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The Art of Failing Upward Kate Losse, The New York Times In the start-up world, failure is in. No sooner has an entrepreneur failed at a venture in Silicon Valley than he takes to the web — frequently to blogging sites like Medium, which hosts a continuous stream of essays on the topic — or to the stage at industry conferences like FailCon to narrate the failure and the growth he experienced as a result. Save to Pocket SPONSORED Graphic Stock: Enjoy a 7 Day Free Trial Period! Stop searching for graphics. Enjoy over 300,000 graphics, images, photos, icons & more, easily downloadable from GraphicStock's unlimited library. Start Downloading Tech Workers Are Increasingly Looking to Leave Silicon Valley Ashley Rodriguez, Quartz A growing number of engineers and tech workers from the San Francisco Bay Area are looking to leave Silicon Valley for burgeoning tech hubs such as Austin, Texas, and Seattle, Washington, according to a job-search site’s data. Save to Pocket Husband's Illustrations For Wife Capture Love At Its Simplest Kelsey Borresen, The Huffington Post Illustrator Andrew Hou had trouble expressing his love for his wife with words, so he decided to do it through art instead. Save to Pocket Revealed: The 30-Year Economic Betrayal Dragging down Generation Y's Income Caelainn Barr and Shiv Malik, The Guardian Exclusive new data shows how debt, unemployment and property prices have combined to stop millennials taking their share of western wealth Save to Pocket A Complete History of the Millennium Falcon Michael Heilemann, Kitbashed The Millennium Falcon underwent a long and arduous number of conceptual iterations before its final iconic shape emerged; the one we now once again see blasting its way across the big screen. In fact it wasn't even known by its famous name until well into production, having up until then gone under the much mundane moniker: Pirate Ship. Save to Pocket The World Has a Problem: Too Many Young People Somini Sengupta, The New York Times At no point in recorded history has our world been so demographically lopsided, with old people concentrated in rich countries and the young in not-so-rich countries. Save to Pocket 14 Free Online Personality Tests That'll Help Point You in the Right Direction Alyse Kalish, Mashable There's something wonderful about personality tests — the idea that you can put yourself into a category (or categories), just like that, is so relieving and self-satisfying. I'm an introvert and an extrovert! I'm sensitive but strong-minded! Save to Pocket The 'Quitter's Mindset' Could Be the Secret to Success First Round Review The rule is: I can only let myself work at 80% my full capacity at any given time. This has been a huge source of success for Chisa, but it requires saying no a lot. It's powerful because it let’s you say yes to the most special, biggest needle-moving one-off opportunities that come your way. Save to Pocket Dustin Hoffman: ‘I was an outsider. I came to New York and I was cleaning toilets’ Alex Needham, The Guardian Even after The Graduate made him a superstar, he always saw himself as a ‘funny looking semitic guy’ on the fringes of fame. Five decades on he talks about racism and the movies, how Tootsie made him a feminist and why he wishes he was Jack Nicholson Save to Pocket Like these recommendations? See more in Pocket ›

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A Trip Through Amazon’s First Physical Store Alexander Alter and Nick Wingfield, The New York Times Browsing the shelves at Amazon’s bookstore in Seattle. All of the books are arranged cover out, rather than spine out, in the belief that it makes browsing more appealing. Save to Pocket SPONSORED Understand Your Customers Like Never Before FullStory captures your customer's experiences with one simple script – no manual event tracking required – unlocking pixel-perfect playback, analytics, and more. Grab your free trial now When You Listen to Music, You’re Never Alone Daniel Gross, Nautilus Technology hasn’t diminished the social quality of listening to music. Save to Pocket Why Am I Right-Handed? Maggie Koerth-Baker, FiveThirtyEight The short answer, dear Josephine, is that you are right-handed because most of humanity is right-handed. About 90 percent of us are righties — though the rate can vary by country and time period. Save to Pocket Inside Instacart's Fraught and Misguided Quest to Become the Uber of Groceries Alison Griswold, Quartz Instacart bet big on the “Uber-for-X” model. Now it’s scrambling to keep the business together. Save to Pocket

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How to Learn About Software Development Without Writing a Single Line of Code Nate Swanner, The Next Web Learning how to code takes diligent effort and tons of time digging into Xcode or another developer environment, but there’s another component that you may be overlooking. Save to Pocket Why Is Google's Go Win Such a Big Deal? Sam Byford, The Verge DeepMind’s dramatic victory over legendary Go player Lee Se-dol earlier today is a huge moment in the history of artificial intelligence, and something many predicted would be decades away. "I was very surprised," says Lee. "I didn't expect to lose. I didn't think AlphaGo would play the game in such a perfect manner." Save to Pocket Spelling Mistake Prevented Hackers Taking $1bn in Bank Heist The Guardian New York Fed reveals spelling of ‘foundation’ as ‘fandation’ prompted bank to seek clarification and stop transfer, but hackers still got away with about $80m Save to Pocket The Custodian of Forgotten Books Daniel Gross, The New Yorker Bigelow, fifty-eight, is not a professional publisher, author, or critic. He’s a self-appointed custodian of obscurity. For much of his career, he worked as an I.T. adviser for the United States Air Force. At his home, in Brussels, Belgium, he spends nights and weekends scouring old books and magazines for writers worthy of resurrection. Save to Pocket

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Where Computers Defeat Humans, and Where They Can’t Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson, The New York Times Deep learning and reinforcement learning have both been around for a while, but until recently it was not at all clear how powerful they were, and how far they could be extended. Save to Pocket SPONSORED 5 Awesome Uses for Drone Technology iQ by Intel Interest in drones is skyrocketing, bringing a new wave of novel uses for drones from saving lives to protecting animals. Discover the new world of drones. Here’s the Full Transcript of TIME’s Interview With Apple CEO Tim Cook Nancy Gibbs, TIME The chief executive of the world's most powerful tech company on your privacy, America's security, and his fight with the FBI. Save to Pocket The Career Advice No One Tells You Raghav Haran, Quartz The real education begins after college. Save to Pocket The Journalist and the Troll: This Man Spent Two Years Trying to Destroy Me Online Dune Lawrence, Bloomberg Business In September 2015 the FBI arrested the man behind TheBlot, one Benjamin Wey. Not for smearing me or the other people he imagined were his enemies. He’s primarily a financier, and he was charged with securities fraud and other financial crimes involving Chinese companies he helped to list on U.S. stock markets. Save to Pocket A Hollow Superpower The Economist Don’t be fooled by Syria. Vladimir Putin’s foreign policy is born of weakness and made for television. Save to Pocket The Fugitive Robert Kolker, The New York Times His feet froze solid. An avalanche buried him up to his neck. Villagers risked death to hide him. How Jan Baalsrud escaped the Nazis and became a Norwegian folk hero. Save to Pocket Welcome To The Post-Work Economy Ben Schiller, Fast Company If the goal of the economy is to provide decent-paying work for everyone, that economy clearly isn't doing a good job at the moment. Real wages for most Americans haven't increased in 40 years. Save to Pocket The US Military Is Everywhere, Except History Books Robert Neer, Aeon War defines the United States. Domestically, it is the country’s greatest budgetary priority: $598 billion, 54 per cent of discretionary spending, in fiscal year 2015. Globally, we have more than 800 bases in some 80 countries, and spend more than the next nine nations combined. Save to Pocket Is Solitude a Key Element of Creativity? Jory Mackay, Lifehacker One of the traits that Barron found during his creativity study was that creative people are more introspective. But not only in the sense that they have an increased level of self-awareness, but that they also have a familiarity with the darker and more uncomfortable parts of their psyche. Save to Pocket

