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I Was In the London Bridge Terrorist Attacks

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Andrew Kent
Jun 9

What It’s Really Like When People Shout At You All Day

True stories from the workers who spend their days on the front lines of frustration.

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Beejoli Shah
Jun 5

Why 1 View is Everything

It baffles me how many people think that they are bigger than they actually are.

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Gary Vaynerchuk
Jun 9

Inside One Founder’s Personal Fast Club

Seven months and 81 pounds ago, this founder gave up regular meals. Welcome to the new hunger games.

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Jessi Hempel
Jun 8
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The Second Amendment: A Duty as Much as a Right

I just bought my son his first air rifle: a Gamo G-Force breech break rifle in .177 caliber (4.5mm) shooting a 12-gram steel ball or pellet…

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Fernando Betancor
Apr 12
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What Is Harm?

The philosophical backbone of the campus protest movement

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Jeffrey Webb
Apr 17
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The Great American Sequel Machine

Some two-thirds of the way through the cartoonish, overpriced muddle titled Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, sold to us…

Miles Klee
Bad Art
May 24
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Why Successful People Learn to Ask for Help

And the three things that always get in the way

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Ryan Engelstad
May 24
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Responsiveness or Competence: Choose One

Each occupant of the Oval Office stamps the presidency with his (to date) unique personality. Yet every West Wing resident faces a common…

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Luke Thompson
Jun 9
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The 38-Geary: Where the Masses Go to Meet the Masses

The accordion-bellows stretch of the 38-Geary careens and slumps through the new Central Subway’s construction chaos at Union Square…

Davy Carren
As the Bus Turns
Jun 9
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George Moscone’s San Francisco

On the corner of Sutter and Steiner Streets, in what was then known as the Western Addition or the Fillmore District of San Francisco, a…

Lincoln Mitchell
San Francisco: 1978
Jun 8
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One Nation Over God

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible…

Tom Littrell
Coding the Creator
Jun 8
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Memes Are for Snowflakes

Step Off, Non-snowflakes.

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Allie Long
Jun 9

Bookends

from a secret passion to a lasting friendship that holds us both up

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Erin Judge
Jun 2

Donald Trump Blocked Me on Twitter

The President of the United States makes decisions that can affect the lives of millions. So far, Trump has put forth efforts to repeal the…

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Steve Benko
Jun 9

The art of writing an obituary

Capturing the essence of a life in 1,000 words or fewer

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The Economist
Jun 5

Kids

Looking for small, irrational, incompetent, freeloader roommates with rage issues and separation anxiety? Have kids.

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Lisa Renee
Jun 9
Technologymore

Is Ambient Technology Antithetical to VR?

Last week, Walt Mossberg wrote his final column for Recode.

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Hammer & Tusk
Jun 1

Who’s killing the (self-driving) electric car?

And is Detroit leading Silicon Valley astray?

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Peter W
Jun 6

How do self driving cars drive? Part 1: Lane keeping assist

You’re sold on self driving cars (SDC), right? You’ve read so much about the future of mobility and how disruptive self driving cars can be…

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Eder Santana
Jun 4

Performance Testing in a Distributed Computing World — From Mobile and Beyond

Computing has changed a lot since the days of Digital Watches, Televisions, Telephones and Apollo Spacecraft — where in the software…

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Arjun Venkatachalam
Jun 7

Blockchain for the Rest of Us

Bitcoin and its underlying technology blockchain are game changing technologies that are reshaping and revolutionizing the world economy.…

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Billy Silva
Jun 2
Creativitymore

Stop Trying to Be Successful at Anything (Do This Instead)

You’re Only Killing Your Desire to Create

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Blake Powell
Jun 8

Reader Question: What about the Protagonist and the inciting incident?

Question from @SB_Boxing:

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Scott Myers
Jun 8

Cormac McCarthy and Curating Theme: How to Drive Your Readers Insane

Powerful themes lead to dynamic symbolism

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Christopher La Porte
Jun 2

Damn the Writers, Maybe

Or Should You be a Surgeon or a Poet?

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David Snyder
Jun 6
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Enduring Two Years of Botched Surgery

My Columbia MFA Experience

Felicia C. Sullivan
An Outsider’s Guide to Publishing
Apr 19
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What It’s Like Leaving the Corporate World to Start My Own Business

The idea of starting your own business can be a captivating concept. I often daydreamed about what it would be like to create my own…

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Ravi Raman
Jun 6

Do you really need a Business Plan ?

Travelling with the map is common sense!

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Donna-Luisa
Jun 7

Getting Your Idea Going: Don’t Quit your Day Job

Written by Wil Schroter // Also shared on Startups.co.

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Startups Co
Jun 8

Why Being “Patiently Impatient” (Literally) Pays Off

The fine line between being an impatient asshole and knowing that good things take time…

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Mitchell Harper
Jun 6

How I traded shoes for the Twitter handle I was dreaming of

A story of kindness and little bit hustle.

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Waqas Ali
Jun 6
Culturemore

Why People Don’t Like “I Love Dick” (Hint: Because It’s About Women)

Apparently, female sexual desire still too much for prestige-TV audiences to take.

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Erin Spampinato
Jun 8

Fear of Words, Love of Labels

I watch a youtube video for my cartomancy students that can prove a point I was making in class last week.

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Camelia Elias
Jun 8

The Psychology of Book Titles

What’s in a name? It’s a more complicated question than you might think, because the name of your book can indicate everything from tone to…

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Kevin Tumlinson
Jun 9

“Made In America”

“The Sopranos” Finale, Ten Years Later

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Jon Schneidman
Jun 9
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The Master of Champagne

Graham Harding is not your ordinary doctoral student. His research revolves around one of the most famous drinks in history: champagne.

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Felix Simon
Apr 28
Selfmore

3 Unusual Happiness Habits Backed by Psychology

How to make happiness an attainable choice

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Sandip Roy
May 29

45 Things That Might Help You Be A Better Human

A short list of ways to improve your life and maybe even the lives of others.

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Paul Armstrong
Jun 7
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Values-Based Leadership Gone Wrong

How to challenge yourself to reach the next level

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Chantal Laurie Below
Jun 8

5 Thought Pills On Practicing Detachment

Where do you go when you take a step back to find peace

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Shreya Dalela
Jun 4
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How Improving Your Receptivity To Feedback Can Supercharge Your Career

The one attitude you can’t succeed without

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Matt Trainer
May 23
Politicsmore

In their own words: National Park Service explains impacts of crippling cuts in Trump’s budget

NPS’s own document spells out the devastating impacts this budget would have for our national parks

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Jesse Prentice-Dunn
Jun 8

Special Counsel Robert Mueller: The Man Who Could Bring Down Donald Trump

Behind the expert leading the Trump-Russia investigation

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Remy Anne
Jun 10

Did Trump Obstruct Justice?

The testimony of former FBI Director, James Comey, has caused debate on whether President Trump should be impeached and removed from office…

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Richard Craig Friedman
Jun 9

Does the UK election mean anything for America?

As always, yes and no.

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Ryan Bohl
Jun 10

We design healthcare policy exactly wrong

In many cases, designing for the edge case — the least common customer or user — is a bad idea. If you create a product or a policy for the…

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Pigs Don’t Fly
May 26
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