It’s a phenomenon unique to the social media-centric era we live in—an era when even cancer is content.
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Startup minimalism is no longer novel; it’s a baseline for companies seeking to develop their brand identities.
— Eliza Brooke, How the Great Recession influenced a decade of design
2018 draws to a close, I’m continuing a favorite tradition of mine and sharing my year-end lists. It gives me a moment to pause and reflect on the year through the books, movies, and music that I found most thought-provoking, inspiring, or just plain loved. It also gives me a chance to highlight tal…
The internet is amazingly well tuned to give you what you 'want' — whether you want it or not. If you can’t look away from a car crash, it will surmise you want more car crashes and will create them for you.
In 2002, the body of a man who had committed suicide was found in his residence. The police struggled to identify his next-of-kin. After making contact, they discovered this man wasn’t who he said he was at all. Instead, he had the identity of an 8-year-old boy who had died in a car accident in 1945…
— Magdalene Taylor, The True-Crime Stories That Made Our Jaws Drop in 2018
The sky turning an eerie fluorescent blue is cause for plenty of alarm, whether or not you’re high, and plenty of New Yorkers reportedly began packing go bags. Others, however, decided that they just had to get a few tweets off before the blue light consumed bodies and the world descended into darkn…
It should be as easy to buy content as it is to buy and play CandyCrush.
— Dave Carroll, If ad tech is not sustainable, what can publishers do?
Just like Wall Street, it’s nearly impossible to approach ad tech, with the greatest minds in a generation put to the task of making it that way.
— Dave Carroll, If ad tech is not sustainable, what can publishers do?
Took me like I was a hit Addicted but trying to quit Get over it Act like you already did So thirsty, you're drowning in it
I have been working out the wrong problem. Thousands of words on the wrong problem. I have perfected a two-handed backhand to clobber the lob that is coming at me that is: the wrong problem. I have aced the wrong problem.
— Elizabeth Wurtzel, Neither of My Parents Was Exactly Who I Thought They Were
We’ve never talked to Tik Tok, but clearly we need to. They need the site to be cleaned up—and now.
The update was quickly walked back, but not before #InstagramUpdate was trending on Twitter, with a combination of rage, fear and Bird Box memes.
A recurring theme each year is that sex is important and we should all try to have it
If you sit someone down and tell them solemnly that you want to propose something to them, and then that something is access to your dick, not only are they probably going to say no, but now you’ve made it weird.
— Sophia Benoit, How to Initiate a Friends with Benefits Situation
Each December, I reflect back on my favorite purchases of the year. I scour my closet, go through my bathroom shelves, and pore through receipts to take account of the things I bought and love the most from that year.
In letting others off the hook, I have let myself off the hook, too.
Fans online are calling her a New Year’s resolution hero, proclaiming 'we stan an icon.'
— Lauren Steussy, Fiona the hippo has no intention of losing weight in 2019
It’s used like a weapon. What it means is, ‘I don’t want to think about your concerns. I don’t want to have to extend my empathy.’
— Roxane Gay, ‘Public discourse rarely allows for nuance. And see where that’s gotten us’
Audiences are hungry for big scares, and this year’s slate of horror films didn’t disappoint.
— Dahlia Balcazar, These Are 2018's Best Horror Films about Women
We’re all trying to be seen clearly. We want people to love us. We want to be understood. But as someone who’s been involved in that project and that trap for over a quarter of a century now (UNBELIEVABLE) I have to tell you that learning to give yourself these things is the greatest skill of all.