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The Search for Home in Times of War and Peace

My work for UNHCR, the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees often makes me think about how many people in the world do not have…
Melissa Fleming

The State of the Gender Divide

Lessons from trying to make content for men during Weinstein and #MeToo
Alana Hope Levinson

Abortion Isn’t Bad For Your Health

Most of the ‘health risks’ you’ve heard about are wrong
Gid M-K; Health Nerd

New lift technology is reshaping cities

Elevators may soon go sideways as well as up
The Economist

Workplace Sexual Harassment Law: A Primer

anna dorn

The Story of Reality Winner, America’s Most Unlikely Leaker

New York Magazine

Hard and Soft Skills in Tech

Yonatan Zunger
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Hard and Soft Skills in Tech

It’s both more serious and less serious than we’ve admitted

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Yonatan Zunger

95 Crypto Theses for 2018

(I see your top 10 and raise you 85.)

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TwoBitIdiot

Towards a Bra-free Instagram Experience

Hey Instagram. I was just wondering,

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Lauren Hallden

So Close.

We were driven to build a product that people would fall in love with.

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The Worst Ideas I Had As A Founder (That Went Extremely Well)

The 5 worst ideas our startup had which worked out incredibly well. Why startup founders and entrepreneurs should test any idea.

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Cliff Lerner

There’s Never Been a Better Time to Rejoin the Monarchy.

Well guys, the American experiment has been real fun and all. But now that Meghan Markle is finally engaged to Prince Harry, there’s never…

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Jane Brannen
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America is Cashing Out

As we enter the 21st Century, it seems like a subset of Americans are done investing in its shared future.

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Richie Koch

The Tigers Come at Night

I sat bolt upright in bed at 3 AM this morning, turned to the framed picture of Richard Stallman I keep on my nightstand, and told him I…

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Kevin Barrett
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The anniversary of a Texas tornado

This essay about the Dallas tornado outbreak of December 26, 2015 won the Mayborn literary non-fiction essay award and originally appeared…

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Seema Yasmin
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How One Instagram Account is Creating a Celebratory Space for Black Men Online

All I ask when I die, dress me fly and neatly / And brush my waves so I’m handsome when the bitches greet me.

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Jeff Ihaza
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The Sharks Are Out There

Swimming with the God-fish of Mozambique

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Henry Wismayer
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There is an alternative to paying thousands in rent…

As many as 100,000 people live in off-grid communities in the UK, trying to create cheaper, more sustainable and happier ways of living

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Felipe Araujo
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New lift technology is reshaping cities

Elevators may soon go sideways as well as up

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The Economist
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How Are People Making Money In VR… Or When Will They?

By Stephanie Llamas & Charlie Fink

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Forbes
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The Six Apps That Mattered Most in 2017

Some are obvious, some are awful. They were all a big deal this year.

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Switch Flips Nintendo’s Fate, Reviving the Magic at a Sagging Company

This time last year, the company that made Mario and Donkey Kong household names seemed to have lost its touch. Now, with the new console…

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The Biggest Tech Fails of 2017

This year’s fails have been all about an assaults on you, your opinions, and your personal data.

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I’ve decided to publish a book

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Swarm

Despite the dizzying ups and downs of indie publishing, don’t despair — the journey is worth it.

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Carole P. Roman
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When I Fell in Love with Writing

Little girls and their best friends have a special relationship. It is too bad we do not spend more time listening in on the amazing worlds…

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Lauren Langford
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Here’s How We Creatives Can Be Better at Business

Because the only thing stopping us is lack of structure.

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Kern Carter
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What Does It Mean to Create?

In my previous post, I wrote about the history of what we think of as “creative thought,” and I provided my assessment of a historical…

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Jonathan Ely
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How A Young Fitness Entrepreneur Broke $1 Million in Revenue In Eight Months

By Elaine Pofeldt

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Forbes

How to Think of Your Company’s Narrative as a Product

Let me guess. You’re a startup, and you’re worried about how to tell the story of your company publicly. Sometimes you even have trouble…

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Kate Mason
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This $20 Million Startup Was on the Road to Riches. Then Its Leader Started Talking to God

The inside story of Tradiv — a red-hot startup that collapsed amid bad decisions, allegations of sexual misconduct, and a co-founder’s…

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inc. magazine
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Why Big Tech needs to get out more

‘Companies need to find ways to connect with aspiring entrepreneurs outside Silicon Valley’

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Venture Capital Is Built on Serendipity

Software has as much potential as electrification or steam power, but instead the industry ignores markets and whole classes of people…

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The Secretive Family Making Billions From the Opioid Crisis

You’re aware America is under siege, fighting an opioid crisis that has exploded into a public-health emergency. You’ve heard of OxyContin…

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Artist in the Archive

I spent a lot of the end of 2017 getting lost in the labyrinthine tunnels that sprawl underneath the Library of Congress. Putting on my…

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How One Instagram Account is Creating a Celebratory Space for Black Men Online

All I ask when I die, dress me fly and neatly / And brush my waves so I’m handsome when the bitches greet me.

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Jeff Ihaza

I Attended a Kiddie Rave and Lived to Tell the Tale

Dance music, a nightclub, hundreds of children: what could possibly go wrong?

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Tom Mitchell
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Milo Yiannopoulos’s draft and the role of editors in dealing with the far-right

The comments don’t constitute a rejection of the Yiannopoulos agenda. Rather, they’re efforts by a professional editor trying to make that…

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The Guardian