Tag: writing

• How to write an essay well

  November 15, 2020

  Style is a small part of writing well. Writing is mostly thinking clearly. If you can think clearly, you can find something to say. https://www.julian.com/guide/write/intro more ›

• Hour One raises $5M Seed to generate AI-driven synthetic characters from real humans

  August 18, 2020

  All of the people pictured above are real, but what you are seeing are synthetically-generated versions of their real selves. And they can be programmed to say anything. https://techcrunch.com/2020/08/17/hour-one-raises-5m-seed-to-generate-ai-driven-synthetic-characters-from-real-humans/ more ›

• How Trello Grew From A Scrappy Startup Into A Powerhouse Brand

  July 25, 2020

  It all started with a sticky note. And a long to-do list. And two developers. And a dream to make people’s lives more organized and productive, wherever they worked and… more ›

• Ask a Sane Person: Jia Tolentino on Practicing the Discipline of Hope

  July 15, 2020

  For the past decade, Jia Tolentino has been writing feverishly on the front lines of cultural warzones. https://www.interviewmagazine.com/culture/ask-a-sane-person-jia-tolentino-book-2020-hope more ›

• Current Passions

  May 2, 2020

  My title is Senior Maverick for Wired, a magazine I helped co-found 25 years ago. I do one article for Wired per year. My most recent article is a cover story… more ›

• Music Publishing Glossary

  April 28, 2020

  https://www.songtrust.com/music-publishing-glossary more ›

• William Gibson: ‘I was losing a sense of how weird the real world was’

  January 11, 2020

  In 2016, William Gibson was a third of the way through his new novel when Donald Trump was elected president of the United States. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/jan/11/william-gibson-i-was-losing-a-sense-of-how-weird-the-real-world-was more ›

• Q&A: what is the ‘Troika Laundromat’ and how did it work?

  October 24, 2019

  Essentially, it’s the name given to a collection of 70 offshore shell companies whose controllers used them to move billions of dollars of private wealth from Russia to the west.… more ›

• Digital Crackdown: Large-Scale Surveillance and Exploitation of Uyghurs

  September 9, 2019

  Over the last several years, numerous reports have emerged regarding the shocking treatment of Uyghurs, a Muslim minority ethnic group that makes up a large part of the Xinjiang Uyghur… more ›

• The illuminating absence of Donald Trump

  August 29, 2019

  Much has already been said, and much will continue to surface on our media feeds in the future about Dave Chappelle’s “Sticks & Stones” Netflix special. What has been said… more ›