Can Marissa Mayer Really Have It All?
nymag.comFor her, parenthood is not a special category of extracurricular activity. Mayer’s approach to questions of work-life balance is to give everyone—male, female, married, single, with children or without—the freedom to leave work for the things that matter most, whether it’s dinner with friends or marathon training or being on time for the soccer game. “I think that burnout happens because of resentment,” she has said.
Estimated reading time: 22 min
No Sex, Please — We’re Domestic Goddesses
nymag.comToday, “lifestyle” is something to be curated online instead of indulged; not a lifestyle so much as the pixelated tyranny of the domestic goddess. Once-oppressive female chores are now framed as a dopamine delivery system; a bed exists to be dressed, rather than to be undressed upon.
Estimated reading time: 6 min
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nymag.com›Taking a job is in some ways like a second option,” says Akshay Kothari, who with his friend Ankit Gupta converted a Palo Alto garage into office space for their iPad-news-app company, Pulse. “If you say you’ve taken a job, it’s like, ‘Oh, you haven’t figured it out?’” Last year, the two Stanford classmates started building the news app as part of a class at the Institute of Design. Five weeks later, it launched on the iTunes App Store, where it sold for $4. It now has 5.5 million users.
Estimated reading time: 1 min
When Women Pursue Sex, Even Men Don’t Get It
nymag.com“Everyone's being kind of wishy-washy,” Atik says. “Women want sex, but they don't want to be seen as forward (or worse, desperate). Men want sex but are intimidated, unconfident, or don't want to be seen as domineering. We're not sure who should be the sexual instigators, and then no one really steps up to the plate.”
Estimated reading time: 6 min
The Maturation of the Billionaire Boy-Man
nymag.com“Was he lucky?” another early colleague of Zuckerberg says. “Of course. We’re all ridiculously lucky. But you also make your own luck. The world has overlooked how great Mark is as a CEO.” He was, yes, in the right place at the right time—but he also has leadership qualities that really set him apart.
Estimated reading time: 4 min
Facebook and the Epiphanator: An End to Endings?
nymag.comSocial media has no understanding of anything aside from the connections between individuals and the ceaseless flow of time: No beginnings, and no endings. These disparate threads of human existence alternately fascinate and horrify that part of the media world that grew up on topic sentences and strong conclusions. This world of old media is like a giant steampunk machine that organizes time into stories. I call it the Epiphanator, and it has always known the value of a meaningful conclusion.
Estimated reading time: 8 min
Deconstructing Dewey Dufresne
nymag.com›I don’t believe that shredded lettuce belongs in a sandwich,” he says. “Thrown out of a window as confetti, yes, but in a sandwich, it’s a distraction.‹
Estimated reading time: 2 min
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nymag.comThe hipster, in both black and white incarnations, in his essence had been about superior knowledge—what Broyard called “a priorism.” He insisted that hipsterism was developed from a sense that minorities in America were subject to decisions made about their lives by conspiracies of power they could never possibly know. The hip reaction was to insist, purely symbolically, on forms of knowledge that they possessed before anyone else, indeed before the creation of positive knowledge—a priori.
Estimated reading time: 1 min
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Writing in the Dark
nymag.comI believe I was supposed to outgrow that habit. Instead, I grew into it. Left to my own devices, I write best from ten at night to 4 a.m. That is not an easy schedule to live with
Estimated reading time: 4 min
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In Conversation: Robert Silvers
nymag.comThere are people who are more interested in liberties than others; there are people who are more interested in a fair distribution of goods and wealth, especially for the poor, and especially the black and Hispanic poor; there are people interested in protection of human rights internationally; there are people interested in control of pollution and climate domestically. You could list dozens of other causes. But lumping all these people into “the left” seems to me incoherent and lazy.
Estimated reading time: 25 min
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Join the Discussion
nymag.comWhat you can do, though, is stop taking walking for granted and start thinking of it like any other physical activity: as something you can learn to do better.
Estimated reading time: 2 min
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Why You Truly Never Leave High School
nymag.com“If you’re interested in making sure kids learn a lot in school, yes, intervening in early childhood is the time to do it,” says Laurence Steinberg, a developmental psychologist at Temple University and perhaps the country’s foremost researcher on adolescence. “But if you’re interested in how people become who they are, so much is going on in the adolescent years.”
Estimated reading time: 19 min
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New York Magazine
nymag.comPleasure comes with pain. You code for hours, you run the program, it fails, you debug it, run it again, pass out on your keyboard, wake up, code some more. But when it finally works, it’s a rush. Thompson, who has dabbled with cocaine in the past, compares it to the drug. “Writing code to me is the same experience,” he says. “It’s misery, misery, misery, misery, euphoria.”
Estimated reading time: 4 min
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How Not to Talk to Your Kids
nymag.comAccording to Meyer’s findings, by the age of 12, children believe that earning praise from a teacher is not a sign you did wellit’s actually a sign you lack ability and the teacher thinks you need extra encouragement. And teens, Meyer found, discounted praise to such an extent that they believed it’s a teacher’s criticismnot praise at allthat really conveys a positive belief in a student’s aptitude.
Estimated reading time: 17 min
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How Not to Talk to Your Kids
nymag.com“When we praise children for their intelligence,” Dweck wrote in her study summary, “we tell them that this is the name of the game: Look smart, don’t risk making mistakes.” And that’s what the fifth-graders had done: They’d chosen to look smart and avoid the risk of being embarrassed.
Estimated reading time: 13 min
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