How to Achieve Sustainable Remote Work

Plus: Biden’s strategy for combatting Trumpism; a long-lost work by Marcel Proust; and new fiction from Rebecca Curtis. View in browser | Update your preferences Saturday, July 10, 2021 Annals of Technology How to Achieve Sustainable Remote Work Companies must move away from surveillance and visible busyness, and toward defined outcomes and trust. By Cal Newport Daily Comment Biden’s Invisible Ideology The President has deployed an exasperating but effective strategy to counter Trumpism. By Adam Gopnik Fiction “Young Girls” “I would have passionately loved—I won’t even say to know them, but for them to form a high opinion of me.” By Marcel Proust More in Culture Fiction “Satellites” “Conor and Tony were meticulous, but owing to oversights they’d each had five kids by four women.” By Rebecca Curtis This Week in Fiction Rebecca Curtis on Cops and Bankers The author discusses “Satellites,” her story from the latest issue of the magazine. By Willing Davidson Musical Events Julius Eastman’s Florid Minimalism The composer’s thunderous, propulsive “Femenine” is becoming a modern classic. By Alex Ross From the Archive Page-Turner Why an Imperfect Version of Proust Is a Classic in English Marcel Proust, who was born on this day in 1871, is part of the American reader’s experience in a way that his contemporaries are not. But is this Proust even Proust? By Adam Gopnik Humor and Puzzles Daily Shouts Acrostic Poems About Going Gray in My Thirties Cool skunk stripe, like Stacy London’s? That’s not happening with my hair. By Kerry Elson Crossword The Weekend Puzzle Make rapid strides: nine letters. By Wyna Liu You’re receiving this e-mail because you signed up for The Daily from The New Yorker. Was this e-mail forwarded to you? Sign up. Unsubscribe | Manage your e-mail preferences | Send newsletter feedback | View our Privacy Policy Copyright © Condé Nast 2021. One World Trade Center, New York, NY 10007. All rights reserved.