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The White Man in That Photo

The White Man in That Photo ““He paid the price with his choice,” explained Tommie Smith, “It wasn’t just a simple gesture to help us, it was HIS fight. He was a white man, a white Australian man among two men of color, standing up in the moment of victory, all in the name of […]

The full-stack employee

The full-stack employee “To evaluate these requests, the FSE stretch across traditional organization boundaries, while not get stretched too thin. They need to be informed about what everyone else is doing without micromanaging them, and not get uncomfortable working in roles unfamiliar to them: product manager, designer, communicator, strategist, advertiser, consultant, technologist, user advocate, marketer… […]

How School Shootings Spread – The New Yorker/Gladwell

How School Shootings Spread – The New Yorker/Gladwell “He talked about how difficult it was for men—and for teen-age boys in particular—to admit to vulnerability.”

Baseball Is Not a Contact Sport

Baseball Is Not a Contact Sport “What matters is that players get hurt, and while you can’t make rules to eliminate all injuries, you can certainly work to eliminate injuries caused by other players when they deliberately behave in certain ways.”

Vimeo: The Egg

The Egg Lampray

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Wow! Pure Gold right here, priceless! One of the gems u may have missed but tonight, u get close up & personal… http://t.co/wVmQtwIhWq — Bootsy Collins (@Bootsy_Collins) October 10, 2015 via https://twitter.com/Bootsy_Collins

Lawrence Dennis on what is wrong with economics

Lawrence Dennis on what is wrong with economics from: October 10, 2015 at 01:09PM

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Good read by @brianmacp on an interesting position created by Red Sox: director of pitching analysis & development http://t.co/rM4g1tfjEN — James Wagner (@JamesWagnerWP) October 9, 2015 via https://twitter.com/JamesWagnerWP

There is no chain of command in software organizations

There is no chain of command in software organizations from: October 9, 2015 at 06:19PM

I sat down with a millionaire who operates 10 businesses while sailing around the world with his family

I sat down with a millionaire who operates 10 businesses while sailing around the world with his family

How Tom Wolfe Became … Tom Wolfe

How Tom Wolfe Became … Tom Wolfe Michael Lewis writes: “It’s not really a book about the space program. It turns out that it’s not even, really, about flying. It’s about the importance of status to men, and what happens when the rules of any status game change…No one noticed the best story. Process had […]

The Hidden Depths of Sandra Boynton’s Board Books

The Hidden Depths of Sandra Boynton’s Board Books

The remarkable thing that happens to poor kids when you give their parents a little money

The remarkable thing that happens to poor kids when you give their parents a little money “Not only did the extra income appear to lower the instance of behavioral and emotional disorders among the children, but, perhaps even more important, it also boosted two key personality traits that tend to go hand in hand with long-term positive life outcomes. […]

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I beg of you, click thru to this high res still and praise Eyvind Earle's skills. http://t.co/txn2wGltJa pic.twitter.com/6TUl12cdZ1 — Chappell Ellison (@ChappellTracker) October 9, 2015 via https://twitter.com/ChappellTracker

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Just waiting for the Rogers Centre press elevator pic.twitter.com/7IMGVa9EaM — Emma Span (@emmaspan) October 9, 2015 via https://twitter.com/emmaspan

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Here's a new poem which, for reasons unclear to me, I've written in an Excel spreadsheet. It's called Love Excels. pic.twitter.com/7A6Nr1Cgsj — Brian Bilston (@brian_bilston) October 6, 2015 via https://twitter.com/brian_bilston

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My name isn't pronounced the same as same, but is similar to similar — Sam Miller (@SamMillerBP) October 8, 2015 via https://twitter.com/SamMillerBP

Adam Davidson on Hollywood and the Future of Work

Adam Davidson on Hollywood and the Future of Work “But embedded in Coase is this idea: the average worker, a person with a salaried job, is not receiving a lot of information from the market. They get a job for a certain task, and they have that job maybe for decades. And in that time […]

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Poems, the young hologram-teacher declared earnestly, are like vines made out of words — Patrick Dubuque (@euqubud) October 8, 2015 via https://twitter.com/euqubud

Motherhood Around the World Archives | A Cup of Jo

Motherhood Around the World Archives | A Cup of Jo