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A Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Hardbound Update
One spring day a couple years ago, I worked up the courage to ask my boss if he wanted to go for a walk. I had to talk to him about…
Nathan Bashaw
Jun 28
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Bulletproof Confidence: The Secrets of a Professional Poker Player
By age 30, she had made over $10 million.
Zat Rana
Jun 15
Checking in With the NBA Teams We Aren’t Talking About (but Now Are)
These teams have few options heading into free agency, but every move counts
Haley O'Shaughnessy
Jun 28
2 Quotes That Will Reshape Your Approach To Life
In the movie, Gattaca, a young man, Vincent, is born with every disadvantage imaginable. It simply isn’t his “fate” to have the life he…
Benjamin P. Hardy
Jun 29
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New Wonder Drug Cures All Illness (In Mice)
Why most research is overhyped
Gid M-K; Health Nerd
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Journalists Are Wrong About Health
Jun 27
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Grumpy Women and How to Destroy Them
Recently, I asked my Facebook friends to recommend some great grumps of history, and name after name that came up was male. Ty Cobb, Andrew…
Tori Telfer
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Damned Souls and How to Write About Them
Jun 27
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What My Stomach Parasite Taught Me About The Male Gaze
When I am slightly overweight, which I have been at various times (including right now according to doctors who look like they survive on…
E Sailer Sklar
Apr 4
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How Roller Coasters Have Come to Define Coney Island
The neighborhood’s rich boardwalk life would be nothing without its carnival rides
Peter Ward
Jun 19
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The Wonky and Technical Process of Writing a Book
Welcome to Wonky & Technical, a multipart multimedia project that explores the surprisingly technical side of creativity. In the first…
Asher Stephenson
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Wonky & Technical
Jun 29
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A Man Walks Into A Bar…And Takes A Selfie
On Why Men Should Take Pictures of Themselves
Zaron Burnett III
Jun 29
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True Horror
10 fright films based on strange facts
Mitch Horowitz
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In the Dark
Jun 29
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Did I Do That?
How the brain learns causality
Mark Humphries
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Theories of Mind
Jun 29
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Let Them Eat Pizzagate
How "fake news" fanned the flames of revolution in 18th century France
Chris Ledford
Jun 28
Pence, Mulan, and Women in Military: An Argument Graph
I’ve had an interest in “argument graphs” for quite a while now: the practice of representing arguments into a graphical form which follows…
tunesmith
Jun 23
The Promise of an All-Natural Molly
Could Katy do the same thing for my anxiety that MDMA did—without any of the debilitating side effects?
Haley Hamilton
Jun 28
My friends hate SoundCloud iOS so I redesigned it for them
What started out as a casual conversation with my friends turned into a serious exploration. This was partially because I love SoundCloud…
kelleytmnguyen
Jun 21
On Weight Loss Surgery And The Unbearable Thinness Of Being
I learned the quiet heartbreak of losing someone who truly understood what it meant to live in a body like mine.
Your Fat Friend
Jun 27
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A Closer Look at Android Creator Andy Rubin’s Essential Phone
Rubin reveals more details about Ambient OS, Essential’s interoperability strategy, and explains why you shouldn’t call it a ‘modular…
PCMag
Jun 28
Get Moving: Locomotion in Virtual Reality
Vast landscapes of impossible worlds are the golden promise of virtual reality: to be fully immersed into another place with endless…
Matt Marshall
Jun 23
These gloves allow you to play piano in virtual reality
Engineers at UC San Diego are using soft robotics to simulate the tactile feeling of playing a virtual keyboard.
Deniz Ergürel
Jun 28
10 facts about smartphones as the iPhone turns 10
77% of U.S. adults own a smartphone, up from 35% in 2011
Pew Research Center
Jun 28
What does the Fourth Industrial Revolution mean for migration?
Sanjiv RaiFounder and Chief Solver, Inverted Ideas Lab
World Economic Forum
Jun 27
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This Is The Way I See Muses And Writing
What Are Muses And How Do They Work?
