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How To Deal With Uncomfortable Emotions And Reshape Your Identity
Jack Canfield once said, “Everything you want is on the other side of fear.”And he’s right. But I’m going to take it one step further.
Benjamin P. Hardy
Sep 6
5 Mental Biases That Cause Poor Decisions
We’re not rational.
Zat Rana
Aug 29
15 Percent? 20 Percent? It Doesn’t Matter, Because Tipping Culture Is Fundamentally Broken
Even those who earn their living via tips despise them
Haley Hamilton
Sep 5
My Wife Didn’t Know I Was a Woman Until Over a Decade Into Our Relationship
I met my wife at the beginning of college. We were both part of the incoming class of 2009 at Gustavus Adolphus College in Saint Peter…
Galen Mitchell
Sep 3
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Shoe Horned
I rolled out from under my newspapers and cardboard tent thinking maybe today I could paint the changes into my life that I’d been dreaming…
Steve B Howard
Aug 10
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Few tips to teach hard things
There are several things that I find rewarding about teaching. I love the faces that people do when they suddenly got something, or when…
Ariel Umansky
Jul 29
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Why Holistic Medicine Is Marketed to Rich White Women
And how this leaves behind those who need it most
Katie Fustich
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Silicon Valley Is Obsessed with Women’s Health
Aug 29
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Privacy in a Virtual World
An Interview with Crystal Nwaneri, explorer of the boundaries between law, intellectual property, and high-tech public policy.
Joanne McNeil
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Where Is The Future?
Aug 29
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‘Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom’
5 stars (out of 5 stars)
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Reviews Of Movies I Haven’t Seen
Sep 6
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Face Punching
Gutenberg’s system of mass-producing individual letters had a flaw: Carving faces couldn’t be sped up and automated. It took centuries to…
Glenn Fleishman
Sep 6
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McDonald’s Is A Lighthouse!
The Golden Arches of McDonalds are a lighthouse! The highway between anywhere you are and anywhere you want to go is an ocean! On the path…
Hanif Abdurraqib
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Dining Out
Sep 6
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The Past and Future of Electric Cars
The future is electric. Sales of electric vehicles jumped by 37 percent in the United States in 2016, while analysts say that globally…
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Everything You Need To Know About Buying An Electric Car
Sep 6
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The Next Wave: Predicting the future of coffee in New York City
Using economics, urbanism, data, and AI, we formulated a model that predicts optimal coffee shop locations in New York City.
Topos
Sep 7
The NonProfit Sector Must Move From Transaction to Collaboration
We’re Measuring Ourselves To Death When We Should Be Working to Understand How to Get Better Together
Jason Ricci
Sep 7
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The Thankless Task of Being Michael Moore
He’s been right about everything before, and he really thinks you are living in a bubble.
Vulture
Sep 6
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Oregonians and their Woods and Watching Them Burn
We revered these resources and now we’ve loved them to death
Hanna Brooks Olsen
Sep 7
I******e J**t
Ok: the first thing is you don’t have to read this book. If you want to undertake a flashy reading project, there are plenty of weighty…
Jamie Lauren Keiles
Sep 4
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How Do Machine Learning Programs “Learn”?
In this article, we look at two machine learning (ML) techniques, Naive Bayes classifier and neural networks, and demystify how they work.
Narin Luangrath
Sep 6
Will Mixed Reality Replace Phone Calls?
Mixed Reality conferencing and the future of collaboration
Mark Billinghurst
Sep 2
AR-First Mobile second
The Product Design challenges of doing AR on Smartphones
Matt Miesnieks
Sep 3
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The Past and Future of Electric Cars
The future is electric. Sales of electric vehicles jumped by 37 percent in the United States in 2016, while analysts say that globally…
Alison Moodie
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Everything You Need To Know About Buying An Electric Car
Sep 6
Driverless Cars: 5 Ways That They’ll Affect You
An Article by Temple Brown Consulting
Temple Brown
Aug 30
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You Won’t Believe My Biggest Fear
And I can’t believe I’m admitting it.
