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Do You Wonder What Your Dreams Want to Tell You? | Do you wonder what your dreams want to tell you?
Rivetted by dreamtime imaginings years ago, I studied imagery and its meaning. Visualizations while half-asleep and those encountered in Dreamland seized my imagination. I wanted to understand them.
I found, sometimes, dreams depict what happens in the day. If you enga... | https://medium.com/recycled/do-you-wonder-what-your-dreams-want-to-tell-you-c4cd196a1716 | ['Bridget Webber'] | 2020-11-10 01:51:56.699000+00:00 | ['Mind', 'Nonfiction', 'Life', 'Psychology', 'Dreams'] |
On Being Held Hostage by Depression | For over four years, “You’ll never write again” is the mantra playing on a loop between my ears.
Vocation becomes affliction, soon demanding journalism and I break up. Although ours has always been a precarious union often funded by other work on the side, I’m bereft of purpose without it. Worse, I’m still hard-wired ... | https://medium.com/invisible-illness/is-depression-holding-you-hostage-too-573f412f0c4d | ['A Singular Story'] | 2020-12-10 15:18:23.213000+00:00 | ['Journalism', 'Depression', 'Mental Health', 'Suicide', 'Life Lessons'] |
Image compression using singular value decomposition | Welcome back!
Last time we have introduced the SVD-decomposition and discussed the rank-k approximation of a matrix A. We have also seen a small example how it works, but we probably failed to convince the Reader why such suspicious-looking matrix manipulation would be useful outside of mathematics. To ease the doubt ... | https://medium.com/balabit-unsupervised/image-compression-using-singular-value-decomposition-de20451c69a3 | ['Unsupervised Blog'] | 2018-07-10 15:04:13.779000+00:00 | ['Compression', 'Jupyter Notebook', 'Data Science', 'Image Processing'] |
A Look Into The Future: The Value of Science Fiction | “You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading.” — Ray Bradbury
Food For Thought
The Value Of Science Fiction
Science fiction is the telescope that looks into the future. Through science fiction literature and films, we are able to address technological change, existential risks,... | https://medium.com/the-mission/a-look-into-the-future-the-value-of-science-fiction-3ac1519de7d9 | [] | 2019-04-12 19:32:00.174000+00:00 | ['Storytelling', 'Science Fiction', 'Reading', 'News', 'Science'] |
You Have to Impress Your Subconscious If You Want Affirmations to Work | Internal conflict arises when the data in your mind differs from what you say aloud. My friend Connie, for instance, repeats positive affirmations in front of her bathroom mirror.
She looks herself in the eye and says “you have a brilliant memory” and “your confidence grows day-by-day.”
Over lunch on Tuesday, though,... | https://medium.com/recycled/you-have-to-impress-your-subconscious-if-you-want-affirmations-to-work-586599f4b4c1 | ['Bridget Webber'] | 2019-11-02 11:10:12.873000+00:00 | ['Law Of Attraction', 'Self Improvement', 'Mental Health', 'Affirmations', 'Psychology'] |
Entrepreneurship can‘t be taught | Business skills can be taught; entrepreneurial qualities like grit and risk tolerance are inborn.
So can entrepreneurship be taught? Most entrepreneurs and investors seem to think the answer is ‘no’. Most academicians and students think the answer is ‘yes’. — Amity University
I sincerely believe that exceptional entr... | https://lancengym.medium.com/entrepreneurship-cant-be-taught-980380d2423d | ['Lance Ng'] | 2018-11-21 01:13:14.664000+00:00 | ['Startup Lessons', 'Startup', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Entrepreneur', 'Founders'] |
Connecting with the Autistic Adults in Your Life | Connecting with the Autistic Adults in Your Life
Tips for educators, therapists, friends, and loved ones
Photo by Dario Valenzuela on Unsplash
I’m an adult Autistic person, and I love being Autistic.
