After a long week+ of partying, I treated myself to some birthday long reads. The Huffington Post on “cliteracy” The New York Times on the horrifying working conditions of nail salons The Guardian on psychosomatic illness The Guardian again on porn data Mada Masr on meticulously structured chaos Wired on the math behind Starbucks drinks
When I was young, there were things I thought only adults could do right: The way my mother could perfectly braid my hair, the way my father knew how to bargain with a car salesperson…these were “adult” things that I would someday, somehow learn. A friend recently said to me that he doesn’t reflect much […]
I’m a week late to this, but I was just reading Mark Zuckerberg’s personal announcement of changes to Facebook’s Community Standards and the release of a new government requests report. Read it in its entirety; it’s a real treat and a key to understanding the warped bubble that is Silicon Valley. It’s also rather long, […]