Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
GQ.com’s redesigned home page AD UNIT 1 /AD UNIT 1 GQ.com is getting a new look this year, and that includes making sure the site’s ads are ones people will look at. Ahead of a larger redesign that will debut in the fall, GQ is rolling out some tweaks to its site, including a revamped…
Photo: photo illustration. Photo: PhotoAlto/Frederic Cirou/Getty Images Like, have you ever noticed that women apologize too much? Sorry, but just humor me for a second here. What if, um, how we’re speaking is actually part of what’s undermining us in the workplace, in politics, and anywhere in the public sphere where we want to be…
True or false? When seeking the perfect job, focus on those things that you enjoy doing for free. I answered “true” to that statement during my last semester at Princeton when I began hunting for the perfect career. It informed my choices distinctively. Everyone around me was planning to move to Hollywood to try their…
Logitech is dropping the tech. That leaves … Logi. The computer accessories maker may face a little backlash, if history is any guide. Or the name change could turn out to be genius, if varying pronunciations don’t mess with the clean identity shift it’s looking for. New products will be labeled Logi. You’re supposed to pronounce…
In this Oct. 6, 2011 photo, Gan Golan of Los Angeles, dressed as the “Master of Degrees,” holds a ball and chain representing his college loan debt during Occupy DC activities in (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) Getting an advanced degree doesn’t come cheap, which is why graduate students carry nearly half of all student debt. But it turns out that a…
When the story of the Teens is set down in stone, the section on how people lived will include plenty of shudder-worthy chapter headings: crop-tops, selfie sticks, sharing plates small and large. But the portion on housing in the 2010s will have just two factors: stacked and elevated. The “Jengaform” look of recovery-era multifamily architecture…
It wasn’t actually announced at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), but now it’s everywhere: Apple plans to introduce an ad-blocking feature to the Safari mobile browser for iOS9. HTML MODULE 4010 This is one of those moves that seems like, and perhaps is, a boon for users who are sick of slow-loading Web pages…
It didn’t get a mention in Apple’s big keynote announcements Monday — which already had plenty of interest to publishers — but deep within Apple’s developer documentation lies perhaps the most important item of all to the news industry. Adblocking is coming to the iPhone with iOS 9. Adblocking — running a piece of software…
Kelly Sue DeConnick and her peers are changing the face of an industry that won’t leave women out any longer. Kelly Sue DeConnick is talking to a class of aspiring comic-book writers assembled in a ballroom, located in the back of a former gentlemen’s club on Powell Street in San Francisco. “I hate when I…
Every time a superhero loses their powers (or, if it’s Batman, his belt full of expensive gadgets), we hear the same thing: It’s not the powers/belts that make a hero, but the fact that they’re all so gosh dang good and virtuous. These are the guys we’re supposed to aspire to be, as evidenced by…