Boom Shikha
Jun 10
How to handle Criticism, of your Writing
To avoid Criticism, Do NOTHING, Say NOTHING, and Be NOTHING.
Ravi Shankar Rajan
Jun 24
The counter intuitive mindset shift all creative people must go through
“The imagination is unleashed by constraints. You break out of the box by stepping into shackles.” ― Jonah Lehrer
Rosie Leizrowice
Jun 12
The Plunger Method: A Mindful Approach To Writer’s Block
Overcoming the Mental Clogs That Hinder Creativity
Stacy Cassio
Jun 25
9 Things To Give Up That Are Sabotaging Your Creativity
We are all born creative.
Colton Swabb
Jun 21
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Google Doesn’t Have The Answers: Expert Advice to Help You Avoid Common Startup Pitfalls
I have an unusual job. Like, really unusual — unless you’re a venture capitalist (which I’m not). I’ve written about my work here, but let…
Luke Naeem
Jun 28
Enough is enough; let’s go 50/50.
The U.S. tech community has arrived at a decision point. We can continue standing on the sidelines, rubbernecking the destructive sexist…
C.A. Webb
Jun 25
Building A Nigerian Startup vs. A Startup from Nigeria
Why is it very rare for Nigerian startups just like their “company” counterparts to grow or dominate beyond Nigeria?
Oo Nwoye
Jun 28
Six Common Traps Foreign Founders Repeatedly Fall for in the US Market
It’s indisputable that foreign-born entrepreneurs have made huge contributions to the US economy, building great companies that have…
Shuly Galili
Jun 28
The Human Rights of Women Entrepreneurs
I don’t often write immediate reactions to recent news. However, after reading an article published by The Information regarding sexual…
Reid Hoffman
Jun 23
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The end of the long-run TV seasons
The 22-episode season replaced by shorter runs
Sam Cook
Jun 29
The Quiet Death of Privacy in “The Circle”
The adaptation of Dave Eggers’ novel nails the insidious rhetoric of Silicon Valley
Manuel Betancourt
Jun 27
Relationship Books: A Love-Hate Story
I started to read these books after two weeks of attending the first church I ever visited. The pastor was a Korean man in his thirties who…
Nina Singhapakdi
Jun 27
The Magic of Editing
How Survivor tells you the story they want to tell
Ianic Roy Richard
Jun 29
The Clothing of Tomorrow
In the future, clothes will not only monitor and adapt to a person’s vital signs or warn the wearer of the presence of a hazardous material…
Joshua Hehe
Jun 25
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40 things about life I wish I could travel back in time and tell myself
By John Fawkes
John Fawkes
May 5, 2016
On Being Alone
I want to be alone — but not lonely. Alone and happy.
Roz
Jun 21
Do This To Control Any Anger
Authentic method endorsed by psychologists
Sandip Roy
Jun 26
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How to Be a More Influential Person
A counterintuitive way to sell anything
Christopher Sowers
Jun 27
5 Best Ways to Eliminate Bad Habits for Good
(and when It’s Best to Use Each of Them)
Michał Stawicki
Jun 21
Politics
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I Have MS: Access to Healthcare Is Personal for Me
Almost exactly two years ago, I was riding high. I had just graduated from the Harvard Kennedy School with a Masters of Public…
Alison Omens
Jun 26
The Alt-Left And Alt-Right Are Two Sides Of The Same Coin
How the horseshoe theory explains the rise of alternative politics
Remy Anne
Jun 28
Dodge City
The Roberts court tries to have it both ways on Trump’s executive orders
Andrew Leber
Jun 28
SCOTUS delivers win for religious liberty but punts on school choice
On Monday, the Supreme Court handed down its long-awaited decision in Trinity Lutheran Church of Columbia, Inc. v. Comer, delivering a…
Frederick M. Hess
Jun 28
Can Businesses Turn LGBT People Away Because of Who They Are? That’s Up to the Supreme Court Now.
It’s about far more than just cakes.
ACLU National
Jun 27