The Anti-Social Century

Americans are now spending more time alone than ever. It’s changing our personalities, our politics, and even our relationship to reality.

Why time management is ruining our lives | Oliver Burkeman

The Long Read: All of our efforts to be more productive backfire – and only make us feel even busier and more stressed

Why the Past 10 Years of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid

It’s not just a phase.

W Social is a textbook case for everything wrong with digital sovereignty

Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results. This saying is attributed to the famous socialist (and theoretical physicist) Albert Einstein but actually traces back to novelist Rita Mae Brown. I have been thinking about this saying a lot lately. The reason is

The Illusion of Asymmetric Insight

The Misconception:  You celebrate diversity and respect others’ points of view. The Truth: You are driven to create and form groups and then believe others are wrong just because they are oth…

DavidB (@david.eurosky.social)

"But why so much hostility?" Because WSocial has been dishonest since day one. The first time I heard of you, it was an ad saying that there was no European social media. Which was your first lie of a long series. "We're building a new social media." Another lie, you're a fork of Bluesky. And so on.

The weird time Nazis made common cause with black nationalists

The black nationalist Nation of Islam and the American Nazi Party didn't have a lot in common, but they did believe in staying as far away from each other's race as…

The Honest Case for the Humanities

Or: Why I’m Tired of My Colleagues Making Arguments That Only Work on Us

Why is everyone so busy?

Time poverty is a problem partly of perception and partly of distribution

What They Were Thinking - Tom Waits and Robert Frank - NYTimes.com

“I was trying to imagine myself as a real New Yorker.”