AvatarAmie GreenAvatarAvatarAirPods Are a Tragedyverified_publisherVICE - Caroline HaskinsApple claims that AirPods are building a “wireless future.” Many people think they're a symbol of disposable wealth. The truth is bleaker. In each article of this column, we'll focus on one item that could conceivably be discovered by someone 1,000 years from now, and try to explain where this item …
AvatarAmie GreenFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoPrivilegedThe Players' Tribune - Kyle KorverWhen the police break your teammate’s leg, you’d think it would wake you up a little. When they arrest him on a New York street, throw him in jail for …
AvatarAmie GreenAvatarAvatarStop Asking Kids What They Want to Be When They Grow Up (Published 2019)verified_publisherThe New York Times - Adam GrantThe question forces children to define themselves in terms of work. “What do you want to be when you grow up?” When I was a kid, I dreaded the question. I never had a good answer. Adults always seemed terribly disappointed that I wasn’t dreaming of becoming something grand or heroic, like a filmmaker …
AvatarAmie GreenAvatarAvatarJim Nicholson, champion of the common-man obituary, dies at 76verified_publisherThe Washington Post - Adam BernsteinJim Nicholson’s advice to young reporters was to start their careers, as he had, writing investigative stories. “If it doesn’t burn you out,” he liked to say, “you will eventually be put out on the curb in a baggie by the very people you work for. If you are good enough, long enough, they will …
AvatarAmie GreenAvatarAvatarA Suspense Novelist’s Trail of Deceptionsverified_publisherThe New Yorker - Ian ParkerDan Mallory, who writes under the name A. J. Finn, went to No. 1 with his début thriller, “The Woman in the Window.” His life contains even stranger twists. Dan Mallory, a book editor turned novelist, is tall, good-looking, and clever. His novel, “The Woman in the Window,” which was published under …
AvatarAmie GreenFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoData Won’t Kill The CMO. Marketing Will.thedrum.com - Dipanjan ChatterjeeAt CES 2019, there is quite a hubbub about an impending chief marketing officer (CMO) crisis, one which Mastercard CMO Raja Ramannar, on a panel at …
AvatarAmie GreenFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoWhat China Threat?harpers.org - Kishore MahbubaniDiscussed in this essay: Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides’s Trap?, by Graham Allison. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 400 pages. …
AvatarAmie GreenFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoThe Most Riveting Miniseries You Probably Missed in 2018theringer.com - Kenny HerzogIn Episode 4 of America to Me, a particularly self-possessed high school senior named Jada Buford takes her physics teacher, Aaron Podolner, to task. …
AvatarAmie GreenAvatarAvatar20 Recent Classics You Should Read — Or Re-Readverified_publisherBustle - K.W. ColyardEvery year, we talk about the best books of the last 12 months — both the ones everyone has read and the ones you may have missed — but what about …
AvatarAmie GreenAvatarAvatarThe Yoda of Silicon Valleyverified_publisherThe New York Times - Siobhan RobertsFor half a century, the Stanford computer scientist Donald Knuth, who bears a slight resemblance to Yoda — albeit standing 6-foot-4 and wearing glasses — has reigned as the spirit-guide of the algorithmic realm. He is the author of “The Art of Computer Programming,” a continuing four-volume opus …
AvatarAmie GreenAvatarAvatarJulia Louis-Dreyfus Acts Outverified_publisherThe New Yorker - Ariel LevyThe actress on challenging comedy’s sexism, fighting cancer, and becoming the star of her own show. Julia Louis-Dreyfus was not feeling relaxed. In a few weeks, she would be receiving the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, in a televised ceremony at the Kennedy Center, and she was anxious about …
AvatarAmie GreenAvatarAvatarRaised by YouTubeverified_publisherThe Atlantic - By Alexis C. MadrigalThe platform’s entertainment for children is weirder—and more globalized—than adults could have expected. ChuChu TV, the company responsible for some of the most widely viewed toddler content on YouTube, has a suitably cute origin story. Vinoth Chandar, the CEO, had always played around on YouTube, …