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Subscribe — from $7/monthMore people are making deliberate choices to step back from always-on connectivity — not as rejection of technology but as a practice. This is a piece about what they're finding, and what the science says about why it works.
On why the command line is having a renaissance, and what it reveals about the limits of abstraction.
There's one block left in Williamsburg that looks almost exactly as it did in 2005. How it survived, and what it costs to stay.
The economics of independent bookshops have never made sense, and yet they keep opening. A look at what sustains them.
Recommendation systems now shape more of daily life than any elected official. Should they be held accountable like one?
Brooklyn's night markets are growing. For the vendors who run them, they're not just about food — they're about holding onto something.