A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation. | | | | | Russell Crowe In A Beautiful Mind. 2001 (Universal Pictures/Getty Images) | | | | |  | “A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.”
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| | rantnrave:// I've met a lot of smart people at traditional media companies. They are thoughtful and have plans for transition and growth. Lots of variables and things need to happen to succeed. The most important? A CEO that has patience. Tells the street to take a breather while they set themselves up for the future. Rewards risks. Changes compensation structure to make sure defensive postures change. Invests. Is willing to deliver bad news or change to constituencies that may represent revenue but hold them back. Concentrates on data, ad targeting capabilities, direct-to-consumer relationships, picking good partners. And on and on... Sports has never shut itself off from the political world. Now, more than ever, athletes and coaches are taking a stand. Here’s a look at why they’re speaking up, and why some critics think they should stick to sports. REDEF SportsSET: "Should Athletes Stick to Sports?"... Why is cable television not re-running BOB ROBERTS? JACK BLACK as STEPHEN MILLER?... If I actually go to my building's board meeting I may self-combust. Should I take the chance?... With the debut of RAF SIMONS' collection for CALVIN KLEIN, here's a look back at the label's history: design, advertisements, and interviews with the company's founding designer. REDEF FashionSET: "CLOSE-UP: Calvin Klein"... Cable news networks should offer an online stream that just shows the face of the anchor while they listen to these ridiculous TRUMP surrogates. That's entertainment... It can be hard to overcome early startup culture mistakes. And if early enough can you start over rather than try to change those that won't?... FLYNN's replacement... Can you do CROSSFIT without being a dick?... I'm surprised by managers that don't know their job or wait to be told what to do. Constant push/pull with expectations vs. plain directives... Nutters focus on leaks... Curatorial help wanted: Looking for seriously talented fill-in curators familiar with media, technology, pop culture and more for MediaREDEF. CVs to jobs@redefgroup.com... Happy Birthday to DAVID RABIN, TED ZAGAT, JENNIFER RAINES and MILES BECKETT. | | | - Jason Hirschhorn, curator |
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 | Upfront Ventures |
| Discussion included startups outside silicon valley, great entrepreneurs, greatest public startups, protecting freedom of the press, politics, combatting online trolls and sports, | | |
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 | Bloomberg |
| Why is India obsessed with crimes committed by software engineers? | | |
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 | GQ |
| There are a thousand ways to buy weed in NYC, but the Green Angels devised a novel strategy: They hired models to be their dealers. Suketu Mehta spent months embedded with them to see where this experiment in entrepreneurship might lead. | | |
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 | The Globe and Mail |
| It started as simple teenage rebellion but ended up tearing Syria apart, setting in motion events that continue to rock the Middle East - and the world. The boys behind the graffiti would become unlikely revolutionaries and reluctant refugees. Not all of them would survive the upheaval they helped unleash. This is their story | | |
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 | Medium |
| As we enter Year 2 of the emergence of Virtual Reality as a consumer platform, we will see many analysts, articles and pundits weigh in on the state of the nascent industry. They will ask things like: Who are the early winners and losers? Is VR already whiffing on the huge expectations set in early 2016? | | |
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 | Pitchfork |
| In the ’90s, the alliance between New York’s most influential rap radio station and the ultimate hustler paid off handsomely for both. | | |
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 | Quanta Magazine |
| The ancient Greeks argued that the best life was filled with beauty, truth, justice, play and love. The mathematician Francis Su knows just where to find them. | | |
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 | Kotaku |
| The booming industry of live-streaming yourself gaming is a largely unregulated one. Streamers are weed-whacking their way through the industry’s nascent years, struggling to find a work-life balance for a job that they can technically never stop doing. | | |
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 | Racked |
| Meet the women who bring in hundreds of thousands from their living rooms. | | |
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 | Aeon Magazine |
| Blockchain enthusiasts crave a world without bankers, lawyers or fat-cat executives. There's just one problem: trust. | | |
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 | B/R Mag |
| Jordan and Magic were in their primes and Vegas was ready for what would have been the biggest 1-on-1 showdown ever. So what went wrong? | | |
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 | The Washington Post |
| The ex-MSNBC host recasts his fire-breathing punditry for the Web, to bring the fight to Trump. | | |
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 | Cuepoint |
| Digital disruption makes our music more public, more granular, and more abstract. | | |
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 | Wired |
| The Gray Lady is embarking on an ambitious plan to make itself indispensable. | | |
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 | CNN |
| A small Canadian town has seen a surge of refugees crossing over from the United States since Trump took office. | | |
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 | The Verge |
| A conversation with Patrick Spence. | | |
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 | New Republic |
| The documentary’s emphasis on advances in film technology inadvertently reinforces the rhetoric of climate change deniers. | | |
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 | Urban Spatial |
| Recently, the Urban Institute called for the creation of “neighborhood-level early warning and response systems that can help city leaders and community advocates get ahead of (neighborhood) changes.” Open data and open-source analytics allows community stakeholders to mine data for actionable intelligence like never before. | | |
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| The Verge |
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 | Vox |
| The more aware we are of health issues, the more partisan we grow in our thinking about them. | | |
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 | Digiday |
| It takes nine weeks to convert someone on social media to a subscriber. | | |
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 | Journalism.co.uk |
| The Dutch news website believes the "currency of our medium is readers' trust and bringing them into the conversation" | | |
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 | YouTube |
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