Miserable as it can often be, remote work is surprisingly productive — leading many employers to wonder if they’ll ever go back to the office.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/06/09/magazine/remote-work-covid.html
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The Invention of the Police | The New Yorker
Why did American policing get so big, so fast? The answer, mainly, is slavery.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/07/20/the-invention-of-the-police
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The Argument of “Afropessimism” | The New Yorker
Frank B. Wilderson III sketches a map of the world in which Black people are everywhere integral but always excluded.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/07/20/the-argument-of-afropessimism
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The High-Finance Mogul in Charge of Our Economic Recovery | The New Yorker
How Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin became one of the most consequential policymakers in the world.
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How Trump Is Helping Tycoons Exploit the Pandemic | The New Yorker
The secretive titan behind one of America’s largest poultry companies, who is also one of the President’s top donors, is ruthlessly leveraging the coronavirus crisis—and his vast fortune—to strip workers of protections.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/07/20/how-trump-is-helping-tycoons-exploit-the-pandemic
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How Pandemics Wreak Havoc—and Open Minds | The New Yorker
The plague marked the end of the Middle Ages and the start of a great cultural renewal. Could the coronavirus, for all its destruction, offer a similar opportunity for radical change?
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/07/20/how-pandemics-wreak-havoc-and-open-minds
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How I Tricked My Brain To Like Doing Hard Things (dopamine detox)
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You probably don’t have a problem playing video games or browsing social media on your phone. In fact I have no doubt you could sit in front of a screen and do both of those activities for 2 hours, or even longer without breaking your concentration. But what about half an hour of studying? That might be too hard. How about working on your side business for another hour? Doesn’t sound too appealing.
Even though you logically know that studying, exercising, building a business or something equally productive, will bring you more benefits in the long run, you still prefer watching TV, playing video games and scrolling through social media.
One might argue that it’s obvious why. One activity is easy and doesn’t require much effort, while the other activity is difficult and it requires you to apply yourself.
But some people seem to have no problem studying, exercising, or working on their side projects, regularly.
Which begs the question: Why are some people more motivated to tackle difficult things? And is there a way to make doing difficult things, easy?
References: https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/the-athletes-way/201405/the-neuroscience-pleasure-and-addiction https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2791340/ https…
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The Fall of Jeff Sessions, and What Came After - The New York Times
The former attorney general is fighting for his political life in Alabama’s Senate race, in the shadow of a president who still despises him.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/30/magazine/jeff-sessions.html
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Why the Mueller Investigation Failed | The New Yorker
President Trump’s obstructions of justice were broader than those of Richard Nixon or Bill Clinton, and the special counsel’s investigation proved it. How come the report didn’t say so?
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/07/06/why-the-mueller-investigation-failed
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