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Liza Donnelly
Selected as Noteworthy for finding nuance in the news cycle, Liza sketches everything that can’t be said
Medium Staff
Oct 4
Google and Facebook Have Failed Us
The world’s most powerful information gatekeepers neglected their duties in Las Vegas. Again.
Alexis C. Madrigal
Oct 3
Confessions of a Failed Female Coder
I was supposed to be a software developer, if only because I looked and acted the part.
Caroline McCarthy
Sep 25
Redesigning Laravel.io
Written by Adam Wathan and Steve Schoger.
Refactoring UI
Oct 4
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The Ultimate Workflow for Writers Obsessed with Quality
A seven-step process for producing quality writing, every time (plus the essential tools and software you need to make it happen)
Robert Hardy
Oct 2
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Which cities are well positioned to land Amazon’s HQ2?
By: Joseph Parilla
The Brookings Institution
Sep 8
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Artists Need Not Be Tortured People. Tortured People Need Not Be Artists.
The Notion That Art Requires Harmful Mental Divergence Sabotages Recovery.
Allie Long
Sep 1
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A Mystery In Lakeview
My Great, Great Uncle
Chris Darkes
Dec 9, 2014
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The Problem With Teaching Entrepreneurship
As we rush to foster the valuable goals of creativity and innovation, let’s not use the wrong means to achieve them.
Mike Sturm
Oct 4
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We’re a deranged, violent society. It’s time for private security to step up.
The gun debate ended when America decided massacring children was OK.
Ben Wolford
Oct 4
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One Girl’s Beautiful Story on How to be Free from Fear
The Gualicho — Director’s Cut
Ryan Luikens
Oct 4
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How This Anxious Introvert Handles Large Events
If you only kinda know me you might think I’m a confident extrovert, but if you reallyreally know me, it’s more clear: I’m an introvert…
Hunter Walk
Oct 3
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The Daily Itinerary of a Woman Who Knows Exactly How to Moisturize
It is as complicated as you feared.
kelly catchpole
Oct 5
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Floating on the Overage
How it feels to be untethered on today’s sprawling internet
David Roth
Oct 5
The Loneliest Neuron
Why doesn’t every neuron know about every thing?
Mark Humphries
Oct 5
Your Data is Being Manipulated
The following are remarks by Data & Society Founder and President danah boyd for her keynote at the 2017 Strata Data Conference in New York…
danah boyd
Oct 4
#dailyhelen — A Drawing Of My Kid Every Day, For One Year
As I begin this post, it’s 9:17 PM on October 3rd, 2017. Exactly one year ago I was in the hospital, waiting to start drugs that would…
Sara Eileen Hames
Oct 4
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A Typewriter Is a Linotype’s Kissing Cousin
The development of the first successful typewriter paralleled and predated the hot-metal typesetting machine
Glenn Fleishman
Oct 5
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Floating on the Overage
How it feels to be untethered on today’s sprawling internet
David Roth
Oct 5
The New Kid Defense: The Algorithm Made Me Do It
Should tech companies better discipline the algorithms influencing what kids are watching?
Emily Wengert
Oct 5
Auto-nomies of Scale
How Blockchain and Autonomous Trucking Will Traffic the World into a Safe, Cost-effective, and More Reliable Tomorrow
Collin Cusce
Oct 4
Steve Jobs — Gone but not forgotten. This is my Apple story.
