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Patriotism, Feminism And The Way We Think About Our War Stories
Patriotism, Feminism And The Way We Think About Our War Stories
I have spent the last three years reporting, writing, and sharing a military story. A story of war. A story of love. A story of friendship…
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
3 days ago
3 TYPES OF PEOPLE WHO DON’T GIVE A FUCK (And How to Become One of Them)
3 TYPES OF PEOPLE WHO DON’T GIVE A FUCK (And How to Become One of Them)
In my experience, people who don’t give a fuck fall into three categories:
sarah knight
5 days ago
A Seed Knows How to Wait
A Seed Knows How to Wait
A sneak peak of my new memoir, ‘Lab Girl’
Hope Jahren
Apr 6
Fuck Likeability. Write What You Know. Write Who You Are
Fuck Likeability. Write What You Know. Write Who You Are
‘The terms “hot mess,” “lost,” “disjointed,” and “broken” are very familiar to me . . .’
Marian Palaia
Apr 5
Is There Mind After Death?
Is There Mind After Death?
The science of immortality and the loss of a friend
Kurt Gray
Mar 30
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Does This Book Make Me Look Gay?
Does This Book Make Me Look Gay?
On writing across difference
Kemper Donovan
Mar 24
Storytelling: Your Ultimate Weapon in the War of Ideas
Storytelling: Your Ultimate Weapon in the War of Ideas
At his home on Necker Island, entrepreneur Richard Branson gathers his team for a brand meeting. It’s a creative brainstorm held around a…
carmine
Mar 25
Mental Illness and the Call of the Wild
Mental Illness and the Call of the Wild
There are times when the world can feel brutally unfunny and dully predictable. But then someone like my former East Stroudsburg University…
Bill Broun
Mar 18
How Mathematics Can Predict March Madness
How Mathematics Can Predict March Madness
As a mathematician, I’ve long been interested in the science of gambling. From lotteries to sports leagues, what is the best strategy…
Adam Kucharski
Mar 14
What’s Your (Past-Life) Story?
I’m looking for your stories — those moments or events that caused you to think differently about how we exist. Maybe it was something your…
child said. Or something odd you “remembered.” A dream you had, or some unusual, intense connection with a stranger.
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Share them here.
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Because we don’t talk enough about these things.
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I was at a family event recently, chatting with a distant “in-law” relative I didn’t know very well. We were talking about our kids, their interests and talents, how they were doing at school. What we ourselves were up to.
Sharon Guskin
Mar 19
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The Prototype Mindset
The Prototype Mindset
I was really happy to get an early copy of Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas In Just Five Days, by three design partners…
Eric Ries
Mar 8
Five Travel Rules You Should Always Break
Five Travel Rules You Should Always Break
The act of travel is, at its heart, an act of rebellion. When we board a plane, we are rebelling against convention, against our nine-to…
Eric Weiner
Mar 2
The Truth About Making an Indie
The Truth About Making an Indie
How shaky financing, uncertain casting, and an ever-changing script became my Wild Oats adventure
Shirley MacLaine
Mar 1
Three Words for My Younger Self: Own Less Stuff
Three Words for My Younger Self: Own Less Stuff
Dear Younger Self,
missminimalist
Mar 1
Home Alone, With a Drill and a Bow
Home Alone, With a Drill and a Bow
Advanced defensive tactics for country living
Lisa Lutz
Feb 25
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Lost and Found in Ka Nyamazane
Lost and Found in Ka Nyamazane
I usually travel to explore or imagine or forget, but in the winter of 2005 I traveled to remember. I’d published a nonfiction book, grown…
Anthony Schneider
Feb 19
The Day I Almost Met Harper Lee
The Day I Almost Met Harper Lee
To Kill a Mockingbird isn’t the kind of book that one expects to find on college reading lists. Middle school? Perhaps. High school English…
Scott Ellsworth
Feb 19
Behind the Scenes of Gimlet Media’s Sprint with GV
Behind the Scenes of Gimlet Media’s Sprint with GV
A chapter that didn’t make the cut for my book ‘Sprint’
Jake Knapp
Feb 18
I Need Somebody to Love… and to Design With
I Need Somebody to Love… and to Design With
How a design process can bring couples closer together
Ayse Birsel
Feb 14
A Tiny House of One’s Own
A Tiny House of One’s Own
Submit your essay for the chance to win a week-long writer’s retreat in my Tiny House in Northern California
joyce maynard
Feb 11
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‘It Hurts Me a Little Bit to Say This…’
‘It Hurts Me a Little Bit to Say This…’
A.O. Scott on cultural overload, bad movies, and being the institutional voice of the New York Times
Saul Austerlitz
Feb 11
Expressing Your Opinion in the Digital Age
Expressing Your Opinion in the Digital Age
A single voice among the roar of the crowd
John Twelve Hawks
Feb 3
The Story of Your Life, from Beginning to End
The Story of Your Life, from Beginning to End
“How could you live and have no story to tell?” — Dostoevsky
Lee Eisenberg
Feb 9
How We Tried to Design Our Own Book Cover (and How Jessica Hische Saved the Day)
How We Tried to Design Our Own Book Cover (and How Jessica Hische Saved the Day)
Quick background: In 2010, I created a process called the design sprint, and in 2012, I brought it to Google Ventures. Since then, my…
Jake Knapp
Feb 8
Do Writers Think They’re Immortal?
Do Writers Think They’re Immortal?
Some say they don’t care one way or the other. Some won’t give you a straight answer. Some believe they really are, and for good reason.
Lee Eisenberg
Feb 7
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