Oprah follows up with the partisan voters in Michigan about Donald Trump
Last fall, Oprah Winfrey spoke with 14 Michigan voters, seven of whom voted for Donald Trump. Winfrey sat down with the voters again to get their thoughts on Trump’s first year in office.
Why Paper Jams Persist
I didn’t know it was possible to write 4,000 words about paper jams and the people that work on them, but I’m so happy I do now. This is so geeky.
Jamming happens whenever something that’s supposed to flow through a space fails to do so, perhaps because of overcrowding, or bending, or because its constant movement degrades the space through which it travels.
Why people wait in lines
On the history of standing on (in?) line for trendy things. Though hopefully not dog walking clothes in Hayes Valley.
Sidewalk lines do not want to be solved. They are intentional — cultivated, managed, bred like show dogs. In certain types of luxury transactions, we’ve come to accept them as a predestined fact.
A Paper Tears Apart in a City That Never Quite Came Together
The turmoil at The Los Angeles Times is the latest setback for Los Angeles, a region that has long suffered from a lack of civic institutions.
The NY Times really stuck it to LA last week, and people went nuts!
Trashed: Inside the Deadly World of Private Garbage Collection
Waste removal is one of the most dangerous jobs in the country. On the darkened streets of New York City, it’s a race for survival.
Clear and Verifiable
And then one day a barista at San Francisco’s Four Barrel Coffee explained it to me. He said carbon dioxide gets trapped in the beans during the roasting process, which gets released when the beans first come in contact with water. You don’t want carbon dioxide trapped in your coffee, because it contributes a sour taste. So you wait about 30 seconds until most of the carbon dioxide is released into the air, rather than into your liquid.
So much “common practice” in various fields is accepted without question. I think experts are often intentionally ambiguous, as if they are protecting the secrets of a magic trick. And yet, it’s so important for newcomers to learn the why, not just the what.
Social Decay
This is a creative project. Click through for all of it.
The wealth of Sapiens
The benchmark is “my family and I are alive, safe and fed”. The rest is luxury.