What I read today - Aug 23
- Mud Mavens: Mud Girls Founder Jen Gobby, Dwell
- This Study Got People to Make Huge Life Decisions by Flipping a Coin, NY Mag
Alex said he used to live his life by flipping a coin. It starts with the big stuff and then you can't make a decision without flipping a coin. But the premise is good. It's better to take action than submit to the status quo. - How Peter Thiel Killed Gawker, Jacobian
- 7 Dream-Killing Habits (and How to Break Them), The Change Blog
Ugh. FML - What I Think Every Time I See an Airbnb Renter in My Neighborhood, Next City
- ‘I wasn’t crazy’: Homeless woman proves the U.S. government owes her $100,000, National Post
- The lingering effects of NYC's racist city planning, Hopes & Fears
What I read today - Aug 22
- In Defense of Villainesses, Tor.com
- How the Olympics Lost Millennials, The New Republic
- Inside the World's Only Surviving Tattoo Shop For Medieval Pilgrims, Atlas Obscura
What I read today - July 21
- Only 20 Percent Of Voters Are ‘Real Americans‘, FiveThirtyEight
- The Trump–Pence Logo Was a Yuge Missed Opportunity, Slate
I went to college with this guy. - Straight Edge Women Describe What It's Like to Go Totally Sober, Broadly
- NYC’s Freedom Tunnel Gets Spotlight in the Book “The Chintz Age: Tales of Love and Loss for a New New York”, Untapped Cities
- Inside The Playlist Factory, Buzzfeed
- Bed-Stuy Smoke Shop Suspected of Selling K2 Closed by Court Order, DNAinfo
What I read today - July 20
- Red Hook Ferry Service Will Officially Land at Atlantic Basin, Curbed
- The Psychology of Why Americans Are Afraid of Historically Low Crime Levels, NY Mag
- The Case Against Having a Backup Plan, NY Mag
- Beyond native: How the NY Times plans to turn T Brand Studio into a full-fledged agency, DIgiday
- New Photos of NYC’s First Residential Urban Farm at Urby Staten Island, 6sqft
- Photos Reveal the inside of NYC’s Washington Square Arch, Untapped Cities
What I read today - July 12-13
- Amazon’s New Tree-House Offices Are Silly. They’re Also Great for Workers., NY Mag
Amazon has a horticulturist on staff. Nuff said. - 'Wrong side of history': Brands remain (mostly) silent on #BlackLivesMatter, DigiDay
- Goats: The New Dogs, NY Mag
- Why did Google get rid of the company behind Pokémon Go?, recode
- Why Women Led Anti-Suffrage Campaigns Against Themselves, Atlas Obscura
- Forever forward, Bernie Sanders
- What is K2? The Drug Behind The Mass Overdose in Bed-Stuy Explained, DNAinfo
- Sharing Your HBO Go or Netflix Password Is Technically a Federal Crime, Mic
- The Card Maker Who Brought the Joker Into the World, Atlas Obscura
- The Curious History of Animals Interfering with the Tour de France, Atlas Obscura
- For The Record, Huffington Post
- The Pokemon Go effect: Agencies pile on the craze, DigiDay
Half tempted to download the app and see what it's all about. But then I realize I really don't care and have other things to do in life. Fav quote: "...the game is skinned to be relevant to my life and the city I live in." because it made me roll my eyes - Design Better Forms, Medium
Makes me wanna scream DUH at the world - Bed-Stuy Bodega Raided By City Sheriffs After 33 People Overdose on K2, DNAinfo
What I read today - July 6
- The Strange Perils of Running a Novelty Item Empire, Atlas Obscura
- What Happened to 'The Most Liberated Woman in America'?, Atlas Obscura
- How Your Vagina Is Supposed to Smell, Broadly
- Why Everyone in Madagascar Is Making Jokes About Pineapple , Global Voices
- True-ish Grit, Real Life Mag
- Exploring Northern Central Park: A History Told Through Rocks and Hills, Urban Omnibus
What I read today - June 28
- Questions to Ask Yourself When Reading About Design, Subtraction
- Why Do We Love? An Animated Inquiry Into Romance by Philosopher Skye Cleary, Brain Pickings
- The $15 Minimum Wage Is Dangerous, Jacobian
