Subject: “Dear Tech, You Suck at Delight” published by Sara Wachter-Boettcher
From: "Medium Daily Digest" <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2016 07:07:15 +0000

Medium Daily Digest (https://medium.com/?source=email-c064996f2544-1458371221125-daily_digest) Recommended by

Medium Staff

Dear Tech, You Suck at Delight (https://medium.com/@sara_ann_marie/dear-tech-you-suck-at-delight-86382d101575?source=email-c064996f2544-1458371221125-daily_digest&sectionName=suggested) “Siri, I don’t know what to do. I was just sexually assaulted.” (https://medium.com/@sara_ann_marie/dear-tech-you-suck-at-delight-86382d101575?source=email-c064996f2544-1458371221125-daily_digest&sectionName=suggested) “One can’t know everything, can one?” ¶

Earlier this week, JAMA Internal Medicine released a study that showed that smartphone AIs from Apple, Samsung, Google, and Microsoft aren’t programmed to…

Sara Wachter-Boettcher (https://medium.com/@sara_ann_marie?source=email-c064996f2544-1458371221125-daily_digest)3 min read

Screw It. Today Sucks. A Year Ago, I Was Assaulted. (https://medium.com/@ellieguzman/screw-it-today-sucks-a-year-ago-i-was-assaulted-5efaf4668dee?source=email-c064996f2544-1458371221125-daily_digest&sectionName=suggested) Yeah, my trigger is green beer and pots of gold. (https://medium.com/@ellieguzman/screw-it-today-sucks-a-year-ago-i-was-assaulted-5efaf4668dee?source=email-c064996f2544-1458371221125-daily_digest&sectionName=suggested) in Athena Talks (https://medium.com/athena-talks?source=email-c064996f2544-1458371221125-daily_digest), by Ellie Guzman (https://medium.com/@ellieguzman?source=email-c064996f2544-1458371221125-daily_digest)9 min read

What Flint Reveals about African Americans and Trust in Government (https://medium.com/@traceylross/what-flint-reveals-about-african-americans-and-trust-in-government-1639c7d84cac?source=email-c064996f2544-1458371221125-daily_digest&sectionName=suggested) This week, the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform held hearings on Flint’s water crisis. The committee heard testimony … (https://medium.com/@traceylross/what-flint-reveals-about-african-americans-and-trust-in-government-1639c7d84cac?source=email-c064996f2544-1458371221125-daily_digest&sectionName=suggested) Tracey Ross (https://medium.com/@traceylross?source=email-c064996f2544-1458371221125-daily_digest)8 min read

Top stories in

startup

Tell Me What You Did Today, And I’ll Tell You Who You Are (https://medium.com/@benjaminhardy/tell-me-what-you-did-today-and-i-ll-tell-you-who-you-are-e19735c59f7b?source=email-c064996f2544-1458371221125-daily_digest&sectionName=tag) “Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.” — Mahatma Gandhi (https://medium.com/@benjaminhardy/tell-me-what-you-did-today-and-i-ll-tell-you-who-you-are-e19735c59f7b?source=email-c064996f2544-1458371221125-daily_digest&sectionName=tag) Gandhi was completely right. When you don’t act in accordance with your values and goals, you’re internally-conflicted. ¶

You know you should be doing something — whether that’s working on your…

in Life Learning (https://medium.com/life-learning?source=email-c064996f2544-1458371221125-daily_digest), by Benjamin P. Hardy (https://medium.com/@benjaminhardy?source=email-c064996f2544-1458371221125-daily_digest)7 min read

Find Someone To Believe In. (https://medium.com/@jonwestenberg/find-someone-to-believe-in-8a8750433b3b?source=email-c064996f2544-1458371221125-daily_digest&sectionName=tag) Leave your ego behind, and support someone else’s. (https://medium.com/@jonwestenberg/find-someone-to-believe-in-8a8750433b3b?source=email-c064996f2544-1458371221125-daily_digest&sectionName=tag) in Life Learning (https://medium.com/life-learning?source=email-c064996f2544-1458371221125-daily_digest), by Jon Westenberg (https://medium.com/@jonwestenberg?source=email-c064996f2544-1458371221125-daily_digest)4 min read

Top stories in

politics

Open Letter to the Hopelessly Indebted Voting for Hillary Clinton (https://medium.com/@girlziplocked/open-letter-to-the-hopelessly-indebted-voting-for-hillary-clinton-e651203250ee?source=email-c064996f2544-1458371221125-daily_digest&sectionName=tag) So I hear you owe tens of thousands of dollars in medical debt and student loans. That sucks. (https://medium.com/@girlziplocked/open-letter-to-the-hopelessly-indebted-voting-for-hillary-clinton-e651203250ee?source=email-c064996f2544-1458371221125-daily_digest&sectionName=tag) Woah, wait, you owe how much? That’s mind-boggling. ¶

