Rebecca Cardwell has free advice on how you can be harder, better, faster, badass-er.
You do a lot of talking in the videogame LA Noire, but Kevin Nguyen finds it hard to say anything meaningful.
Nick Martens would like to cheer up the Ewok-inhabited moon from Return of the Jedi.
Erin Carver becomes jealous of a thirteen-year-old while struggling with a decade-old desire to be Jewish.
If we’re going to break boundaries, we need to abide by Tim Cushing’s restrictions.
Jimmy Chen has an epiphany about work, hierarchy, and hollow walls (that’s not a metaphor).
After missing the last ferry out, Ben Bateman spends the holiday in a small Chilean ghost town.
Subscribing to Harper’s (or at least trying to) teaches Kevin Nguyen that it’s worth the extra effort to support the publications he cares about.
Managers hope that a “fun” work place inspires productivity, but Whitney Carpenter finds mandatory wackiness distracting.
The Consolation of Philosophy: a text adventure by Jonathan Gourlay.
Dan Hoffman takes a job as a “search engine evaluator”—a Sisyphean nightmare for $13 an hour.
Josh Fischel interviews Spencer Tweedy — blogger, photographer, musician, and 14-year-old son of Wilco frontman Jeff Tweedy.
In the final entry of his series from Pohnpei, Jonathan Gourlay encounters the island’s devious ailments and powerful cures.
Josh Fischel profiles the country’s only high school ski jumping league.
Editors Kevin Nguyen and Nick Martens and fellow bloggers talk about the latest and greatest additions to their RSS readers.
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