- The 1904 horse auction house in the East Village, ephemeral new york
- This 700-Year-Old Farming Technique Can Make Super Fertile Soil, Modern Farmer
- Bernie Sanders: Democrats Need to Wake Up, NY Times
- Chatbot lawyer overturns 160,000 parking tickets in London and New York, The Guardian
- An Analysis of Quality-of-Life Summonses, Quality-of-Life Misdemeanor Arrests, and Felony Crime in New York City, 2010-2015
I only read the summary, but the "analysis has found no empirical evidence demonstrating a clear and direct link between an increase in summons and misdemeanor arrest activity and a related drop in felony crime." - The Unknown French Horticulturist Who Made Lilacs Happen, Atlas Obscura
- Celebrate Unusual Holidays With Poland’s Youngest Stamp Designer, Eye on Design
- The New York Times Magazine Design Director Gail Bichler on Staying Impartial and Politically Charged Covers, Eye on Design
- Kellogg’s Cereal as Dining Event? Welcome to the Experience Economy, Wall street journal
- Whole Foods to start sharing POS data with Nielsen, Food Navigator USA
I bet this is a trial with Infor. Still a little sad I didn't get that job... - Pool Rules: No Running, No Eating and, Three Times a Week, No Men, NY Times
- The oldest white oak tree in the country is dying — and no one knows why, The Washington Post
What I read today - June 27
- K2 Use Reaches 'Epidemic' Levels at Bed-Stuy Intersection, Locals Warn, DNAinfo
- How Mary Norris, the New Yorker's 'Comma Queen,' became a video star, Digiday
- New Owners May Close Waldorf Astoria for Three Years for 1,100-Room Condo Conversion, 6sqft
- Brexit will cause UK food prices to rise, farmers warn, Independent
What I read today - June 21
- Trump Lagged Far Behind Clinton in May Fundraising, Bloomberg
- Donald Trump Claims He Never Said Orlando Victims Should Have Been Armed — But He Did, Mic
- What to Know About the Supreme Court's Whole Woman's Health v. Hellerstedt Abortion Case, Mic
- Donald Trump’s Secret ‘Public’ Gardens Gave Him Extra Height at Trump Tower, 6sqft
- How to Talk Your Friends and Loved Ones Out of Supporting Donald Trump, NY Mag
- The D'Aulaires' Book of Greek Myths Is Famous. But What About Their Forgotten American Stories?, Atlas Obscura
- 'She Didn't Say Vagina': Sex Ed in Fundamentalist Christian Homeschool, Broadly
- Inside Facebook's Totally Adorable, Kind of Racist Mixed Race Baby Community, Broadly
- ‘Unloaded’ Minds Are the Most Creative, NY Mag
- How Townes Van Zandt’s “Lungs” veers from Platonic epistemology to magic realism, AV Club
One of Alex's self-professed "favorite songs ever"
What I read today - June 15
- Steiner files plans for Wegmans building at BK Navy Yard, The Real Deal
- Why More Illustrators are Embracing Motion Design + Taking GIFs Seriously, Eye on Design
- CityViews: City Giving Away Land With Little Public Discussion, City Limits
- Why Sourcing Local Food Is So Hard for Restaurants, Harvard Business Review
- 10 Extremely Precise Words for Emotions You Didn’t Even Know You Had, NY Mag
- A Biological Anthropologist Says That the Perfect First Date Is Pretty Simple, NY Mag
- The Sausage Index: Which Dating Apps Have the Most Dudes?, Pricenomics
- Sacramento pastor, amid backlash, defends sermon praising Orlando killings, LA Times
- The right response to Donald Trump? A media blackout., The Washington Post
- Here's How Straphangers Shut Down a Man Harassing 2 Muslim Women on Monday, DNAinfo
- Eastern U.S. needs ‘connectivity’ to help species escape climate change, UW Today
Misc
- Cinesift – A handy way to find great movies by platform
What I read today - June 14
- The Colorful Secret Of The Pea Aphid, NPR
The kids worked to find bugs and then locate them in my bug book Last night. This lead to a rabbit hole of wanting to keep the book updated when new bugs are discovered including the wasps last year and aphids which are currently infesting the plum and apple trees in the garden. - Prestigious Joffrey Ballet School Faces Bankruptcy After Ruthless Rent Hike, Curbed
