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Welcome To Autumn – And Some Events

Amy and I love autumn. It’s crisp, harvest time,...

Why It’s Safe for Founders to Be Nice

August 2015I recently got an email from a founder...

Your Job Search Doesn’t Have to Be a Full-Time Job

Disclosure: Our goal is to feature products and services that we think you'll find interesting and useful. If you...

What I Worked On

February 2021Before college the two main things I worked on, outside of school, were writing and programming. I didn't write essays. I wrote what beginning writers were supposed to write then,...

Evolving Intercom’s database infrastructure: Lessons and progress

A few months ago, we launched an overhaul of Intercom’s database architecture with Vitess and PlanetScale. Already, we’re seeing transformative results: zero-downtime maintenance, 90%+ performance improvement for our most...

Val Kilmer, Film Star Who Played Batman and Jim Morrison, Dies at 65

“Most actors recognize there’s something different in Val than meets the eye,” Mr. Stone said in a 2007 interview for a segment of the television series “Biography.” David Mamet,...

Amazon Will Restart Theft Screenings for Warehouse Workers

Amazon is reinstating a pre-pandemic policy bringing back metal detector screenings for its 750,000 U.S.-based hourly warehouse employees, per a new Bloomberg report....

Donate Unrestricted

March 2021The secret curse of the nonprofit world is restricted donations. If you haven't been involved with nonprofits, you may never have heard this phrase before. But if you have been,...

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‘I wish the stones here could talk’: an epic hike through Kosovo’s Accursed mountains | Kosovo holidays

There are stone bunkers shrouded in the mist on the hillside to my right, just shy of the ridgeline marking the Albanian-Kosovo border. To...

I’m Ensorcelled by Books by Friends

I love books. I love reading. I love reading books.Ensorcelled by Eliot Peper is genius. It’s a unique format that can be read in...

‘I worked at a place that gave you “points”… Every sick day:’ Employees share the most non-functional sick leave policies they’ve had to work...

Employees are sharing some of the most ridiculous sick leave policies they have had to work with and they make you want to smack...