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The very first job out of university is one that I remember like it was yesterday. I was fresh-faced, eager, and ready to make my mark on the world. I was hired as a junior designer at a reputable media company, and I was thrilled to be starting my professional journey. But as the months …
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Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Thimble Cupboard. Within the hallowed, dog-eared pages of children’s literature lies a tale so miniature, so delightfully domestic in scale, that it might just crawl under your floorboards and redecorate with a postage stamp. I speak, of course, of Mary Norton’s The Borrowers, first published in 1952—an …
What, pray tell, might a third world war look like? Would it be a gentleman’s war, conducted with the decorum of a particularly aggressive chess match? Or would it be the kind of war where your Wi-Fi goes down, your fridge starts speaking Mandarin, and nuclear missiles begin their uncomfortably swift journey across the sky? …
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Within the grand cosmic opera where humanity pirouettes among the stars, could our future be etched upon the vast canvas of the universe, just beyond our provincial celestial cul-de-sac? Enter Arthur C. Clarke’s magnum opus, The Songs of Distant Earth, where the venerable maestro of speculative fiction revisits his favorite interstellar haunts with a prose style so …
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A couple of weeks ago Crystal Knows was launched. Naturally I signed up for the beta. What does it do? “Crystal tells you the best way to communicate with any prospect, customer, or coworker based on their unique personality. Crystal analyzes public data to tell you how you can expect any given person to behave, how he …
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Last year, Copyblogger disabled the comments on their blog. That’s unfortunate, because I find their podcast The Lede really interesting. In their latest episode, they discussed the How to Learn from Your Successes. This is my opinion on their latest episode, 25 minutes in, while at the same time vacuum cleaning my living room. It sounds …
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