“Anyone can sleep in the office for a night, a few nights, even most of the time. But to remove the option of escaping the office entirely—that’s what makes it heroic in Silicon Valley.” Bloomberg’s Joel Stein on one employee’s thirteen months of working, eating, and sleeping at the Googleplex. (Pro tip: Dave Eggers’ The Circle is not intended to be read as a how-to guide.)

+ “The mission: Kidnap a cop at a traffic stop. Jail him (or her, but likely him) at a house in the burbs. Hold their own trial. And then: ‘Put a bullet in his head.'” California Sunday Mag’s Ashley Powers on The Vegas Plot.

+ From Fusion: Meet a man who has been dating a crowdsourced Internet girlfriend for the last three months.

+ WaPo’s Marja Mills: The Harper Lee I Knew.