I think it's very important to have a feedback loop, where you're constantly thinking about what you've done and how you could be doing it better. I think that's the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself. | | | | One of my favorite SOUTH PARK episodes. A NIGHTMARE ON FACETIME. Click here.
(Comedy Central) | | | | |  | “I think it's very important to have a feedback loop, where you're constantly thinking about what you've done and how you could be doing it better. I think that's the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.”
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 | NBC News |
| The FBI Director sat down for a one-on-one interview with NBC News’ Lester Holt at the 2018 Aspen Security Forum. | | |
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 | The Ringer |
| Everything is 10 years behind in Alaska-including the way people see movies. In three stores across the coldest state in the union, Blockbuster captured the imagination of its residents long after the company ceased operations around the rest of the country. But now, the late fees are finally coming due, and the end of the Blockbuster era is upon us. | | |
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 | Bloomberg BusinessWeek |
| The big-box retailer doesn’t just want to sell you electronics. It wants its in-home consultants to be “personal chief technology officers.” | | |
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| Koppelman calls the hit Showtime series his "dream show" and an "absurd privilege." | | |
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 | Dissent Magazine |
| Born on the radical left and then seized by the right, has the concept of "capitalism" outlived its usefulness? | | |
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 | Popular Mechanics |
| The knuckle-biting story of the first lunar landing from the people who were there. | | |
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 | BuzzFeed News |
| “This is 2018. We shouldn't still be contaminating people with plutonium,” said a worker at the Hanford site in eastern Washington. | | |
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 | Rolling Stone |
| Why the music industry is throwing money into hip-hop at a speed and scale that could spell danger. | | |
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 | Medium |
| What Apple, Samsung, and Starbucks learned from Pepsi. | | |
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 | The Independent |
| All the work and none of the glory? Or just another job? Art technicians, and the artists who rely on them, open up about what goes on behind-the-scenes in the studio | | |
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 | The Guardian |
| On 7 October 1967, the Financial Times, then the most buttoned-up newspaper in Britain and quite possibly the world, discreetly added a regular new page to its Saturday edition. Buried deep inside the paper, behind the usual thicket of articles about share prices and companies and pensions, the page was introduced to readers a little euphemistically, as "a guide to good living". | | |
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 | POLITICO Magazine |
| In the 1850s, disaffected Democrats made the wrenching choice to leave their party to save American democracy. Here’s what happened. | | |
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 | UPROXX |
| There’s also the inescapable fact that this kind of fandom is often seen as a pathology. But what if I’m not wrong? | | |
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| Medium |
| Will the new tech create a safer society -- or a dystopian panopticon? | | |
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 | Wendover Productions |
| Airports are incredibly complex and challenging businesses, but in many cases they're businesses that make money. Many airports are owned by governments, but still then, they're often operated as businesses -- just businesses that are publicly owned. | | |
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 | Los Angeles Review Of Books |
| The intellectual superstars of the Trump era are not as new as they fancy themselves. | | |
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 | The Washington Post |
| We should have a debate over whether treason is being committed by the White House. Yes, I just typed those words. | | |
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 | Vox |
| The MPAA ratings system and its very specific hang-ups are keeping teens away from the movies they need most. | | |
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 | The New York Times |
| Attracted by lax regulations, industrial agriculture has descended on a remote valley, depleting its aquifer -- leaving many residents with no water at all. | | |
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| The New York Times |
| For nearly 58 years, Williams’s last game has been seen in black-and-white. Now, recently discovered color footage adds another dimension to his final, fabled at-bat. | | |
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