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Learning Vim: What I Wish I Knew

Conquer it once and for all

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Kade Killary

Week 45: Experts in authoritarianism advise to keep a list of things subtly changing around you, so…

September 23, 2017

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Amy Siskind

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

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Zat Rana

How I went from fashion model to software engineer in 1 year

In 2015 I knew almost nothing about coding. Today, I’m a software engineer and a teacher at a code school for kids.

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Madison Kanna
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Three Reasons It’s Time to Chill About Russia

Hysteria over Russia’s actions increases the threat of conflict and ignores their context.

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Why Did Princess Diana Mean So Much to My Mother?

To this day, August 31st, 1997 marks the only day in my 26 years of life that I saw my mother cry.

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Abby Norman
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Forget all the other reasons you should be riding a bike. This is the one that matters

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Tom Babin
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How America’s Healthcare System Got So Jacked Up — and How We Can Fix It

My father served in the U.S. military for the nearly three decades — a few years first in the Army, then twenty-three in the Air Force. By…

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The difference between good photos and beautiful photos

Good photos tell stories. Average photos are just beautiful

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I thought it was an escape hatch, but instead it was a steel trap

Thoughts on leaving fundamentalism and my husband at the same time

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The NYT’s men’s rights story today is very accurate

By ‘accurately’ quoting bigots, without context or rebuttal, The Times perpetuates myths and endorses discrimination.

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Trash night

“He watches guiltily from his kitchen window…”

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I thought it was an escape hatch, but instead it was a steel trap

Thoughts on leaving fundamentalism and my husband at the same time

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Julie Ruth

Found: CBO Scorer’s Personal Diary

March 20, 2017

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The NYT’s men’s rights story today is very accurate

By ‘accurately’ quoting bigots, without context or rebuttal, The Times perpetuates myths and endorses discrimination.

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Ben Wolford
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School

Or Not

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Lisa Renee

8 Men on What It Was Like When Their Partner Had an Abortion

“Being a man in this situation is confusing: You feel guilty for being complicit, but you also feel immense relief”

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Angelina Chapin
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How do we use AI for our automated vehicles? Very carefully.

AI isn’t the right tool for every job, but AI can be used to make our systems much more capable and robust.

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Glen De Vos

How VR is Revolutionizing the Way Future Doctors are Learning About Our Bodies

Wearing virtual reality goggles, Jordan Holler was hard at work taking apart muscles inside of a body.

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UC San Francisco (UCSF)

How do you solve a problem like technology? A systems approach to digital regulation

Digital technologies deserve democratic standards and accountability. At Doteveryone, we’ve been thinking about whether digital regulation…

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Amazon bones up on history with eye on ‘smart glasses’

Centuries-old technique — bone conduction — to power group’s new high-tech eyewear

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The Financial Times

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

Alex Gray, Formative Content

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The ethics of adaptation.

Don’t judge a movie by any book.

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Flannery Wilson

How to Make a ‘Holding Pen’ for Your Ideas

What’s that, anyways?

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Atiba Shaikh

How to Use Satire Like Mark Twain

Writers who use satire to get their point across do so by wielding humor, wit, irony, or sarcasm. They expose an individual or society for…

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ProWritingAid

Instead of Aging, Be a Work of Art

What would you say if I asked you to consider yourself a work of art?

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Writing Moves for Beginning a New Story

When I’m writing a new story, I know one of the most important things I need to do with the beginning paragraphs of my story is to get the…

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Tom Farr
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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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Nerd Culture and the Star Trek Paradox

Nerds are living in a golden age.

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John E. Price

Bisexuality On The Small Screen: Torchwood

The more adult, more sexual and more Barrowman spinoff of nerd favourite, Doctor Who, we were gifted Torchwood in 2006. It was love at…

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How Jimmy Kimmel Found His Political Voice

By Matt Zoller Seitz

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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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Why Hulu’s ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Is Awesome as Fuck

Even the spoilers ahead are worth the mention

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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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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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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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Opinion: Are We Down to President Pence?

The least we deserve is a less exciting finger on the trigger.

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Trump Has Started a Brain Drain Back to India

Indian immigrants are a vital pillar of the U.S. economy, but they’re starting to reconsider their options.

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Trump, Presidential? Steph Curry Knows Better.

The next time you hear “He’s finally acting like a commander in chief,” just wait. Some people know better.

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They Took a Knee

This weekend, a series of taunting messages from the president led to a widescale protest among players — in the NFL, and beyond.

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Trump’s Shocking Recklessness

The president’s latest comments shouldn’t be surprising — but his deliberate inflammation of tense situations is no less stunning.

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