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loved this wild / unexpected dispatch from a Natal Conference from @emmagoldberg.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/s...

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I went to the Natal Conference in Austin and wrote about the women drawn to the pronatalism movement — and those who are criticizing it for the far-right voices it's bringing into the tent www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/s...

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Even before Trump charged federal agencies with investigating "illegal DEI," companies began their retreat— dropping diversity promises, abandoning words like "equity." My @nytimes.com teammates and I dug through 25,000 documents to show this in real time www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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Top-notch analysis and reporting.

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More on the blending of Christianity, tech, and power from @emmagoldberg.bsky.social

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I wrote about a growing community of Christians in Silicon Valley — including Peter Thiel and his favorite commandments, Elon Musk's turn from atheism, and the Bay Area's favorite theologian, Rene Girard. Here's a gift link www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/b...

submitted 106 days ago • 49 comments

Anti-discrimination laws that used to hold companies accountable for bias against minority workers are now being used to fight against DEI. I wrote about this "brave new world" of employment law, where companies are asking: What's "illegal DEI"? www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/b...

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"Something about collective trauma has a way of focusing the mind on where you are." Beautiful @conordougherty.bsky.social reflection www.nytimes.com/2025/01/15/u...

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I’ve driven from Hollywood to Eagle Rock to Mar Vista to Brentwood to Atwater to Runyon to Studio City for emergency stuff and reporting and just got home for the day. All I can say is love this city.

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"It has long been a local article of faith: Southern California disasters are rarely as sweeping as they seem." via @shawnhubler.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/01/08/u...

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I first started reading Oliver Burkeman while working on an essay about Sabbath, work and the pandemic, and I loved this conversation with him and Ezra Klein so much www.nytimes.com/2025/01/07/o...

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The NYT Styles desk asked 12 writers for predictions of life in 2025. I wrote about why this year could be a turning point in the war for attention — from a possible TikTok ban and phone-free schools, to workshops teaching the art of reclaiming attention. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/29/s...

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IT'S BOND KING PAPERBACK DAY! bookshop.org/p/books/the-... ....maybe we should do a little giveaway? send me proof of purchase (or library-checkout!!) and ill send you one of the following: a) a pimco paraphernalia b) a signed paperback copy c) a drawing of yourself or person of ur choice

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the styles desk rounded up 12 predictions for life in 2025. I wrote about a turning point in the wars to reclaim our attention www.nytimes.com/2024/12/29/s...

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cosigning this @jamellebouie.net book recommendation -- this is a staggeringly well reported and written biography

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really appreciate this look at the debates over effective altruism, the reopening of Notre Dame and more in Wisdom of Crowds wisdomofcrowds.live/p/optimize-y...

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don't even like risotto but i could read 10,000 more words of this www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

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two out of the three Nobel-Prize-winning economists talked to @elliswonk.bsky.social + Jeff Guo @planetmoney.bsky.social about why some countries are rich and others are poor, why it took so long for economics to recognize the power of institutions, and also wtf an "institution" is anyway:

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"More people died from homelessness than homicide in Nashville this year.” A friend shared this photo from yesterday's memorial at Riverfront Park.

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the absolute bagels news reminds me of the day Barney Greengrass was abruptly closed by the health department the day after Yom Kippur and the upper west side lost its mind www.nytimes.com/2019/10/13/n...

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A gutting detail from this @jonathanblitzer.bsky.social interview: After the Postville Raid, a massive ICE operation in 2008, a study found Latino babies born nearby were markedly underweight. Their mothers were so gripped by fear that it caused prenatal harm. "The consequences of this are bodily."

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Just an incredible set of words www.nytimes.com/2024/12/12/b...

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The corner office is tripping!! I went on a retreat called "The Psychedelic CEO" and wrote about the allure of mushrooms for business leaders — an extremely fun story to report that includes farmers on spaceships and the wild west of Calgary. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/12/b...

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How do you decide where to donate money? Our reporter, Emma Goldberg, wrote an essay about how the tech industry's obsession with optimization has filtered into so many parts of our culture, including charity. Here's what some readers shared. nyti.ms/4g2IBla

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Luigi Mangione's GoodReads is filled with popular science (Grit), great man theory of everything books (Yuval Noah Harari) and interesting favorited quotes like Krishnamurti: “It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society" www.nytimes.com/2024/12/09/n...

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🧵 For the anniversary of Oct 7, I wrote about the killing of Vivian Silver, who dedicated her life to fighting for Jewish and Arab coexistence — and how her death galvanized her grieving son, Yonatan, to wake up from a "political coma" and become an activist for peace www.nytimes.com/2024/09/30/m...

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This is a fascinating exchange with @oliviacpaschal.bsky.social on disparities in the Ozarks, one of the fastest growing regions in the country because of corporate behemoths like Walmart, and an influx of immigrant workers www.nybooks.com/online/2024/...

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I don’t disagree with the thrust of this article at all although broader picture I think there needs to be a rethinking of what Optimization means and where it comes from culturally, because it has been warped to be in the service of Capital and productivity and it does not have to.

submitted 172 days ago • 2 comments

I think about this a lot. Yes my dollars go farther overseas-but also the needs in my community/region/country matter, too.

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“Naturally, we want answers on who needs our help most. But outsourcing our choices about charitable giving to empirical guides does not cut through the numbness. It may sit, conveniently, alongside it. It can even short circuit the painful process of paying attention.” bsky.app/profile/emma...

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👇Must-read piece this weekend by @emmagoldberg.bsky.social @nytopinion.nytimes.com and as you and your orgs consider year-end giving priorities. As someone who has been on both the grantee and donor sides of the table, a few reflections: 🧵

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maybe my favorite enhanced byline ever from @conordougherty.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2024/12/07/b...

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An interesting reflection on the tension I’ve felt from effective altruism: hard to argue against maximising impact, but EA has often felt reductuve & soulless, not sufficiently valuing human connection, beauty or inspiration. Here’s to promoting the magnificent life. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/07/b...

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✨magnificent✨

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This gets at something that I’ve been feeling for a while and I think you likely have as well - we’ve spent the last couple decades as a society focused on optimizing everything, and it hasn’t really made us better or happier. I think there’s a lot of people looking for a better way.

submitted 172 days ago • 11 comments

this is very good and this has been on my mind: “She rattled off some examples of things whose value was hard to price: museums, libraries, parks.”

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Important @nytimes.com investigation: In a quest for profits, Acadia Healthcare, which runs the largest US network of methadone clinics, has been endangering patients and falsifying records it uses to bill the govt. @jsgatnyt.bsky.social @bykatiethomas.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2024/12/07/h...

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I wrote an essay for @nytimes.com Ideas about how people decide where to give away money and how the tech industry's obsession with optimization filtered into so many parts of our culture. Here's a gift link www.nytimes.com/2024/12/07/b...

submitted 172 days ago • 17 comments

what about a WFH trail of cups

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A story of two cab rides: Landing in Israel, my cab driver from the airport was an Israeli man who had just gotten out of military reserves. He told me that one of his cousins was killed on Oct 7, and that he was driving his cab as many hours of the day as possible to avoid going home.

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“There’s a latent undercurrent here of how frustrated people are with the health care industry…a lot of soul-searching we have to do about an industry that consumes nearly 20 percent of G.D.P. and yet outcomes not nearly as good as countries that spend half as much.” www.nytimes.com/2024/12/06/b...

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The killing of UnitedHealthcare's CEO Brian Thompson has left the corporate world rattled. Threats toward CEOs have risen in the last 5 years. Median spending on executive security doubled. This week security firms told me phones are "ringing off the hook" bit.ly/3OJdnDC

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