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The Enormous Power of the Unconscious Brain Chris Baraniuk, BBC A lot of the things we do in everyday life don’t need to involve our conscious mind. In many cases, the more we use it, the less effective we become. Save to Pocket SPONSORED Team Chat That Lets You Work the Way You Want Customize HipChat with our new dark mode setting –– the perfect respite from your bright computer screen. Now available for Mac, Windows, and Linux. Start Chatting, It's Free Why We Should Fear a Cashless World Dominic Frisby, The Guardian Poor people and small businesses rely on cash. A contactless system will likely entrench poverty and pave the way for terrifying levels of surveillance. Save to Pocket What Happens When Millennials Run the Workplace? Ben Widdicombe, The New York Times A sense of entitlement is not the only stereotype attached to millennials in the workplace. “Entitled, lazy, narcissistic and addicted to social media,” according to CNBC. “They Don’t Need Trophies but They Want Reinforcement,” Forbes wrote. “Many millennials want to make the world a better place, and the future of work lies in inspiring them,” Fast Company proclaimed. Save to Pocket These 25 Companies Are More Powerful Than Many Countries Parag Khanna, Foreign Policy Going stateless to maximize profits, multinational companies are vying with governments for global power. Who is winning? Save to Pocket Leaked ISIS Documents Tell The Stories Of Hundreds Of Foreign Jihadis Mike Giglio, Munzer al-Awad, and Mitch Prothero, BuzzFeed A cache of documents used by ISIS to register foreign fighters, which was obtained by BuzzFeed News, reveals the personal details of jihadis who normally keep to the shadows. Thousands of pages of bureaucratic details tell their stories for the first time. Save to Pocket Almost everyone who is single is single for the same reason Heidi Isern, Quartz I know men and women alike that chase imaginary beings while shutting themselves off from real people, wrapping themselves up in a narcissistic dream of what should be, as opposed to what is. Save to Pocket Ultimate Weekend Getaway: Whistler Blackcomb

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Self-Correcting Beyond a Web Era Marked by Sensationalism John Herrman, The New York Times “Now that ‘everyone’ has a ‘sex tape’ — and everyone is at risk of having their sex tape published online,” the publication of celebrity sex tapes is less justified in the eyes of readers, said Max Read, a former editor of Gawker. Save to Pocket Heavy Recruitment of Chinese Students Sows Discord on U.S. Campuses Douglas Belkin and Miriam Jordan, The Wall Street Journal Colleges need international students in part for the tuition revenue, but language and cultural barriers make assimilation a struggle. Save to Pocket 8 Ways You Can Survive — And Thrive In — Midlife Barbara Bradley Hagerty, NPR One secret to midlife happiness is being a rookie at something. Trying new things and failing keeps you robust. Save to Pocket Tell Me What You Did Today, And I’ll Tell You Who You Are — Life Learning — Medium Benjamin Hardy, Medium If you repeated today every day for the next year, realistically, where would you end up? Save to Pocket

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Here are Google, Amazon and Facebook’s Secrets to Hiring the Best People Sarah Cooper, The Cooper Review If you, too, want to hire the world’s best top tech talent, try one of these secret hiring strategies. Save to Pocket SPONSORED Need to Improve How Your Team Collaborates on Projects? ​Bring the right information and people together to create, refine and approve plans. Confluence is the ‘one source of truth’ your team needs. Get started with Confluence Why Are Our Kids so Miserable? Jenny Anderson, Quartz Researchers have a raft of explanations for why kids are so stressed out, from a breakdown in family and community relationships, to the rise of technology and increased academic stakes and competition. Inequality is rising and poverty is debilitating. Twenge has observed a notable shift away from internal, or intrinsic goals, which one can control, toward extrinsic ones, which are set by the world, and which are increasingly unforgiving. Save to Pocket Andrew S. Grove, Longtime Chief of Intel, Dies at 79 Jonathan Kandell, The New York Times Besides presiding over the development of Intel’s memory chips and microprocessors in laboratory research, Mr. Grove gained a reputation as a ruthlessly effective manager who spurred associates and cowed rivals in a cutthroat, high-tech business world where companies rose and fell at startling speed. Save to Pocket Death by Gentrification: The Killing That Shamed San Francisco Rebecca Solnit, The Guardian Alejandro Nieto was killed by police in the neighbourhood where he spent his whole life. Did he die because a few white newcomers saw him as a menacing outsider? Save to Pocket How to Start a Business With (Almost) No Money Jayson Demers, Entrepreneur Once you start realizing some revenue, you can invest in yourself, and build the business you imagined piece by piece, rather than all at once. Save to Pocket

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Owning Up to Torture Eric Fair, The New York Times I would warn them that they’ll be told to cross lines by men who would never be asked to do it themselves, and they’ll cross those lines long before they consider anything like waterboarding. And I would warn them that once they do cross the line, those men will not be there to help them find their way back. Save to Pocket Personal Finance Has Everything and Nothing to Do With Money Kristin Wong, Lifehacker Personal finance has to do with money. However, it’s really about learning to control it so you can get on with your life, whether that means traveling, affording the lifestyle you want, or paying your bills without worry. Save to Pocket Addicts For Sale Cat Ferguson, BuzzFeed In the rehab capital of America, addicts are bought, sold, and stolen for their insurance policies, and many women are coerced into sex. Save to Pocket Molenbeek Broke My Heart Teun Voeten, Politico A former resident reflects on his struggles with Brussels’ most notorious neighborhood. Save to Pocket

