Latest articles Monday October 19, 2020

1. Featured Story: Media outlets are still struggling to understand what "viral" means

   Every day, thousands of events happen. The job of a journalist is to decide what is – and what isn’t – worthy of bringing to a broader audience.

   By Chris Stokel-Walker

1. Silicon Valley’s corporate ‘mindfulness’ hypocrisy

   Silicon Valley is notorious for its idiosyncratic blend of free-market libertarianism and ersatz corporatist spirituality. Perhaps it all started at Apple with Steve Jobs and his dilettantish interest in Zen Buddhism, even though he often called his employees shitheads and was seen as a tyrant and bully. Little did Jobs know of the dark side of Zen’s long history of militarism and its cooptation by Japanese imperialism.

   By Ron Purser

   From the Delivering Happiness desk