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Vanity Fair kreeg een exclusieve blik achter de schermen van de nieuwe Star Wars: We know things, as a people and as an audience, that we didn’t know back then. For example: back then it felt sort of O.K. to like Darth Vader, because even though he was evil he was also incredibly cool, and […]

Lifehacker: If you’re creating a noticing wall, a good first rule would be: Don’t talk about the noticing wall, or at least don’t talk about it too much. You don’t even need to give the wall a name. Let it just sit there and be a quiet place for thoughts, hopes and curiosities. Dit ga […]

Owen Williams: There are two things that the iPad excels at: battery life—despite a constant 4G connection—and the ways it forces you to multitask: slowly, with intent. 100% mee eens.

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Erling Kagge: People always believe they save time by taking a taxi. Let’s say you take a taxi and it takes 10 minutes when walking would take 20. Mathematically, you save 10 minutes. But in those 10 minutes in a taxi, you didn’t experience anything. If you walk in New York, nothing great is going […]

Volgens het bekende gezegde zouden er maar twee zekerheden zijn in het leven: de dood en belastingen. Tel daar in ons land ook maar verkiezingen bij. Tot oktober was het lang geleden dat ze nog eens waren gepasseerd, zo lang zelfs dat de gedachte aan de “grootmoeder aller verkiezingen” enige weemoed teweeg bracht. Deze stembusslag […]

Een doorlichting van de websites van alle Democratische presidentskandidaten: For those who think it trivializes our political process to judge candidates by their typography—what would you prefer we scrutinize? Qualifications? Ground into dust during the last election. Issues? Be my guest. Whether a candidate will ever fulfill a certain campaign promise about a certain issue […]

HBR: Which might be why we avoid ritual in the business world. Religion is so loaded, so personal. But ritual doesn’t have to be religious; it’s just a tool religions use. Rituals are about paying attention. They’re about stopping for a moment and noticing what you’re about to do, what you’ve just done, or both. […]

Ezra Klein van Vox: The lesson of the Facebook experience is that this space is too important to be left to the market. As a society, we need to decide what kind of competition we want to allow and what kind of competition we want to discourage. Perhaps we want sharp limits on how much […]