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“If you didn’t get into novels at a young age—and organically discover that, at some point, a switch would flip, and then you couldn’t stop reading if you tried—there is no reason to intuit that this is how novel reading goes.”

Meditation scene featuring Forest Whitaker from Jim Jarmusch's film "Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai" (1999).

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The 25th report shows rising support for aggression driven by polarization and grievance.

Learn from Loyal founder Celine Halioua’s rigorous approach to milestone-based planning, fundraising and multi-product strategy for deep tech companies.

Companies are creating meaningful growth by developing new ventures. Those with the most mature capabilities are growing quickly and can show the way for companies that are just beginning.

Startups and product innovation teams at corporations can contract with firms to provide almost any style of labor imaginable: QA, design…

The road to hell is paved via collaboration, consensus, inclusiveness, stability

There's a time and place for shortcuts, but here's a call to actually doing the work. It's the opposite of a shortcut; it's a longcut.

I recently came across a great quote from David Chang, “Just because we’re a casual restaurant, doesn’t mean we don’t hold ourselves to fine dining standards. We try to do things the right way. That usually means doing things the long, hard, stupid way.” David has elaborated on this quote:  When your back is turned […]

In baseball, value over replacement player (or VORP) is a statistic popularized by Keith Woolner that demonstrates how much a hitter or pitcher contributes to their team in comparison to a replacement-level player who is an average fielder at that position and a below average hitter.[1][2] A replacement player performs at "replacement level," which is the level of performance an average team can expect when trying to replace a player at minimal cost, also known as "freely available talent."

If humans will eventually spread out across the galaxy, then we are among the earliest living beings, with remarkable opportunities to shape the future

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