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We Know Why You’re Always Late – WSJ
Updated Feb. 3, 2015 8:48 a.m. ET Chronically late people can be frustrating and baffling to anyone stuck waiting for them. One main explanation for their behavior is deceptively simple, psychologists say: People simply underestimate how long a task will take. That’s a little-known concept called the planning fallacy, which is a strong tendency to…
de Blasio calls for mandatory affordable housing in six neighborhoods– including LIC | Long Island City Post
Feb. 3, By Christian Murray The city has plans to develop thousands of affordable apartments over the Sunnyside Yards. Mayor Bill de Blasio, during his state of the city address today, said that he aims to build 11,250 affordable units over the yards and said that the housing could cater to more than 30,000 people….
Hopefully The Last Article About Millennials You’ll Ever Read | Fast Company | Business + Innovation
While attending my first tech conference as a journalist last year, I couldn’t help but snicker to myself as I watched the grey-haired CEO of a large software company dedicate a large portion of his two-hour keynote presentation to “the millennial in the workplace conundrum,” as 100,000 middle-aged attendees rapidly scribbled in their notepads, laptops,…
Gangs of New York: the Battle for 5 Pointz — Failed Architecture
Gangs of New York: the Battle for 5 Pointz Jump to the comments ↓ Author Margaret McCormick SummaryA legendary venue for street art is now history. Torn apart, quite literally, by a new economy. But just how did a former factory become this legend and why was there no chance to save it? Themes Space…
We won the internet back | The Verge
This is going to be short since I’m on a train — headed to DC, of all places — but today’s momentous net neutrality news deserves a moment to state the obvious: we won. I asked my friend Julie Samuels from Engine Advocacy for a comment, and all she said was “this is fucking awesome.”…
Postcards From a Supply Chain #5: Our Friend the Twistlock :: How We Get To Next
This is the fifth in a series of postcards from Dan Williams’ journey along an electronics supply chain , following goods back to their source. Coming alongside at Yangshan Port, south of Shanghai, things move quickly. Mooring lines are cast ashore. The gangway lowers and the pilot departs. Towering cranes roll into position and lower…
FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler: This Is How We Will Ensure Net Neutrality | WIRED
After more than a decade of debate and a record-setting proceeding that attracted nearly 4 million public comments, the time to settle the Net Neutrality question has arrived. This week, I will circulate to the members of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) proposed new rules to preserve the internet as an open platform for innovation…
Amazon Pulls Its Line of Diapers Less Than Two Months After Launch | Re/code
Amazon’s grand plan to sell its own line of diapers has crapped out after seven weeks. At least for now. On Wednesday, the e-commerce giant notified customers who had subscribed to shipments of its Amazon Elements line of diapers that sales of the poop-pouches were being discontinued for now. “Based on early customer feedback, we…
All My Blogs Are Dead – The Awl
A couple of months ago, I pitched a feature on the music industry that I was totally qualified to write. But the editor questioned my experience: What exactly had I published about the music industry? By my count, over two thousand blogposts since 2009. But the links to my author pages bounced back because the…