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This Is What Happened When My Mom Ran My Tinder for a Month Clay Skipper, GQ When I gave my mom control of my Tinder, I thought it would be funny. I did not think we'd talk about casual sex, but here we were. "Oh, my god. Here's one that matched you," she said. "This one is NAKED! Yuck." Mom, there are no naked people on Tinder. Save to Pocket SPONSORED Money Magazine's "Best Checking Account in America"​ ​Earn 100x more interest on your checking, with no ATM or monthly fees. Plus, Aspiration donates a dime to charity for every dollar it earns. ​Sign Up Today, It's Free Imperial Ambitions The Economist Not since the era of imperial Rome has the “thumbs-up” sign been such a potent and public symbol of power. A mere 12 years after it was founded, Facebook is a great empire with a vast population, immense wealth, a charismatic leader, and mind-boggling reach and influence. Save to Pocket The Sugar Conspiracy Ian Leslie, The Guardian In 1972, a British scientist sounded the alarm that sugar – and not fat – was the greatest danger to our health. But his findings were ridiculed and his reputation ruined. How did the world’s top nutrition scientists get it so wrong for so long? Save to Pocket A C.I.A. Grunt’s Tale of the Fog of Secret War Mark Mazzetti, The New York Times In Douglas Laux’s final days as a C.I.A. officer, the futility of his mission prompted him to quote George Orwell to his boss. Mr. Laux had spent months in 2012 working with various Middle Eastern nations that were trying to ship arms to Syria to help disparate rebel groups there. But it had become clear to him that the C.I.A had little ability to control the squabbling and backstabbing among the Saudis, Qataris and other Arabs. Save to Pocket Alexa, Cortana, and Siri Aren’t Novelties Anymore. They’re Our Terrifyingly Convenient Future. Will Oremus, Slate A.I. assistants can give you the news, order you a pizza, and tell you a joke. All you have to do is trust them—completely. Save to Pocket 10 Sneaky Ways Retailers Fool You Into Spending More Elizabeth Harper, Lifehacker Have you ever wondered why the one item you’re looking for is somehow always in the farthest corner of the store? Whether you’re walking into a department store or a grocery store, this “coincidence” happens by design. Save to Pocket Apple's Copycats Are Turning into True IPhone Competitors Vlad Savov, The Verge Apple is still the Michael Jordan that every Chinese smartphone manufacturer looks up to, but instead of trying to dunk with their tongues sticking out or shoot fadeaway jumpers, these rising stars are developing their own ways of scoring points with consumers. Instead of imitating, they are emulating. Save to Pocket Move Over, Rat Pack and Brat Pack: Here Comes the Snap Pack Katherine Rosman, The New York Times Las Vegas in the 1950s and ’60s had the Rat Pack. In Los Angeles in the ’80s there was the Brat Pack. Now, New York has become home base to a young, wealthy and itinerant group that one may think of as the Snap Pack. For them, taking photos and videos for Instagram and Snapchat is not a way to memorialize a night out. It’s the night’s main event. Save to Pocket Hail the Maintainers Lee Vinsel & Andrew Russell, Aeon Capitalism excels at innovation but is failing at maintenance, and for most lives it is maintenance that matters more Save to Pocket

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Being Tired Isn't a Badge of Honor Jason Fried, Medium When you’re short on sleep, you’re short on patience. You’re ruder to people, less tolerant, less understanding. It’s harder to relate and to pay attention for sustained periods of time. Save to Pocket

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Online Dating and the Death of the 'Mixed-Attractiveness' Couple Alex Mayyasi, Priceonomics When was the last time you met a couple where one person was attractive and the other was not? There’s no reason couples like that should stand out—except for the fact that they are so rare. Seeing it can set off an uncharitable search for an explanation. Is the plain one rich or funny? Is the attractive one boring or unintelligent? Save to Pocket Job Hunting in the Digital Age Tara Siegl Bernard, The New York Times “Talk to people and not to a résumé website,” he said. “You would be surprised how receptive people are when you just email them or message them on LinkedIn and just ask for help.” Save to Pocket Some Relationship Advice From Pope Francis Camila Domonoske, NPR Make Time For One Another, Even If You're Busy. "Love needs time and space; everything else is secondary. Time is needed to talk things over, to embrace leisurely, to share plans, to listen to one other and gaze in each other's eyes, to appreciate one another and to build a stronger relationship. Sometimes the frenetic pace of our society and the pressures of the workplace create problems. At other times, the problem is the lack of quality time together, sharing the same room without one even noticing the other." Save to Pocket Great Leaders Embrace Office Politics Michael Chang Wenderoth, Harvard Business Review There is strong evidence that our work ratings, bonuses, and promotions are weakly correlated to actual performance — in fact, performance may even matter less to our success than our political skills and how we are perceived by those who make the decisions. Save to Pocket The Fight for the Future of NPR Leon Neyfakh, Slate Today, Nuzum belongs to a club you could call the NPR apostates—onetime servants of public radio who parted ways with the organization and entered the private sector amid frustrations over how NPR and its member stations were approaching the future of the industry. Save to Pocket Evicted by Matthew Desmond – What If the Problem of Poverty Is That It's Profitable to Other People? Katha Pollitt, The Guardian 'There is an enormous amount of pain and poverty in this rich land,’ argues American sociologist Desmond in this brilliant book about housing and the lives of eight families in Milwaukee. Save to Pocket The Assad Files Ben Taub, The New Yorker Some half a million people have been killed in Syria’s civil war. An additional five million have fled, emptying the country. Save to Pocket We Are Now Witnessing Elon Musk's Slow-Motion Disruption of the Global Auto Industry Steve LeVine, Quartz Musk has his challenge laid out for him—really tough, no question about it. But, if you’re in the car business, or any business really, this is the sort of problem that you want, versus one of lackluster demand, which is what has plagued rivals since electrics came onto the market six years ago. In terms of whether Musk is up to it, remember, this is the man who over the last decade has single-handedly validated both electric cars and private commercial space travel. Save to Pocket

