Fastest rising
Momentum first — what is accelerating, then what readers are engaging with now. Recomputed on a schedule, never live.
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The Cart Satisfies the Regulation and Loses the Conversation
The cart is a tablet on a wheeled pole, about five feet high, with a camera at the top and a handle for pushing it between rooms. It connects in under a minute to an interpreter in one of about two…
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We Translated Eleven Languages and the Keyboard Is Still English
The localisation project ran for two quarters and shipped eleven languages. Nine thousand strings, professionally translated, reviewed by native speakers, with a proper pluralisation library. It wa…
43
The Roster on the Staff Room Wall Is the Real Curriculum
The duty roster in the staff room of a government upper-primary school I visit in the eastern part of the state is a sheet of ruled paper in a plastic sleeve, updated in three different pens. Last …
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The Sign-Up Sheet Fills From the Top and the Top Is Two in the Afternoon
The conference sign-up goes out in October. Fifteen-minute slots, two o'clock to seven, two days. The early afternoon fills within about six hours of the link going live and the six o'clock slots g…
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Nobody Owns the Number That Kills a Third of Our Signups
Our signup funnel loses thirty-four percent of users between the phone-number screen and the verified screen. That number has been between thirty and thirty-eight percent for the entire time I have…
46
I Campaigned for the Commission and the Map Barely Moved
I knocked doors for an independent redistricting commission. I wrote a explainer about it that got passed around. When it passed I was genuinely happy, and then I spent two cycles looking at the ma…
47
She Put Her Own Number in the Emergency Contact Box
The intake form has a box headed EMERGENCY CONTACT and two lines under it: name, and relationship. She wrote her own name, her own mobile number, and in the relationship line she wrote self.
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He Changed His Mind and the Room Did Not Know What to Do
In April a man in the Thursday group at the county library said that he had thought about what we discussed in March, and that he now believed the opposite of what he had argued for two hours. He s…
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Three Years of a Structural Change Went Into the Seasonal Factor
The seasonally adjusted number came in at a level everyone described as steady. The unadjusted number for that month was the weakest for that month in eleven years. Both are published. One of them …
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The Novel About Us Was Written in a Language Almost None of Us Reads
The bookshop in McLeod Ganj has a shelf of Tibetan writing and about nine tenths of it is in English. Memoirs, mostly. Two novels. A collection of essays that I have taught from. All by Tibetans, a…