Reads: Instagram Influencers, Obituaries & More

A wrap on some of the interesting reads from across the web...

1. Gray Hat - NYMag
2. Notes on Being Very Tall - Topic
3. How Indian Kids Raised Without Personal Space Became Adults Who Don't Care About Privacy - Buzzfeed
4. The Perfect Man Who Wasn't - The Atlantic
5. Retweets Are Trash - The Atlantic
6. As the World Ends, Has the Time for Grieving Arrived? - Literary Hub
7. What Does it Cost to be Big on Instagram? - Buzzfeed
8. Overlooked - The New York Times
9. More of the Bay Area Could Be Underwater in 2100 Than Previously Expected - The New York Times
10. For Two Months, I Got My News From Print Newspapers. Here's What I Learned. - The New York Times
11. The Stuff That Came Between Mom and Me: A Story About Hoarding - Longreads
12. The Streaming Void - The Baffler
13. When Twenty-Six Thousand Stinkbugs Invade Your Home - The New Yorker
14. Bitcoin Is Ridiculous. Blockchain Is Dangerous - Bloomberg
15. Amazon Doesn't Consider the Race of Its Customers. Should It? - Bloomberg
16. 'Blockchain' is Meaningless - The Verge
17. Why Was Facebook so Easy to Hijack? - The Wall Street Journal
18. Operation Bayonet: Inside the Sting That Hijacked an Entire Dark Web Drug Market - Wired