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Bad Habits You Must Break Immediately to Improve Your Life in the Next 100 Days

Habits define us. And nothing sabotages your creativity and productive life quite like bad habits. In the words of Samuel Johnson “The…

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Thomas Oppong

A beginner’s guide to IOTA

What is IOTA?

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Linda Xie

It was sex all the time at this 1800s commune, with anyone you wanted and none of the guilt

Life at the Oneida Colony was kind of a like a key party, but no one had cars and everyone was doin’ it for Jesus.

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Meagan Day

How to be an uncommonly good web developer

What does it take to be a really good web developer?

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Jessica Oei
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My Husband Died at Age 34. Here are 40 Life Lessons I’ve Learn’t.

Plus 40 Ways to Live A Full Life By Age 40.

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New Year’s Resolutions Are A Waste Of Time

Changing your life is harder than a drunken promise

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Gid M-K; Health Nerd
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What Does It Mean to Create?

In my previous post, I wrote about the history of what we think of as “creative thought,” and I provided my assessment of a historical…

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Jonathan Ely

Silicon Valley should welcome the scrutiny

It’s been a tough year for the tech startup capital of the world. One marred by scandals, flame-outs, and pissy, defensive postures by its…

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My Real Life Superpower

This is not a metaphor. Take what follows literally.

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Jack Preston King
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Swarm

Despite the dizzying ups and downs of indie publishing, don’t despair — the journey is worth it.

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What Does It Mean to Create?

In my previous post, I wrote about the history of what we think of as “creative thought,” and I provided my assessment of a historical…

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White people, we’re tired of trying to convince you of our humanity

Yesterday a group of WOC and I spent several hours online working with a white woman who couldn’t understand her comments that minimized…

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The Theory of Visitors

I went on dates.

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Sam Lansky

We spent months bracing and preparing for the death of our daughter.

Especially not with the way it happened.

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Royce Young

The impossibility of intelligence explosion

In 1965, I. J. Good described for the first time the notion of “intelligence explosion”, as it relates to artificial intelligence (AI):

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François Chollet
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Hidden in Plain Sight

Did a Secret Service Agent Accidentally Shoot JFK?

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Bonar Menninger

Trial Balloon for a Coup?

Analyzing the news of the past 24 hours

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Yonatan Zunger
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The Biggest Tech Fails of 2017

This year’s fails have been all about an assaults on you, your opinions, and your personal data.

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How to stop hackers from rickrolling your smart speaker

Resolve to be smarter about network security in 2018.

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Apple Apologizes for iPhone Speed Cuts to Prevent Crashing

By Alex Webb

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Trump Takes On Amazon Again, Urging ‘Much More’ in Postage Fees

By Justin Sink

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Hard and Soft Skills in Tech

It’s both more serious and less serious than we’ve admitted

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Yonatan Zunger
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Swarm

Despite the dizzying ups and downs of indie publishing, don’t despair — the journey is worth it.

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Carole P. Roman
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When I Fell in Love with Writing

Little girls and their best friends have a special relationship. It is too bad we do not spend more time listening in on the amazing worlds…

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Lauren Langford
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Here’s How We Creatives Can Be Better at Business

Because the only thing stopping us is lack of structure.

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Kern Carter
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What Does It Mean to Create?

In my previous post, I wrote about the history of what we think of as “creative thought,” and I provided my assessment of a historical…

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My Writing Process: From Pitch to Final Draft

I’ve had a lot of people asking me recently how I write nonfiction, and by that they usually mean how I think they should write. To that I…

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Rebecca Renner
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How A Young Fitness Entrepreneur Broke $1 Million in Revenue In Eight Months

By Elaine Pofeldt

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How to Think of Your Company’s Narrative as a Product

Let me guess. You’re a startup, and you’re worried about how to tell the story of your company publicly. Sometimes you even have trouble…

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This $20 Million Startup Was on the Road to Riches. Then Its Leader Started Talking to God

The inside story of Tradiv — a red-hot startup that collapsed amid bad decisions, allegations of sexual misconduct, and a co-founder’s…

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Why Big Tech needs to get out more

‘Companies need to find ways to connect with aspiring entrepreneurs outside Silicon Valley’

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Venture Capital Is Built on Serendipity

Software has as much potential as electrification or steam power, but instead the industry ignores markets and whole classes of people…

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Pot in 2018: What to Expect

From vape clubs to legalization to how we talk about weed, our predictions for the next year in cannabis

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Rolling Stone

~2017 in fictional characters~

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10 Cultural Battles That Ruled 2017

Trump versus Hollywood. Echoes of the Confederacy. Taylor Swift and the alt-right. Here’s a not-so-nostalgic look back at some of the year…

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Water Is Life

“This Is Not A Symbolic Action” — Indigenous Protesters Occupy Oil Platforms in Radicalized Fight Against Pollution in the Amazon

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The Intercept
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Can the Supreme Court Continue to Live with Our Arbitrary and Capricious Death Penalty?

By Liliana Segura

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The Intercept