Brad Stone | Businessweek | 13 September 2012 A "backbreaking, soul-draining journey into what Silicon Valley venture capitalists often call the distributed workforce". Essentially, you bid online to do the tedious or unpleasant tasks that other people don't want to do Comments Ian Crouch | New Yorker | 13 September 2012 John Lanchester's "Capital" elevates houses to the status of characters. The story is as much about property values as about human values. And why not? Wealth fascinates us, and urban wealth flows mostly through real estate Comments Christopher Beam | GQ | 11 September 2012 When he moved to Beijing for work, Chris Beam thought his proficiency in ping-pong would help him win the acceptance if not admiration of new Chinese acquaintances. In this charming piece, he explains how wrong that turned out to be Comments John Kay | John Kay/FT | 12 September 2012 On Goodhart's law, which says that targets don't work. Changing behaviour to meet a target changes the relationship between target and objective. So the target becomes a poor measure of success as soon as it is adopted as a target Comments Mike Marqusee | Mike Marqusee | 26 August 2012 On surviving cancer. And beating off tiresome platitudes. "The perpetual injunction [is] to enjoy, to consume, to celebrate.... [but] the only way to 'live every moment to the full' is to live for a purpose beyond the moment" Comments Brian Phillips | Grantland | 5 September 2012 In the 1870s Edward Payson Weston somehow became one of the most celebrated athletes in the English-speaking world despite the fact that his one athletic talent was walking. This is his remarkable story Comments | 
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