Is it even legal to sign a loan that big when you’re 17? ¶

When I was 17, I was afraid of sex because everyone told me that if I got pregnant…

Holly Wood (https://medium.com/@girlziplocked?source=email-c064996f2544-1458371221125-daily_digest)2 min read

America is a Big Country With a Lot of Shit to Do (https://medium.com/@girlziplocked/america-is-a-big-country-with-a-lot-of-shit-to-do-4a06f31f0d22?source=email-c064996f2544-1458371221125-daily_digest&sectionName=tag) I’m a really negative person. I know this about myself. I’m hyper-critical of of virtually everything — and dammit — I’m quite good at it… (https://medium.com/@girlziplocked/america-is-a-big-country-with-a-lot-of-shit-to-do-4a06f31f0d22?source=email-c064996f2544-1458371221125-daily_digest&sectionName=tag) Holly Wood (https://medium.com/@girlziplocked?source=email-c064996f2544-1458371221125-daily_digest)4 min read

Top stories in

women-in-tech

Beware of Startup Prostitution (https://medium.com/@TheWinerist/beware-of-startup-prostitution-822713ae305f?source=email-c064996f2544-1458371221125-daily_digest&sectionName=tag) 10 warning signs for startup founders (https://medium.com/@TheWinerist/beware-of-startup-prostitution-822713ae305f?source=email-c064996f2544-1458371221125-daily_digest&sectionName=tag) Note: This is not a post to glorify prostitution or to criticise the startup industry, but merely a collection of our experiences over the past years as 2 women founders at Winerist in London … (https://medium.com/@TheWinerist/beware-of-startup-prostitution-822713ae305f?source=email-c064996f2544-1458371221125-daily_digest&sectionName=tag)

Winerist (https://medium.com/@TheWinerist?source=email-c064996f2544-1458371221125-daily_digest)10 min read

Female vs. Women: On Writing Adjectives, Nouns, And Inclusive Language (https://medium.com/@kurafire/female-vs-women-on-writing-adjectives-nouns-and-inclusive-language-3b80398f59fb?source=email-c064996f2544-1458371221125-daily_digest&sectionName=tag) No matter what you’ve been saying or writing, you’ve been doing it wrong all this time. Apparently. (https://medium.com/@kurafire/female-vs-women-on-writing-adjectives-nouns-and-inclusive-language-3b80398f59fb?source=email-c064996f2544-1458371221125-daily_digest&sectionName=tag) Faruk Ateş (https://medium.com/@kurafire?source=email-c064996f2544-1458371221125-daily_digest)5 min read

Top stories in

education

We’re Trying To Do “The Wrong Thing Right” in Schools (https://medium.com/@willrich45/we-re-trying-to-do-the-wrong-thing-right-in-schools-210ce8f85d35?source=email-c064996f2544-1458371221125-daily_digest&sectionName=tag) Whenever I think about the way most schools are structured today, I always come back to the same question: Do we do the things we do… (https://medium.com/@willrich45/we-re-trying-to-do-the-wrong-thing-right-in-schools-210ce8f85d35?source=email-c064996f2544-1458371221125-daily_digest&sectionName=tag) because they’re better for kids or because they are easier for us? For instance: separating kids by age in school. Is that something we do because kids learn better that way? Or do we do it because… (https://medium.com/@willrich45/we-re-trying-to-do-the-wrong-thing-right-in-schools-210ce8f85d35?source=email-c064996f2544-1458371221125-daily_digest&sectionName=tag)

Will Richardson (https://medium.com/@willrich45?source=email-c064996f2544-1458371221125-daily_digest)7 min read

Why is Disney producing propaganda? (https://medium.com/@ryancarson/why-is-disney-producing-propaganda-6dc08166065f?source=email-c064996f2544-1458371221125-daily_digest&sectionName=tag) Have your kids been sold the lie too? (https://medium.com/@ryancarson/why-is-disney-producing-propaganda-6dc08166065f?source=email-c064996f2544-1458371221125-daily_digest&sectionName=tag) in The Naive Optimist (https://medium.com/the-naive-optimist?source=email-c064996f2544-1458371221125-daily_digest), by Ryan Carson (https://medium.com/@ryancarson?source=email-c064996f2544-1458371221125-daily_digest)3 min read

Read more on Medium: https://medium.com/?source=email-c064996f2544-1458371221125-daily_digest
Connect with us on:
---
Sent by Medium, 760 Market Street, 9th floor, San Francisco, CA 94102
To unsubscribe, visit https://medium.com/me/email-settings/c064996f2544/2cc96972fa90652d131e6117614bb1f2?source=email-c064996f2544-1458371221125-daily_digest&type=network