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Rick Burnes retweeted
22 Mar 2019
Wait till she realizes she’s talking about the Indiana Parks and Recreation Association’s 2018 Elected Official of the Year...
Amy Poehler says Leslie Knope might support Amy Klobuchar or Pete Buttigieg in the 2020 presidential election
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21 Mar 2019
Some good examples here of how small software design decisions affect human interactions:
theatlantic.com/magazine/arc…
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Rick Burnes retweeted
15 Mar 2019
Sometimes when he’s on the road and I’m missing him, I just take a deep breath and watch this to remind myself what we’re here for.
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Rick Burnes retweeted
5 Mar 2019
Chirp's #dealoftheday is THE GOOD GIRL by @MaryKubica
A New York Times bestseller! When Mia is abducted from a bar, her mother, Eve, and detective Gabe will go to the ends of the earth to track her down. You’ll want to keep the lights on for this one.
chirpbooks.com/audiobooks/25…
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Rick Burnes retweeted
5 Mar 2019
Today, we’re thrilled to announce that BookBub is entering the exciting world of audiobooks! Introducing: @Chirpbooks 📚🎧🐣 bit.ly/2UlxIRs #publishing #audiobooks
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3 Mar 2019
"What we need is not to disagree less, but to disagree better. And that starts when you turn away the rhetorical dope peddlers — the powerful people on your own side who are profiting from the culture of contempt." nyti.ms/2Vw3onl
13 Jan 2019
Why we should read classic works of literature that also offend us: nyti.ms/2HbGkb8?smid=nytcore…
12 Jan 2019
AI Super Powers by @kaifulee was an eye-opening book for me. I highly recommend it: bookbub.com/reviews/10725970…
4 Nov 2018
Finished Things Fall Apart this morning. What a heart-breaking, elegant, and important story: bookbub.com/reviews/16664530…
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26 Oct 2018
Creative Selection, the new book about Apple's software development process by a member of the original iPhone team, is excellent: bookbub.com/reviews/40656214…
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22 Sep 2018
"I think we have to make room in our minds that some of the stories that we’ve been told for so many years could be framed differently." nytimes.com/2018/09/20/books…
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Rick Burnes retweeted
23 May 2018
This is the sort of spectacularly bad take you write when you have no fucking idea what you're talking about but want to sound like you do. x.com/elonmusk/status/999364…
Problem is journos are under constant pressure to get max clicks & earn advertising dollars or get fired. Tricky situation, as Tesla doesn’t advertise, but fossil fuel companies & gas/diesel car companies are among world’s biggest advertisers.
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11 May 2018
“One of the things we’ve seen in the past few years is that technology doesn’t just accelerate and amplify human behavior ... It creates feedback loops that can fundamentally change the nature of how people interact and societies move.” nyti.ms/2I1qmk4
22 Apr 2018
“We don’t completely blame Facebook,” said Harindra Dissanayake, a presidential adviser in Sri Lanka. “The germs are ours, but Facebook is the wind, you know?” nytimes.com/2018/04/21/world…
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Rick Burnes retweeted
21 Feb 2018
Pumped to be expanding our partnership with Google 🔥 x.com/bhalligan/status/96632…
21 Feb 2018
HubSpot & Google take its partnership to a new level!
medium.com/@HubSpot/growing-…
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