--- description: Someone is learning how to take down the Internet, a gap year could protect the mental health of America’s college students and more. title: Someone Is Learning How to Take Down the Internet image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [Ideas](/section/ideas/) ## Ideas Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [Innovation](/tag/innovation/) ## Innovation Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Someone Is Learning How to Take Down the Internet by [The Aspen Institute](/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Sep 15, 2016 4:00 PM CUT by [The Aspen Institute](/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Sep 15, 2016 4:00 PM CUT **1\.** [**Someone is learning how to take down the Internet.**](https://www.lawfareblog.com/someone-learning-how-take-down-internet "undefined") By Bruce Schneier in Lawfare **2\.** [**A gap year could protect the mental health of America’s college students.**](http://qz.com/704435/a-gap-year-could-be-the-answer-to-the-student-mental-health-crisis/ "undefined") By Joe O’Shea and Nina Hoe in Quartz **3\.** [**Unrealistic sales goals aren’t an incentive to perform. They’re an incentive to cheat.**](http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-09-14/how-sales-targets-encourage-wrongdoing-inside-america-s-companies "undefined") By Suzanne Woolley at Bloomberg **4\.** [**Could this sleep wearable fight PTSD?**](http://readwrite.com/2016/08/20/wearables-ptsd-risk-dt4/ "undefined") By David Curry in ReadWrite **5\.** [**We need to end our obsession with de-cluttering.**](https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/aug/12/need-to-declutter-dont-bother-oliver-burkeman "undefined") By Oliver Burkeman in the Guardian  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/ "undefined") _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4494972/someone-is-learning-how-to-take-down-the-internet/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4494972/someone-is-learning-how-to-take-down-the-internet/"},"headline":"Someone Is Learning How to Take Down the Internet","datePublished":"2016-09-15T16:00:41.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:59:30.815Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4494972/someone-is-learning-how-to-take-down-the-internet/","keywords":["Innovation","Mental Health","Internet","PTSD","sales"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/innovation/","name":"Innovation"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4494972/someone-is-learning-how-to-take-down-the-internet/","name":"Someone Is Learning How to Take Down the Internet"}}]}] ```