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May 28, 2015
7 Questions For Comedy Writer Megan Amram On Keeping Her Wit Sharp
How gummy vitamins, long walks through CVS, and Stephen Sondheim fuel her creative process.
Comedy writer Megan Amram's new pseudo-textbook Science . . . for Her! expertly parodies vapid women's magazines and sexist female stereotypes. (Seriously, Amram is so funny, we had her interview herself for our June issue.) We asked her how she keeps the creative juices flowing while working on long projects like a book or writing for TV (she was a writer on NBC's Parks And Recreation for three years). Here's what she had to say:
This Awful-Sounding Startup Helps People Turn Their Windows Into Ads
Why are you leaving your home unmonetized?
A person living in a city may see up to 5,000 advertisements a day, even in their office elevators or inside a taxi cab. Now one startup wants to help turn our quiet, residential blocks into advertising space too.
A Former CIA Director's Advice On How To Make Hard Decisions
A five-step decision-making process from a man who spent 25 years making life-and-death decisions.
Each day we make thousands of decisions. Most are fairly insignificant, such as what to have for lunch or what to wear. Others carry weight and consequences. Complicating things is our access to information; a simple Google search produces a million results in a split second, and that can lead to analysis paralysis.
May 27, 2015
Drone OS Developer Airware Launches New Fund For Commercial Drones
The Commercial Drone Fund is the second drone-focused fund announced today.
If you're an entrepreneur thinking about building tools for drones, there may never have been a better time than now.
Internet Whisperer Mary Meeker On The Trends Driving Our Virtual Existence
The Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers partner lays it out in 197 slides.
Long known as one of the greatest interpreters of consumers' and businesses' activities on the Internet, Mary Meeker is at it again.
Today in Tabs: Murders & Acquisitions
This isn't even late capitalism's final form.
Congrats to congrats Twitter for congratulating us on our first day at @CongratsJourno!
9 Things That Happened In My Week With The New Pebble Time Smartwatch
Pebble's second-generation smartwatch doesn't swing for the fences, but that's actually okay.
After one week, I couldn't tell you whether to buy a Pebble Time smartwatch.
These Modern, Elegant Vases Were Made With Discarded Marble Slabs
Here's what you can do with the 70% of marble that is thrown away.
The mining of the world's most beautiful marble is a majestic affair, but it's also a wasteful one: because of minor discolorations, damage, and prominent veins, only 30% of marble quarried ends up in finished products.
May 26, 2015
Introducing The New Ciara
She's got a new album, a new show—I Can Do That, debuting this week—and, most importantly, a new baby who's completely changed her life.
Ciara is a changed woman.
Today in Tabs: Revenge of the Snake People
FOILed again.
it sounds crazy, but everything sounded crazy once. it was called the Day of Crazy Noises and it was amazing
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