Fwd: I Used to be a Human Being, A World Without Work, Why do Anything?

How Technology is changing work: Robots will do all our jobs, including driving our cars. The importance of white voters. A Happiness Hack. Brought to you by: I Used to Be a Human Being Andrew Sullivan, New York Magazine An endless bombardment of news and gossip and images has rendered us manic information addicts. It broke me. It might break you, too. Save to Pocket SPONSORED ​Start a Free Trial of HipChat Server and Get This Shirt HipChat Server is chat for grown-up companies. Group and video chat, screen sharing, and enterprise integrations with Jira and other agile management platforms. ​Get my Shirt A World Without Work Is Coming – It Could Be Utopia or It Could Be Hell Ryan Avent, The Guardian Robots will eventually do all our jobs, but we need to start planning to avert social collapse Save to Pocket U.S. Signals Backing for Self-Driving Cars Cecilia Kang, The New York Times Federal auto safety regulators on Monday made it official: They are betting the nation's highways will be safer with more cars driven by machines and not people. Save to Pocket President Trump's First Term Evan Osnos, The New Yorker After more than a year of candidate Trump, Americans are almost desensitized to each new failing exhumed from his past—the losing schemes and cheapskate cruelties, the discrimination and misogyny—much as they are to the daily indecencies of the present: the malice toward a grieving mother, the hidden tax records, the birther fiction and other lies. But where, in all that, is much talk of the future? Save to Pocket White Riot Zack Beauchamp, Vox How racism and immigration gave us Trump, Brexit, and a whole new kind of politics. Save to Pocket White Voters Keep Trump's Hopes Alive in Must-Win Florida Nate Cohn, The New York Times Donald J. Trump has almost no plausible path to the White House unless he wins Florida, a rapidly changing state where Hispanic voters could deal a decisive blow to his chances. Save to Pocket The Best Ways to Cope with a Noisy Office Rachel Becker, The Verge Giving noise-reduction strategies a fair hearing. Save to Pocket This Happiness Hack from a Wildly Popular Stanford Class Can Help You Create a Life You Love Bill Burnett and Dave Evans, Quartz To get started, we recommend thinking about the last time that you were on cloud 9—an experience that gave you a glimpse of adrenaline-induced ecstasy, if only for a moment. It could be the feeling you had when you got a great new job offer, fell in love, finished a marathon or traveled to a beautiful country. Save to Pocket Why Do Anything? A Meditation on Procrastination Costica Bradatan, The New York Times Idleness, as we know, has a bad rap in Western culture, but it can be a philosophical experience in its own right. Bertrand Russell wrote a long essay in praise of it, and Oscar Wilde thought that "to do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world" as well as the most intellectual. Save to Pocket Blog

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