The most obvious benefit of listening to podcasts at a faster speed than they were recorded is that you can finish a podcast ...

I have a million things to do every day. (OK, maybe more like 87, but that’s plenty for the 16 wakeful hours I have.) I’m betting you do, too. And as time has grown more and more precious, people like ...

When children first learn to read, they move their eyes haltingly along lines of text as they try to figure out the words they encounter. Through years of practice, however, most people become highly ...

We’re all trying to be more ‘mindful’ and ‘find space’ in our day, but what if there was a simple hack to cram a little bit more in every day? If you love podcasts, there’s a new trend you need try - ...

Due to the physical limitations of tongue, breath and the brain-to-speech interface, words come out of most of us at a rate that lags well behind listeners’ ability to comprehend. That’s why I’m an ...

LOVED the book. Listened to it on Audible at 2x speed and finished it in three days. Couldn't put it down. Congrats! For Vance, an author who ostensibly did all the things authors do when working on ...

Earlier this year, Slate moved its offices from Manhattan to downtown Brooklyn. This turned out to be a unique blessing—I reside in Brooklyn, and my daily commute has been cut nearly in half. But it’s ...

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I’ve long been told I speak incomprehensibly fast, my words tumbling forth as if emerging from a dangerously overburdened waterslide, so I naturally assumed I’d be an ideal candidate for ...

The Repair App is a new platform that connects trusted repair service providers with people who need their stuff fixed. It couldn’t come at a better time for economically strapped consumers. How to ...

It started, for Ashlee Vance, with an email. The author of a recent (and much-quoted) biography of the tech entrepreneur Elon Musk recently received a note from a reader, the CEO of the San ...