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What Is the Best Worst Movie Dunk?
From superheroes to animals to Joe Pesci, rating the most ridiculously serious slam dunkers in film
Shea Serrano
Jul 19
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How “Westworld” Killed My Faith
My high school/college self would’ve never imagined that I would one day renounce the church.
Kevin Huang
Jun 19
JavaScript Factory Functions with ES6+
Note: This is part of the “Composing Software” series on learning functional programming and compositional software techniques in…
Eric Elliott
Jul 19
How Having Zero Friends Surprisingly Made Me A Better Person
“A man is rich not by what he owns but what he can do without.” — Immanuel Kant
Kassey Vilches
Jul 13
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Why Brexit Is Worse Than Trump
Trump is a very obvious problem. It is pretty hard not to notice him, and when he messes up, he tends to do so as prominently as possible…
Tobias Stone
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Making Sense
Jul 18
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Advertising vs Subscription
Online publishing is at a tipping point. Read how media platforms are adapting to the emerging post-advertising reality and how you can too…
Bibblio.org
Feb 9
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How to Apply Meditation to Marriage (or Any Relationship)
In the United States, about 30 percent of all marriages end in divorce. Even among those that don’t, very few married couples would…
Giovanni Dienstmann
Jul 18
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The New Skeuomorphism is in Your Voice Assistant
Skeuomorphism is not dead
Bert Brautigam
Apr 28
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The Manager’s Guide to Cultivating Flow at Work
A happy worker is 12 percent more productive than the average employee and 22 percent more productive than the unhappy ones. Additionally…
Kate Jones
Jul 20
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Ode To The Waffle House
In Columbus, Ohio at the corner of state route 161, right before entering the freeway, there is a Waffle House. Today, it is sandwiched in…
Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib
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Dining Out
Jul 20
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Thuggadellic Dreams
The sky was a beautiful jade caddy green, the sun a blazing verdant emerald green, the clouds, a bulbous billowing cotton candy apple green…
KOOL A.D.
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Aztec Yoga
Jul 20
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The democratic case for stopping Brexit
The question is whether the British public would support a second referendum
The Financial Times
Jul 19
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Men, You Don’t Have To Write “Haha” At The End Of Statements
Advice for men.
Kelly Conaboy
Jul 18
How I used machine learning as inspiration for physical paintings
I’ve been painting graffiti under bridges and in abandoned buildings since I was 15. I grew up in San Francisco when street art was booming…
Leonard Bogdonoff
Jul 11
Loneliness, Radicalization, and the Fate of Democracy
Page: Senator, there’s a problem at the essay contest.
Evan Belosa
Jul 18
The Straight Male Sex Workers of Japan Who Sell Their Services to Gay Men
“If you’d never experienced this, it would be hard to understand.”
C. Brian Smith
Jul 19
Atul Gawande on Priorities, Big and Small
Thankfully coming on the podcast was one of them.
Mercatus Center
Jul 19
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Is VR Ever Going Mainstream?
Why Storytelling is the Grand Obstacle for Making VR Mainstream
Kari Fjeld
Jul 10
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The Underground World of Magical Resistance (on the Internet)
This is going to sound strange, but bear with me: I think a lot about witchcraft and computers, specifically the concept of magic in…
Leigh Alexander
Jul 18
A new chapter for Glass
After two years in a limited program, Glass Enterprise Edition is now available to more businesses through our network of expert partners
Jay Kothari
Jul 18
Why Tokens are Eating the World
The title of this post pays homage to Marc Andreessen’s epic post in 2012, “Why Software is Eating the World.” Marc made some very…
Vinny Lingham
Jul 17
CM2- Night Rider, our first ££ commercial bus route
Filling a gap in the London night network
Citymapper
Jul 20
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4 Surprising Reasons Writers Fail
People always tell you writers fail because they lack confidence.
Gabrielle van Welie
Jul 10
Writing One Thousand Words a Day
Write one thousand words
Louise Foerster
Jul 15
30 little ways to motivate yourself to write, RIGHT NOW
Let’s be real.
Tiffany Sun
Jul 12
Go Independent Or Go Home
How leaving big publishing for a small press made me a better writer and happier person
Matthew Gallaway
Jul 18
First Two Weeks as a Published Author; The Good, The Bad, The Ugly, & The Learnings
It has officially been a full two weeks since my first book, The Influence of Man, was published and became available for immediate…
Matthew Gallagher
Jul 16
Entrepreneurship
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Why History’s Greatest Innovators Optimized for Interesting
I love Derek Siver’s question: “What are you optimizing your life for?”
Taylor Pearson
Jul 18
The World Doesn’t Want Your App
“We need to build an app. Do you know any good mobile developers?”
Sam McAfee
Jul 16
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Overfunding floats the tech bubble
Vast investment into companies in hot sectors generates spiraling valuations
The Financial Times
Jul 18
Reflections from a year in Silicon Valley
Finding yourself in a world that’s trying to change everything
Samir Javer
Jul 12
6 Costly Mistakes to Avoid as a First-Time Entrepreneur
Building a successful startup is no easy feat.
Josiah Humphrey
Jul 18
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“It’s called The Alchemist and you should read it.”
If I could have a conversation with my 30 year old self it would go like this:
Jay Armstrong
Jul 13
Why HBO’s ‘Confederate’ Dramatizes Non-Black Privilege in Real Time
Stay tuned! It’s gonna get good
Ezinne Ukoha
Jul 19
Bait and Switch: How Apple Created Nintendo’s Best Console
When Shigeru Miyamoto stepped on stage at WWDC 2016, the world collectively gasped: Nintendo had finally relented to the mobile-first world…
Dan Masters
Jul 17
Watching ‘Game of Thrones’ as a Christian
Westeros as the Valley of the Shadow of Death
Erick Erickson
Jul 19
‘Lady Macbeth’ Pulls Down the Patriarchy
Florence Pugh gives one of the best performances of the year as a Victorian woman who takes drastic action after being sold into marital…
Graham Fuller
Jul 17
Self
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How Having Zero Friends Surprisingly Made Me A Better Person
“A man is rich not by what he owns but what he can do without.” — Immanuel Kant
Kassey Vilches
Jul 13
The Anatomy Of Adulthood
5 Crucial Things We Could All Practice More Of
Shannon Leigh
Jul 3
Design your personal growth
Over the years, I’ve been so lucky to work on teams that support my growth. Most notably, I’ve learned so much from Percolate, Dropbox, and…
Melissa Mandelbaum
Jul 13
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How to Reject Busyness and Embrace Slow Living with Your Entire Family
Our family had it all — the house, the pool, the precocious only child, and loads of plastic neighbors. But like many of you, we felt there…
Jen Anderson
Jul 13
If You Need It
Sarah Joy Shockey
Jul 18
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By Opposing Trumpcare, Democrats Are Voting Against Their Interests
Ok, not really. But that’s my point.
Nicholas Grossman
Jul 18
Coding the Resistance
How software is playing an increasingly important role in political discourse and civic engagement worldwide.
Neal Ungerleider
Jul 19
Polling Spotlight: Trump’s latest approval numbers spell trouble for Republicans in 2018
By: William A. Galston
The Brookings Institution
Jul 19
The Chicago Negro and the Warsaw Ghetto
Antiblackness at the root of gun violence “solutions”
Eve L. Ewing
Jul 19
The U.S. Digital Service July 2017 Report to Congress
A comprehensive rundown of current priority projects.
The U.S. Digital Service
Jul 20
