culture
7 articles tagged culture.
OpinionIn Defense of the Amateur
The person who does a thing for love rather than a living often keeps alive skills the professionals have quietly abandoned
By Lena Holloway · Jul 1
OpinionThe Quiet Case for Picking Up the Phone
In an age of asynchronous everything, the voice call has become an underrated act of both respect and speed
By Sara Qureshi · Jul 1
OpinionThe Quiet Virtue of Keeping Things Running
We celebrate the new and ignore the unglamorous labor that keeps the old world from falling apart
By Marcus Okafor · Jun 30
OpinionIn Praise of the Waiting Room
A small defense of the enforced pauses that modern life keeps trying to optimize away
By Sara Qureshi · Jun 30
OpinionThe Case for Doing One Thing Slowly
Against the productivity of the multitasker, a defense of depth, patience, and the single task
By Priya Chen · Jun 29
OpinionNostalgia Is a Policy Choice
Appeals to a better past quietly shape budgets, zoning, and law, and the longing is rarely paid for by the people who feel it
By Priya Chen · Jun 28
OpinionWe Romanticize the Startup and Neglect the Institution
The culture worships founders and disruption while the patient labor of keeping institutions alive goes uncelebrated
By Lena Holloway · Jun 28