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The Subscription App Paradox

Are app developers misguided?

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Alan Marsden

A Real President Addresses Texas

President Trump doesn’t get to be graded on a curve. The Texas visit was a complete failure. No mention of the victims. No empathy for the…

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Dave Pell

What to expect from PMs

This was first published on my mailing list The Looking Glass. Every week, I answer a reader’s question. This post is Part 1 of a two part…

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Julie Zhuo

How to Build Your Startup Without Hiring A Single Person

Expectations have never been higher — not just from investors but from talented people, too. Here’s how to create your way into business.

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David Bailey
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A Dating Cover Letter

To the Woman with Whom I Just Made Semi-Awkward Eye Contact at the Bar:

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Scott Muska
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Does Fashion Struggle with Masculinity?

Are designers making apparel that speaks to contemporary notions of male beauty, or are they falling short?

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India Doyle
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What Does Charlottsville Mean to a Jew?

What does Charlottesville mean to a Jew? It means they’re coming to get us. I was born in 1951, part of the first generation born after the…

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Laurel Brett
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The Care and Feeding of Black Holes

How intrinsically invisible objects become the brightest things in the universe

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Matthew R Francis
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Stop (Silently) Telling Your Female Co-Workers to Drink More

For those of us who like to blow off steam with a beer, office happy hours are typically welcome events. Who doesn’t want to work for a…

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Mallory Schlossberg
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Kevin Kelly Writes To Find Out What He Doesn’t Know

Steven Johnson talks with the Wired co-founder and bestselling technology theorist about writing in public and strange power of music on…

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Choose the right VR gear for you

Transport yourself to another world.

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Popular Science
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Privacy in a Virtual World

An Interview with Crystal Nwaneri, explorer of the boundaries between law, intellectual property, and high-tech public policy.

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Why Did Princess Diana Mean So Much to My Mother?

To this day, August 31st, 1997 marks the only day in my 26 years of life that I saw my mother cry.

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Abby Norman

Toast

A real life adoption story I couldn’t believe. Mine.

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Gemma Kennedy

How Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest Hook Users

The tactics that the best digital brands use to stay relevant in users’ minds and lives.

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Nir Eyal
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How “just lose weight” sounds to your fat friend.

On the everyday heartbreak of “why don’t you just lose weight?”

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Your Fat Friend
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No Madness Like American Madness

Scenes from a debacle in Phoenix.

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Dave Eggers in Scenes From A Debacle In Phoenix
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Learning with video games

Retronator Editorial

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Matej ‘Retro’ Jan

ARCore vs. ARKit: Google Counters Apple

Let the Dueling Begin

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I’m Beating My Smartphone Addiction

Mobile devices are easily adjustable. Brains are not.

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Bloomberg

Why I’m not completely sold on the ARKit revolution

We’re living the ARKit hype era: everyone is talking about it, a lot of people are experimenting with it and there is this opinion that…

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TonyVT SkarredGhost

The Subscription App Paradox

Are app developers misguided?

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Alan Marsden
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The Excuse Factory

How your quest for perfection is crippling you

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Simone Gobbo

How To Achieve Creative Flow

It’s easy to romanticize and idealize the creative process. To view others successful endeavors, even past endeavors of your own in this…

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Glory Anna

Your Art Is For You

Don’t get stuck on your ideas when you think about selling or sharing them — Create!

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Charlie Gilkey

7 Hard Truths About Building a Creative Career

There’s a harsh truth about getting paid to do what you love that most people aren’t aware of: If you’re not careful you can follow your…

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Srinivas Rao
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The Creativity of Cameras.

I lead a photography Experience, through Airbnb, every week. On these little three-hour tours, I take 5 people around Los Angeles, to some…

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Josh S. Rose
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What you need to think about before starting a venture firm

Along with the reasons I’ve previously discussed, this list and chart below clearly suggest that becoming a venture investor (or more…

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samir kaji

An early stage founders guide to working with VCs — from Term Sheet to Signed Deal

Hi there, we’re Point Nine Capital a VC firm focused on SaaS and marketplaces. If you want to be kept informed of our new posts you can…

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Clement Vouillon

How to read an Investment Termsheet: the Economic Terms — Further Reading

Deeper dives and investor perspectives on the valuation, preference, and pro rata

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David Willbe

The Complete Guide to Building Hardware Startup Teams: Part 1 (Founders + Culture)

This is Part 1 of a three part series. Check out Part 2: Contributors and Product and stay tuned for Part 3: Management and Scale.

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Ben Einstein

The Unsolicited Advice I Gave to an Aspiring VC

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Monique Woodard
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That LOST finale, for the first time, seven years later

Watching Lost a little over seven years after it wrapped up totally blind was impossible. But there’s also so much going on in this show…

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J. Michael Osborne

No One “Just So Happens” To Be Gay

This piece was originally published at Spook Magazine on April 24, 2015.

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Laurence Barber

The True Culprits Of Hollywood Whitewashing Are Hiding In Plain Sight

Don’t direct your rage and tweetstorms at actors anymore

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Marcus Benjamin

The ‘Hot Felon’ and Fashion’s Obsession With the Criminal Look

In 1976, Norman Mailer was struck by the “dark handsomeness” of the man whose mugshot appeared on the cover of Newsweek. “He had character…

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Andrew Fiouzi

Survivor and Mental Health

Let’s Talk About It

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Ianic Roy Richard
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Turn Experiences Into Experiments

And Other Thoughts On Failure

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William Frazier

The Central Habit of Highly Successful People

Be Obsessive.

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The Mission

Life lessons on buying stuff

In 1999, After graduating college, I moved to Austin. I packed everything I needed into a little four-door red Saturn. My first apartment…

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Chad Bockius

What’s Inside Your Backpack?

By: John P. Weiss

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John P. Weiss

How To Create A Morning Routine That Will Make You Thrive

Many of us find ourselves distracted and overwhelmed by anxious thoughts and emotions. Like life’s a juggling act and the balls keep…

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Francesca Phillips
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She’s Got Grit: Living her own courage from the F/A-18 to a bid for Congress

Amy McGrath had just retired from the Marines when I caught up with her on her way to Kentucky. She’s headed back home with her family, and…

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Shannon H. Polson

Harvey Didn’t Come Out of the Blue. Now Is The Time to Talk About Climate Change.

By Naomi Klein

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The Intercept
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An Election On Cook Street

Reflecting on a Different Time — April 2016

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Gregory Uzelac
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Winter is coming in Donald Trump’s Washington

The administration’s implosion is likely to accelerate amid subpoenas and suspicion

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The Financial Times

Trying To Reason With Hurricane Season

Houston is drowning but there are storm clouds on the Washington horizon

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Chris Thomas