The Rise of the New Groupthink

Collaboration is in. But it may not be conducive to creativity.

Internet: The New Internet Will Make You Sad Forever(via @Gizmodo)

The web used to be about other people. IMing your friend, emailing your wife, a chatroom with other guinea pig enthusiasts. Now it’s turning around. Information is becoming less important than emotion—the web is an empty nostalgia factory.

Americans: Undecided About God?

For some, the holiday season is a time to shake our heads over the sad state of our national conversation about God.

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Not that I agree with every statement— still food for thought.

Silence Is Golden

In an age of computer-generated images, green screens and 3-D glasses, sometimes silence speaks loudest.

Invoking Teddy Roosevelt, Obama Finds His Voice Posted by John Cassidy

Dear Watches

Leah Dieterich’s mother always told her to write thank you notes. So she does. To everything. thxthxthx is her daily exercise in gratitude.

David Foster Wallace on Life and Work: The capital-T Truth is about life before death. It is about making it to 30, or maybe 50, without wanting to shoot yourself in the head. It is about simple awareness -- awareness of what is so real and essential

Of the 1%, by the 1%, for the 1%: Americans have been watching protests against oppressive regimes that concentrate massive wealth in the hands of an elite few. Yet in our own democracy, 1 percent of the people take nearly a quarter of the nation’s i

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