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5 days ago
Expression RXCKSTXRHere are 5 myths about side hustles you can't afford to ignore
Two-thirds of side hustlers say they took on a second job in order to have more spending money, but often they spend thousands of dollars to get these gigs off the ground. Even worse, these ventures can put one's full-time job at risk.
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2 weeks ago
Expression RXCKSTXR
How to Be Great? Just be Good, Repeatably
A thought piece on what it takes to truly be great and what that even means in the first place.
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2 weeks ago
Analysis RXCKSTXR
Barnes & Noble Set To Be Sold To Elliott Management For About $683 Million
That price tag includes all of the book megachain's debt. Elliott's acquisition of the largest retail bookseller in the U.S. comes less than a year after it bought Waterstones, the largest in the U.K.
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2 weeks ago
Analysis RXCKSTXR
What happens to our online identities when we die?
By 2100 there could be 4.9bn dead users on Facebook. So who controls our digital legacy after we have gone? As Black Mirror returns, we delve into the issue
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3 weeks ago
Analysis RXCKSTXR
Podcast episodes will now show up in Google searches
Helpful discovery mechanism or a shot in the Platform Wars?
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1 month ago
Expression RXCKSTXR
Can we all please stop using Medium now?
Medium is cancer. A trojan horse. It’s Facebook. But for blogging. A walled garden behind which all your favourite content lives, and yet you are forced to login via their shitty UI, or worse still pay for access. When did reading stuff on the web become pay to play? I’ll tell you when.
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1 month ago
Comment RXCKSTXR
Well yea thats how it works with everything
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1 month ago
How-to RXCKSTXR
How to do hard things
This is a system I only somewhat tongue in cheek refer to as “The Fully General System For Learning To Do Hard Things”. It’s a useful conceptual framework for how to get better at things that you currently find difficult.
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1 month ago
Expression RXCKSTXR
The humble receipt gets a brilliant redesign
This proof of concept, which is a side project from a Netflix data engineer, needs to find its way into real stores.
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1 month ago
Video/Audio RXCKSTXR
Why everything is a subscription
Selling a gadget isn’t enough anymore. Creators need to find a way to keep revenue coming in, even after they sell a device. Companies like Peloton sell the hardware, but also a service to go along with it. Ashley Carman reports on recurring revenue and subscription services, and why they might be the key to keeping hardware businesses afloat.
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1 month ago
Expression RXCKSTXR
Why I Left Medium
So I have previously published pieces about the advantages of Medium (here) and later published a piece about the advantages of using it as a syndication platform, which mostly still stands...
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1 month ago
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1 month ago
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Published 50/50 analysis snaps! Congratulations RXCKSTXR on this achievement!
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1 month ago
Analysis RXCKSTXR
The Man Who’s Going to Save Your Neighborhood Grocery Store
American food supplies are increasingly channeled through a handful of big companies: Amazon, Walmart, FreshDirect, Blue Apron. What do we lose when local supermarkets go under?
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1 month ago
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Maintained a 3 day login streak 15/15 times! Congratulations RXCKSTXR on this achievement!
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1 month ago
Analysis RXCKSTXR
Are the dead taking over Facebook? A Big Data approach to the future of death online
We project the future accumulation of profiles belonging to deceased Facebook users. Our analysis suggests that a minimum of 1.4 billion users will pass away before 2100 if Facebook ceases to attract new users as of 2018. If the network continues expanding at current rates, however, this number will exceed 4.9 billion.
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1 month ago
Current Event RXCKSTXR
Instagram officially tests hiding Like counts
Would we feel less envious, shameful and competitive if Instagram didn’t tell us how many Likes a post received? That’s the idea behind Instagram now hiding Like counts from both a post’s viewers as part of an experiment in Canada.
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1 month ago
Expression RXCKSTXR
Don't Reinvent the Publishing Wheel. Discover the Freedom of Repurposing.
Not a week goes by when I don’t get an email or a phone call with an “I don’t know what to write about” statement from an author. Some who are in the newbie realm; others who have been publishing for years. The subject could be a blog. Adding to the ezine. Or gulp, a new book.
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1 month ago
Analysis RXCKSTXR
Facebook is redesigning its core app around the two parts people actually like to use
Events and groups are taking center stage.
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2 months ago
Analysis RXCKSTXR
How did the qwerty keyboard become so popular?
It's not the best layout, so why do most of us still use it?
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2 months ago
Video/Audio RXCKSTXR
20 Inspiring Writing Podcasts to Subscribe to Right Now
Get ready to binge-listen. We’ve hand-selected awesome writing podcasts for creators of all kinds.
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2 months ago
Expression RXCKSTXR
A Path to Professionalizing II: My Process
In his latest installment, Benjamin Buchholz shares his tried-and-true tips for battling the blank page.
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2 months ago
Current Event RXCKSTXR
Podcast wars: $100 million startup Luminary launches Tuesday without Reply All or The Daily
The subscription podcast service launches, but some major content is missing.