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10 hours ago
Expression RXCKSTXR20 Inspirational Quotes to Guide You in 2019
The year 2019 is here. Instead of making resolutions, why not start the year with contemplating on what will inspire you?
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4 days ago
Analysis RXCKSTXR
Publishers are mostly recycling YouTube videos for IGTV
Instagram's attempt to compete with YouTube is looking a lot like YouTube more than six months after its launch.
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4 days ago
Analysis RXCKSTXR
Anxiety and burnout: I work with kids. Here’s why they’re consumed with worry
It’s not social media.
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4 days ago
Expression RXCKSTXR
5 Timeless Ways to Earn Your Audience's Time and Attention
To succeed with content in 2019, you have to go beyond the ordinary. You have to rise well above the sea of thin, mediocre content that floods our inboxes.
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5 days ago
Expression RXCKSTXR
12 Methods to Get from Blank Page to First Draft
With the right mindset, tools, and a little help from your fellow scribes, it doesn't have to be complicated to go from blank page to first draft.
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9 days ago
Expression RXCKSTXR
Considering App vs. Website? It’s 2019: Build a Website.
When I was a Stanford undergraduate in 2012, everyone seemed to be building apps. The sexiest tech startups—Snap, Uber, Facebook—were almost synonymous with the word “app,” and that the world was moving increasingly towards “mobile-only” software. Mobile fever was everywhere, and software = apps. Now it’s 2019. App obsession has calmed down.
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13 days ago
Expression RXCKSTXR
Drawing is the best videogame
A 2019 New Year's Eve letter for TCI about drawing and videogames, by artist Jeffrey Alan Scudder.
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2 weeks ago
Video/Audio RXCKSTXR
The surprising habits of original thinkers
How do creative people come up with great ideas? Organizational psychologist Adam Grant studies "originals": thinkers who dream up new ideas and take action to put them into the world. In this talk, learn three unexpected habits of originals — including embracing failure. "The greatest originals are the ones who fail the most, because they're the ones who try the most," Grant says. "You need a lot of bad ideas in order to get a few good ones."
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3 weeks ago
Current Event RXCKSTXR
Gaming chat startup Discord raises $150M, surpassing $2B valuation
Chatty gamers are apparently worth billions. Discord, the gaming chat startup with more than 200 million active users, announced Friday that it had secured $150 million in funding at a $2.05 billion valuation.
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1 month ago
Level Up RXCKSTXR
Level 18
RXCKSTXR is now level 18 with 330,060 XP.
View Unlocks- Tribe creation The maximum amount of tribes you can create has been raised by 2 to a total of 11.
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1 month ago
It's kinda the same for all professions that produce fame and recognition. The ones that make it these days have stellar social media presence, and those that don't care about it are at a severe disadvantage and hard to find.
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1 month ago
Achievement RXCKSTXR
Midnight Express
Published 50/50 expression snaps! Congratulations RXCKSTXR on this achievement!
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1 month ago
Expression RXCKSTXR
YouTube Already Knows How to Stop Serving Toxic Videos
Vox has an explainer today about how YouTube automatically steers users toward deranged and conspiratorial videos, even if the users have started out with perfectly ordinary interests. This has been explained before, but it keeps needing to be explained because it’s so incomprehensible in normal human terms: YouTube’s algorithms, which are built to keep people watching as many videos and video ads as possible, have apparently followed that instruction to the conclusion, as Zeynep Tufekci wro...
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1 month ago
Expression RXCKSTXR
Four Realities of Blogging Every Blogger Should Know About
If you feel like a failure as a blogger because you're not as good/fast/successful as everyone else, here are four realities of blogging you need to know.
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1 month ago
Analysis RXCKSTXR
13 Key Ways to Lower Your Blog's Bounce Rate (and Why it Matters)
When a visitor finds your blog, you usually want them to stick (and click) around. Here are 13 ways to lower your blog's bounce rate, and why it matters.
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1 month ago
Expression RXCKSTXR
A blogging style guide
Here are 39 ways to make your blog more entertaining to read and more pleasurable to write.
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1 month ago
Current Event RXCKSTXR
Word processor pioneer dies aged 93
Evelyn Berezin put the Data Secretary on sale in 1971, creating a new industry.
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1 month ago
Expression RXCKSTXR
WordPress 5.0: A Gutenberg FAQ
We are nearing the release date for WordPress 5.0 and Gutenberg, one of the most important and exciting projects I’ve worked on in my 15 years with this community. I knew we would be taking a big leap. But it’s a leap we need to take, and I think the end result is going to open up many new opportunities for everyone in the ecosystem, and for those being introduced to WordPress for the first time. It brings us closer to our mission of democratizing publishing for everyone.
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2 months ago
Expression RXCKSTXR
5 Ways Smart People Sabotage Their Success
In-depth thinking isn’t the solution to every problem.
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2 months ago
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Judgement Say
Published 2/2 review snaps! Congratulations RXCKSTXR on this achievement!
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2 months ago
Review RXCKSTXR
One of the best podcast apps, Pocket Casts, just got a big redesign
Now you can play episodes without subscribing.
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2 months ago
Expression RXCKSTXR
How Podcasts Became a Seductive—and Sometimes Slippery—Mode of Storytelling
In our frenetic age, audio narratives offer a rare opportunity for slow immersion. But this intimacy can become manipulative.
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2 months ago
Expression RXCKSTXR
Burnout is Real: How Content Creators Can Stay Creative When Money is Involved
Content creators are motivated by passion but when the issue of making money gets involved, it leads to their inevitable burnout.
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2 months ago
Expression RXCKSTXR
Will AI Be the Future of Content?
In 2016, McKinsey analyzed over 800 professions in the US and discovered machines could automate 45 percent of the activities, while 60 percent could see 30 percent or more of their jobs automated. Such a grim forecast doesn’t add a positive light on the role AI will play in the future, even for writers.