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"You gotta read the comments! There is gold there — and more good writing." —Adrienne Samuels Gibbs
"America’s first memorial day became a celebration of Black liberty and patriotism, but racism blocked an opportunity for the nation to commemorate."
"Each Memorial Day, I set out Kyle’s photo next to a Corona Extra — his favorite beer. My family and I also host an epic barbecue where we’ll laugh with friends until it hurts. While the day is a painful reminder of the numerous friends I’ve lost in combat, it’s also a beautiful reminder to continue to live."
"The only thing I’ve read about 'Everything Everywhere All at Once' that seems to be in the same vernacular as the film, bringing along neurodiversity and the IRS into one glorious messy everything bagel of a story." —Terrie Schweitzer, Curation @ Medium
"Following the go to school -> go to college -> work hard -> get ahead -> buy a home -> retire-in-comfort path is as foreign and bygone to them as the farm-the-land-with-your-dad-until-he-dies-and-you-inherit-it path is to a Boomer."
"Lack of team agreement on which people lead, approve, or do the work, inevitably leads to confusion. The issue tends to appear when a project is in full swing..."
"On one occasion, I watched Tina run a one-and-1/2-hour sound check as she made sure everyone got things right. Maybe her ex-husband Ike Turner was a taskmaster, but Tina could be just as tough."
"An arcane but useful argument about 'begging the question' — very much from the grammar police point of view, but fun" —Scott Lamb, Content @ Medium
"What came up several times, was the need for regulation. Both sides of the conversation seemed to agree on that, but not necessarily in the same way. While the judiciary committee seemed to adopt a nationalistic, patriotic view where the United States of America had to lead and establish the global rules and standard for AI development, Sam had a somewhat different view on it."
"I think some users legitimately ask the question — if AI can do this, what makes me unique? What makes me valuable?"
"Part of why we get so nostalgic about movies from the past isn’t just our associations with our imagination-rich childhoods and movie-going experiences of yore. 80s and 90s movies in particular, when the mid-budget movie really peaked, were really a time that filmmakers were allowed to GET WEIRD."
"This winter, it rained in California.
The downpour temporarily reversed a decade of devastating drought.
The result: a superbloom..."
"Brand marketing needs to be brave. Great brands don’t sell their category; they invent their own category."
"The march of the history of print technology led generally in the direction of improvement in legibility. Design borne of experience and improvements in machining meant that letter-forms got crisper and crisper each century onwards from Gutenberg."
"The most innovative products often feel familiar. And quiet frankly sometimes boring. That’s no accident..."
"Reconsider the — 'I’m going to write a story about this…' because the largeness of your ambition can blight the story, get you stuck, box you in. Because a story always starts one way and ends differently. A story is never about one thing and often it never is what you intended it to be..."
"You may have heard a joke that the Internet is a series of tubes. In this blog post, we’re going to talk about how we get a cool, refreshing stream of Airbnb.com bytes into your browser as quickly as possible using HTTP Streaming."
"What’s moved you recently? What’s changed the way you look at the world, or think about the limited, magical time you have in this life? Leave a response to let us know. We’d love to see them."
"The waning of protection and the unwinding of the public health emergency have raised questions and highlighted lingering challenges. Can a spring booster help? Who is still at high risk of severe Covid now? There are no easy answers."
"You can’t speak truth to power if you’re afraid you’re going to get fired. This is an important thing for people in positions of influence and power to understand — in the conversations that we are having together about race and anti-racism, some of us are having to be extremely guarded in how we speak."
