What I read today - Sep 5
- Why Self-Help Guru James Altucher Only Owns 15 Things, NY Times
- 10 Ways My Life Has Changed Since I Started The Daily Practice, Medium
- How I Moved On From MyWhat Not To Wear Style, Refinery 29
"Sometimes people ... find it hard to measure my value without the traditional milestones of a life lived..."
What I read today - Sep 3
- Pothos Vs. Philodendron, House Plant Journal
- When Is a Pothos Not a Pothos?, New Pro Containers
- FDA bans antibacterial soaps; “No scientific evidence” they’re safe, effective, Arts Technica
- The Forgotten Bohemian Queen of the Paris Art World: Leonor Fini, Messy Nessy Chic
- Butterflies Remember What They Learned as Caterpillars, Wired
- Life in the Native American oil protest camps, BBC
- Native Americans Protest New Oil Pipeline In North Dakota, NPR
What I read today - Aug 30
- The Real Bob Ross: Meet The Meticulous Artist Behind Those Happy Trees, NPR
- City should not trust private equity firms to build affordable housing, Crain's
- Frida Kahlo’s Illustrious Life, Illustrated, Brain Pickings
- Candy brands mourn Gene Wilder with tweets, DigiDay
- To Bond With Your Co-workers, Take Out the Headphones and Blast Happy Tunes, NY Mag
- Goodbye, Seller's Market. Price Growth Cools in Manhattan and Brooklyn, DNAinfo
- The Forgotten Millennials, The New Republic
- The Race to Study a Dying Sign Language Before It Disappears, NY Mag
- 18 New York Post Anthony Weiner Headline Puns, Ranked, Wired
- Urban Agriculture and the New Meaning of “Eating Local”, Vogue
I apprenticed at this farm in Brooklyn. Annie's facebook has been blowing up with photos from this shoot. - Making Modern Toughness, NY Times
Pretty Cool
What I read today - Aug 28
- A Community Garden Became an Alternative to Juvenile Detention, City Lab
- The Cost of Holding On, NY Times
- The Last of the Granny Witches, Appalachian ink
- Appalachian Granny Magic, Witch Vox
- In the ’70s, She Motorcycled Around the World. Today, She’s Fashion’s Unlikely New Muse., NY Times
I don't particularly care that Chloé is basing clothes off Anne-France Dautheville's history because I'll probably never wear them. But I like that she did it because she wanted to and set her ego down. I've been feeling like Franny lately... - The 2016 Presidential Election, According to 8-Year-Olds, NY Mag
What I read today - Aug 25
- The Ballad of Big Freedia: How the New Orleans Bounce Icon Was Betrayed By Her City’s Housing Crisis, Pitchfork
- Giving up alcohol opened my eyes to the infuriating truth about why women drink, Quartz
- If you want to be a better person, find something to do outside of work, Quartz
I made a macrame plant hanger yesterday. I feel pretty proud of myself
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"