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Want To Become A Multi-Millionaire? Do These 15 Things Immediately.

“The greatest reward in becoming a millionaire is not the amount of money that you earn. It is the kind of person that you have to become…

Benjamin P. Hardy

Oct 10

The 2 Choices Everyone Working On Themselves Is Faced With

A year ago, I was leaving work when a few friends asked me if I wanted to go out to the bars.

Oct 17

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The War To Sell You A Mattress Is An Internet Nightmare

Why did Casper sue a mattress blogger? A closer look reveals a secret, multimillion-dollar battle to get you into bed.

The Concise Zax

Oct 16

I Was Suspended from Facebook for my #MeToo Post

Sunday night, like so many other women, I created a #MeToo post. Instead of telling a story of sexual harassment, I showed it.

Deborah Copaken

Oct 17

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History’s Revenge

Learning (and not learning) from our nuclear past

Oct 19

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Beautility, My Ultimate iPhone Setup

A guide to balancing beauty and utility on your iPhone

Oct 19

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How This All-Female-Run Publisher Is Using Tech to Bring News to Rural India

Villages in Bundelkhand had no source for news until Khabar Lahariya came along

Ipsita Agarwal in News Is Breaking

Oct 19

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American Family Values [book excerpt]

They surrounded me in love. Then they disappeared.

Oct 15

Today’s staff picksmore

The End of ‘Matt & Ben’ as Hollywood’s Sweethearts

In the light of the Harvey Weinstein allegations, it’s time to re-examine — or at least be more realistic about — that perception

Oct 17

White Noise & Invisible Ink

Deana Mena. Age 26. Blonde. Blue-eyed. Unremarkable. I think about her often. I wonder what her family was like and if she had a sense of…

Dondrie Burnham

Oct 18

Sexual Violence in Spec Screenplays

This essay explores examples of sexual violence in media explicitly. Please read with caution.

Oct 16

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How One Year of Microdosing Helped My Career, Relationships, and Happiness

Recently, I completed a one-year experiment in which I took microdoses of psilocybin — also known as ‘shrooms’ or ‘magic mushrooms’ …

Sep 21

On the political uses of evil

It’s strange to think of evil getting an unduly bad rap, and yet it has. “We should be extremely suspicious of the post-attack rhetoric of…

Elizabeth Bruenig

Oct 14

Entrepreneurshipmore

Routes to Defensibility for your AI Startup

A framework for understanding data network effects and incumbents’ advantages

Oct 17

Amid a Humanitarian Tragedy, Entrepreneurship is Being Kept Alive in Yemen

When Ibrahim Saleh began working in tech, barely anybody else understood what he did. It was 2006 and his home country of Yemen, torn by…

Oct 17

Do you know what you’re making? Sometimes, I don’t.

But that’s okay because I spend a lot of time overthinking how to figure it out with these simple questions and bothering others with them.

Oct 17

Founder Series: Feedback is critical to success

Payam Safa, founder of Bellhop, transformed his passion for travel into a platform that provides transparency to the fragmented ride…

Oct 17

What’s Up With 1776 & Benjamin’s Desk?

Yesterday, 1776 announced it had merged with Benjamin’s Desk and also spun out a new company, called Union. Understandably, the Washington…

Oct 17