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The Minecraft Generation Clive Thompson, The New York Times How a clunky Swedish computer game is teaching millions of children to master the digital world. Save to Pocket SPONSORED A Modern Communicator's Guide to Corporate Communications Download your 6-page guide full of tips and tricks to help you create compelling stories and enable meaningful conversations inside your organization. Get your free copy Luck Is a Bigger Contributor to Success Than People Give It Credit For Robert H. Frank, The Atlantic When people see themselves as self-made, they tend to be less generous and public-spirited. Save to Pocket Meet The King Of Sports Conspiracy Theories Robert Silverman, Vocativ Brian Tuohy is a published author and journalist who has sports conspiracy theories to spare. Save to Pocket Man Accidentally 'Deletes His Entire Company' with One Line of Bad Code Andrew Griffin, Independent ‘I feel sorry to say that your company is now essentially dead,’ one person on a coding forum advised Marco Marsala Save to Pocket The Munger Operating System: How to Live a Life That Really Works Farnam Street Blog To get what you want, deserve what you want. Trust, success, and admiration are earned. Save to Pocket Why Do Older People Love Facebook? Let’s Ask My Dad Katie Rogers, The New York Times When Facebook was born in 2004, the oldest baby boomers were in their late 50s, and older members of the silent generation were reaching their early 80s. If you thought they were going to sit back and let gifs, emojis and status updates pass them by, you were wrong, according to new research. Save to Pocket 9 TED Talks That Can Help You Become Insanely Productive Rachel Gillett, Business Insider Tapping your productivity in ways you never have before takes unconventional thinking. Reaching optimal productivity is about working smarter, not harder, and making the most of each day. The following TED talks offer valuable lessons in doing just that. Save to Pocket We're Running out of Water, and the World's Powers Are Very Worried Nathan Halverson, Reveal Secret conversations between American diplomats show how a growing water crisis in the Middle East destabilized the region, helping spark civil wars in Syria and Yemen, and how those water shortages are spreading to the United States. Save to Pocket System Overload James Surowiecki, The New Yorker From the crumbling bridges of California to the overflowing sewage drains of Houston and the rusting railroad tracks in the Northeast Corridor, decaying infrastructure is all around us, and the consequences are so familiar that we barely notice them—like urban traffic congestion, slow-moving trains, and flights that are often disrupted, thanks to an outdated air-traffic-control system. Save to Pocket

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The Reading Habits of Ultra-Successful People Andrew Merle, Medium Want to know one habit ultra-successful people have in common? They read. A lot. Save to Pocket SPONSORED The Smartest Way to Save on Student Loans Earnest is bringing big savings and exceptional customer service to grads seeking a lower rate on their student loans. See your savings >> For News Outlets Squeezed From the Middle, It’s Bend or Bust Jim Rutenberg, The New York Times News articles — be they about war, voting rights, the arts or immigration policy — increasingly inhabit social media feeds like the frighteningly dominant one that Facebook runs. They are competing for attention against zany kitchen experiments; your friend’s daughter’s bat mitzvah; and that wild video of a train whipping through a ridiculously narrow alleyway in India. Save to Pocket Big Science is Broken Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry, The Week Science is broken. That's the thesis of a must-read article in First Things magazine, in which William A. Wilson accumulates evidence that a lot of published research is false. But that's not even the worst part. Save to Pocket The New Astrology Alan Jay Levinovitz, Aeon By fetishising mathematical models, economists turned economics into a highly paid pseudoscience. Save to Pocket Creativity Is Much More Than 10,000 Hours of Deliberate Practice Scott Barry Kaufman, Scientific American Creators are not mere experts. Instead of deliberately practicing down an already existing path, they often create their own path for others to follow. Save to Pocket They Called It 'the Worst Job in the World' – My Life as a Guardian Moderator Marc Burrows, The Guardian Comments on the website can exceed 70,000 a day. Yes, there are trolls, but there is also wit, wisdom and a community worth fighting for, says a former moderator. Save to Pocket The Hell After ISIS Anand Gopal, The Atlantic Even as the militant group loses ground in Iraq, many Sunnis say they have no hope for peace. One family’s story shows why. Save to Pocket Attention Students: Put Your Laptops Away James Doubek, NPR For one thing, research shows that laptops and tablets have a tendency to be distracting — it's so easy to click over to Facebook in that dull lecture. And a study has shown that the fact that you have to be slower when you take notes by hand is what makes it more useful in the long run. Save to Pocket Beautiful Minds, Wasted The Economist How not to squander the potential of autistic people. Save to Pocket The Billionaire Who’s Building a Davos of His Own Alessandra Stanley, The New York Times Mr. Berggruen, 54, is an investor and art collector who was once known as the “homeless billionaire” because he lived in itinerant luxury in five-star hotels. Now he is grounded in Los Angeles where he presides over a bespoke think tank, the Berggruen Institute. Save to Pocket The Program Era Eric Banks, Book Forum A cultural history looks at how word processing changed the way we write Save to Pocket

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Learn to Love Networking Tiziana Casciaro, Francesca Gino, & Maryam Kouchaki, Harvard Business Review I hate networking.” We hear this all the time from executives, other professionals, and MBA students. They tell us that networking makes them feel uncomfortable and phony—even dirty. Save to Pocket SPONSORED Get Informed with Daily Pnut Daily Pnut delivers an entertaining and informative view on global news to your inbox every morning. Get savvier about the world around you every day in just four minutes. Sign me up Video Shows Just How Similar 'Star Wars : The Force Awakens' and 'a New Hope' Are Nate Scott, USA Today More than one person who saw Star Wars: The Force Awakens noted that there are more than a few similarities between the new film and the original Star Wars: A New Hope. Save to Pocket We've Reached Peak Smartphone Alex Cranz, Gizmodo Consumers always win when consumer electronic improvements become glacially innovative. Save to Pocket Many Middle-Class Americans Are Living Paycheck to Paycheck Neal Gabler, The Atlantic Nearly half of Americans would have trouble finding $400 to pay for an emergency. I’m one of them. Save to Pocket Iceland’s Water Cure Dan Kois, The New York Times Can the secret to the country’s happiness be found in its communal pools? Save to Pocket 4 Men with 4 Very Different Incomes Open Up About the Lives They Can Afford David Walters, Esquire The poverty line for a family of three is $20,090 a year. The median household income in America is $53,657. And the true starting point of real wealth remains a cool $1,000,000. We asked four more or less typical men, each of whom earns one of these incomes, to tell us about the lives they can afford. Save to Pocket Not All Practice Makes Perfect Anders Ericsson & Robert Pool, Nautilus We live in a world full of people with extraordinary abilities—abilities that from the vantage point of almost any other time in human history would have been deemed impossible. Save to Pocket The Average 29-Year-Old Derek Thompson, The Atlantic Forget media archetypes of older Millennials as college-educated singles living in cities. The typical 29-year-old is living with a partner in the suburbs—without a bachelor’s degree. Save to Pocket Google believes its superior AI will be the key to its future Nick Statt, The Verge Google is beginning to look beyond search to tap into some of the most lucrative and promising businesses in the tech industry: artificial intelligence and cloud computing. Save to Pocket The Water in Your Glass Might Be Older Than the Sun Nicholas St. Fleur, The New York Times Earth is old. The sun is old. But do you know what may be even older than both? Water. It’s a mystery how the world became awash in it. But one prevailing theory says that water originated on our planet from ice specks floating in a cosmic cloud before our sun was set ablaze, more than 4.6 billion years ago. Save to Pocket

