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Redesigning Laravel.io
Written by Adam Wathan and Steve Schoger.
Refactoring UI
Oct 4
Your app is an onion: Why software projects spiral out of control
You start with the best of intentions. You hire a developer to build out your startup idea. But almost every week, it feels like the…
Kannan Chandrasegaran
Oct 3
When You’re On The Autistic Spectrum, Consent Is Complicated
How are autistic people meant to negotiate boundaries when they spend the vast majority of their lives having their own boundaries ignored?
Lola Phoenix
Sep 21
Tell Me What You Read, And I’ll Tell You Who You Are
Is reading adding or subtracting from your life?
Zat Rana
Oct 3
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In the Wake: Technology Is Changing the Way We Mourn
In an age when our physical selves have two-dimensional lives online, when our communications and interactions are built with zeros and…
Tessa Love
Oct 2
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She loved the Chopin
Bradley finds his box of sheet music behind his grandfather’s pianola. He hasn’t used it in years, of course; everything is memorised (he…
Anna Spargo-Ryan
Sep 10
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I Was Depressed. This Is How I Came Out Of It.
How I went from being depressed to happy and loving once again.
Sravani Saha
Sep 11
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Pizza Hut and the Freedom of Small Houses
The Pizza Hut coupons encased the coupon pamphlets that would invade my family’s mailbox every week. Most were useless to us: some…
Hanif Abdurraqib
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Dining Out
Oct 2
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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 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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Civil-Rights Protests Have Never Been Popular
Activists can’t persuade their contemporaries — they’re aiming at the next generation.
The Atlantic
Oct 3
Focus on Irma but remember that most of the world’s disasters are ignored
What a disastrous few weeks. Historic hurricanes, massive earthquakes, and large-scale wildfires have all simultaneously struck the…
Markos Kounalakis
Sep 29
Technology
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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
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Solving Wanamaker’s Dilemma
We’re close to solving advertising’s fundamental challenges. But the solution — building an entire city from scratch — is audacious.
Rick Webb
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Which Half Is Wasted?
Oct 3
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The Military Has a Plan for Human Brain Waves
The Army Research Laboratory’s plan to use human brains to train machines
Benjamin Powers
Oct 3
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It’s Tencent’s world — you are merely an avatar in it
How the group conquered China’s video game market to become more valuable than Exxon.
The Financial Times
Oct 2
My Samsung Smart Switch
Samsung Smart Switch is an Android app which can be used to transfer files from iOS device or Android device to Galaxy device. Whenever you…
Enda Wolfe
Oct 2
Creativity
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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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Writing a Book Might Not Change Your Life, But It Will Change You
Writing doesn’t trouble me nearly so much as living does.
Abby Norman
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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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
The Nobel Prize in Literature Committee is Back on Track
Kazuo Ishiguro, an actual novelist, wins the 2017 prize
Electric Literature
Oct 5
It’s now against the law to secretly touch up photos of models in France
Failure to comply results in a hefty fine
The Lily News
Oct 4
‘Rebel in the Rye’ Can’t Escape the Image of the Author as Solitary Genius
Though it tries to complicate J.D. Salinger’s story, the film ends up endorsing an insular view of the artistic process
Manuel Betancourt
Oct 4
The Role Of The Modern Anime Club
Generally-speaking, an “anime club” is an organization, often centered around a college or university, focused on showing, promoting, and…
Iyashikei
Oct 3
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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
Politics
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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
The Republicans’ Proposed Budget
Today, in the Senate Budget Committee, we began the two-day process of discussing the Republicans’ proposed federal budget. The budget is…
Kamala Harris
Oct 4
California Is the Future
Trump is the last gasp of the conservative era and will bring down Republican rule. What’s coming next is in California right now.
Peter Leyden
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California Is The Future
Oct 4
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Ed Gillespie’s Uphill Climb
Unplanned events could stop his quest to become Governor of Virginia
Luis A. Mendez
Oct 4
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House Russia Probe Targets Google’s YouTube and Gmail
RT Network’s YouTube presence may be part of U.S. lawmakers’ scrutiny
Bloomberg
Oct 4