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How to Create a Side Project that Customers Actually Want
“Don’t find customers for your product. Find products for your customers.” — Seth Godin
Liam Sarsfield
Jun 20
What I Learned From Working at Uber
I worked at Uber for over 3 years as a woman and a minority in a tech role. I learned and grew more in my time at Uber than at any other…
Amy Sun
Jun 22
Actually, the Best Good Bad Movie Is …
As Good Bad Movies Week comes to a close, The Ringer staff reveals the cinematic train wrecks they hold dearly in their hearts
The Ringer Staff
Jun 23
Us vs. Them, Poolside with My Mother
“You can sum up everything that’s wrong in the world,” my mother said, “by the fact that some people think they can put a towel down in the…
Andy Raskin
Jun 22
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Hunger
Female directors and the rise of girl-cannibal horror
Sady Doyle
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The Fearsome is Female
Jun 21
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Political Correctness
The tyranny of “PC culture” is real — and a threat to liberal society
Cathy Young
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When Liberalism Stops Being Liberal
Jun 22
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The Word Was Google
In the beginning was the word, and the word was with Google, and the word was Google
Tom Littrell
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Coding the Creator
Jun 21
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Damn the Writers, Maybe
Or Should You be a Surgeon or a Poet?
David Snyder
Jun 6
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Traveling in the Age of Anger
Political turbulence is affecting how we travel and where—here’s why that matters
Henry Wismayer
Jun 23
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A Brief History of the Migratory Patterns of Eyebrows
What’s the best filter for goat-hair falsies?
Hanna Brooks Olsen
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Pulling at Threads
Jun 23
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How Noise Can Improve Your Creativity
Why no noise is not necessarily good news
Donald M. Rattner, AIA
Jun 23
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A Little Romance on the 33
I’ve always found the dark brown-and-tan MUNI uniforms very aesthetically pleasing, as does Sylvia, who once proposed going to work as a…
Davy Carren
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As the Bus Turns
Jun 23
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Black women are the only ones showing up for black women
ESSAY | The death of Charleena Lyles this week shows us that
LeslieMac
Jun 21
Assume Horses
My half siblings and I are separated by ten years and a mother. We have a father in common, but he is rarely there to connect us. Instead…
Mattie Worsham
Jun 23
Pride, with Prejudice
Confronting internalized transphobia at a celebration of self-acceptance
Amanda Roman
Jun 20
The history of cold-brew coffee is fascinating. (An 1840s Algerian fortress is involved.)
From 17th century Kyoto to your neighborhood Starbucks
Matt Reimann
Jun 22
Heat Seeking in Death Valley
Entropic extremities
Alan Hanson
Jun 22
Technology
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Fighting crime with Slack
How the Hartford Police Department gathers intelligence in real time
Slack
Jun 21
Apple Should Get Into Primary Care
Another earnings call, another day people wonder how Apple makes so much money. Another look at Apple’s balance sheet, another day people…
Nikhil Krishnan
Jun 17
When will we see a Tesla of the skies?
David Alexander, Director, Aerospace Standards, SAE International
World Economic Forum
Jun 15
We’ve studied the future of the internet since 2004. Here’s what we’ve learned.
Since 2004, the Pew Research Center has been asking thousands of experts to predict the impact of the internet in the future. In the summer…
Lee Rainie
Jun 22
We Cannot Amuse Ourselves to Death
And that is far more worrying than the idea that we could.
Zander Nethercutt
Jun 19
Creativity
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Are you too busy to be creative?
You are just too busy to be creative. You have the best of intentions but other stuff and other people just keep getting in the way.
Cali Bird
Jun 17
Paying Hell for Creativity: Why “Failure” is Actually Good
At Magenta Studios, our goal is to “break the creativity code” — to understand creativity, to teach it, and to use it not only to make art…
Jeff Barnum
Jun 14
Don’t Relegate Creativity to a Select Few
The future of your business depends on it.
Jackie Colburn
Jun 16
Why Every Writer Needs A Writing Mentor
(And Where To Find One)
ProWritingAid
Jun 14
How to Tap Into Your Creativity
Creativity cannot be forced.
Ravi Shankar Rajan
Jun 20
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Scaling A Startup? Pick An Idol
You know, for someone who has never run a company, I have a ton of opinions about how to do it better than anyone else. I’m all about that…
Frank Caron
Jun 21
How to Create a Side Project that Customers Actually Want
“Don’t find customers for your product. Find products for your customers.” — Seth Godin
Liam Sarsfield
Jun 20
Should I learn to code if I want to be a tech entrepreneur?
One common question I get asked is: “Should I learn to code if I want to be a tech entrepreneur?”
Poornima Vijayashanker
Jun 21
How to Create a Successful App: The Art of Finding a Problem Worth Solving
Most successful products share one thing in common: they are efficient painkillers. In order for your app to capture a share of the market…
Josiah Humphrey
Jun 20
Should Startups Care About Profitability?
There are certain topics that even some of the smartest people I talk with who aren’t startup oriented can’t fully grok. One of them is…
Mark Suster
Jun 17
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Political Correctness
The tyranny of “PC culture” is real — and a threat to liberal society
Cathy Young
in
When Liberalism Stops Being Liberal
Jun 22
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Hunger
Female directors and the rise of girl-cannibal horror
Sady Doyle
in
The Fearsome is Female
Jun 21
Beauty Tips from Countess Elizabeth Bathory
A 16th-century Hungarian serial killer who murdered young women and bathed in their blood as part of her beauty regime.
Amy Morrison
Jun 16
The hot new swimsuits of 2017 are not going to work for me
ESSAY | Perhaps you’ve seen one of these puzzling styles
The Lily News
Jun 18
How Gaming Can Save us from our Apathy
My first year of college I made friends with a roommate trio in an adjacent dorm. They began to withdraw socially and academically after…
Christopher Cinq-Mars Jarvis
Jun 12
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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.
Ayodeji Awosika
Jun 7
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…
Robert Kennedy III
Jun 19
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The Complete Guide to Happiness for Introverts
Is it true that extroverting will make you happier?
Kate Jones
Jun 20
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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
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Confessions of a Left-Wing Prepper
Jun 19
5 ways to stay sane on the Internet
ANALYSIS | Of course, it’s not exactly the most serene place
Kelly Williams Brown
Jun 16
Politics
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If the Government Spied on You, How Would You Know?
We’re suing the Justice Department to disclose when the government tells people it electronically spied on them.
ACLU National
Jun 23
The Missing Ingredient in BCRA: Humility
No, the Senate healthcare bill released yesterday does not repeal Obamacare. It doesn’t even significantly reform American healthcare.
Mike Lee
Jun 23
“Why Won’t She Behave?”: The Demand for Hillary Clinton to Apologize
During the past couple of months, Hillary Clinton has come “out of the woods” to deliver several speeches and give three fascinating…
Susan Bordo
Jun 22
Trump Is Not Cause To Give Up On This Country
He is the loudest rallying cry in the world that it’s time for us to do better and get to work
MTV News Staff
Jun 23
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Identity Politics
Left, right, and the making of Trump’s America
Varad Mehta
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When Liberalism Stops Being Liberal
Jun 22
