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The way we commonly discuss mental-health issues, especially on the internet, isn’t helping us, Derek Thompson writes.
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Bill Simmons says ‘deranged’ Elon Musk has entered the Tyson Zone: The famed podcast host says that Musk's latest antisemitism scandal shows for far off the ...
sacbee.com/news/business/article282310553.html
Why Simple Is Smart: Complicated language can send a signal that a writer is dense or overcompensating.
theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/01/writing-tips-for-journalists-jargon-simplicity/621411/
Quick Glance: Simplicity is Intelligence
- Complicated language can imply that a writer is unintelligent or compensating.
- Outside of the classroom, intelligent readers prefer simple words that convey complex ideas.
- Research has shown that using complicated language can make people appear low-status or less intelligent.
- Smart individuals value simple language because expressing interesting ideas with small words requires effort.
AI Is a Waste of Time: The newest AI tools are accelerating basic research and scaring the general public. But many people are simply using them as toys.
theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/04/ai-technology-productivity-time-wasting/673880/
The Progress Summit is back! Join The Atlantic’s Derek Thompson and Ross Andersen along with Airbnb’s Brian Chesky, Google DeepMind’s Pushmeet Kohli ... Show more theatln.tc/GsktRU7F
The Progress Summit is back! Join The Atlantic’s Derek Thompson and Ross Andersen along with Airbnb’s Brian Chesky, Google DeepMind’s Pushmeet Kohli ... Show more theatln.tc/2UNYPrPt
The Progress Summit is back! Join Derek Thompson and more for the second annual convention to celebrate science, technology, and a culture of curiosity ... Show more theatln.tc/2UNYPrPt
Weepy British Alt-Rock That Stands the Test of Time: Entertainment musts from Derek Thompson
theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2023/04/weepy-british-alt-rock-that-stands-the-test-of-time/673679/
"I’ve become a little bored by the utopia-dystopia dichotomy of the AI debate," Derek Thompson writes.
"What if writing a song and dubbing in ... Show more http://on.theatln.tc/1Tm7p55
Stop Trying to Ask ‘Smart Questions’: “Can you just explain this to me like I barely know anything about this subject?”
theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2023/01/journalist-interview-asking-questions-techniques/672755/
The Rise of the 9 p.m. Work Hour: Why a 9-to-10 is the new 9-to-5
theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2022/04/triple-peak-day-work-from-home/629457/
Quiet Quitting Is a Fake Trend. Why Does It Feel Real?: What people are now calling “quiet quitting” was, in previous decades, simply known as “having a job.”
theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2022/09/quiet-quitting-trend-employee-disengagement/671436/
America’s Death Trap: Why the life-expectancy rate in the United States is falling behind that in other rich countries
theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2023/04/americas-death-trap/673851/
Why All the ChatGPT Predictions Are Bogus: And why the makers of AI should learn from the tale of Prometheus
theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2023/03/chatgpt-fire-steam-engine-lightbulb-sat/673451/
The search for meaning after loss, the future of work amid the rise of automation, the joy of aimless evenings around New York City: Our next collection of ... Show more http://on.theatln.tc/afh1mW2 Zando
Why City Life Has Gotten Way More Expensive: Something beyond rising energy and labor costs is leading to sticker shock on once-cheap urban amenities.
theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2022/06/uber-ride-share-prices-high-inflation/661250/
The end of Silicon Valley Bank—and a Silicon Valley myth: We are still learning exactly how much of this industry’s genius was a mere LIRP ...
theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/03/silicon-valley-bank-collapse-banking-crisis-wokeness-venture-capital/673394/
Quick Glance: What is causing bank failures? SVB and Signature Bank failures explained
- Over the next 48 hours, there was a surge in customer withdrawals from the bank, which then attempted to raise emergency capital on the equity markets, which investors rejected.
- It, too, would crumble.
- "SVB's collapse was caused by a liquidity crisis when many of its larger depositors wanted to take money out at the same time." Haine explained.
- "The issue at the heart of this was caused by massive losses on SVB's bond investments in the face of rising US interest rates, and a fire sale of these as its clients – typically technology start-up entrepreneurs and venture capital investors – began pulling money out."
Your Career Is Just One-Eighth of Your Life: Five pieces of career advice, shaped by economics, psychology, and a little bit of existential math
theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2022/09/career-ambition-advice-data/671374/
‘Progress Ought to Feel Beautiful’: Readers respond to stories from our January/February 2023 issue.
theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2023/04/the-commons/673084/
What Happened to the Recession?: Atlantic writers explain why the forecasters got it wrong—at least for now.
theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2023/03/recession-economists-wrong/673252/
The Tragic Mystery of Teenage Anxiety: Rising teen anxiety is a national crisis.
theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2023/02/the-tragic-mystery-of-teenage-anxiety/673076/
The Wild Future of Artificial Intelligence: “It’s going to be fascinating to see how people incorporate this second brain into their job,” Derek Thompson says.
theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2022/12/the-wild-future-of-artificial-intelligence/672442/
Why Everything in Tech Seems to Be Collapsing at Once: The industry is having a midlife crisis.
theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2022/11/tech-industry-mass-layoffs-recession-twitter/672150/
Derek Thompson’s Office Hours: The Future of Generative AI
Recent breakthroughs in generative AI, such as ChatGPT and DALL-E 2 ... Show more
Why U.S. Population Growth Is in the Danger Zone: A country grows or shrinks in three ways.
theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2022/03/american-population-growth-rate-slow/629392/
AI Is Not the New Crypto: The torrent of investor money that flowed into crypto is now hitting the AI scene. We’re already seeing the results.
theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2023/01/ai-is-not-the-new-crypto/672746/
America’s fever of workaholism is finally breaking: For the first time in 50 years, the rich are buying more free time.
theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2023/01/american-rich-men-work-less-hours-workism/672895/
Derek Thompson's Office Hours: Economic Outlook for 2023
Mortgage costs are rising, inflation remains high ... Show more
How Did Tech Become America’s Most Troubled Industry?: The U.S. economy’s most dynamic sector is suddenly hemorrhaging jobs.
theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/01/tech-recession-layoffs-google-facebook-microsoft/672798/
The Tech-Layoff ‘Contagion’: Tens of thousands of people have been laid off from large tech and media companies in the past 12 months ...
theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2023/01/tech-layoff-contagion-economy/672826/
The Housing Market Has Gone From Bad to Worse: In 15 years, we’ve had a historic housing crash, a historic housing crunch, a historic pandemic-fueled buying ...
theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2022/11/us-real-estate-housing-market-shortage/671988/
Patrick Collison, the CEO of Stripe, speaks with The Atlantic’s Derek Thompson about what defines progress, whether we’re making enough of it ... Show more
How a Recession Could Weaken the Work-From-Home Revolution: Company culture may soon resemble what bosses want, rather than what workers want—and that could mean ...
theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2022/06/could-recession-kill-the-work-from-home-revolution/661361/
Black Panther production designer Hannah Beachler; Astro Teller, captain of moonshots for Google’s X; XPRIZE Foundation chief scientist Marcius Extavour; ... Show more
How an Abundance Agenda Could Transform America: America has a scarcity problem. Is it time to change the way we think about growth?
getpocket.com/collections/how-an-abundance-agenda-could-transform-america
Zillow CEO Rich Barton joins The Atlantic’s Derek Thompson for a wide-ranging conversation on the future of workplace and company culture ... Show more
Brian Schimpf, the founder and CEO of Anduril, the most talked-about drone- and military-technology startup, joins The Atlantic’s Derek Thompson to speak ... Show more
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