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A Seed Knows How to Wait

A Seed Knows How to Wait

A sneak peak of my new memoir, ‘Lab Girl’
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Hope Jahren2 days ago
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 . . .’
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Marian Palaia3 days ago
Is There Mind After Death?

Is There Mind After Death?

The science of immortality and the loss of a friend
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Kurt GrayMar 30
Does This Book Make Me Look Gay?

Does This Book Make Me Look Gay?

On writing across difference
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Kemper DonovanMar 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…
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carmineMar 25
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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…
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Bill BrounMar 18

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. ¶ Share them here. ¶ Because we don’t talk enough about these things. ¶ 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.
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Sharon GuskinMar 19
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…
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Adam KucharskiMar 14
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…
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Eric RiesMar 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…
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Eric WeinerMar 2
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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
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Shirley MacLaineMar 1
Three Words for My Younger Self: Own Less Stuff

Three Words for My Younger Self: Own Less Stuff

Dear Younger Self,
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missminimalistMar 1
Home Alone, With a Drill and a Bow

Home Alone, With a Drill and a Bow

Advanced defensive tactics for country living
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Lisa LutzFeb 25
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…
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Anthony SchneiderFeb 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…
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Scott EllsworthFeb 19
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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’
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Jake KnappFeb 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
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Ayse BirselFeb 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
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joyce maynardFeb 11
‘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
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Saul AusterlitzFeb 11
Expressing Your Opinion in the Digital Age

Expressing Your Opinion in the Digital Age

A single voice among the roar of the crowd
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John Twelve HawksFeb 3
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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
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Lee EisenbergFeb 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…
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Jake KnappFeb 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.
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Lee EisenbergFeb 7
With Minsky’s Passing, the Passing of a Dream

With Minsky’s Passing, the Passing of a Dream

The pioneers of “strong AI” — the idea that machines have the capacity to one day think like humans — are leaving us. First Joseph…
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Liz MooreFeb 4
Why Can’t These Lovers Be Saved?

Why Can’t These Lovers Be Saved?

The desperate plight of an Afghan couple reveals the contradictions of the West’s asylum policy
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Rod NordlandJan 28
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