ThredUp users have a routine. They stuff a bag with the sweaters and jeans they never wear, mail it off and let the company do the heavy lifting. ThredUp receives the package and proceeds to photograph, price, and list everything, so the sellers can forget about it until they get money deposited in their bank account a few months later. But for many sellers, there’s one thing they hold back—a pair of Manolo Blahniks, a Louis Vuitton purse—because it’s special and they don’t want to let it go for less than it’s worth. So they might opt to sell it…
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The plasma physicist Troy Carter leads the U.S. fusion energy program at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. It’s one of science’s hottest and most humbling pursuits: trying to understand plasma, the superheated, electrically charged gas at the heart of stars—and, since the 1950s, every hydrogen bomb test and fusion experiment. Unlike the fission reactions that power the world’s 440 existing reactors, fusion promises relatively safer, zero-carbon power, with far less radioactive waste. For decades, it has been one of those breakthroughs supposedly just around the corner. Carter has spent much of that time focused on the physics. After two decades studying…
Most people assume that being the most valuable person on a team means delivering the most. The best outputs. The deepest expertise. The highest score on whatever performance metric the org has decided matters this year. That framing is incomplete in a way that costs teams a lot. The most valuable person on a team is rarely the highest individual performer. More often, it’s the person who makes the team itself work better: someone who creates clarity, moves decisions forward, and helps everyone around them operate faster than they could alone. What’s the big idea? Organizations have spent decades building…
For most of human history, philosophers and scientists alike have viewed emotion as the enemy of reason. From the Stoics of Ancient Greece to modern behavioral economists, the assumption has broadly remained the same—namely that humans are obviously capable of remarkable rationality, adaptability, and intellectual sophistication, but (still) our emotions frequently sabotage those gifts at the worst possible moments. Leadership offers endless examples. Executives destroy careers because their egos cannot tolerate criticism. Politicians launch reckless vendettas because they mistake personal humiliation for national interest. Founders torch shareholder value because they become emotionally attached to failing strategies long after the evidence…
New York City is preparing for Game 3 of the NBA Finals, where its home team is competing for the first time since 1999. But what should be a moment of pure celebration and anticipation—as the team is currently in the lead—has instead turned into a site for anxiety and discourse. President Trump announced on Friday he will be attending the June 8 match at Madison Square Garden (MSG), which will mean increased security and surveillance in the area—affecting Knicks fans. “Fans now will be inconvenienced because our lovely President always needs to make things about himself,” a user said…
If you haven’t experienced burnout, you’ve surely witnessed it. I have certainly taken part in conversations about someone who hit that wall of physical and emotional exhaustion at work. The sentiments are almost always the same: They were working too hard; they just didn’t know how to create a work-life balance. But what is “work-life balance”? Does it really exist in the definition that everyone’s used to screaming about? Work-life balance is one of those phrases that sounds wise until you examine it, because the framing treats work as the enemy of life: something to be rationed and kept on…
Zul Mohammed from Pakistan, running for Mayor of Carrollton, TX says: “No vet has made any sacrifice. I want to make that clear. I do not support the US military. No, I do not support the United States. I look down on both entities” pic.twitter.com/Hc5vAUNtnb — Defiant L’s (@DefiantLs) June 8, 2026 When I first saw the comments attributed to Zul Mohamed, a candidate for mayor in Texas, I had to read them twice. Any politician is free to criticize government policy. That is part of a free society. But when someone seeking public office reportedly declares, “No vet has…
I watch about a thousand companies make hiring decisions in real time as the CEO of Paraform, the world’s largest recruiting marketplace. The pattern I’ve seen over the last 18 months is so consistent that it’s no longer just a trend. The standard story about AI and jobs is that automation is hollowing out entry-level work, but that’s not entirely true. What I’m seeing is more consequential: Artificial intelligence is making “good enough” workers redundant, while the remaining demand is concentrating around a much smaller group of exceptional people, and the gap between those two groups is widening faster than…
Governments never abandon an idea once they discover it increases control. They simply wait until the public is distracted and repackage it under a different name. The lockdowns may be over, but the mentality that produced them never disappeared. It merely evolved. The United Kingdom is now moving toward a digital identity system tied to smartphones through the GOV.UK Wallet and digital credentials. The politicians sell it as convenience. They always do. It is easier. It is faster. It is more secure. Those are the same promises made every time governments seek to consolidate information and authority into a single…
Your Instagram grid is getting a makeover—if you want it to, at least. As of Monday, June 8, Instagram users will be able to rearrange their profile grids (their photos and videos) however they please. Previously, posts only appeared in chronological order. The only way to control what people saw first was by utilizing the pin feature, with users able to lock up to three posts at the very top of their grid, followed by their recent posts. However, users can now click and drag posts—even ones that were posted a decade ago—giving them a lot more control over where posts…