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The Director of “Crime 101” on His Favorite Anti-Western Westerns
When the director Bart Layton—whose new film, “Crime 101,” opens on Friday—recently reflected on his favorite novels, he realized that many were what might be termed anti-Westerns. “Most Westerns...
Fostering a Dog Creates Lasting Change for the Dog and the Shelter
A six-year-old Labrador mix named Luna spent months in a packed shelter. She lived in terror of the other dogs and couldn’t make eye contact with anyone. Savanna Tolley,...
How to validate your business idea using customer interviews
You probably already know the advice: “Don’t build until you talk to customers.” And yet here you are, with a Notion doc full of ideas, a half-built MVP, and...
AI Won’t Replace Trust in Marketing
Generative AI is impressive, but it still misses what matters most in marketing: trust. That’s my stance, and it comes from hard-won experience. As a founder and operator, I’ve...
The Movie That Inspired Gregory Bovino to Join Border Patrol
For all the scenes of jeeps raising dust in the desert and migrants wading through the Rio Grande, “The Border” is something of a two-hander. Charlie’s prevailing disgust with...
Emerald Fennell’s “Wuthering Heights” Is Extravagantly Superficial
Catherine and Heathcliff—now played by Robbie and Elordi—will prove each other’s undoing as well. Fennell teases out the tricky evolution of the characters’ deep bond, from steadfast sibling affection...
9 things that feel productive but secretly slow your startup’s growth
There is a particular kind of exhaustion that comes from doing everything right and still not moving forward. Your calendar is full, your Notion is immaculate, your Slack never...
The Race to Give Every Child a Toy
Actually, they did want to be. There is a reason Morris Michtom moved his family from the Lower East Side to the row houses of Brooklyn as soon as...
Pierre Huyghe’s A.I. Art Monster Takes Over a Night Club in Berlin
In the far corner of the Halle, there’s a dim glow. Your job, you realize, is to grope your way toward that light, which reveals itself to be a...
Listening to Joe Rogan
Long John Nebel and Art Bell are gone, but the tradition they embodied has a prominent inheritor. In an age of diminishing attention spans, “The Joe Rogan Experience” is...