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7 Great Stories To Read in Pocket This Week How Concept Creep Made Americans So Sensitive to Harm Conor Friedersdorf, The Atlantic How did a working-class mom get arrested, lose her fast food job, and temporarily lose custody of her 9-year-old for letting the child play alone at a nearby park? The concept of abuse expanded too far. Save to Pocket How Neuroscientists Explain the Mind-Clearing Magic of Running Melissa Dahl, New York Magazine It is something of a cliché among runners, how the activity never fails to clear your head. Does some creative block have you feeling stuck? Go for a run. Are you deliberating between one of two potentially life-altering decisions? Go for a run. Are you feeling mildly mad, sad, or even just vaguely meh? Go for a run, go for a run, go for a run. Save to Pocket The Future of Technology Is In Your Ear Jon Li, Backchannel My experiment with a $13 device convinced me that the next major platform will replace text with sounds. Save to Pocket How to Talk in Meetings When You Hate Talking in Meetings Dana Rousmaniere, Harvard Business Revie Nobody loves meetings. But they can be especially taxing for people who crave a quieter setting for brainstorming or thinking through issues, or who struggle to have their voices heard in a room full of loud-talkers. Save to Pocket If You Want to Be Like Warren Buffett and Bill Gates, Adopt Their Voracious Reading Habits Andrew Merle, Quartz

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Save to Pocket The Humans Hiding Behind the Chatbots Ellen Huet, Bloomberg Behind the artificial intelligence personal assistants and concierges are actual people, reading e-mails and ordering Chipotle. Save to Pocket Clues to the Mystery of Prince’s Final Days John Eligon & Serge F. Kovaleski, The New York Times The mystery of the end of Prince’s life has left his vast legion of supporters measuring their shock. Save to Pocket

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Why Are We So Bored? Sandi Mann, The Guardian We live in a world of constant entertainment – but is too much stimulation boring? Save to Pocket SPONSORED Use SQL to Understand Your Customer Journey Load CRM, billing, and other third-party data in Redshift or Posgres. Discover insights about your customers. Try Segment Sources Today How to Master Your Life with the Decision-Making Diet Tomas Laurinavicius, The Next Web With rapid technology advancement and numerous of products being created everyday, we’re bombarded with never-ending opportunities and choices for every aspect of our lives. Today we make more decisions that humans have ever had to so we need a plan of action. Save to Pocket How Big Data Creates False Confidence Jesse Dunietz, Nautilus If I claimed that Americans have gotten more self-centered lately, you might just chalk me up as a curmudgeon, prone to good-ol’-days whining. But what if I said I could back that claim… Save to Pocket My God-Awful Year With the Apple Watch Casey Chan, Gizmodo I bought the Apple Watch a year ago. I stopped wearing it two months ago, and I’m not sure if I’ll ever wear it again. That’s because it doesn’t really do anything that anyone needs, and even when it does, it doesn’t always work like it’s supposed to. Save to Pocket Your Media Business Will Not Be Saved Joshua Topolsky, Medium Video will not save your media business. Nor will bots, newsletters, a “morning briefing” app, a “lean back” iPad experience, Slack integration, a Snapchat channel, or a great partnership with Twitter. Save to Pocket What Would Happen If We Just Gave People Money? Andrew Flowers, Five Thirty Eight Basic income has attracted a motley crew of supporters, spanning the ideological spectrum. Efficiency-minded libertarians like the idea of streamlining the bureaucracy of the welfare state. Silicon Valley techies hope a guaranteed income would cushion the blow as automation replaces human jobs. Save to Pocket Escaping the Digital Media ‘Crap Trap’ Jim VandeHei, The Information Digital media companies are caught in the "crap trap," mass-producing trashy clickbait so they can claim huge audiences and often higher valuations. Save to Pocket Being A Developer After 40 Adrian Kosmaczewski, Medium The first advice I can give you all is, do not pay attention to hype. Every year there is a new programming language, framework, library, pattern, component architecture or paradigm that takes the blogosphere by storm. People get crazy about it. Conferences are given. Save to Pocket A Mad World Joseph Pierre, Aeon A diagnosis of mental illness is more common than ever – did psychiatrists create the problem, or just recognise it? Save to Pocket Our Gigantic Problem with Portions: Why Are We All Eating Too Much? Bee Wilson, Jay Rayner, Tamal Ray, and Gizzi Erskine, The Guardian We are consuming ever bigger portions on ever larger dinner plates. Food manufacturers keep pushing us to eat more. Can we learn to control our helpings? Save to Pocket Facebook Isn't the Social Network Anymore. So What Is It?

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Why Is Productivity So Weak? Three Theories Neil Irwin, The New York Times More than 151 million Americans count themselves employed, a number that has risen sharply in the last few years. The question is this: What are they doing all day? Because whatever it is, it barely seems to be registering in economic output. Save to Pocket SPONSORED ​Easily Manage Your Apple Devices at Work ​Set up and protect your Apple devices anytime from anywhere. Bushel helps you easily and securely manage Macs, iPads, and iPhones without IT expertise. ​Get started for free »​ Inside OpenAI, Elon Musk’s Wild Plan to Set Artificial Intelligence Free Cade Metz, Wired Two years ago, as the market for the latest machine learning technology really started to heat up, Microsoft Research vice president Peter Lee said that the cost of a top AI researcher had eclipsed the cost of a top quarterback prospect in the National Football League—and he meant under regular circumstances, not when two of the most famous entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley were trying to poach your top talent. Save to Pocket The Real Reasons You Procrastinate — and How to Stop Ana Swanson, The Washington Post How exactly does procrastination work, and how do you stop it? Psychological research, comics and "The Simpsons" will explain. Save to Pocket The Psychology of Time and the Paradox of How Impulsivity and Self-Control Mediate Our Capacity for Presence Maria Popova, Brain Pickings From the moment we are born to the moment we take our last breath, we battle with reality under the knell of this constant awareness that we are either winning or losing time. We long for what T.S. Eliot called “the still point of the turning world,” but in chasing after it we spin ourselves into a perpetual restlessness, losing the very thing we strive to win. Save to Pocket Why Does Running Help Clear Your Mind? Melissa Dahl, The Science of Us It is something of a cliché among runners, how the activity never fails to clear your head. Does some creative block have you feeling stuck? Go for a run. Are you deliberating between one of two potentially life-altering decisions? Go for a run. Are you feeling mildly mad, sad, or even just vaguely meh? Go for a run. Save to Pocket Why you shouldn't exercise to lose weight, explained with 60+ studies Julia Belluz and Javier Zarracina, Vox Before we dive into why exercise isn't that helpful for slimming, let's make one thing clear: No matter how working out impacts your waistline, it does your body and mind good. Save to Pocket Why Facebook Is Killing It—Even When Nobody Else Is Julia Greenberg, Wired As its biggest rivals stumble, Facebook wildly beat Wall Street’s expectations when it released its earnings yesterday. The company said that it now reaches more than a billion people every day and 1.65 billion people every month. Profits for the first three months of the year tripled compared to the same time last year to $1.5 billion on $5.3 billion in revenue. In response, Facebook’s stock hit an all-time high this morning. Save to Pocket End of Golden Era for Investors Spells Troubles for Millennials Rich Miller, Bloomberg Turning 30 just got a lot scarier. A coming collapse in investment returns means that people that age today will have to work seven years longer or save almost twice as much to end up with the same nest egg as those of roughly a generation ago. Save to Pocket A Brief Guide to Everything That's Annoying About Apple Steve Rose, The Guardian This week, the tech giant reported its first fall in sales for 13 years. Have we finally fallen out of love with its shiny new iPhones? Not quite – but there are some small issues ... Save to Pocket

