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Tom Vanderbilt

Tom Vanderbilt is an American journalist and author who writes about design, technology, travel, and everyday behavior. He is best known for Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us), and has also written You May Also Like and Beginners, bringing behavioral insight to ordinary experience.

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Tom Vanderbilt built his career by turning ordinary systems into subjects of cultural inquiry. Born in Illinois, raised in Wisconsin, and educated at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, he moved to New York with the aim of becoming a writer. His early path ran through criticism, reporting, and essays for outlets that rewarded intellectual range rather than narrow specialization. Work for publications such as Slate, Design Observer, Artforum, Wired, and other magazines helped establish the method that would define him: start with a familiar object or routine, then widen the frame until it reveals something larger about design, technology, psychology, and everyday life. ((https://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/tom-vanderbilt/?utm_source=openai))

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What could traffic tell us, if someone would just stop to listen?
-Traffic
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When we forget that driving isn’t necessarily as easy as it seems to be, we get into trouble
-Traffic Q&A
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The street had gone from a rich ecosystem to a monoculture
-The Pandemic Gives Us a Chance to Change How We Get Around
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Which is extraordinary, considering how murky the world of traffic can be
-Why Waymo’s Fleet of Self-Driving Cars Is Finally Ready for Prime Time
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Learning is forgetting; or, more accurately, it's virtually forgetting that we know something, but then being able to magically retrieve it when called upon
-How Duolingo uses dirty gaming tricks to get you addicted to French
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We don’t tend to think on paper. We think in our heads
-Autonomous Cars: How Safe Is Safe Enough?
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Now, under the guise of fatherly supervision, I again had a controller in hand
-‘Wait, Sylvie’s Dad Plays?!’ The Joy of Fortnite Parenting
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Perhaps more than anything else, Tesla represents a disruption of the imagination
-Elon Musk and the dangerous cliché of the disruptive visionary
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In a cynical, despairing world, a sugar pill that calls itself a sugar pill might be the sweetest thing around
-You Know It’s a Placebo. So Why Does It Still Work?
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Like the robots, I feel I’m moving around in the dark, never seeing everything at once
-Here Come the Underdogs of the Robot Olympics

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"Tom Vanderbilt takes up pursuits that are actually fun—surfing, chess, even juggling—and finds power in being a novice"

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"Tom Vanderbilt uncovers a raft of counterintuitive facts about what happens when we get behind the wheel, and why"

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"Tom Vanderbilt shows us why it's never too late to be a beginner, and that there should be no shame associated with the word 'dilettante."

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"A genuinely engaging book, perhaps because Tom Vanderbilt is skillful at conveying his own sense of engagement to the reader"

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"Tom Vanderbilt's book explores how to learn completely new skills, how to change our world - even after we're supposed to be done with schooling"

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"It's impossible to pick up a book by Tom Vanderbilt without learning something"

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