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Consistency Beats Talent, Luck, Good Intentions, and Even Quality

I will not be outworked, period.

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Anthony Moore

Rethinking Happiness

Here’s a trick question.

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Charles Chu

It’s time to kill the web

Something is going on. The people are unhappy. The spectre of civil unrest stalks our programming communities.

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Mike Hearn

A Glimpse into North Korea through the Eyes of One of Its Writers

How a manuscript smuggled out of the Hermit Kingdom gave the world a unique peek inside of it.

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Michael Barron
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Rebecca Skloot Has Too Much Information

The author of The Immortal Life Of Henrietta Lacks discusses the challenges of multi-threaded narratives, the joys of reporting in a Hazmat…

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UNSPOKEN WORDS

His face is the last thing I see at night before I go to sleep.

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Andrew Knott
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How the Jazz Age Lives on in NYC

The bygone era of flappers, jazz and speakeasies can still be found in New York City if you know where to look.

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Nikki Vargas
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DACA Changed My Life. And I’m Here to Stay.

By Diana, a Youth Power Project Member of Make the Road New York

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How unmarried Americans are changing everything

By Stephanie Coontz

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The Coming Bear Market?

The US stock market today looks a lot like it did at the peak before all 13 previous price collapses.

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Project Syndicate
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These Two Brothers Are Trying to Cure Blindness, One Henley at a Time

A successful upstart clothing brand is donating all its profits to the Foundation Fighting Blindness.

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Finally, a Driverless Car with Some Common Sense

A startup called iSee thinks a new approach to AI will make self-driving cars better at dealing with unexpected situations.

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How to Go to a Sex Party for Work

Working as an editor and writer at Playboy was just a job, except when it wasn’t. A series of personal essays on navigating work and life…

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Facebook’s Frankenstein Moment

A series of scandals have opened up the possibility that the company may have created something it can’t fully control.

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The New York Times

A Letter of Resignation

Walking away, and the hardest thing I’ve ever written.

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John Gorman

The Art of Building Skateparks

Evergreen Skateparks: Bringing skaters, artists and communities together. With owners, Billy & Catherine Coulon

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Jeff Gorra

Analyzing 40 Years Of Star Wars Box Office Success And The Future Of Cinema

[UPDATE #1 — A few readers have messaged me about the charts not displaying properly. This is because the Plotly graphs haven’t been…

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Stephen Tracy
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Robots may take your job, but they can also plan your retirement

Alex Gray, Formative Content

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World Economic Forum

Disrupting the traffic jam, imagining the cities of tomorrow

Insights from mobility startups as part of our Global Challenge in 100 countries

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Hello Tomorrow

Tech “Leaders” Are Letting Meanness Win

Facebook questions their role as “censors”. Google claims it is struggling to deal with sexism and the aftermath of firing James Damore…

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Nilofer Merchant

Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality in Education

We keep claiming that technology will transform education. We said it when computers hit the market in a real way in the 1980s. We said it…

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Hammer & Tusk
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Big Tech’s nemesis

Is the rich world’s most powerful trustbuster championing consumers or her political career?

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The Economist
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The Surprisingly Technical Process of Interior Design

This article (and audio segment) is about how technical “actual” interior design can be and how the pop-culture vision of the design…

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How to Write an Allegory Like George Orwell

I think the current political climate is crying out for another great allegory. Don’t you?

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ProWritingAid

The Marvelous Peace in Not Publishing

I have written more words in the past year than I have in all the years of my life combined, and almost none of them have been published. I…

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Paul Cantor

Storms of Sensation

A heart-pounding romp of romance, sexual tension, and interesting grammatical approaches to mental health management.

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Rach Cruickshank

One Thing You Can Do to Feel More Creative Today

The word Creativity is used a lot in our language and culture these days, but do you consider yourself a creative person? Being creative…

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Catylator
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7 minute read to save $100,000 on your app idea.

I love founders. I love the energy they bring to this world. I love how they find business problems to solve in the least (or most…

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Nitesh Agrawal

3 Things You Can Learn From Jeff Bezos About Making Smart Decisions

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How I save 32 hours a month by outsourcing everything — except my work

Before you hire creative staff, hire people to do your chores.

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Rob Howard

How You Can (but shouldn’t) Patent an App Idea

In many cases, attempting to patent a mobile app is ill advised: as a costly, lengthy, and difficult process, it can eat up precious…

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Josiah Humphrey

The Terrorists of Capitalism, Pt. II: On The Blindfolded Leading The Naked

Silicon Valley won’t lead us to the promise land, and neither will the ethos of the grind.

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Alexis P. Morgan
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Bono on How U2’s ‘Songs of Experience’ Evolved, Taking on Donald Trump

“I’ve always believed in working across the aisle … but there’s a bully on the bully pulpit and silence is not an option,” says the U2…

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Rolling Stone

Truman Capote’s Lost Novel Would Have Aired All His Dirtiest Laundry

The surviving chapters of ‘Answered Prayers’ feature real people and real gossip—but what happened to the rest?

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Kristopher Jansma

Mansplaining Remains a Problem in Hollywood… Just Don’t Blame ‘La La Land’

Last year’s blockbuster hit made several nods to tinseltown trademarks, but misogyny wasn’t one of them.

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Cassam Looch
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How Vampire Weekend’s Ezra Koenig Turned His Anime Fandom Into A New Netflix Show

“Neo Yokio” features a fashion-obsessed cast of characters played by Jaden Smith, Jude Law, Susan Sarandon, Tavi Gevinson, and others.

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Fast Company

I gave my brown bananas to Chrissy Teigen

This morning all I had was five brown bananas, and now I have John Legend’s black Calvin Klein boxer briefs… and a Becca palette and a…

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Meg Zukin
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How To Get Better At One Thing In One Month

A formula that’s guaranteed to work.

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Josh Spector

A Ten-Minute Habit To Take Back Control And Change Your Life

It was that time of the year again that I hated. My birthday.

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Tim Denning
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How to Hack Your Brain (for $5,000)

The new, new, new age is all about “defragging our nervous systems.”

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The New York Times

Rethinking Happiness

Here’s a trick question.

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Charles Chu
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What to Do the Next Time You Are Being Cruel to Yourself

We all mess up. We all have bad days. Days where our minds are soured. Sometimes it’s little things that trigger memories of the past or…

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Seth Kravitz
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Why Trump Wants His Nukes to Be Smaller

Be wary of tiny nukes in tiny hands

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Foreign Policy

The Graham-Cassidy Bill

What is dead may never die

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Patrick Ross

The Real Jimmy Kimmel Test

For the past few nights, Jimmy Kimmel has been spending much of his show’s monologue providing his take on the terrible health care bill…

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Dave Pell

Let’s Talk About Debris, Baby.

In a post-Harvey Houston a debate about recovery costs is roiling.

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Ryan Leach

The Masterpiece Cakeshop Supreme Court Case Is One Piece of a Much Larger Attack on LGBTQ Lives

It’s not about the cake. And it’s not about artistic expression. It’s about survival.

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ACLU National