On the afternoon of October 5, 2011 I was tutoring a high school student in Scottsdale, Arizona. For several years I worked part-time as an…
Brandon D. Wilson
Oct 4
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How to Write a Sex Advice Column
Working as an editor and writer at Playboy was just a job, except when it wasn’t. A series of personal essays on navigating work and life…
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Workboy
Oct 5
Here Are Some of The Strangest Habits of Some of the World’s Greatest Writers
It would be admitting the obvious to say that writers are, well, odd. Even if you were to take out the obvious manifestations of…
Writing Routines
Oct 4
Between the Muse and Me
On Resuming the Conversation With Creativity
Michael Sendrow
Oct 4
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One Girl’s Beautiful Story on How to be Free from Fear
The Gualicho — Director’s Cut
Ryan Luikens
Oct 4
Developing a Writing Habit — In Just 5 Minutes a Day
Quite often, when I tell a stranger what I do, they follow up with something to the effect of “I wish I was a better writer” or “What I…
Mary Boone
Oct 3
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Why Walmart Just Bought This Tiny Brooklyn Startup
By Zoë Henry
inc. magazine
Oct 4
User Investment: Make Your Users Do the Work
The belief that products should always be as easy to use as possible is a sacred cow of the tech world.
Nir Eyal
Oct 3
Why Your Sales Team Is Your Startup’s Greatest Asset
If you’re a CEO or Founder of a startup, you’ve been lied to. Contrary to what you’ve been told, if you build it better, they will NOT come…
Amy Volas
Oct 3
How to Raise Money for your Sustainability-Oriented Venture
3 Lessons from MIT Research
Sarah Nolet
Oct 2
Moving Beyond Silicon Valley Software Companies
We need a new financing model to build new, better companies
Luke Kanies
Oct 2
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Just Like Us: The Rise, Fall, and Future of Taylor Swift, America’s Relatable Sweetheart
In the history of pop music, there have been few Greek tragedies quite as epic — or as strange — as that of Taylor Swift and her image.
devon maloney
Oct 5
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You Can’t Do That on Your Period: A Compendium
Don’t ski, don’t have sex, don’t vote—in fact, just don’t do anything
Hanna Brooks Olsen
Oct 5
Is power dressing important? In Olivia Pope’s ‘Scandal’ world, it’s an art.
‘It’s more about a state of mind’
Mekita Rivas
Oct 5
Guys Who Really, Really Love Autumn
Women get shit for loving pumpkin spice lattes, but these men give them a run for their money
Tracy Moore
Oct 5
How Saint Laurent’s Accessories Became Critical to Its Legacy
Understanding the iconic fashion brand’s renown by its appurtenances.
India Doyle
Oct 5
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The Power Of Moments: Why Certain Experiences Have Extraordinary Impact
BY CHIP HEATH AND DAN HEATH
Fast Company
Oct 4
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Some Rabbits Just Want to Watch the World Burn
Pets are meant to reduce our stress. What happens when they create it instead?
Anxy Magazine
Oct 3
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A Beginner’s Guide to Self-Awareness
By Kristin Wong
The Cut
Oct 3
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Introvert Or Extrovert? Here’s Another Way To Think About Your Personality
The popular dichotomy between introverts and extroverts obscures a more important factor: how well you can adapt your personality to a…
Fast Company
Oct 2
Franklin’s Gambit: How to (Not) Make a Decision Like Benjamin Franklin
In 1772, nearly 4 years before the US Declaration of Independence, Benjamin Franklin wrote a letter to Joseph Priestley with advice on how…
Charles Chu
Oct 1
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Repeal the Second Amendment
It sounds like political Mission Impossible. But it’s the only meaningful way to stop the killing.
The New York Times
Oct 5
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The Truth About Fake News
After the U.S. election, the small town of Veles, in Macedonia, was identified as the source of a huge number of fake news sites and social…
Tobias Stone
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Making Sense
Oct 5
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If You Act Right, You Won’t Have a Problem
The Dirty Lie of Respectability Politics
Zaron Burnett III
Oct 5
I Lost My DACA Status Because I Was Arrested, Though Never Charged With a Crime.
The ACLU is helping me sue the Trump administration so that no one loses their DACA for no reason.
ACLU National
Oct 5
Fact Checking Four Of The NRA’s Favorite Anti-Gun Control Myths
The NRA almost always shapes the public debate about guns. It’s time to fact check the talking points they always use.
Greg Fish
Oct 4