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The Democrats are Hemorrhaging Voters for the Same Reason You’re Still Single

A Meditation on Hard Truths Hurt People Never Learn

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Holly Wood

I Was Young, Until I Wasn’t

Reflections on a full life and an empty home.

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John Gorman

How HBO’s Silicon Valley built “Not Hotdog” with mobile TensorFlow, Keras & React Native

How we beat the state of the art to build a real-life A.I. app.

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Tim Anglade

Why Snap Map Is A Big Deal

Snap Inc recently released a new feature to their popular messaging app Snapchat. This new feature allows their users to bring up a map in…

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Cody Engel
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“Made In America”

“The Sopranos” Finale, Ten Years Later

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Jon Schneidman
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I Had No Idea I was Killing My Husband

Waking up and realizing what you’ve done for the past five years

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Mandy Chew
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Stage A Comeback: Admitting that I had an eating disorder, fighting those demons and flourishing.

I sit here looking back at photos from my youth, and I’m honestly not sure how it all happened. I look like a completely different person…

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Andrew Renschen
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From Vacant to Vibrant: The Move to Fill Empty Stores

As merchants abandon traditional retail outlets, sharing companies see an opportunity.

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Jim Daly
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Why Do People Join Cults?

And why do they leave?

Kathleen Toohill
Kathleen Toohill in How to Cult
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Shelley Enters the Woods

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Joe Meno
Joe Meno in Star Witness
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Reviews of Movies I Haven’t Seen: ‘War for the Planet of the Apes’

5 Stars (Out of 5 Stars)

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Chris Scott
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This Web Designer Is Leading the Fight Against the Obamacare Repeal

It was December 31, 2013. The Obama administration, after enduring months of bruising media coverage as a result of its botched rollout of…

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Simon Owens
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How Much Did This Guitar Story Cost Me? $2,376.99

The story behind my story on the death of the electric guitar

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Washington Post

New Moms Can Get Depressed. Why Don’t Doctors Take Them Seriously?

Hundreds of thousands of American women have experienced post-partum depression. There’s no reason why they should fall through the cracks.

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Sushmita Pathak
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This Web Designer Is Leading the Fight Against the Obamacare Repeal

It was December 31, 2013. The Obama administration, after enduring months of bruising media coverage as a result of its botched rollout of…

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Simon Owens

I Just Have A Lot of Feelings: In Defense of The Personal Essay

You know in Mean Girls when Janice Ian maps out the school cafeteria for Cady Heron? (If you don’t, get out of here, but really please stay…

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Ashley Abramson

I Was Young, Until I Wasn’t

Reflections on a full life and an empty home.

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John Gorman
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How Augmented Reality will Make you more Beautiful

The implications of the impending AR revolution and what it means for how you’ll live your life in the future

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Chris Herd

Giving the iPad a full-time job

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Justin Searls

Everything You Need To Know About Chatbots

One of the trends presented at the beginning of this year that will dominate the near future for mobile development and for mobile…

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Yunus Tas

27 Must-Have Apps You (Probably) Don’t Know About

Have you ever wondered what products or apps you’re missing out on? It’s easy to find the most popular ones in a particular category—but…

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Product Hunt

Hedging Sonic the Hedgehog

Thinking about retro gaming in the age of app stores

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M.G. Siegler
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Three Principles for Improving Written Communication

Question: “What are some good practices for improving my writing skills?”

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Michael Alvis

Your Story Is The Most Marketable Trait You Have as a Writer

Accept you’re a marketer and embrace your story instead.

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Blake Powell

Why Are Millennials Creating All This Content?

“Make it simple. Make it memorable. Make it inviting to look at. Make it fun to read.” — Leo Burnett

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Arjun Rao

Archetypes: The Wizard of Oz (Part One)

I’ve always thought The Wizard of Oz (1938) to be a classic example of The Hero’s Journey, following the cyclical paradigm of “The Odyssey…

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Scott Myers

Writing a personal statement

and the statement, which helped me get an offer from all the universities I applied to

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Gery Galabova
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100+ Slack Communities for a Startup CEO

Product Talks: 114 communities, explore them all.

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Alex Kistenev

Don’t Let Process Distract You From Finding Strategy

When you’re up to your neck in alligators, don’t forget the goal was to drain the swamp.

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steve blank

My Startup Failed — But I Was Still Successful. Here’s Why

Written by Khalid Boukdid // Also shared on Startups.co.

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Startups Co

There are only 2 absolute truths about building a Startup. Count ‘em.

I went out for drinks last night with a few friends, including a newly minted graduate. He’s sharp, he’s intelligent and he has the drive…

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Jon Westenberg

Got a great product idea? Don’t build it.

And other uncommon advice from a startup advisor.

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Shahin Sam Hoda
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Clothing Optional

It is 1:33am on a Saturday night and I’m at church. Or more precisely, I am standing on the roof of a Ukrainian cathedral in North…

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Lily Chen

The Best Redemption Arc In Television History, Examined

It got even better in the comics.

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John Maher

Wonder Women and Fearless Girls

How feminist are Wonder Woman and Fearless Girl?

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Victoria Olsen

Now I Am Become Mall, Destroyer Of Cities

(And now all the malls are food halls.)

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Silvia Killingsworth

The Desensitization of Survivor Fans

How the Dead Grandma Lie Changed How we Watch Survivor

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Ianic Roy Richard
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Dear Class of 2017

Here are five commencement speeches that inspired me to think differently this year.

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Melinda Gates

My Answer to the Question “How Do You Maximize Your Happiness in Life?

This post originally appeared as an answer to a question on Quora.

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Ayodeji Awosika

10 Ways To Get People To Hate You

Hate is a strong word. Isn’t it? Some people throw it around easily but it’s one of those words…you know, the words that make you pause…

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Robert Kennedy III
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The Complete Guide to Happiness for Introverts

Is it true that extroverting will make you happier?

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Kate Jones
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Progressive Prepping 101: Online Resources

The guaranteed no-Confederate-flag, almost-entirely-Bible-free guide to online emergency preparedness resources for beginners

Sarah Avery
Sarah Avery in Confessions of a Left-Wing Prepper
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I told the Supreme Court about my abortion. It changed my life.

ESSAY | It’s been one year since the Supreme Court ruled that states cannot create roadblocks to abortion

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Kate Banfield

Why We Can’t Have Nice Bipartisan Things

Political parties aren’t written into the Constitution. They came about almost organically as members of President Washington’s Cabinet…

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Daniel Smith-Rowsey

Big Oil lauds Paris pullout but warns of rising seas, severe storms

By Sandy Tolan

Reveal
Reveal in The (Un)Scientific Method

What Should Obama Have Done About Russian Hacking?

National security, criticism, and hindsight bias

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Nicholas Grossman

Without The ACA, My Husband Would Be Condemned To His Grave

By Patricia Santana, In-Home Supportive Services Worker & Member of SEIU Local 2015

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SEIU Local 2015