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Inside the ongoing argument over whether Bitcoin, Ethereum, and the blockchain are transforming the world.
Nick Paumgarten New Yorker Oct 2018 20min Permalink
The lives of elevators.
Nick Paumgarten New Yorker Apr 2008 30min Permalink
A profile of Whole Foods CEO John Mackey.
Nick Paumgarten New Yorker Jan 2010 35min Permalink
How Yvon Chouinard turned his eco-conscious, anti-corporate ideals into the credo of a successful clothing company.
Nick Paumgarten New Yorker Sep 2016 35min Permalink
Every table at Damon Baehrel’s restaurant is booked until 2025. Or is it?
Nick Paumgarten New Yorker Aug 2016 30min Permalink
Ashima Shiraishi is the most talented rock climber in the world. She’s also 14.
Nick Paumgarten New Yorker Jan 2016 20min Permalink
The men who say they’ll try to save the once-bustling gambling resort town.
Nick Paumgarten New Yorker Aug 2015 40min Permalink
On Ilana Glazer and Abbi Jacobson, the duo behind Broad City.
Nick Paumgarten New Yorker Jun 2014 25min Permalink
On new art boom and one of its most powerful players, David Zwirner.
Nick Paumgarten New Yorker Nov 2013 40min Permalink
The Grateful Dead’s afterlife.
Nick Paumgarten New Yorker Nov 2012 50min Permalink
A trip to the World Economic Forum in Davos.
Nick Paumgarten New Yorker Feb 2012 30min Permalink
Inside the world of online dating:
If the dating sites had a mixer, you might find OK Cupid by the bar, muttering factoids and jokes, and Match.com in the middle of the room, conspicuously dropping everyone’s first names into his sentences. The clean-shaven gentleman on the couch, with the excellent posture, the pastel golf shirt, and that strangely chaste yet fiery look in his eye? That would be eHarmony.
Nick Paumgarten New Yorker Jul 2011 40min Permalink
On the soul of the commuter:
A commute is a distillation of a life’s main ingredients, a product of fundamental values and choices. And time is the vital currency: how much of it you spend—and how you spend it—reveals a great deal about how much you think it is worth.
Nick Paumgarten New Yorker Apr 2007 25min Permalink
A profile of video game artist Shigeru Miyamoto, the man behind Super Mario Bros.
Nick Paumgarten New Yorker Dec 2010 35min Permalink