What I read today - April 14
- DESIGNERS SHOULDN’T CODE—THEY SHOULD STUDY BUSINESS, InVision
- Not all community gardens are created equal, New Food Economy
- Zen and the art of social enterprise, New Food Economy
- From the world’s largest rooftop farm, an improbable business book, The New Food Economy
- Typecast: The Row House, Urban Omnibus
- There’s one major perk of globalization that only applies to rich people, Quartz
- Is that Begonia or Dishy Coral? Sherwin-Williams matches Pinterest colors to paints, Digiday
- The "Genius Grant" Foundation Just Took a Big Step on Changing the Criminal Justice System, Mic
- How Bloomberg's 20-person graphics team visualizes the news, Digiday
- Refinery29’s Philippe von Borries: 'The era of broad, indiscriminate scale is over', Digiday
- Beyond the blue liquid: Brands modernize menstruation marketing, Digiday
- Call climate change what it is: violence, The Guardian
- GOODBYE TO ALL THAT, BY JOAN DIDION
What I read today - April 12
- Adopt A Beehive — Save A Beekeeper?, NPR
- Enjoy Your Friends Before You Lose Them All at Age 25, Broadly
- The Illicit Spelunker Capturing Underground Scenes at Chernobyl, Atlas Obscura
- The Man Who Began America's Yurt Craze, Atlas Obscura
- Amazon's new Kindle Oasis has leaked: cool battery case, but not waterproof, The Verge
- What I Learned from Trying to Innovate at the New York Times, Harvard Business Review
- 6 THINGS THAT TAKE YOUR UX FROM ABOVE AVERAGE TO WORLD CLASS, InVision
- Should I Have Kids?, Medium
Been getting a little itch recently. I feel too young for kids but I know, realistically, that my clock is ticking. Never thought kids would be for me, but I'm curious about this life experience that everyone thinks is so grand. - This Temple In India Gives Free Food To 75,000 People Every Day, Organic Life
- THE ROAD TO MEDIOCRITY IS PAVED WITH BEST PRACTICES, InVision
Thank goodness. Design these days seems populated by the status quo. I'm over it. - Grow Up! How to Transform Your Roof into a Garden or Farm, Civil Eats
- BREAK THE UNIFORMITY!, Elle Decor
Callie calls Kinfolk "beige." It's an apt description. - The Bronx’s Depression-Era Boxcar Village, Where Lodging Was $3/Month, 6sqft
- How the ghost of Diana still haunts Highgrove: As Charles stages a festival to celebrate his beloved garden, RICHARD KAY reveals a poignant secret, Daily Mail
- Debate Over Prison Population Turns to the States, New York Times
What I read today - April 10
- Showtime Documentary Series 'The Circus' Hits The Presidential Campaign Trail, Forbes
- What a ‘Tree of 40 Fruit’ Tells Us About Agricultural Evolution, National Geographic
- Brooklyn Youth Create Jobs (and Community Roots) Through Local Compost Program, Yes Magazine
- PLANTING CIVIL RIGHTS, Landscape Architecture Magazine
What I read today - April 9
- Brooklyn Neighbors Say Garden Could Be Washed Away in a Rising Tide of Deed Fraud, WNYC
- From crop tops to Jimmy Choos: How Coachella became a fashion marketing hotbed, Digiday
- Humans of New York Founder Takes On Donald Trump, New York Times
- What Americans are willing to pay for “ethnic” restaurant food reveals some deep prejudices, Quartz
- Pick your own food aboard a floating forest at Brooklyn Bridge Park this summer, Brooklyn Based
What I read today - April 7
- 'It's like saying everything living in the ocean is a fish': Marketers obsessed with millennials are making a mistake, Digiday
- Farm Tools for Women, by Women, Civil Eats
- WeWork’s 110 Wall Street: You can co-live here, but you can’t co-sue us, The Real Deal
- Seed Libraries and State Laws, American Libraries Magazine
- 30 Years After Chia Pets, Seeds Hit Food Aisles, New York Times
- Louisiana's vanishing island: the climate 'refugees' resettling for $52m, The Guardian
- Angola’s Wikipedia Pirates Are Exposing the Problems With Digital Colonialism, Motherboard
- The strange, short career of Judeo-Christianity, Aeon
- Learn the Secrets of Technical Tree-Climbing, Atlas Obscura
- Cooking Class, The New Inquiry
- Infographics in the Time of Cholera, Pro Publica
- Global Demand for Food Is Rising. Can We Meet It?, Harvard Business Review
- Why There's No 'Right' Way To Speak English, Atlas Obscura
- 8 Clever Gardening Hacks That Save Money + Make Plants Healthier, Organic Life
