On our varying perception of time, businesses within businesses, why we’re creeped out by the sound of our own voice, the Bitcoin bubble, and inventing jobs rather than searching for them.

A short story on meat and machines, a new weather service, Vice and “gonzo journalism,” Mac apps and the configuration process, and cracking passwords.

On what it means to be a cyborg, machines chatting to each other on Twitter, human individual curiosity vs. organizational curiosity, Nike’s clever accelerator program and how the internet is making TV better.

A web-based “brain” for robots, a disturbing culture revolving around hijacked webcams, the trickiness of making digital publishing sustainable for its workers, misgivings about Google Glass and a former Pixar employee’s storytelling tips.

A Weekly Reads tribute to Seed Magazine.