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America Has Never Been So Ripe for Tyranny Andrew Sullivan, New York Magazine Democracies end when they are too democratic. And right now, America is a breeding ground for tyranny. Save to Pocket

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How To Know Which Skills To Develop At Each Stage Of Your Career Ximena Vengoechea, Fast Company By mid-career, the hard skills that got you the job won't be the ones that get you promoted. Save to Pocket 'Burning Man for the 1%': The Desert Party for the Tech Elite, with Eric Schmidt in a Top Hat Nellie Bowles, The Guadian Further Future is the tech-centric, unapologetically luxurious alternative to Burning Man, complete with personal assistants, spa treatments and fine dining Save to Pocket Inevitability in technology Benedict Evans Facebook's successful purchase of WhatsApp and Instagram was not inevitable - it did not flow out of a great preponderance of industry dynamics. Indeed, the dynamics were against Facebook, since the shift to mobile brought new dynamics to social that removed the winner-takes-all effect that it enjoyed on the desktop. Save to Pocket 10 Things You Should Do Before You Start Investing Trent Hamm, Lifehacker The groundwork needed for investing is something that anyone can achieve with some time and effort. It just takes a little time, a little learning, and a little bit of self-evaluation. Save to Pocket Opting Out of Coastal Madness to Live a Low-Overhead Life Anne Trubek, The Atlantic For some, abandoning expensive urban centers would be a huge financial relief. Save to Pocket The Model American Lauren Collins, The New Yorker Melania Trump is the exception to her husband’s nativist politics. Save to Pocket The Cure For Fear Ben Crair, New Republic Scientists have discovered a radical new way to treat our most traumatic memories. Save to Pocket Stop Saying ‘I Feel Like’ Molly Worthen, The New York Times This reflex to hedge every statement as a feeling or a hunch is most common among millennials. But I hear it almost as often among Generation Xers and my own colleagues in academia. As in so many things, the young are early carriers of a broad cultural contagion. Save to Pocket Here's Where Everyone in the Marvel Cinematic Universe Stands at the Start of Phase 3 Germaine Lussler, Gizmodo Phase three of the Marvel Cinematic Universe begins this week when Captain America: Civil War is finally released. And though there hasn’t been a Marvel movie released since last year, much has changed in the universe in that time. Save to Pocket

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The Urban Poor You Haven’t Noticed: Millennials Who’re Broke, Hungry, But On Trend Gayatri Jayaraman, BuzzFeed Too many young professionals have internalised the lesson that to earn any money, you’ve got to spend a lot of it. Save to Pocket SPONSORED ​Attach Tile to Anything and Find It in Seconds! ​Tile is a tiny Bluetooth tracker and easy-to-use app that finds everyday items in seconds—like your phone, keys, bag, and wallet. Never lose anything again 'You Want a Description of Hell?' OxyContin's 12-Hour Problem Harriet Ryan, Lisa Girion, and Scott Glover, The Los Angeles Times OxyContin is a chemical cousin of heroin, and when it doesn’t last, patients can experience excruciating symptoms of withdrawal, including an intense craving for the drug. The problem offers new insight into why so many people have become addicted to OxyContin, one of the most abused pharmaceuticals in U.S. history. Save to Pocket This Is the Best Way to Improve Every Part of Your Life Eric Barker, Time Little celebrations for small accomplishments make a huge difference in motivation for even the toughest tasks. Save to Pocket Chasing Habits of Rich People Won’t Teach You About Success

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You’ve probably seen articles detailing what Warren Buffett does every day, or what Elon Musk eats before noon, or that “one trait” rich people have that poor people don’t. It’s interesting, but when it comes to building wealth and success, these habits don’t teach you anything about what it really takes to get there. In fact, they’re kind of counterproductive. Save to Pocket Why You Can’t Trust Yourself Mark Manson Blog Bertrand Russell famously said, “The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are so certain of themselves and wiser people so full of doubts.” Save to Pocket After Presiding over Bin Laden Raid, CIA Chief in Pakistan Came Home Suspecting He Was Poisoned by ISI Greg Miller, The Washington Post The CIA station chief was so violently ill that he was often doubled over in pain, current and former U.S. officials said. Trips out of the country for treatment proved futile. And the cause of his ailment was so mysterious, the officials said, that both he and the agency began to suspect that he had been poisoned. Save to Pocket This Philosopher Helped Ensure There Was No Nobel for Relativity Jimena Canales, Nautilus The physicist and the philosopher clashed, each defending opposing, even irreconcilable, ways of understanding time. At the Société française de philosophie—one of the most venerable institutions in France—they confronted each other under the eyes of a select group of intellectuals. The “dialogue between the greatest philosopher and the greatest physicist of the 20th century” was dutifully written down. It was a script fit for the theater. The meeting, and the words they uttered, would be discussed for the rest of the century. Save to Pocket More than Words Thom Scott-Phillips, Aeon Human communication is a glorious chaos. And images, from art to emojis, sometimes say it so much better than language can. Save to Pocket Why Are Highly Educated Americans Getting More Liberal? Danielle Kurtzleben, NPR It's a well-worn (if not-entirely-agreed-upon) idea that college makes people more liberal. But a new report adds a twist to this: the most educated Americans have grown increasingly liberal over the last couple of decades. Save to Pocket

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Half of Your Friends Probably Don’t Think of You As a Friend Cari Romm, Science of Us Here’s a fun exercise: Take a minute and count up all your friends. Not just the close ones, or the ones you’ve seen recently — I mean every single person on this Earth that you consider a pal. Got a number in your mind? Good. Now cut it in half. Save to Pocket SPONSORED Set Your Website Apart Squarespace makes it easy to create a beautiful website or online store for your next big idea. Receive 10% off your first purchase with the offer code POCKET.

