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Justine Bronson in Life TipsMar 284 min read

What I Mean When I Say “Love”

I do not expect you to complete me. I want you to be there to support me throughout our lives while I…

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Laurent DosdatFeb 118 min read

Enterprise search: 5 major pitfalls to avoid

This article is a translation of the original one, written in French

Meaghan O'Connell in The BillfoldDec 16, 20132 min read

Entitled to Our Entitlements

This Margaret Sullivan column about whether the Times should use the world “entitlements” when referring to…

Greg Anderson5 days ago

Perhaps the ‘is’ should be ‘can be’… I may edit that.

Corsair's Publishing

Valid point. As I said, consistency can be useful. That is a good thing.

I do agree that you have valid points. “Good” just isn’t the adjective I’d have chosen to describe consistency in all cases.

Like so many such discussions, it might be agreement with a side of semantics.

NU/NUSep 28, 20153 min read

Korzybski’s “On Abstracting”

Aristotle back in time used to take language for granted, he was all rly into ‘logic’ and wutever, but irl he didn’t even realize how ironic it was to not pay attention to how they got to -actually- speak and explain things.

Greg ArmshawNov 8, 20151 min read

The Death of “Users” and “Product Design”

Julie Zhuo

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Advertising circles have a similar problem with the word “consumer”. Research and insight pieces are constantly discussing these machines that vacuum up products in a life of consumption. Of course they are talking about people who happen to buy things. While this is widely recognised as a unhelpful term, it remains because it introduces an obvious…