Enlarge (credit: W.W. Norton) This is an excerpt from the new book In Emergency, Break Glass: What Nietzsche Can Teach Us About Joyful Living in a Tech-Saturated World, by Ars Technica’s Deputy Editor, Nate Anderson. The book “adapts Friedrich Nietzsche’s passionate quest for meaning into a world overwhelmed by ‘content.’ Written long before the advent […]
Enlarge / Quantum Go Fish is just one of the many math-y games in Ben Orlin’s latest book, Math Games with Bad Drawings . (credit: Ben Orlin) Adapted from Math Games with Bad Drawings (2022) by Ben Orlin. You can read our latest interview with Orlin here . Of the thousand games I encountered in […]
Enlarge / Bill looks over the boycott’s corpse to determine if it’s still a threat… The following piece, originally published in late 2009, looks back at that year’s somewhat quixotic attempted boycott of Left 4 Dead 2—and how that effort eventually fell apart. Flawed as it was, that movement would serve as a precursor to […]
I grew up a Black kid in white classrooms in Silver Spring, Maryland. I tested well and was deemed “gifted and talented”. That meant my classes had cutting edge technology, teachers with fancy degrees and books without holes in them because my classmates’ parents were white. They influenced the county to ensure our classes had […]
Fred Dust is your senior design adviser for the Rockefeller Foundation, also has been formerly a senior partner and global managing director at global design company IDEO. As an architect and style thinker, he frequently found himself running tough conversations amongst stakeholders together with sharply diverse points of view. As he describes in this excerpt from his […]
Kara Goldin is currently the creator and CEO of all Hint Inc., whose flavored, unsweetened Hint Water has since found its sales soar throughout the present pandemic. But getting a drink entrepreneur was possibly the furthest thing from her head from the late 1980s, when she put out to set herself {} –an attempt which […]