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Most Popular Friday May 28, 2021 Why You Should Wait Out the Wild Housing Market theatlantic.com Ideas Rising inventory is one of several signs that we may have reached peak ludicrousness. May 28, 2021 Derek Thompson Staff writer at The Atlantic The Atlantic / Getty H ow wild is the U.S. housing Save Thursday May 27, 2021 Eavesdropping on $5,000 Anti-Racist Dinner Parties thecut.com This article was featured in One Great Story , New York 's reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. Photo: Jesus Trillo Lago/Getty Images/iStockphoto Were White Fragility to Save Wednesday May 26, 2021 The media's lab leak fiasco slowboring.com As I believe I have said before, I spent the month of February 2020 intensely focused on covering the seemingly imminent victory of Bernie Sanders in the Democratic Party's presidential primary. I ded Save Monday May 24, 2021 Are U.S. Officials Under Silent Attack? newyorker.com During the final weeks of the Trump Administration, a senior official on the National Security Council sat at his desk in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, across from the West Wing, on the Wh Save Sunday May 23, 2021 Yearbook Photos of Girls Were Altered to Hide Their Chests nytimes.com Photos of at least 80 female students at a Florida school had been digitally edited. The school superintendent said there was no "intent to embarrass or shame" them for the clothes they wore. Riley O' Save Saturday May 22, 2021 Apple and the End of the Car as We Know It wsj.com For a century, the automobile was a system of interoperating mechanics: engine, transmission, drive shaft, brakes, etc. As those mechanics evolved, electronic sensors and processors were brought in to Save instapaper.com  ·  @instapaper  ·  unsubscribe © 2021 Instapaper, All rights reserved. P.O. Box 22717 · Oakland, CA 94609

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Top Highlight Efficiency is the Enemy fs.blog DeMarco defines slack as the degree of freedom required to effect change. Slack is the natural enemy of efficiency and efficiency is the natural enemy of slack. Elsewhere, he writes: Slack represents operational capacity sacrificed in the interests of long-term health. Save Most Popular Friday May 21, 2021 The Top 5 Longreads of the Week longreads.com This week, we're sharing stories from Nathan Thrall, H. Claire Brown, Alexander Chee, Jean Garnett, and Erica Lenti. Sign up to receive this list free every Friday in your inbox. 1. A Day in the Life Save Thursday May 20, 2021 What Happens When Americans Can Finally Exhale theatlantic.com Health The pandemic's mental wounds are still wide open. Ed Yong May 20, 2021 Getty / The Atlantic This time last year, the United States seemed stuck on a COVID-19 plateau. Although 1,300 Americans w Save Wednesday May 19, 2021 The 24-Inch M1 iMac daringfireball.net The return of vibrant hardware color options to the iMac lineup immediately brings to mind the G3 iMacs that Apple sold from 1998 to 2003. 20 years is a long time, but I'll go back further, to the ori Save Tuesday May 18, 2021 Fierce Nerds paulgraham.com May 2021 Most people think of nerds as quiet, diffident people. In ordinarysocial situations they are — as quiet and diffident as the starquarterback would be if he found himself in the middle of a ph Save Sunday May 16, 2021 The man who didn't invent Flamin' Hot Cheetos latimes.com For the last decade, Richard Montañez has been telling the story of how he invented Flamin' Hot Cheetos. The world has been eating it up. It goes like this: He was working as a janitor at Frito-Lay's Save Saturday May 15, 2021 The Assorted Teachings of Dogecoin nytimes.com Created as a cryptocurrency parody in 2013, Dogecoin languished for years. Then, in 2021, it went absolutely wild. What have its holders learned? The price of Dogecoin, a cryptocurrency created in 201 Save instapaper.com  ·  @instapaper  ·  unsubscribe © 2021 Instapaper, All rights reserved. P.O. Box 22717 · Oakland, CA 94609

