“It’s sort of like getting into a cold pool. You go in and you get a little deeper, and you get a little deeper, and finally you’re in the pool and it feels normal.”
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Among the 100 most overpaid CEOs, Alphabet’s Sundar Pichai makes more than 1,000 times what his median employee takes home.
↩︎ As You Sow
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Haruki Murakami designs a line of T-shirts for UNIQLO featuring motifs from his novels.
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A top Nike executive loses her job after her son, a top “sneaker flipper” known as “West Coast Joe,” is profiled in the press.
↩︎ Slate
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Restaurant critic Tejal Rao employs burnt oranges and “mindful smelling” to try to regain her sense of smell, post-Covid.
↩︎ The New York Times
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Jazz musicians use software called JackTrip to play together during the pandemic. “Whoo, I feel like we’re in business now!”
↩︎ The New Yorker
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“I have a quality—a vice, perhaps. It’s called perseverance, which isn’t the same thing as patience. Patience I don’t possess, but perseverance? You’re talking to someone who recorded 5…
What if we passed a one-time wealth tax to fund pandemic relief? Yale Law School’s Daniel Markovits makes the case.
The nation’s three largest cities spent $2.5 billion over the past 10 years settling lawsuits over police misconduct.
↩︎ The Marshall Project
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Why are we convinced, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, that sabotage is an unacceptable and ineffective tactic?
↩︎ Verso Books
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