Posts by Morgan Hills
A Terrifying Scam and the System That Made It Possible
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Burch tracks these cases, and has conducted her own research on plaintiffs’ experiences. Her findings are sobering: plaintiffs almost never feel that justice has been served, even when they get a financial settlement, since the cases take forever and the plaintiffs frequently lose anywhere from thirty to fifty per cent of their settlements to fees.…
Read MoreWhat a Rare Condition Can Teach Us About the Power of Music
People with musical anhedonia, a rare inability to enjoy music, are teaching scientists how the brain processes songs. Source link
Read MoreEXCLUSIVE: Fashion Designers Willy Chavarria and Sandy Liang at Home for DWR’s Originals Campaign
MILAN — A peek into the homes of fashion designers Willy Chavarria and Sandy Liang has been made available by DWR (Design Within Reach). In celebration of New York Fashion Week, the home furnishings, accessories and lighting retailer tapped the two for its DWR Originals campaign, which was previewed by WWD on Wednesday and brings…
Read MoreThe End of Books Coverage at the Washington Post
There are still plenty of places to read about literature, many of them excellent. There are older and more established outlets, like the London Review of Books and The New York Review of Books; cult favorites, like Bookforum; and irreverent newcomers, like The Drift and The Point, the latter of which I edit. These magazines…
Read MoreWhat is feature creep (and how to avoid it in your MVP)
If you’ve been building your MVP for more than a few weeks, this will feel familiar. You started with one clear problem to solve. Then a customer suggested a small tweak. An investor asked how it would work for a different use case. A teammate said, “While we’re in there, we might as well add…”…
Read MoreEmerald Fennell’s “Wuthering Heights” Is Extravagantly Superficial
Catherine and Heathcliff—now played by Robbie and Elordi—will prove each other’s undoing as well. Fennell teases out the tricky evolution of the characters’ deep bond, from steadfast sibling affection toward a combative, quasi-incestuous desire. Catherine, incensed by Heathcliff’s treatment of her, slips several eggs into his bed; it’s a childish prank with an erotic undertone,…
Read More9 founder behaviors that quietly erode team trust
Most founders don’t wake up trying to damage trust. In the early days, you’re moving fast, juggling cash flow, hiring before you feel ready, and making decisions with incomplete information. You tell yourself you’ll clean things up later, once things are calmer. But teams don’t experience your intentions. They experience your behaviors. What makes trust…
Read More“Industry” Is a Study in Wasted Youths
In the new season of the hit HBO series, its young protagonists have left the trading floor that made them. Their second acts are revealing. Source link
Read MoreWhy We Can’t Stop Reading—and Writing—Food Diaries
Spending a day in someone’s kitchen can tell us about their relationship to time, money, pleasure, and place. Source link
Read MoreBarry Blitt’s “Split Screen”
In February, 1925, the first issue of The New Yorker was published, featuring a drawing by the art editor Rea Irvin of a top-hatted dandy examining a butterfly through his monocle. This dandy—later named Eustace Tilley—has made an appearance on the cover virtually every February since and, in the process, has become one of the…
Read MoreIn an Age of Science, Tennyson Grappled with an Unsettling New World
While the earth thus trembled, different and equally disruptive discoveries were happening in the sky. Thanks in part to improvements in telescope design, astronomers began identifying thousands of nebulae and star clusters, in essence making the universe suddenly larger in the same way that advances in geology had made the earth suddenly older. Meanwhile, some…
Read MoreBad Bunny’s All-American Super Bowl Halftime Show
Bad Bunny arrived on the Super Bowl stage wearing a silver trenchcoat and a matching do-rag. He delivered a perfectly incendiary verse in which he declared, “Viva la raza!,” and then he disappeared—and no one really seemed to mind. The year was 2020, and Bad Bunny was appearing as a special guest of Shakira, who…
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