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A silly experiment reveals fascinating insights about language In case youāve been sleeping for the past twenty years, emoji usage has been going ššš. By mid-2015, half of all comments on Instagram included an emoji. Hollywood released a full feature-length film titled The Emoji Movie. Even Googleās CEO Sundar
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Lessons from planning the worldās largest mental health hackathon in six months I was recently part of an amazing team of individuals to plan what now appears to be the worldās largest mental health hackathon, HackMentalHealth(our blog recap here). It was an incredible and inspiring event: not
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In the upcoming century, mental health is one of the biggest challenges our nation faces. According to the National Alliance on Mental Illness: * 1 in 5 U.S. adults experience mental illness in a given year. * Suicide is the second leading cause of death in the U.S. for people
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With many in the technology sector inspired by Facebookās 2018 mission to make its platform more meaningful, thereās been a greater conversation about the influence of technology on our mental health. To investigate this phenomenon further, I interview Dr. Nicolle Zapien, PhD, Dean, School of Professional Psychology and
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In the upcoming century, mental health is one of the biggest challenges our nation faces. According to the National Alliance on Mental Illness: * 1 in 5 U.S. adults experience mental illness in a given year. * Suicide is the second leading cause of death in the U.S. for people
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With many in the technology sector inspired by Facebookās 2018 mission to make its platform more meaningful, thereās been a greater conversation about the influence of technology on our mental health. To investigate this phenomenon further, I interview Dr. Nicolle Zapien, PhD, Dean, School of Professional Psychology and
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We all know that product managers speak the same lingo to explain what they actually mean. But software engineers are just as culpable of a common dialect with hidden meaning. Here are eight of the most common programmer sayings, translated. Disclaimer: Iām a former PM. But with the help
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Social media FOMO. Video game addiction. Notification spam. When was the last time you caught up with someone who didnāt check their phone at all during the conversation? Admirably, Mark Zuckerbergās latest post addresses the lack of meaningful online connection to be Facebookās biggest challenge of 2018
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āHey, letās close the loop offline. Iāll block some biweekly time for us to sync. Gentle ping to submit your AI.ā What the heck are these PMs saying, and how did they all end up speaking the same language? Here are nine of the most classic phrases that
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In the upcoming century, mental health is one of the biggest challenges our nation faces. According to the National Alliance on Mental Health: * 1 in 5 U.S. adults experience mental illness in a given year. * Suicide is the second leading cause of death in the U.S. for people
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In the upcoming century, mental health is one of the biggest challenges our nation faces. According to the National Alliance on Mental Illness: * 1 in 5 U.S. adults experience mental illness in a given year. * Suicide is the second leading cause of death in the U.S. for people
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HQ Trivia, one of the hottest apps of 2017, is reinventing what game shows look like in the 21st century. On HQ, you can tune in live every day to answer trivia questions for the chance to win thousands of dollars. However, as HQ Trivia increases in popularity, it exposes