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Because they supposedly “get asked a lot,” Palantir recently tweeted excerpts from The Technological Republic , co-written by CEO Alex Karp, outlining the concept. We appreciate them boiling his book…

This week it was revealed that White House deputy chief of staff and avid White nationalist Stephen Miller , the man behind the brutal escalation of ICE raids all over the country, owns between $100…

“Wisdom 2.0?” meditation teacher Kenneth Folk has famously pondered. “That’s a networking opportunity with a light dressing of Buddhism.” If mindfulness has gone corporate, then Wisdom 2.0 is its…

Total surveillance, an emergent sharing economy, pervasive networked AI—these are just a few of the technological worlds that Wired co-founder Kevin Kelly predicts for our near future. In his new book…

Libertarian billionaire Peter Thiel takes his Christian faith seriously.

If the words “corporate” and “mindfulness” no longer sound strange together, it’s partly because of the career of Chade-Meng Tan. A software engineer from Singapore, Tan joined Google in 2000 as…

Why the current cultural fetish for zombies? In 2014’s Hooked, Nir Eyal ventures a guess: “Perhaps technology’s unstoppable progress—ever more pervasive and persuasive—has grabbed us in a fearful…

The top ten most watched TED talks are, in order, about: Creativity Confidence Motivation Vulnerability The Brain Really Cool Technology Orgasm Motivation Motivation Really Cool Science But actually…

In The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up, the Japanese cleaning consultant Marie Kondo offers simple advice: go through all of your possessions, one by one, and ask yourself, “Does this bring me joy?”…

Google’s mindfulness guru wants to “democratize enlightenment”—not through boots-on-the-ground activism, of course, but through a proliferation of wearable gadgets and prohibitively expensive mindfulness seminars.