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Brittany Washington of My Beautiful Fluff Is Redefining Representation for Plus Size Women
There is something powerful about a woman who builds the thing she once needed. This week’s Curvy Boss Spotlight centers plus size…
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Fostering a Dog Creates Lasting Change for the Dog and the Shelter
A six-year-old Labrador mix named Luna spent months in a packed shelter. She lived in terror of the other dogs and couldn’t make eye…
Culture
What is customer discovery (and how to run your first 10 interviews)
You’ve probably felt it already. You have an idea that feels right, a few friends say it sounds interesting, and you keep tweaking a…
Beauty
Body Neutral Compliments: Five Ways to Praise Someone Without Focusing on Weight
We have all been there. It is a busy Saturday, you are out running errands, and suddenly you turn a corner and come face to face with an…
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Aerska raises $39M to help RNA medicines reach the brain
For families living with neurodegenerative disease, the hardest part is not always the diagnosis. It is the slow erosion that follows:…
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Meta, TikTok and others agree to teen safety ratings
Meta, TikTok and Snap will be rated on their teen safety efforts amid rising concern about whether the world’s largest social media…
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Super Bowl spots spark fight over whether we're ready for ads from our chatbots
The chatbot wars entered the Super Bowl this year. At Super Bowl LX, a ChatGPT competitor paid millions of dollars for commercials mocking…
Culture
What a Rare Condition Can Teach Us About the Power of Music
People with musical anhedonia, a rare inability to enjoy music, are teaching scientists how the brain processes songs. Source link
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The next Renaissance: Why creativity is the currency of the AI age
We stand at one of history’s most exhilarating crossroads. Artificial intelligence is rewriting the rules of work, business, and human…
Culture
How to validate your business idea using customer interviews
You probably already know the advice: “Don’t build until you talk to customers.” And yet here you are, with a Notion doc full of ideas, a…
Business
Benefits of Maintaining an Organized Property
Organized property is a term widely used but hardly understood. What is organized property? By definition, it is land or real estate that…
Beauty
How Perfume Notes Work Through the 3 Layers of a Scent
If you have ever sprayed a scent in store, loved it instantly, then felt unsure an hour later, you are not imagining things. That, my…
Business
AI Won’t Replace Trust in Marketing
Generative AI is impressive, but it still misses what matters most in marketing: trust. That’s my stance, and it comes from hard-won…
Business
Naboo raises $70M for an AI-powered event procurement platform
Paris-headquartered Naboo has raised a $70m in Series B as it accelerates its ambition to become the operating layer for how large…
Culture
The complete guide to building an MVP with no-code tools
You know you need to ship something to validate your idea, but hiring engineers feels premature, expensive, or slow. You’ve sketched flows…
Business
What great founders do differently in their first 90 minutes of the day: 7 patterns that compound over time
Most founders don’t lose the day at 3 p.m. They lose it before breakfast. The first 90 minutes of your morning quietly decide whether you…
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“The President’s Cake” Is a Neorealist Treasure from Iraq
In the city, the story splits in half: Lamia gets separated from Bibi (for reasons I wouldn’t dare disclose) and searches for the one…
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'Ass power!' Hundreds gather in L.A. to play a video game about donkeys and the resistance
The donkeys are pissed off. Put upon, out of work and victims of decades-long systemic abuse, it’s time, they have decided, to protest.…
Culture
The End of Books Coverage at the Washington Post
There are still plenty of places to read about literature, many of them excellent. There are older and more established outlets, like the…
Culture
The Movie That Inspired Gregory Bovino to Join Border Patrol
For all the scenes of jeeps raising dust in the desert and migrants wading through the Rio Grande, “The Border” is something of a…
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Trial starts in L.A. lawsuit alleging Instagram and YouTube knew apps harmed kids
A landmark civil trial that will ask jurors to decide whether social media companies can be held liable for pushing a product that they…
Business
How to split equity among co-founders fairly
You probably didn’t start your company thinking the equity conversation would be the hardest one. But here you are, staring at a blank cap…
Business
How to create a simple marketing strategy for your first year
You know you need “marketing,” but your runway says you can’t afford experiments that take six months to maybe work. You’ve posted a few…
Business
What is feature creep (and how to avoid it in your MVP)
If you’ve been building your MVP for more than a few weeks, this will feel familiar. You started with one clear problem to solve. Then a…