This was a damn good year for internet writing. I found some great reads on my favorite news outlets and through Twitter, as usual, but Medium also became one of my favorite places to gain some insight about how others view the world. Long story short, I found no shortage of thought-provoking pieces to read this year. In fact, there are a lot of things I wish I had more time to read. Below is a list of some of the best things I read this year, from fantastic pieces of journalism, to inspirational posts, to articles that challenged my views and forced me to look at the world a little differently.
The 6 (because I couldn’t just choose 5) most influential articles I read this year:
- Quite possibly the most influential thing I’ve read in a long time, on white people and racism: “I don’t know what to do with good white people“
- For a reminder that you need to do things in order to make them happen, text from Shonda Rhimes’ speech: “Dreams are for losers“
- The best example of sexism in the tech industry I’ve come across so far: “The ping-pong theory of tech sexism“
- Beautiful writing about the crash of Swiss Air Flight 111 in 1998: “The long fall of one-eleven heavy” (originally published in 2000, but brought up again after the disappearance of flight MH370)
- Where to go when you’re stuck: “Navigating stuckness“
- On inequality’s approaching tipping point: “The pitchforks are coming… for us plurocrats“
And a few other articles I bookmarked this past year.
- For a bit of inspiration to take a dive into the life you want to lead: “The crossroads of should and must“
- When “life-hackers” are really just being self-entitled jerks: “When “life hacking” is really white privilege“
- A reminder that we’re probably not that special and that the universe is huge and also terrifying: “The Fermi Paradox“
- A sobering look at the lives of those who were imprisoned by ISIS: The horror before the beheadings
- A think-piece on emojis (it’s good, I promise): “Everybody smiley poops“
- A wake-up call for TED-talkers and TED talk-watchers: We need to talk about TED
- Mortality and modern relationships (grab a Kleenex): “Remembering a relationship, one chat at a time“
- An eye-opening (and depressing) look at how we’re programmed, from day one, to distrust women: “How we teach our kids that women are liars“
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Comment by Danny Rerucha
Danny Rerucha March 8, 2015 at 11:54 pm
Wait But Why is my blog of 2014! I wholly approve your time-wasting internet reading sources.