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Blitzscaling Tim Sullivan, Harvard Business Review Blitzscaling is what you do when you need to grow really, really quickly. It’s the science and art of rapidly building out a company to serve a large and usually global market, with the goal of becoming the first mover at scale. Save to Pocket Hedge Funds Faced Choppy Waters in 2015, but Chiefs Cashed In Alexandra Stevenson, The New York Times In 2015, Mr. Griffin, who started trading as a Harvard sophomore out of his dorm room, and James H. Simons, a former math professor, each took home $1.7 billion, according to Alpha magazine. Save to Pocket The Steroid Era of Startups Is over — Here's What 8 Top VCs Think Will Happen Next Biz Carson and Matt Rosoff, Business Insider The game has changed. In April, venture capitalist Bill Gurley wrote an essay crystallizing what many VCs had been talking about for months. Essentially, too many companies have taken too much money at unsupportable valuations. A lot of the money they raised came with huge caveats that would protect late-stage investors. A lot of these businesses now have limited options, Gurley wrote. Save to Pocket The Coming Debt Bust The Economist It is a question of when, not if, real trouble will hit in China Save to Pocket Former Facebook Workers: We Routinely Suppressed Conservative News Michael Nunez, Gizmodo Facebook workers routinely suppressed news stories of interest to conservative readers from the social network’s influential “trending” news section, according to a former journalist who worked on the project. This individual says that workers prevented stories about the right-wing CPAC gathering, Mitt Romney, Rand Paul, and other conservative topics from appearing in the highly-influential section, even though they were organically trending among the site’s users. Save to Pocket Star Wars - Danger Zone - Kenny Loggins Weston Wong Vimeo All the dog fights in Star Wars with Kenny Loggin's Danger Zone. Save to Pocket The Showman Jeffrey Toobin, The New Yorker How U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara struck fear into Wall Street and Albany. Save to Pocket Most Students at Top Colleges Have the Same Sleep Pattern Michael J. Coren, Quartz Worries that young university scholars are not getting enough rest are probably unwarranted. Students at most schools get the same amount of shut-eye on average—7 hours and 3 minutes— which is within the range recommended by experts. But students at top-ranked schools showed an intriguing pattern: They tend to fall asleep late, after 1 AM, compared to their counterparts further down the rankings. Save to Pocket

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The Inside Story of Facebook's Biggest Setback Rahul Bhatia, The Guardian The social network had a grand plan to connect millions of Indians to the internet. Here’s how it all went wrong. Save to Pocket 7 Things to Say When a Conversation Turns Negative Kathleen Kelley Reardon, Harvard Business Review Every person is at least 75% responsible for how others treat them. Our verbal and nonverbal actions limit or expand the options of others. Save to Pocket Physics Makes Aging Inevitable, Not Biology Peter Hoffman, Nautilus Life pits biology against physics in mortal combat. Save to Pocket When Did Optimism Become Uncool? Gregg Easterbrook, The New York Times Recently Warren Buffett said that because of the “negative drumbeat” of politics, “many Americans now believe their children will not live as well as they themselves do. That view is dead wrong: The babies being born in America today are the luckiest crop in history.” This was not Nebraska folk wisdom; rather, it’s sophisticated analysis. The optimistic view is that it’s still morning in America, and if we fix what’s wrong, the best is yet to come. Save to Pocket The Slack Generation The Economist It is rare for business software to arouse emotion besides annoyance. But some positively gush about how Slack has simplified office communication. Save to Pocket How Reche Caldwell Googled His Way from the Patriots to Prison David Fleming, ESPN Caldwell isn't sure how authorities took down his drug cartel so swiftly. Perhaps it was the poorly stuffed shoebox-sized package wrapped in elaborate Chinese markings that sounded like a Molly-stuffed maraca moving down the post office's conveyor belt. "Good lord that boy was a bad criminal," says his mom, "and thank Jesus for that." Save to Pocket The Six Qualities of Good Feedback Ash Read, Lifehacker Being able to give great feedback is a fundamental skill of work. So how come so many of us suck at it? And how can we improve? Save to Pocket Apple R&D Reveals a Pivot Is Coming Neil Cybart, Above Avalon Apple's R&D expense saw a significant bump up beginning in mid-2014. It was clear Apple was up to something big. However, after looking at Apple's 2Q16 results, it appears I underestimated the situation. As depicted in Exhibit 1, Apple is now on track to spend more than $10 billion on R&D in 2016, up nearly 30% from 2015 and ahead of even my aggressive estimate. Save to Pocket How Air Jordan Became Crying Jordan Ian Crouch, The New Yorker Yet even marvels grow old. In 2013, Wright Thompson, of ESPN, profiled Jordan as he approached his fiftieth birthday. Thompson presented Jordan as a lonely man—a compulsive competitor with nothing left to compete for. He was more than a decade removed from the game, and a good thirty or forty pounds heavier than his playing weight, but he still sized up the likes of LeBron James as if he might, given the chance, be able to take him. Save to Pocket Venezuela Is Falling Apart Moises Naim and Francisco Toro, The Atlantic Scenes from daily life in the failing state. Save to Pocket X-Men: Apocalypse Has a Bad Case of Batman v Superman Disease Tasha Robinson, The Verge And just as superhero films like Ant-Man, Deadpool, and Civil War were pulling back from massive CGI destruction and endless loss of life, Apocalypse returns to the trend, with an orgy of city-annihilating sequences with no appreciable human stakes. With "apocalypse" right in the title, large-scale catastrophe was always openly on the table. Save to Pocket

