Alex Burns
@alexgraceburns
Alex Burns
"I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story. From the tip of every branch, like a fat purple fig, a wonderful future beckoned and winked. One fig was a husband and a happy home and children, and another fig was a famous poet and another fig was a brilliant professor, and another fig was Ee Gee, the amazing editor, an
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Yet her stellar performance shows that Emma Navarro is by no means intimidated by the shimmering status of Wimbledon’s wealthiest fans: the tennis phenom is, after all, a scion of one of America’s richest families, and worth more than Roger Federer, Novak Djokovic, and Rafael Nadal combined. Her father, Ben Navarro, is the billionaire businessman b... See more
Ben Jureidini • Meet Emma Navarro: the billionaire heiress turned tennis champion smashing her way through Wimbledon
About 20 years ago, Google reached an important milestone. The Merriam-Webster dictionary added "Google" as a verb to mean searching for something on the web.
Alistair Barr • Google is losing its status as a verb
A fan of both Herman Melville and long-forgotten archives, Grann landed on the journals of a 16-year-old midshipman who was stranded with his crew members on an island off the coast of Patagonia. It was not the document’s descriptions of typhoons, shipwreck, or mutinies, however captivating, that convinced Grann the story of The Wager was worth res... See more
Chronicler of the Flower Moon
a prime example of why a common book is so helpful! two very different ideas coming together
Visualize Value
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Creators should organize into a series of cooperatively owned ventures. Some have already done this - notably Defector, Maximum Fun, and 404 Media. There are others. But there are so many more opportunities to do this. Everyone who has been laid off recently can reorganize into cooperative groups. They can create governing bodies for themselves and... See more