The feeling of experiencing failure in advance happens to many of us. But with active encouragement we can make it much worse. | | | | Just watched episodes 1-4. Season 4 of "Billions" is full of power, politics, insecurity, convenient partnerships, commitment, love, loyalty, betrayal, and just absolute fun. Premieres March 17th.
(Showtime) | | | | |  | “The feeling of experiencing failure in advance happens to many of us. But with active encouragement we can make it much worse.”
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| | rantnrave:// No rants or raves today... Just some skiing for me and a little THIEVERY CORPORATION live. But some extra good reads, listens, and watches for you... Happy Birthday to MORGAN WANDELL, JAY FAIRES, BETH CALLAGHAN, ROBERT VECSLER, and MINDY HERMAN. Belated to STEVE LEEDS, JESSE REDNISS, and MIKE HIRSHLAND. | | | - Jason Hirschhorn, curator |
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 | Foreign Policy |
| From frozen cheese to cipollini soubise: Foreign Policy has collected menus of state dinners dating back to Franklin D. Roosevelt to show how American tastes have changed over time-and with them, the image that the U.S. projects to the world. | | |
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 | Hollywood Reporter |
| Sometimes supporting great content is good for the brand, especially in terms of the message it sends to creators and subscribers. | | |
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 | recode |
| The HQ2 contest was very Amazonian. So was its refusal to back down. | | |
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 | The Washington Post |
| Early coverage of Kamala Harris and Kirsten Gillibrand show that the sins of 2016 live on. | | |
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 | GeekWire |
| The organization, which takes its name from a famous line of dialogue at the beginning of The Legend of Zelda, works to "provide resources, guidelines, and training about mental health issues in the game community, thus reducing the stigma of mental illness." | | |
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 | Today I Found Out |
| When people buy expensive art worth hundreds of millions of dollars, how do they pay for it? Like could they pay with cash or do they have to have their bank wire the money? | | |
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 | The Tennessean |
| Rural hospitals are collapsing throughout Tennessee, creating health care deserts in poor, far-flung towns where residents are the most vulnerable. | | |
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 | VentureBeat |
| In 2014, a year after Amazon launched its shopping site in India, CEO Jeff Bezos made a splash visit to the nation. Dressed in formal Indian wedding attire, he climbed up a brightly painted truck with an oversized $2 billion check. Bezos couldn't contain his excitement about India, home to the second-largest internet population. | | |
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 | BuzzFeed News |
| Recent instances of blackface -- from Virginia’s Gov. Ralph Northam to Gucci’s fashion choices -- only reinforce the unfailing consistency of American anti-black racism. | | |
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 | Medium |
| Spotify’s acquisitions of Gimlet and Anchor signal ambitious plans to disintermediate the music industry. | | |
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 | Tablet Magazine |
| It’s not really a thing. So why have the stereotypes persisted for centuries, among Jews and anti-Semites alike? | | |
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 | MIT Technology Review |
| For many companies, deploying AI is slower and more expensive than it might seem. | | |
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 | Atlanta Journal-Constitution |
| Alleged victims say powerful Georgia lawmaker David Ralston is using the power of his office to repeatedly delay cases of his private legal practice | | |
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 | Fast Company |
| Fast Company talked to the Facebook engineers who turned to the film industry to train the AI behind Portal’s camera. | | |
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 | BBC |
| Some see GoFundMe's success as a sign of humanity’s desire to help, while others consider it a result of society’s failure to fully support its citizens. | | |
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 | Motherboard |
| Someone claiming to represent Blippi filed DMCA copyright takedown requests to Google in order to get an embarrassing viral video hidden. | | |
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 | The Guardian |
| He has built a multimillion pound empire, and is driven to help people attain ‘financial justice’. But in an age of predatory capitalism and rampant inequality, can one man’s modest suggestions really make much difference? | | |
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 | Deadline |
| Gina Clayton-Johnson is executive director of the Essie Justice Group, which she founded (and named after her great grandmother) in 2014 to harness the collective power of women with incarcerated loved ones to end mass incarceration's harm to women and communities. | | |
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 | Forbes |
| How do you create human-centered organizations? I have devoted much of my life to finding and implementing an answer to that question. In the past, I have written in general terms about different aspects of the Agile transformation journey, including " Ten Steps For Launching An Agile Transformation" and about " The Twelve Stages Of The Agile Transformation Journey." | | |
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 | Wired |
| Opinion: Without more DOD investment, there just aren’t enough incentives to lure talent away from high-paying jobs with great benefits into a life of public service. | | |
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| The Guardian |
| Mark Zuckerberg’s mentor and an early investor in Facebook on why his book Zucked urges people to turn away from big tech’s toxic business model | | |
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 | Quartz |
| The levels of media literacy are too low to sustain high-quality journalism. | | |
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 | Psychology Today |
| New research helps explain the crucial linkages between sleep and mental health. | | |
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 | Quanta Magazine |
| The brain can’t directly encode the passage of time, but recent work hints at a workaround for putting timestamps on memories of events. | | |
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 | YouTube |
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