Michael Overell

The only article on Gen Y and millennials anyone should read.

“Stay wildly ambitious. Stop thinking you’re special. Don’t care what other people think”

A wonderful explanation of crypto assets you can forward to your curious uncle.

This is good. Also adding Vonnegut's Player Piano to the reading list.

The man begins to eat, cannot eat, weeps uncontrollably. He never said that he loved him.

Long live the vest

A group of data scientists have found a way using drones and artificial intelligence to geolocate groups of white men wearing Patagonia vests, in order to predict future investment opportunities.

Great essay from Scott Galloway. Rare blend of insight and sass

This is excruciating to read

Preach!

A thoughtful and important essay in the face of growing polarization.

Political ideologies tend to blind people to the best policies. One should not seek a “conservative” answer to poverty or a “liberal” answer to immigration. One should seek the best answer. It is highly unlikely that any political party has a monopoly on truth.

I'm no finance expert but technical 'analysis' like this strikes me as complete BS

And now, without that trendline support level to act like a floor for shares, the downside potential is elevated.

True words

Excellent news!

Our findings suggest that drinking four cups of coffee each day can be part of a healthy diet in healthy people."

"do great work"

Today I learned about people/thing theory in this excellent, thoughtful essay.

It just says that sometimes, in a population-based way that doesn’t necessarily apply to any given woman or any given man, women and men will have some different interests. Which should be pretty obvious to anyone who’s spent more than a few minutes with men or women.

Never met a sweet drink that pairs well with food. Drink only water, or wine, with meals. #sciencesays

This.

We deeply appreciate the bravery of the women who have publicly come forward and disclosed their specific issues of sexual harassment. The behavior they experienced is not ok, has never been ok, and will simply not be tolerated by us in any way.

what. the. actual. f#ck.

“I thought if he’s, if he has the, the guts and the audacity to smoke marijuana in front of the five-year-old girl and risk her lungs and risk her life by giving her secondhand smoke and the front-seat passenger doing the same thing then what, what care does he give about me?” he said.

Beijing has more than 650,000 shared bicycles. They've all appeared in the last nine months.

Devastating stats on combined effect of non-employment and subsidised opioids:

According to [Alan Krueger's] work, nearly half of all prime working-age male labor-force dropouts—an army now totaling roughly 7 million men—currently take pain medication on a daily basis.

Ton of practical advice for staying functionally fit with kids

This is insane

Who we are every day, the specific individuals we will have matured into, will have an unparalleled power to exert a beneficial influence on somebody else’s life.

Good insight from @jasonnazar

Big and underreported announcement from Google yesterday

Another blow to free speech in the home of free speech

"The Berkeley campus gained national attention in 1964 as the center of a movement to expand political expression, which became known as the Free Speech Movement."

this seems like important emerging research wrt metabolic theory of cancer

"exercise in a fasted state might provoke more favorable changes in adipose tissue, and this could be beneficial for health in the long term"

great deep dive into this topic, key players and differing approaches. I'm a definite healthspanner

a valid concern but shallow and one-sided article. read in parallel with recent nyt piece on longevity.