Rob Fos­ter:

As humans, we also innately enjoy the release of built-​up pres­sure. From a sheet of large bub­ble wrap, to the crack­ing of knuck­les to sneez­ing. We can’t help but love the release of pres­sure and energy.

Derek Sivers:

When every­one else is try­ing to auto­mate every­thing, using a lit­tle human inter­ven­tion can be a com­pet­i­tive advantage.

Neil Kamireddy:

I’ve made a promise to myself to work with opti­mists as exclu­sively as I can over my career. It’s a form of com­pen­sa­tion to me — I’d be will­ing to trade salary for a maker cul­ture, any day.

Uni Watch:

MLB already has game caps, BP caps, Elmer Fudd caps, St. Paddy’s Day caps, All-​Star Game caps, World Series caps, throw­back caps, futur­is­tic caps, G.I. Joe caps, flag-​desecration caps, wild card win­ner caps, divi­sion cham­pion caps, league cham­pion caps, World Series cham­pion caps, snap-​back caps, low-​profile caps, dis­tressed caps, and prob­a­bly a few other caps I can’t think of right now.

Any rea­son­able per­son sur­vey­ing this head­wear land­scape can only come to one pos­si­ble con­clu­sion: We need more moth­er­fuck­ing caps.

Liza Long:

In the wake of another hor­rific national tragedy, it’s easy to talk about guns. But it’s time to talk about men­tal illness.

Wall Street Journal:

Some child-​development experts and par­ents say decades of dumbed-​down play­grounds, fueled by fears of lit­i­ga­tion, con­cerns about injury and wor­ry­wart heli­copter par­ents, have led to cookie-​cutter equip­ment that offers lit­tle thrill. The result, they say, is that chil­dren are less com­pelled to play out­side, poten­tially stunt­ing emo­tional and phys­i­cal devel­op­ment and exac­er­bat­ing a nation­wide epi­demic of child­hood obesity.