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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
8 Reasons the 8 Hour Workday Doesn’t Make Sense
Despite no longer making much sense, the 8-hour work day remains the defacto standard for corporate America. Our aversion to it has…
Srinivas Rao
Oct 2
Gaslighting for Beginners
How to Use this Revolutionary Psychological Tactic to Your Own Advantage
Sarah Cooper
Oct 3
6 Things You Need to Recover From Every Day
Less than 1% of people are living according to the principles/science described herein. However, I’m confident that if you apply these…
Benjamin P. Hardy
Oct 3
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Text-struck, Kevin
A short story
Anna Breslin
Sep 18
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[Wk16] Beams
Dad bolted the shutters every afternoon, well before the sun had called it quits. He re-opened them every morning, and welcomed its rays…
Classical Sass
Sep 14
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School
Or Not
Lisa Renee
Sep 22
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A Long Way Home
by Danna Colman and Thom Garrett Dedicated to Amy Brooke Colman
Danna Colman
Sep 11
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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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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
What I Learned From Being at The Las Vegas Shooting
As I write this I’m flying home from Las Vegas after the tragic and senseless shooting that resulted in 59 deaths and over 500 injuries.
Grant Cardone
Oct 2
I’m a Sugar Baby for Other Women
Athena is a 23-year-old jazz singer, actress and activist. She volunteers for the ACLU, Doctors Without Borders and several animal rights…
As Told to MEL
Oct 3
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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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Nextdoor posts from the neighborhood inside my mind
LOST: ability to feel. Last seen 2012.
Amanda Rosenberg
Oct 3
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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
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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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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
2017 Through Spielberg’s Eyes
Steven Spielberg’s rare early sci-fi TV movie: LA 2017!
Barry Monush
Oct 3
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Clive Davis Talks New Career-Spanning Doc, Whitney Houston’s Brilliance
With the release of ‘The Soundtrack of Our Lives,’ music-industry legend reflects on five decades in the business
Rolling Stone
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
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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
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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
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Gun Control Is More Like Abortion Than Gay Marriage
Millennials don’t necessarily have a more liberal view of it than older generations.
New York Magazine
Oct 3