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Top Highlight Efficiency is the Enemy fs.blog DeMarco defines slack as the degree of freedom required to effect change. Slack is the natural enemy of efficiency and efficiency is the natural enemy of slack. Elsewhere, he writes: Slack represents operational capacity sacrificed in the interests of long-term health. Save Most Popular Friday May 14, 2021 Starlink review: broadband dreams fall to Earth theverge.com The problem with reality is that it is very irritating. In our imaginations, we might dream of a satellite internet system that delivers lightning-fast broadband speeds from space, freeing us from the Save Wednesday May 12, 2021 Who Should John Mulaney Be Now? vulture.com John Mulaney hosting SNL in 2020, just before he returned to rehab. Photo: Kyle Dubiel/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images John Mulaney walked onto the stage at City Winery in New York wearing a long Save Tuesday May 11, 2021 Inside the Secretive Swiss Bank For the World's Richest People bloomberg.com In the mythology of private banking, Banque Pictet & Cie SA stands apart. Over the course of more than two centuries, the Swiss institution has discreetly tended to the assets of the very rich, led by Save Monday May 10, 2021 Why Confederate Lies Live On theatlantic.com Paul Spella This article was published online on May 10, 2021. M ost of the people who come to Blandford Cemetery, in Petersburg, Virginia, come for the windows—masterpieces of Tiffany glass in the ce Save Sunday May 9, 2021 A Pennsylvania Lawmaker and the Resurgence of Christian Nationalism newyorker.com Doug Mastriano, a Republican state senator from Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, and parts of neighboring counties, was a little-known figure in state politics before the coronavirus pandemic. But, in the pa Save Saturday May 8, 2021 Cyberattack Forces a Shutdown of a Top U.S. Pipeline nytimes.com The operator, Colonial Pipeline, said it had halted systems for its 5,500 miles of pipeline after being hit by a ransomware attack. A Colonial Pipeline facility in Pelham, Ala. The company said it had Save instapaper.com  ·  @instapaper  ·  unsubscribe © 2021 Instapaper, All rights reserved. P.O. Box 22717 · Oakland, CA 94609

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Top Highlight 99 Additional Bits of Unsolicited Advice kk.org Your best response to an insult is Youre probably right. Often they are. Save Most Popular Friday May 7, 2021 Melinda Gates Warned Bill About Jeffrey Epstein thedailybeast.com exclusive Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast / Photos via Getty Melinda Gates met with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein alongside her husband, Bill, in New York City and soon after said she w Save Thursday May 6, 2021 Crazy New Ideas paulgraham.com May 2021 There's one kind of opinion I'd be very afraid to express publicly.If someone I knew to be both a domain expert and a reasonable personproposed an idea that sounded preposterous, I'd be very Save Wednesday May 5, 2021 The Untold Story of How Jeff Bezos Beat the Tabloids bloomberg.com "Raise your hand if you think you've had a harder week than I've had." It was Feb. 14, 2019, in the early afternoon, and for perhaps the first time in the 25-year history of Amazon.com Inc. , Jeff Bez Save Tuesday May 4, 2021 Inside the all-hands meeting that led to a third of Basecamp employees quitting theverge.com I. At 8AM PT on Friday, a bleary-eyed Basecamp CEO Jason Fried gathered his remote workforce together on Zoom to apologize. Four days earlier, he had thrown the company into turmoil by announcing that Save Monday May 3, 2021 Millions Are Saying No to the Vaccines. What Are They Thinking? theatlantic.com Ideas Feelings about the vaccine are intertwined with feelings about the pandemic. May 3, 2021 Derek Thompson Staff writer at The Atlantic Adam Maida / The Atlantic Updated at 10:07 a.m. ET on May 4, Save Sunday May 2, 2021 John Swartzwelder, Sage of "The Simpsons" newyorker.com It's been nearly twenty years since the reclusive, mysterious, almost mythical comedy writer John Swartzwelder left "The Simpsons," and yet, to this day, one of the biggest compliments a "Simpsons" wr Save Saturday May 1, 2021 Opinion | The Jimmy Carter and Joe Biden Show nytimes.com Maureen Dowd The Jimmy Carter and Joe Biden Show May 1, 2021 Credit... Office of Senator Joseph Biden, via Associated Press By Ms. Dowd is an Opinion Columnist WASHINGTON — Joe Biden has respect for h Save instapaper.com  ·  @instapaper  ·  unsubscribe © 2021 Instapaper, All rights reserved. P.O. Box 22717 · Oakland, CA 94609