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War in the Age of the Online “Information Bomb”
On TikTok, the war against Iran began with a series of videos from influencer types in Dubai, Doha, and elsewhere in the Middle East. They sat on restaurant patios...
Big Clients Can Break You, Not Make You
Every founder wants the big logo. The name that opens doors and makes the deck look sharp. I get it. Large accounts can pay well and move the needle...
5 rules for customer interviews that actually lead to sales
Most early-stage founders are told to “talk to customers.” So you book interviews, ask thoughtful questions, take pages of notes, and leave feeling productive. But a week later nothing...
The Next Game from the Creator of Wordle Is Here
Wardle had tried cryptic crosswords when he was younger, but found them to be impenetrable. “I didn’t know how to begin,” he told me. The rules could seem arcane,...
7 ways underpaying yourself is quietly killing your business
Most early-stage founders wear underpaying themselves like a badge of honor. You bootstrap. You reinvest every dollar. You stretch runway as far as humanly possible. Somewhere along the way,...
How God Got So Great
What monotheism means is surprisingly hard to pin down, but there’s a reason it swept the world. Source link
The Oscars: Who Will Win and Who Should Win
Will win: “One Battle After Another”Should win: “One Battle After Another”Should’ve been nominated: “Sirāt”Best DirectorPaul Thomas Anderson, “One Battle After Another”Ryan Coogler, “Sinners”Josh Safdie, “Marty Supreme”Joachim Trier, “Sentimental Value”Chloé...
A Nineteenth-Century Countess’s Sultry Selfies
Virginia Oldoini helped conceptualize and starred in more than four hundred portraits so experimental and expressive that they have drawn comparisons to works by Claude Cahun and Cindy Sherman....
The Captivating Derangement of the Looksmaxxing Movement
The “very objective” and “very well researched” taxonomy in question is the P.S.L. scale, named for three of the most infamous forums from the incel epoch: PUAHate (Pick-Up-Artist Hate),...
“Yam Daabo” Reintroduces a Late, Great Filmmaker
Though the movie is shot entirely outdoors and largely features people on the move, mostly in the countryside but also in several turbulent city sequences, Ouédraogo (working with three...