What I read today - April 5
- Mythbusting 101: Organic Farming > Conventional Agriculture, Scientific American
- With Clock Ticking, East New York Negotiations to Heat Up, Gotham Gazette
- Lose Yourself in this Atlas of the World's Lost Cities, Atlas Obscura
- Our Natural History, Endangered, The New York Times
- Costco gets creative to meet shoppers’ huge appetite for organics, Seattle Times
- A Massive Aquaponic Lettuce And Fish Farm Will Grow In A Brooklyn Warehouse, Fast Co Exist
- The World May Have Too Much Food, Bloomberg
- The little loophole helping developers build their supertall towers even higher, Crain's New York
- Letter of Recommendation: Segmented Sleep, New York Times
What I read today - April 4
- Spotlight: Gotham Greens Talks Rooftop Farming Against the New York Skyline, 6 sqft
- Coming soon to Instagram: Square milkshakes from Sonic, Digiday
- BuzzFeed targets DIY with Nifty, a platform-focused video brand, Digiday
- Who Made That Scratch-Off Lottery Ticket?, New York Times Magazine
- Is ‘Friends’ Still the Most Popular Show on TV?, Vulture
- A $700 Juicer for the Kitchen That Caught Silicon Valley’s Eye, New York Times
- This $700 WiFi “juicer” is everything wrong with food today, The Washington Post
- Balcony Seats to the City, Curbed
Lovely
What I read today - April 2
- Young People Explain Why They Ditched the City for the Country, Vice
- This Women's Clothing Brand Is Made For Professional Women Who Hate To Shop, Fast Company
- Beyond Talk: Searching For Real Solutions to Food Appropriation, Civil Eats
- New York just passed the nation's most radical paid family leave policy, Mashable
- We Post Nothing About Our Daughter Online, Slate
- Wary of Gentrification, East Harlem Braces for Rapid Change, Gotham Gazette
What I read today - March 31
- Gourmet Sandwich Shop Joins Slew of New Businesses Along Malcolm X Blvd., DNAinfo
- Israel's Record Shop Closing After 20 Years on Fulton Street, Owner Says, DNAinfo
- Michigan woman relinquishes Dr. Pepper Twitter handle in exchange for water donation, DigiDay
- A day in the life of a young black male engineering "coding" student., Storify
- My Mother’s Garden, New York Times
- How Corporate Agribusiness Is Quietly Seizing The Heartland with ‘Right To Farm’ Laws, Think Progress
- 'Queen of the curve' Zaha Hadid dies aged 65 from heart attack, The Guardian
- From Redlining to Predatory Lending: A Secret Economic History of Brooklyn, Brownstoner
What I read today - March 27
- Algorithm-pocalyse: Bloggers beg users to ‘turn on post notifications’ on Instagram, DigiDay
- Slack isn't catching on at ad agencies -- and it's clients' fault, DigiDay
- A Burgeoning Effort to Restore Native Foods in an Unlikely Food Desert, Civil Eats
- How Community Gardens Are Revitalizing Cities, Organic Life
- 3 Women Who Are Changing The Face Of City Gardens, Organic Life
- Why the 21st Century Will Belong to Family Businesses, Harvard Business Review
- New Views and Renderings of Eliot Spitzer’s ODA-Designed Williamsburg Mega-Development, 6 sq ft
- America's Young Farmers: We Want Student Loan Relief, Fast Company
- 'The Eloise from Hell': The Little Old Lady Who Terrorized New York's Famed Plaza Hotel, Vice
What I read today - March 26
- Ikea's Newest Product Introduces Hydroponics To Mainstream America, Fast Co. Design
- How the ‘Dirt Cure’ Can Make for Healthier Families, NY Times
- Shade plants: Gardening in the dark, Chicago Tribune
- People from Mexico show stunning amount of genetic diversity, Science Magazine
- How To Be an Unprofessional Artist, Momus
- BECOMING A DESIGNER WHO CODES: THE MAKING OF A UNICORN, InVision Blog
I sometimes forget how much some people love tech. - The Irish Rebellion That Resonated in Harlem, The New Republic
- This Comedian Just Obliterated All Stereotypes About Millennials in One Presentation, Mic
- The Modern Architecture of Columbus, Indiana, Through the Eye of a Local Lensman, Curbed
- The Harvard Library That Protects The World's Rarest Colors, Fast Co Design
- Graphic Stamps – a new history, Creative Review
- This is What Happens When You Rip Off a Designer, Eye on Design
Misleading title since it end with a "boy, wasn't THAT sad" with no real solutions.
