Day November 17, 2017

Set Up Automatic Texts and Avoid Fights Using IFTTT

GIF When we rounded up our staff’s Weekly Upgrades last Friday, our editors were clearing out media clutter (goodbye, six-month-old New Yorker issues), weaning our Instagram addictions, and discovering the joys of white noise machines. This week, we’re taking ballet…

Manhattan Retail: The New Rust Belt

Via Global Macro Monitor, Bleecker Street, said Faith Hope Consolo, the chairwoman of the retail group for the real estate firm Douglas Elliman, “had a real European panache. People associated it with something special, something different.” Ms. Consolo, who has…

These Questions Will Improve Your Relationships

Photo: RichardBH Have you ever had a moment of connection with a stranger? I’m not talking about a romantic or sexual connection (though those are nice too), but more of a quick smile as you pass on the street, or…

Podcast #257: How to Be a Creative Genius Like da Vinci

Leonardo da Vinci has become the ultimate archetype of the creative genius. Besides his famous paintings, including the Mona Lisa, da Vinci had insights into anatomy and optics that would take science a few hundred years to verify. While Leonardo’s…