9 Best Articles in 2021
The New York Times
Stop Trying to Be Productive
The New York Times
6 min read · 1164 saves · 2020-04-01 · Taylor Lorenz · The internet wants you to believe you aren’t doing enough with all that “extra time” you have now. But staying inside and attending to basic needs is plenty.
medium.com
How Technology Hijacks People’s Minds — from a Magician and Google’s Design Ethicist — Medium
medium.com
~16 min read · 1088 saves · From 2016 · When using technology, we often focus optimistically on all the things it does for us. But I want you to show you where it might do the opposite.
Guardian Tech
'Our minds can be hijacked': the tech insiders who fear a smartphone dystopia
Guardian Tech
988 saves · From 2017 · The Google, Apple and Facebook workers who helped make technology so addictive are disconnecting themselves from the internet. Paul Lewis reports on the Silicon Valley refuseniks who worry the race…
The Pudding
How Bad Is Your Spotify?
The Pudding
742 saves · 2020-12-22 · Our sophisticated A.I. judges your awful taste in music.
Ness Labs
From FOMO to JOMO: the joy of missing out September 6, 2019 In Mental Health
Ness Labs
5 min read · 674 saves · 2019-09-06 · JOMO—the joy of missing out—is a way to live an intentional life. It’s realising that FOMO is distracting you from your life’s purpose.
MIT Technology Review
Our weird behavior during the pandemic is screwing with AI models
MIT Technology Review
6 min read · 597 saves · 2020-05-11 · Anyone looking for an illustration of how rapidly shopping habits changed when covid-19 hit needed only to glance at the top 10 search terms on Amazon in the week of April 12 to 18. In place of former…
WIRED
Wikipedia Is the Last Best Place on the Internet
WIRED
3 min read · 593 saves · 2020-02-17 · In this article for Wired, cultural correspondent Richard Clarke tracks the origins, the day-to-day functioning and the likely future of Wikipedia. He discusses how its founders first regarded it as an adjunct to another site; how “Wikignomes” keep the site up and running; how Alexa and Siri depend on Wikipedia for answers and will depend on it even more in the future; and why everyone who uses Wikipedia still remains slightly reluctant to cite it as a source. Clarke’s lively writing and lucid insights will captivate anyone who uses Wikipedia – that is, pretty much everyone.
CNBC
Stanford psychology expert: This is the No. 1 work skill of the future—but most fail to realize…
CNBC
5 min read · 508 saves · 2019-10-09 · The skill you most need at work is one that also helps you at home, says psychology expert and best-selling author Nir Eyal.
Entrepreneur
6 Smart Home Gadgets That Are Actually Worth Owning
Entrepreneur
3 min read · 484 saves · 2020-03-09 · Like any tech product, some smart home devices are better than others.
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WIRED
A 25-Year-Old Bet Comes Due: Has Tech Destroyed Society?
WIRED
2 min read · 229 saves · Jan 5th · Steven Levy · In 1995, a WIRED cofounder challenged a Luddite-loving doomsayer to a prescient wager on tech and civilization’s fate. Now their judge weighs in.
The New York Times
We Worked Together on the Internet. Last Week, He Stormed the Capitol.
The New York Times
7 min read · 219 saves · Jan 11th · Ben Smith · At BuzzFeed, we followed the signals of social media. A young employee followed them all the way to Charlottesville and Capitol Hill.
Fast Company
Start the new year with a digital declutter
Fast Company
6 min read · 212 saves · Jan 2nd · Clear out your digital clutter and find focus and calm in 30 days and 5 easy ways to maintain it over the long-term.
WIRED
WhatsApp Has Shared Your Data With Facebook for Years, Actually
WIRED
2 min read · 190 saves · Jan 8th · A pop-up notification has alerted the messaging app's users to a practice that's been in place since 2016.
9to5Mac.com
App privacy labels show stark contrasts among messaging apps
9to5Mac.com
2 min read · 133 saves · Jan 4th · Ben Lovejoy · Apple's new app privacy labels went live in the App Store last month, giving users the chance to see what data is collected by each ...
Vox
What is Signal, and why is everybody downloading it right now?
Vox
4 min read · 98 saves · Jan 12th · Rani Molla · The encrypted messaging app is currently the most downloaded app on both app stores.
The Economist
Wikipedia is 20, and its reputation has never been higher
The Economist
6 min read · 87 saves · Jan 9th · The crowdsourced encyclopedia is a welcome oddity on the modern internet
The Verge
Who decides what stays on the internet?
The Verge
6 min read · 78 saves · Jan 12th · Nilay Patel · Trump, Twitter, and the First Amendment.
The Markup
In Georgia, Facebook’s Changes Brought Back a Partisan News Feed
The Markup
6 min read · 78 saves · Jan 5th · Ahead of crucial senate runoffs, Facebook reversed its political ad ban, and the impact was visible on users’ feeds
Harvard Business Review
How Social Media’s Obsession with Scale Supercharged Disinformation
Harvard Business Review
4 min read · 53 saves · Jan 13th · Facebook and Twitter’s business models have led to astronomical growth — but at what cost?