What I read today - March 25
- Big Companies Don’t Have to Be Soulless Places to Work, Harvard Business Review
Feels like it - Home Prices in Popular Brooklyn Areas Expected to Dip this Year, DNAinfo
- The Food Industrial Complex, Pricenomics
- New York's First Female Crime Boss Started Her Own Crime School, Atlas Obscura
- Meet Sedgewick the Monarch Caterpillar—and find out what you can do to save his species, Boing Boing
- A Mailman Handcuffed in Brooklyn, Caught on Video, New York Times
Incredibly sad... - Grit and grace: Female Farmer Project reinvents traditional image of farming, Seattle Times
What I read today - March 24
- The Uber Model, It Turns Out, Doesn’t Translate, New York Times
- Wheat's Evil Twin Has Been Intoxicating Humans For Centuries, Atlas Obscura
- When Going Out Without a Hat Was Grounds for Scandal, Atlas Obscura
- Want to Start a New American Farmstead? There’s a School for That., Civil Eats
- Agricultural Aftershocks: How Japan is Combatting a Decline in Farming, Modern Farmer
- Expanded NYC Ferry Service Is Officially A Go. But Where to?, Untapped Cities
- Developers Are "Very, Very Excited To Pioneer" New Neighborhoods Under De Blasio's Affordable Housing Plan, Gothamist
- New York Passes Rent Rules to Blunt Gentrification, New York Times
- Why Target Is Fast-Tracking Food Innovation, Fast Company
- Starbucks is donating all of its unsold food to charity, Tech Insider
- 190 Bowery's Graffiti-Covered Facade Is Getting Some Changes, Curbed
- How Hotels Are Capitalizing on Women's Fears of Traveling Alone, Broadly
One of these days, we're going to start teaching men to stop preying on women.
What I read today - March 22
- The Ruins at the Hotel le Vergeur, Atlas Obscura
- Legalize It All, Harpers Magazine
- Vice CEO Shane Smith on dealing with agencies: ‘We want to make great shit but it's a war.’, DigiDay
- How We Made Our Client’s Site Accessible by Law, UX Movement
- New iPhones, for the Small of Hands, The Atlantic
- Has Azealia Banks Trolled Her Way Out of a Career?, Vulture
- Why Girls Hump Pillows and Stuffed Animals, Broadly
- These Attacks Happened Days Before Brussels — But You Probably Didn't Hear About Them, Mic
- As Women Take Over a Male-Dominated Field, the Pay Drops, New York Times
- Disobedient, Rule-Breaking Kids Might End Up Earning More, Study Says, Mic
- A DRIVE FOR DIGITAL AND CONSTANT LEARNING WITH DANI ROCHE, Design Sponge
What I read today - March 21
- What Instagram’s New Algorithm Feed Means For You, Latergramme
- I’m Asking Men To Pay Me $5,000 To Read Jonathan Franzen, The Establishment
- Seeking Access to Facebook in China, Zuckerberg Courts Risks, New York Times
- The Voluminous Shell Heaps Hidden in Plain Sight All Over NYC, Atlas Obscura
- How Maple Built An Insanely Efficient, Chipotle-Crushing Food Delivery Machine, Fast Company
- Kimbal Musk is Changing the Food System One School Garden at a Time, Civil Eats
- Death by gentrification: the killing that shamed San Francisco, The Guardian
- On their own roots, Unconventional Stories from a Young Apple Farmer