Autism has brought a lot of wonderful things into my life. It’s given me the focus and intensity required to become ... | https://medium.com/age-of-awareness/connecting-with-the-autistic-adults-in-your-life-64a4e3df950e | ['Devon Price'] | 2020-01-07 20:34:48.152000+00:00 | ['Mental Health', 'Education', 'Autism', 'Psychology', 'Disability'] |
How Abzu adapted to Corona times | How Abzu adapted to Corona times
Small and large adjustments from a global artificial intelligence startup
March 2020 is a month we will never forget. The world changed quite quickly, and we were all stunned by the severity of the crisis as countries shut down and borders rapidly closed.
Here at Abzu, we are categor... | https://medium.com/abzuai/how-abzu-adapted-to-corona-times-2735c4e37b3b | ['Jonas Wilstrup'] | 2020-04-21 14:02:54.752000+00:00 | ['Remote Working', 'Teal Organizations', 'Work From Home', 'Startup', 'Coronavirus'] |
A Reading List for a Vegan Left | When so much coverage of veganism is divorced from politics, it was a breath of fresh air to read a recent BBC piece covering a boom in vegan restaurants in St. Petersburg, Russia — all run by anarchists.
“Inside, rainbow-flag tote bags, feminist stickers and vegan condoms are sold alongside plant-based Napoleon cakes... | https://medium.com/tenderlymag/a-reading-list-for-a-vegan-left-acbf3edd2494 | ['Alicia Kennedy'] | 2019-11-27 16:33:55.836000+00:00 | ['Philosophy', 'Books', 'Reading', 'Vegan', 'Politics'] |
The Art of Effective Visualization of Multi-dimensional Data | It’s quite easy to contrast and compare these statistical measures for the different types of wine samples. Notice the stark difference in some of the attributes. We will emphasize those in some of our visualizations later on.
Univariate Analysis
Univariate analysis is basically the simplest form of data analysis or ... | https://towardsdatascience.com/the-art-of-effective-visualization-of-multi-dimensional-data-6c7202990c57 | ['Dipanjan', 'Dj'] | 2018-12-11 15:32:45.250000+00:00 | ['Machine Learning', 'Data Science', 'Python', 'Towards Data Science', 'Visualization'] |
“There are only two ways to tell your story.” | Getting Attention
A brand does not want attention.
A brand wants revenue.
A brand acquires revenue by selling its product.
But in order to sell its product for revenue, the brand must first get people to pay attention to that product.
So every brand needs to be in the business of getting attention whether they wan... | https://stevebryant.medium.com/there-are-only-two-ways-to-tell-your-story-2e72d0f50ce | ['Steve Bryant'] | 2020-03-09 13:45:44.234000+00:00 | ['Storytelling', 'Technology', 'Marketing', 'Tech', 'Content Marketing'] |
A creative introduction to EDA | What is the Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA)?
What you should do when a new, unknown dataset is given.
Here we are going to review some basic techniques to perform a successful exploration of data. There are many motivations behind this set of procedures. If you get meaningful insights you may be able to design outp... | https://medium.com/mljcunito/a-creative-introduction-to-eda-be9e906cbcb | ['Jacopo Pasqualini'] | 2020-10-18 21:58:21.807000+00:00 | ['Python', 'Exploratory Data Analysis', 'Data Science', 'Pandas', 'Advertising'] |
Moving pixels and throwing shapes: how exercise has made me a better designer | The benefits of exercise are well-known and the fitness industry is growing more than ever. I’m pretty sure that the majority of my colleagues here in the Idean London studio take up some sort of physical exercise as part of their weekly routine. The culture of our studio is pretty ‘hip and healthy’ — we have fresh fru... | https://medium.com/ideas-by-idean/moving-pixels-and-throwing-shapes-how-exercise-has-made-me-a-better-designer-ce7a1c1d3f22 | ['Yuri Yoshimura'] | 2019-08-13 14:09:09.067000+00:00 | ['Work', 'Work Life Balance', 'Design', 'Productivity', 'Fitness'] |
How Virtual Assistant Tech Can Help Local News and Local Business Thrive | In the current advertising environment, extracting value from a journalism business — especially a niche or local news site — is becoming more difficult than ever.