- How Hangovers Helped Bring Us the Two-Day Weekend, NY Mag
- What If The Food Industry Ended Monoculture Farming?, Food + Tech Connect
- There are 2,000 empty restaurants during the day in New York — and this startup is trying to do something about it, Business Insider
I thought this article was going to be about restaurants creating a shared works space for aspiring chefs and cooks and food product entrepreneurs. - 2016 Food Awards, Southern Living
The packaging I created for True Ewe in Alabama won a Southern Living Award! - Citigroup closes on $1.8B buy of Tribeca HQ from SL Green, The Real Deal
- 40 Under 40: The Rising Stars in New York City Food Policy (Class of 2016), NYC Food Policy Center
People I should google later to see what organizations they are in. A disappointing fact: They are all around my age... Feeling late to the party! - Cult Following, The New Republic
- Virgo and Scorpio
- The Tyranny of Taste, The New Republic
- The Ad Campaign that Convinced Americans to Pay for Water, Pricenomics
When I visit Ohio, I can never find seltzer. Perrier is a poor replacement and makes me feel like an asshole, but I want that fizz! - Henry Ford’s Campaign to Make America Great Again, Pricenomics
- Brands are counseling the young and the traumatized through their #QuarterlifeCrisis, DigiDay
- How An 1918 Author Introduced the World to the Concept of Female Pleasure, Atlas Obscura
- Laser Technology Reveals Cambodian Civilization that 'Rewrites History', Atlas Obscura
- How Chewing Gave Humans Flat Faces, Little Teeth and Wimpy Jaws, Atlas Obscura
- Who’s Afraid of Occupy? The John Oliver Show Erases Debt Resistance, Debt Collective
- US to cut water monitoring because of Puerto Rico debt, The Washington Post
- The Forgotten Fetishwear Company of 1920s Paris, AnOther
I think I may be Upper Middle brow for my choice of avocado in my salad and solid non-fiction and "better novel" reading habits
What I read today - June 9
- We sold feminism to the masses, and now it means nothing, Quartz
- Top Chefs and Local Farmers in Spain Regenerate Their ‘Green Caviar’, NY Times
- John Kasich Signs Medical Marijuana Legalization Bill Into Law, Huffington Post
- Ghana's women farmers resist the G7 plan to grab Africa's seeds, The Ecologist
- This Is Everything We Get Wrong When We Talk About Weed, Mic
- Yet Another Oil Spill Near Native American Land Is Failing to Grab National Attention, Mic
- Bed & Bees (B&B) – Sleep With The Bees – Free Plans, Horizontal Hive
- Love your Chakras: Love & Sex from the Perspective of the Chakras, Elephant Journal
Alex once said our chakras aligned. I'm trying to learn how to talk to him. - City Council Approves Major Changes to NYC Landmarks Law, Curbed
- There is a major designer talent crunch at agencies, Digiday
- Google Has Learned a Thing or Two About the Way Men and Women Answer Interview Questions, NY Mag
What I read today - June 8
- The First Woman to Drive Around the World Wore Men’s Breeches and Had a Pet Monkey, Atlas Obscura
- The Incredible Coincidence of a Poisonous Tree Growing Next to Its Antidote, Atlas Obscura
- Ohio's Famed 7-Story Basket Building Might Be Doomed, Atlas Obscura
- A 19th-Century Cartographer Crammed All of Human History into this Map, Atlas Obscura
- Mind Your Own Womb, The Huffington Post
- Believe it or not, some people accidentally use ad blockers, Digiday
- 'It's the Devil': Coming to Terms with My Sister’s Schizophrenia, Broadly
- Penthouse Birdwatching, New York Times
- Martha Graham on the Hidden Danger of Comparing Yourself to Others, James Clear
- CARTOGRAPHY COMPARISON: GOOGLE MAPS & APPLE MAPS, justin o'beirne
What I read today - June 7
Ugh. Moving and unpacking and new job and singleness.... I haven't been reading as much.
