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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