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The Future Is Almost Now Elizabeth Alsop, The Atlantic In popular culture, science-fiction stories look more like the real world than ever before. Save to Pocket SPONSORED Learn Something New In Just 5 minutes A Day Get smarter with free 5-minute lessons delivered to your inbox every morning. Choose between dozens of course topics, from Art and History to Business and Productivity. Get Started, It's Free » How To Make Quantum Leaps Personally And Professionally Benjamin Hardy, Life Learning Your most authentic self is not who you currently are, but rather, who you desire to become. Save to Pocket Ideo's CEO On How To Lead An Organization Creatively Diana Budis, Fast Company Design Creative leadership is the only way for businesses to thrive in the face of rapid change, Tim Brown argues. Here's how to master it. Save to Pocket The Complex Psychology of Why People Like Things Julia Beck, The Atlantic How do you account for taste? Save to Pocket This Is How To Be Persuasive: 7 New Secrets From Hostage Negotiation Eric Barker, Barking Up The Wrong Tree Straightforward and honest are good qualities. But when you’re too direct in a negotiation or heated discussion, it can come off as blunt and rude. Save to Pocket China Quietly Targets U.S. Tech Companies in Security Reviews Paul Mozur and Jane Perlez, The New York Times Chinese authorities are quietly scrutinizing technology products sold in China by Apple and other big foreign companies, focusing on whether they pose potential security threats to the country and its consumers and opening up a new front in an already tense relationship with Washington over digital security. Save to Pocket The Wisdom of the Aging Brain Anil Ananthaswamy, Nautilus Tantalizing evidence suggests that brain activity shifts to increase wisdom as we age. Save to Pocket After Analyzing 200 Founders' Postmortems, Researchers Say These Are the Reasons Startups Fail Alice Truong, Quartz A surprising takeaway is that startups with large amounts of funding were outcompeted. Save to Pocket How Taxi Driver Ruined Acting Tom Shone, 1843 , The Economist Every actor with something to prove longs to play a character like Travis Bickle. But forty years after “Taxi Driver” was made, Robert De Niro has yet to meet his match. Save to Pocket

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How Your Gut Affects Your Mood Christie Aschwanden, Five Thirty Eight The idea that our intestinal tracts shape our mental states is hardly new. Medicine has a long history of blaming our guts for psychological disorders. Save to Pocket The Plan to Avert Our Post-Antibiotic Apocalypse Ed Yong, The Atlantic A new report estimates that by 2050, drug-resistant infections will kill one person every three seconds, unless the world’s governments take drastic steps now. Save to Pocket Will 90 Become The New 60? David Steinsaltz, Nautilus As our lifespans have increased, so too have our active years. Can that go on? Save to Pocket Bill Clinton’s Big Moment: His Health, His Battle Plan for Trump, and What He’ll Do if Hillary Wins Jason Zengerle, GQ Who is Bill Clinton these days? And who does he intend to be if he—er, if his wife—wins the White House? Save to Pocket Oracle-Google Dispute Goes to Heart of Open-Source Software Quentin Hardy, The New York Times The copyrights that are crucial to the trial are related to open-source software, which is created and shared for general use. Open-source technology is at the heart of many current innovations, from Google’s Android to the hardware going into giant cloud-computing data centers. Save to Pocket Men Are Sabotaging The Online Reviews Of TV Shows Aimed At Women Walt Hickey, Five Thirty Eight Nearly 60 percent of the people who rated “Sex and the City” on IMDb are women, and looking only at those scores, the show has an 8.1. That’s well above average. Male users, though, who made up just over 40 percent of “Sex and the City” raters, assigned it, on average, a 5.8 rating. Oof. Save to Pocket 15 Extremely Underrated Films That Every Movie Buff Needs to See Diana Bruk, Esquire Reddit users recently shared their favorite picks for the most underrated movies of all time in an open thread, and we've compiled them here so you can cherry pick one or two (or 12) for your next movie night. Save to Pocket The 10 biggest announcements from Google I/O 2016 The Verge At I/O this year, Google displayed its vision for a more ubiquitous and conversational way of interacting with technology. Save to Pocket How Being Tired Affects Your Thinking and Performance Belle Beth Cooper, Lifehacker Research shows that we’re more likely to lean towards safe choices when we’re tired. For instance, gambling less, or being less likely to take a risk on something unproven. Save to Pocket Is This the End of Sex? Philip Ball, The New Statesman A baby grown from a flake of skin or from the genes of three parents – the future of reproduction is mind-boggling. Save to Pocket

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Four Hundred Miles with Tesla's Autopilot Forced Me to Trust the Machine Lee Hutchinson, Ars Technica KITT-like auto-cruise and auto-steer are equal parts mesmerizing and disturbing. Save to Pocket This Cartoon Explains How the Rich Got Rich and the Poor Got Poor Alvin Chang, Vox Perhaps the best argument against income inequality, though, is that it's a threat to democracy. If a few people control most of the money, then they can control political outcomes. Save to Pocket The World's Largest Cruise Ship and Its Supersized Pollution Problem John Vidal, The Guardian As Harmony of the Seas sets sail from Southampton docks on Sunday she will leave behind a trail of pollution – a toxic problem that is growing as the cruise industry and its ships get ever bigger. Save to Pocket Machine Bias Pro Publica There’s software used across the country to predict future criminals. And it’s biased against blacks. Save to Pocket A Drumbeat of Multiple Shootings, but America Isn’t Listening

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Most shootings with four deaths or injuries are invisible outside their communities. And most of the lives they scar are black. Save to Pocket Longtime Couples Get In Sync, In Sickness And In Health Lindsay Peterson, NPR Doctors tend to treat people as individuals, guided by the need to ensure patient confidentiality. But knowing about one partner's health can provide key clues about the other's. For instance, signs of muscle weakening or kidney trouble in one may indicate similar problems for the other. Save to Pocket To Help Kids Thrive, Coach Their Parents Paul Tough, The New York Times The Jamaica experiment helps make the case that if we want to improve children’s opportunities for success, one of the most powerful potential levers for change is not the children themselves, but rather the attitudes, beliefs and behaviors of the adults who surround them. Save to Pocket How Dating Has Always Been Like Work Bourree Lam, The Atlantic Love, it turns out, has always been a lot of work. While every generation will lament anew the fact that finding love is hard, history seems to indicate that this particular social ritual never gets any easier or less exciting. Save to Pocket This Is What the Future of American Politics Looks Like Michael Lind, Politico This year, we’re seeing the end of a partisan realignment, and the beginning of a policy one — and U.S. politics is about to change big-time. Save to Pocket Apple and Google Are Playing Catch-Up — and That's a Good Thing

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A vibrant and competitive industry can be recognized by how hard its leaders have to work to stay ahead. In some respects, especially related to their mobile duopoly, Apple and Google could fall asleep at the wheel and never have to worry about being superseded. Save to Pocket

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