- Fentanyl Is the Lethal Drug That Killed Prince — And Nobody Seems to Be Talking About It, Mic
Alex told me that this is the best opiate drug since it's so strong. A user carefully applies just a little to their gums to get high. But at some point, an addict will want a stronger high and apply more which he suspects Prince did. The whole thing is terrifying... - People Who Grow Up Around Books Are More Successful, Study Suggests, Mic
- WeWork, the coworking startup valued at $16 billion, is cutting employees and freezing hiring, The Real Deal
- To Get Happier, Focus on What Makes You Miserable, NY Mag
- What's Going On with the Way Canadians Say ‘About'?, Atlas Obscura
- Letter-Writing Manuals Were the Self-Help Books of the 18th Century, Atlas Obscura
- Millennial City, The Real Deal
- Do You Live in a Mail-Order Sears Kit Home? These House Hunters Will Find You, Atlas Obscura
- Honeysuckle Is a Blob-Like Monster Taking Over American Forests, Atlas Obscura
- Arresting Fentanyl Users Won’t Accomplish Anything Good, NY Mag
- MICROSOFT IS TEACHING YOUR PLANTS TO TALK BACK, Fast Co Design
- Can Compost Recycle Our Drugs?, Civil Eats
- THIS NEW NEIGHBORHOOD WILL GROW ITS OWN FOOD, POWER ITSELF, AND HANDLE ITS OWN WASTE, Fast Co Exist
- Infinite Scrolling Best Practices, UX Planet
- How did public bathrooms get to be separated by sex in the first place?, The Conversation
What I read today - May 26
- Get Fresh Vegetables Each Week for $12 at Bed-Stuy's Community Garden
Alice is pretty savvy on this press thing. 462 is ALWAYS raising money. They've probably gotten at least $10k so far. I'm jealous, but not, all at once. - Peter Thiel, Tech Billionaire, Reveals Secret War With Gawker, NY Times
- Peter Thiel just gave other billionaires a dangerous blueprint for perverting philanthropy, Fusion
- The Books That Made Them Feminists, New Republic
- 21 Questions For Donald Trump, The National Memo
- The men who live as dogs: 'We're just the same as any person on the high street', The Guardian
- How Technology Hijacks People’s Minds — from a Magician and Google’s Design Ethicist, Medium
- Bed-Stuy Seniors Start Co-Living to Ward Off Gentrifiers, Bed-Stuy Patch
- Sydney’s Jazz Age Criminal Queens Ruled the Streets With Razors, Atlas Obscura
- Meet The Men Behind Your Favorite Women's Websites, Bust
- UI, UX: WHO DOES WHAT? A DESIGNER'S GUIDE TO THE TECH INDUSTRY, Co Fast Design
- People Hated Clippy Because He Made Them Feel Powerless, NY Mag
- The startup that's looking to disrupt 'convenience food' just landed a deal with Whole Foods, Business Insider
- New Crop of Companies Reaping Profits From Wasted Food, NY Times
- How would Bayer-Monsanto affect workers, farmers, investors?, Chicago Tribune