Category: General
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Uber Class Action Lawsuit Expands to Include Over 160k Drivers
From Vice: “This past September, US District Court Judge Edward Chen granted the suit class-action status, clearing the way for drivers across the state to be included. Uber then tried to limit the size of that class, by saying many of its drivers had signed an “arbitration clause” — a legal agreement designed to force […]
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Unicorns vs Donkeys: Let’s Do the Math
Lifetime value of customer divided by cost of customer acquisition should be more than 3.
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Lucidworks CEO Will Hayes and Clef BD Head Darrell Jones III on Why Diversity Starts at Home
Making a lasting impact on youth – and why Oakland is the Atlanta of the west coast.
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Infographic: What’s Holding CIOs Back?
Free your staff, and innovation will follow.
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LinkedIn Expands Blogging Platform to All English-Speaking Users
Previously US-only, LinkedIn has expanded their blogging platform to include all English-speaking users. The professional network expanded its publishing tool late Wednesday, granting long-form publishing power to more than 130 million English-speaking LinkedIn members outside the United States, according to LinkedIn’s Head of Content Ryan Roslansky. From their blog: Each week, members publish more than […]
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How Pulp Paperbacks Changed Publishing
“Pocket books were priced to sell for twenty-five cents… No one, he concluded, misses a quarter.”
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5 Ways to Increase Reading Comprehension
“Read thought unit by thought unit rather than word by word.”
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Brand Voice Is Inherently Inauthentic
“That’s like sociopath-level inauthenticity.”
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Inside Stephen Colbert’s Creative Process
Master satirist Stephen Colbert describes how he runs his (now retired) Colbert Report each day: “I say hello to the guest. I ask them the if they’ve seen the show. Sometimes they have, sometimes they haven’t. I always say the same thing, ‘I do the show in character. He’s an idiot. He’s willfully ignorant of […]
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Inside Tolkein’s Creative Process
Really fantastic lecture by Brandon Rhodes walking through the beginning of Tolkein’s writing and the support of a creative community of writers to evoke his best work: (via Metafilter) While Tolkien had friends who could devise ingenious ways to critique his work without sounding critical, he had others whose remarks were merciless and direct — […]