Kitten Holiday
Sep 2
Follow this 8 Step Writing Process to write a book
You want to write a book?
Leigh Shulman
Sep 6
The 5 Surprising Skills You Acquire From Writing Every Single Day
One year ago I started a habit of writing every single day. I wouldn’t let anyone see my work, let alone judge it. Several months later I…
Barry Davret
Sep 3
To Become Creative, You Need to Stop Being So Serious
Why play is the answer to reaching breakthroughs and problem-solving.
Melissa Chu
Sep 6
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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Turning $100M exits into $100B exits: The challenges and opportunities facing Sweden as a tech hub
To get more insights like this from Mattias and the rest of the Atomico team, sign up to our monthly(ish) newsletter, The Operator’s Manual…
Mattias Ljungman
Sep 1
Packaging your Seed Round
What to do if you get a first VC meeting — but not a second.
Founder Collective
Sep 6
’Til dev do us part: How to know when the time and team is right for your app
So you’ve locked in your idea and it’s been validated by at least 12 people.
Jessi Salonen
Sep 5
How to find the perfect Co-Founder
Forget the ‘I can do it all by myself’ bullshit. It’s time to acknowledge our weaknesses, and find the perfect business partner.
Mike Lovegrove
Sep 6
People Who Start Companies Are Crazy
I think people who start companies are, without a doubt, just a little bit crazy.
Larry Kim
Sep 4
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Michelle Obama just ripped up the playbook for former first ladies
PERSPECTIVE | She’s taking a different approach
The Lily News
Sep 6
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Why ‘Twin Peaks: The Return’ Was the Most Groundbreaking TV Series Ever
David Lynch and Mark Frost’s 25-years-later murder mystery was not only a masterpiece — it may have permanently changed the medium
Rolling Stone
Sep 5
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Why Rihanna’s New Beauty Line Matters
And so do Black girls
Ezinne Ukoha
Sep 2
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These Expressions Make You Sound Like You Don’t Know What You’re Talking About
“I sort of just wanted to point out . . . ” isn’t doing you or your listeners any favors.
Fast Company
Sep 6
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Sometimes Her Arms Bend Back
How ‘Twin Peaks’ indicts the misogyny of small town America (1 of 2)
Cammila Collar
Sep 5
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5 Mental Biases That Cause Poor Decisions
We’re not rational.
Zat Rana
Aug 29
What happens when you turn passion into work
For the past few months, I had been writing day in and day out. Writing becomes my job, my career, my passion, my life.
Isabelle Thye
Aug 28
I’m So Bored…Text Me.
Only the boring get bored unless you’re bored already, which can happen to the best of us.
Robert Cormack
Sep 1
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32 Things I’ve Learned in 32 Years
A List of Both Practical and Useless Advice
Stella J. McKenna
Sep 1
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Stop Thinking Big, Start Thinking Different
How a group of obscure painters used unconventional methods to gain recognition.
Melissa Chu
Sep 5
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What Happens to a Dreamer Deferred?
Comparing my experience as an immigrant to those who are undocumented
Robert A Stribley
Sep 6
Hillary Clinton’s subtly savage takedown of Bernie Sanders
ANALYSIS | ‘I am proud to be a Democrat and I wish Bernie were too’
The Lily News
Sep 6
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A candid letter to my evangelical parents, after Trump.
Sit down for a moment. I have a story to tell you.
Julie Ruth
Sep 6
How Dick Gregory Forced The FBI To Find The Bodies Of Three Slain Civil Rights Workers
The real story of how Dick Gregory helped find the bodies of three slain Civil Rights workers killed during Freedom Summer.
David Dennis, Jr.
Aug 30
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Don’t Be Surprised If Trump’s Assault on ‘Dreamers’ Works — Politically
The president is behaving like a candidate again, which is bad news for his political opponents
Rolling Stone
Sep 6