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“I know,” Marnie says. “But he’s done it to everyone. Last year at CES, he took us out to Delmonico’s, and I asked the waiter for a vegetable plate because I just wasn’t in the mood for a steak. After dinner Chuck accused me of ‘sending a signal’ that he wasn’t inclusive of vegetarians. But then it…

There are so many men here, men from Sloan and the University of Michigan and McKinsey and Deloitte. They’re transitioning to barefoot running. They bought Vibrams last month, and a sous vide machine. They like Big Hairy Audacious Goals, and in college they once saw Modest Mouse five times in a yea…

“No, Kristi, it’s not, and you are right to look surprised because it’s fucking insane that every price on this website is set manually by a buyer. So I’m hired to fix it, give buyers their time back to do something more productive. But guess what: every time I turn around I discover some new team …

The pleasures it provided had only served to underline Miles’s creeping suspicion that his life was becoming unmanageable. A single present sentence from his daughter had been enough to make him feel invincible. It felt suddenly so pathetic. His life felt small, and far from him, and the comforts o…

Despite the popularity of the adage, Miles did not believe youth was wasted on the young. The pleasures of youth were the by-product of its shallowness, the ability to feel things deeply and then forget them, to hurry from one moment to the next, taking life as for granted as possible. It wasn’t a …