As a fellow in the 2019 Tow-Knight Entrepreneurial Journalism program, I was interested in making my venture sustainable. Called Livin’ Americana, its goal... | https://medium.com/journalism-innovation/how-virtual-assistants-can-help-local-news-and-local-biz-thrive-92926b66d0e4 | ['Octavio Blanco'] | 2019-04-05 03:21:00.768000+00:00 | ['Latinx', 'Journalism', 'Local Retail', 'Local News', 'Entrepreneurship'] |
100 not-so-good things to do if you want to be a successful homesteader | I saw an article recently about things you should learn if you want to be a good homesteader — or at least things you should master if you want to live a more self-reliant lifestyle.
It was a good list, and I can proudly say that between myself and my husband, we have pretty much accomplished — or, umm, at least pract... | https://medium.com/driftwood-chronicle/100-not-so-good-things-to-do-if-you-want-to-be-a-successful-homesteader-e9ac2dde6da3 | ['Tauna Pierce'] | 2016-11-18 13:57:38.831000+00:00 | ['Homesteading', 'Environment', 'Edible Backyard', 'Off Grid Lifestyle', 'Sustainability'] |
Your Home Needs One Simple Design Philosophy to Be More Productive and Happier | As the pandemic stretches on, most of us have hit the breaking point of working from home fever. Our home feels constricted, in some moments even claustrophobic. Time feels featureless; the clock a stagnant lake.
Since the pandemic started, I’ve been working from my home. This is the first time I had settled in one pl... | https://bandaxen.medium.com/your-home-needs-one-simple-design-philosophy-to-be-more-productive-and-happier-1a66907392ef | ['Banchiwosen Woldeyesus', 'Blogger Ethiopia'] | 2020-11-11 08:43:52.499000+00:00 | ['Nature', 'Productivity', 'Life Lessons', 'Productivity Hacks', 'Coronavirus'] |
Visualize an Interesting Sorting Algorithms With Python | NOTE:- In this article, we will also compute the number of operations performed and will be able to see the time complexity of the sorting algorithm.
As our purpose is to only visualize the sorting algorithms hence I will be using the merge sort for a demonstration but you should implement the rest of them in order to... | https://medium.com/towards-artificial-intelligence/visualize-interesting-sorting-algorithms-with-python-bdd64bdd0713 | ['Pushkara Sharma'] | 2020-08-27 03:10:58.026000+00:00 | ['Python', 'Sorting Algorithms', 'Programming', 'Merge Sort', 'Visualization'] |
The 3 Most Important Lessons I Learned From Writing A Book | The 3 Most Important Lessons I Learned From Writing A Book
#2 Don’t be afraid to start again
Image Source: Pixabay
Writing a book I was happy with took me a long time. I am still unsure if I am happy with the book I’ve just finished. It always feels like there’s something else that needs changing, redoing, fine-tuni... | https://medium.com/the-partnered-pen/the-3-most-important-lessons-i-learned-from-writing-a-book-70ad190f272d | ['Kat Morris'] | 2020-08-20 15:40:34.187000+00:00 | ['Writing Tips', 'Writing', 'Books', 'Self', 'Writers On Writing'] |
An Introduction to Message Queues With RabbitMQ and Python | What Is a Message Queue in the First Place?
