How to Be a Writer

A few weeks ago, a woman asked me for advice about her teenage daughter. “She wants to be a writer,” the mother said. “What…

How to Figure Out What You Really Want to Do In Life

Lean in and let me tell you a few of the things…

24 Things You Should Learn Before Your 24th Birthday

On the eve of my 24th birthday, I realized: This…

Explain Net Neutrality Like I’m 5

Why You Should Care About The Net Neutrality Debates Going On Now

1 in 6 Billion

The power of the mind

It’s a small world

A Naked Gaze

An elegy for those brutally murdered in Treblinka

Hey Wonk Reporters, Liberate Your Data!

Data journalism only matters when it’s transparent.

No Solution for the Global Financial Crisis? Presenting The Dinosaur!

Dinosaurs became extinct over a…

Net Neutral: A world where Comcast has the ability to limit free speech

What you need to know about…

Rise

Finding Purpose

I am a child from a broken home. I never had the childhood that my peers had. I never went fishing with my father, baked cookies with my mother, or enjoyed a Christmas without having to run to my room and hide under my bed until my father stormed out of the house and…

Think Like a YouTube Creator

Lessons on making branded video content

Writing While Feminist

Writing can be difficult, people can be mean, but Twitter’s all right

Writing is hard.

It’s an obvious statement, but it’s something I’m coming to terms with now, outside the umbrella of…

The Modern Show and Tell

Rise of the “Setup Tour” phenomenon 

The first is always…

The Truest Test

A Case for the Champions League

The Golden Team of 1950's Hungary. The total football of 1970's Netherlands. The creative brilliance of 1982 Brazil. These teams produced some of the best soccer the world has ever seen. And yet, the World Cup belongs to…

The Twitter Press Release

4 + 4 Ways to Get Noticed in 140

Let the Caterpillar Die

Living is a continual metamorphosis. Everything is change; everything is relative. — The Human Race is Not Yet Free…

While we are asleep here, we are awake somewhere else

The fiction of our digital presence

Have an opinion.

If you don’t have an opinion, learn enough to form one.

Why I Don’t Care What People Think 

About having a secret passion for Boy Bands

Piglet

You never know when you’re going to get the look. You might know it’s coming. You might have been expecting it a long time. But the fundamental…

You Deserve Better

For the ones who can’t stop thinking ‘what if’.

Self-publishing versus Traditional publishing: which is best? 

Published authors Sarah Alderson and Becky Wicks discuss the ins and outs of writing & publishing books.

Things Get Real

On receiving heartbreaking, and confusing, news

Cloud — You make my heart bleed.

All of your important data is already in the cloud, so embrace the…