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By Aida Boucheron

Silicon Valley High School Makes $24M From Snap IPO
hollywoodreporter.com - the Associated Press
The company, led by CEO Evan Spiegel, has the largest U.S. IPO since Alibaba went public in 2014. A private Catholic high school in California's …
Why Self-Improvement Should Be a Group Activity
Harvard Business Review - Ron Carucci
Continuous personal development is fundamental to career growth, professional satisfaction, and having a broader impact in the world. And while the self-help industry and leadership professions have made
“Poor Communication” Is Often a Symptom of a Different Problem
Harvard Business Review - Art Markman
Do employees complain that your company suffers from a lack of communication? That the left hand doesn’t know what the right hand is doing? Maybe the one doing the complaining is you. Or perhaps, as many
Bill Gates
A warning from Bill Gates, Elon Musk, and Stephen Hawking
freecodecamp.com - Quincy Larson
“The automation of factories has already decimated jobs in traditional manufacturing, and the rise of artificial intelligence is likely to extend …
Inside Donald Trump's White House Chaos
TIME
For two years, Donald Trump mastered the art of disruption. Name a political precept and he probably broke it during his improbable march to the White House. But disruption in government--the rulemaker
The Mark Zuckerberg Manifesto: Great for Facebook, Bad for Journalism
The Atlantic - Adrienne LaFrance
Lip service to the crucial function of the Fourth Estate is not enough to sustain it. It’s not that Mark Zuckerberg set out to dismantle the news business when he founded Facebook 13 years ago. Yet news
How platforms get publishers to play the access game
Digiday - Lucia Moses
When Apple News launched, The Washington Post made all its content available on the news aggregation app. Since then, it’s lobbied successfully for …
Inside Blavity, the Startup on a Quest to Be the News Source for Black Millennials
WIRED - Carl Brooks Jr.
This story is part of our special coverage, The News in Crisis. When Morgan DeBaun was a student at Washington University in St. Louis during the …
Media Industry
Meet the Macedonian Teens Who Mastered Fake News and Corrupted the US Election
WIRED - Samanth Subramanian
Inside the Macedonian Fake-News Complex Inside the Macedonian Fake-News Complex by Samanth Subramanian | photographs by Guy Martin 2.15.17 The first …
Meet the wildly popular blogger chronicling President Trump one day at a time
poynter.org - Melody Kramer
Matt Kiser worked in news for many years, and now he works as a product manager at an algorithm startup in Seattle. But every day, Matt spends …
3 Ways to Make Time for the Little Tasks You Never Make Time For
Harvard Business Review - Dorie Clark
We’d all like to spend our time at work on high-value activities: setting strategy, fostering innovation, mentoring promising employees, and more. But every professional faces a relentless deluge of niggling
Want to Be More Productive? Sit Next to Someone Who Is
Harvard Business Review - Jason Corsello and Dylan Minor
To increase worker performance, employers often invest in a number of things, from rewards and incentives to education and training. These traditional approaches develop employees’ skills and enrich their
Here's What Happens When @realDonaldTrump Tweets A Link
BuzzFeed
When President Trump deployed his "big, beautiful Twitter account" to direct his followers to the swearing-in of Sen. Jeff Sessions as attorney general last Thursday, some 66,000 people clicked the link
A Refresher on Discovery-Driven Planning
Harvard Business Review - Amy Gallo
You’re working on a new venture and you know you’ve got to create a plan to execute it. So you look at past projects, gather and analyze relevant market data, make predictions about how much revenue you’ll
Having More Options Can Make Us Evaluate Risk Differently
Harvard Business Review - Uzma Khan and Daniella Kupor
Which sweepstakes is more attractive: one that offers an all-inclusive beach getaway or one that offers the same getaway as well as a chance to win smaller prizes? You obviously stand a greater chance
Universal Basic Income
“The Relentless Pace of Automation”
MIT Technology Review - David Rotman
Artificial intelligence could dramatically improve the economy and aspects of everyday life, but we need to invent ways to make sure everyone …
Pursuing veritas in a ‘post-truth’ era
harvard.edu
For the beleaguered news media, it can seem the worst of times, and sometimes the best of them. The tumultuous 2016 election set record television …
Starbucks
starbucks.com
Don’t shut your doors to refugees
worldbank.org - Bassam Sebti
I walked among dead bodies of people blown up by bombs. I ducked and covered from bullets falling around my feet, and I was almost choked to death by …
Meet the World Bank on Flipboard
medium.com
The organization working to combat extreme poverty and promote shared prosperity in the developing world Flipboard …
Stop Imitating The Habits Of Successful People: It’s Killing You
medium.com
Darius ForouxBlockedUnblockFollowFollowing Jan 16, 2017 Have you seen them? Articles and books that promise you the secrets to success? Save yourself …
Presidents Aren't CEOs
The Atlantic - John Paul Rollert
On the meaning and implications of the country’s first true businessman president Among the more arid and promiscuous expressions in the English language is saying that someone is “in business.” The pawnbroker,
The Obama Administration Digital Transition: Moving Forward
whitehouse.gov
Over the past eight years, the President, the First Lady, and the Obama White House have used social media and technology to engage with people …
Thank you
medium.com
You made me a better President, and you made me a better man. Pres. Obama (Archives)BlockedUnblockFollowFollowing Jan 19, 2017 My fellow Americans, It’s …
It’s Time Marketers Rethink Their Commitment to Content
Adweek - By Adam Kleinberg
Eighty-six percent of B-to-C marketers in a recent study say they will be including content marketing in their budgets this year. That makes plenty …
How I Trained Myself To Wake Up On Time Without An Alarm
Fast Company - Rich Bellis
Half the battle is figuring out how much sleep your body needs, and the other half is consistency. Sleep is one of my favorite things. I adore it. I’ve never been one for alarms, though. Potentially because
This Is How You Future-Proof Your Brain Against Increasing Distractions
Fast Company - Gwen Moran
Is it possible to train your brain to cope with an ever more fast-paced world? In some cases, more tech might save us from tech overload. It’s no secret that technology advancements have affected our With