncomfortable truths. Giving life advice that doesn't suck since 2008.

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Nir Eyal

Bestselling author of "Hooked" and "Indistractable"

Publications

We monitor hundreds of publications, blogs, newsletters, and news sources in Digital Life, including:

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MIT Technology Review

Our in-depth reporting on innovation reveals and explains what’s really happening now to help you know what’s coming next. http://technologyreview.com/newsletters

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Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦

Writes about economics, tweets about rabbits. Subscribe to my Substack: http://noahpinion.substack.com Email: noahpiniontwitter@gmail.com

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Rest of World

We're a nonprofit publication covering global technology outside the West. Sign up: http://restofworld.org/newsletter/

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Visual Capitalist

Data-driven visual content focused on global trends, investing, technology, and the economy.

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Stratechery

Free Articles from http://stratechery.com. For Daily Updates, follow @StratecheryMO. For the author, follow @benthompson.

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