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For the past three years, I’ve sent out “friendship feedback” emails to some of my closest friends. Here’s why. Friendships are essential Friendship is like peeing in your pants. Everyone can see it, but only you can feel the warm feeling inside. Friendship is one of the most
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As I’ve mentioned before, one of the best PM interview preparation strategies is to create a “Big Ideas” list of tech trends. When asked questions like “What is the future of the microwave?” or “How would you redesign the airport experience?” these tech trends can help frame your answer,
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Facebook’s “Download My Archive” feature is incomplete and unusable. We have a right to our data. Facebook has a lot of our data. The time you and your friend got into that huge political debate. The hilarious conversations from your high school chat groups. The moment you realized you
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Moving to a new city is hard. New location, new home, new job, new friends, new coffee shops, new mailman, new weather, new supermarkets, new everything. Especially as adults, it’s challenging to fully immerse yourself in new locations. It’s been hard for me too. But, as I travel
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The power of peer-to-peer emotional support communities Before I tell my story, I want to clarify that I’m not trained as a clinical psychologist or therapist. My only exposure with mental health counseling has been serving as a suicide hotline counselor for two years at San Francisco Suicide Prevention.
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This post is part of a larger attempt to share my personal “systems” that help me organize my life. By sharing my system, I hope to get feedback and inspire others to share as well. Stop Losing Your Ideas We’ve all been there. You’re driving along the freeway
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Product Management interviews are not easy. Each PM interview quizzes you not only on your product “spidey senses” and general business intuition, but often includes questions testing design, PR, marketing, entrepreneurship, leadership, and engineering skills. What is the future of x? “X” can be an industry like wearables or libraries.
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What happens when you take a photo of a photo over and over again, recursively? Memory as Recursion A 2012 Northwestern study investigating memory concluded that memory is like the telephone game. When you remember something, you’re actually not recalling the original event. Instead, you’re remembering what you
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Mushroom beer. Un-bolete-ably bad mushroom puns. Hundreds of people in mushroom costumes prancing down the street in a mushroom-themed parade. Drug policy discussions. Open “myc” night. Mushroom foraging expeditions. Mushroom cook-offs. Mushroom farming lectures. Who knew there was so mush-room to love mushrooms? Volunteering at Telluride Mushroom Festival 2017 was
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A fantastical idea, inspired by internet legends, comes crashing down Want to make some money? Have you heard the news? The easiest and quickest way to become a full-fledged “entrepreneur”? Start a T-shirt company! A few weeks ago, I stumbled across some articles: * How I Built An Online T-Shirt Business
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There are countless articles about why minimalism is awesome, or what stuff people own. But the most frequent question is: How the hell do I get started? Here are five, concrete minimalist tactics you can enact today. Get a damn multi-tool Multi-tools are practically created for minimalists. You can replace
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I designed my own personalized “me shirt,” and how you can too. Fashion is powerful. Fashion defines popular culture, symbolizes ideological movements, and perhaps most importantly, fashion is an expression of one’s self. Fashion is also a perfect opportunity to spark connections between people — if I want to engage