14 fantastic long reads that will make you smarter
As you may have noticed from previous posts, I’m a big fan of in-depth journalism. After reading several dozens over the last two weeks, these are the ones I recommend spending time with:
- How content management software will shape the future of media
- Remembering U.S. Soccer’s most improbable triumph
- Nothing can stop Google. DuckDuckGo is trying anyways.
- I cut Google out of my life and it screwed everything up
- The empty mason jar of the influencer economy
- A private court investigator and his controversial methods
- The quest to live to 180—is any of it legit?
- The enduring fight over the first Ironman triathlon
- The murky ethics of the “ugly produce” business
- The hard-to-believe conditions of air-traffic controllers
- Creating music while clean
- Can a bar feel like a bar without booze?
- How to suck at business without even trying
- Frank Sinatra has a cold (one of my all-time recently re-read favorites)