Message queues (MQ) are a fundamental concept in programming and software development. In a distributed system, a message queue is the backbone of the system. A message queue allows inter-process communication between services/applications in your system (eg. Service A can t... | https://medium.com/better-programming/introduction-to-message-queue-with-rabbitmq-python-639e397cb668 | ['Mohamad Fadhil'] | 2020-10-14 02:42:02.766000+00:00 | ['Python', 'Technology', 'Software Engineering', 'Programming', 'Python3'] |
Getting Started with PySpark for Big Data Analytics using Jupyter Notebooks and Jupyter Docker Stacks | Introduction
There is little question, big data analytics, data science, artificial intelligence (AI), and machine learning (ML), a subcategory of AI, have all experienced a tremendous surge in popularity over the last few years. Behind the hype curves and marketing buzz, these technologies are having a significant in... | https://garystafford.medium.com/getting-started-with-pyspark-for-big-data-analytics-using-jupyter-notebooks-and-docker-ba39d2e3d6c7 | ['Gary A. Stafford'] | 2020-01-07 23:21:39.401000+00:00 | ['Apache Spark', 'Python', 'Jupyter Notebook', 'Docker', 'Pyspark'] |
The 5 Marketing Benefits of Acquisitions | Recently, the idea of “acquisitions for marketing” has fascinated me. What does this mean? It refers to situations where companies acquire other businesses or assets as a way to grow their primary product(s) or improve their marketing.
Huge companies use acquisitions for marketing all of the time. Examples of this pra... | https://medium.com/hackernoon/the-5-marketing-benefits-of-acquisitions-1eeb6561549d | [] | 2018-08-13 16:25:33.216000+00:00 | ['Mergers And Acquisitions', 'Marketing', 'Acquisitions', 'Startup', 'Acquisitions Marketing'] |
Did Anyone Else Just Feel A Surge of, Like, Wellness? | Self-care hits different now
Photo by Jared Rice on Unsplash
On Saturday afternoon, after a tall glass of Crémant and a great deal of screaming out the window, I did something a bit odd for such an enormous moment: I took a shower. One of those delicious, long, thorough showers where you come out feeling impossibly c... | https://anna.medium.com/did-anyone-else-just-feel-a-surge-of-like-wellness-a56ec54f2494 | ['Anna Maltby'] | 2020-11-11 20:13:48.786000+00:00 | ['Wellness', 'Election Stress Relief', 'Motivation', 'Self Care'] |
One Book Inspired Alexander The Great And “The Warriors” | One Book Inspired Alexander The Great And “The Warriors”
March Of The Ten Thousand
Greek Hoplites — Via Wikimedia [Public Domain]
“Let us not, in the name of the gods, wait for others to come to us and summon us to the noblest deeds, but let us take the lead ourselves and arouse the rest to valour. Show yourselves t... | https://medium.com/lessons-from-history/one-book-inspired-alexander-the-great-and-the-warriors-9035ad965766 | ['Erik Brown'] | 2020-06-27 19:01:34.275000+00:00 | ['Movies', 'Culture', 'Books', 'History', 'Writing'] |
4 Ways to Turn Your Eco-Anxiety Into Action | 1. Take it easy, change your go-to font
Printer cartridges may seem like small beans, but they add up. Every year an estimated 300 million cartridges end up in landfills. As if that wasn’t enough, a single cartridge takes roughly one gallon of oil to produce and a thousand years to decompose.
According to Evolve Recy... | https://medium.com/the-innovation/4-ways-to-turn-your-eco-anxiety-into-action-432af7bf71b4 | ['Alexis Bondy'] | 2020-09-24 17:35:34.912000+00:00 | ['Ecoanxiety', 'Environment', 'Sustainability'] |
Empathy, the Most Powerful Design Tool | Artificial Intelligence is on everyone’s mind, it seems. It’s our savior. No wait, it’s an existential threat to humanity. No wait, it’s sort of both, as long as designers take an oath and run interference. Tune your ear to the tech industry, and you’ll hear AI buzzing beneath the cacophony, threatening the fabric of c... | https://medium.com/microsoft-design/empathy-the-most-powerful-design-tool-5044525be92d | ['Danielle Mcclune'] | 2019-08-27 17:30:40.415000+00:00 | ['Artificial Intelligence', 'Microsoft', 'UX Design', 'Creators', 'Design'] |
Artificial Intelligence Marketing | AI Marketing
Nowadays, we are hearing experts and professionals talking about the good sides of innovation. Robots helping humans rehabilitate from fatal diseases or machines predicting future consumers’ behaviors.
On the other hand, many are also talking about job replacement. For these ones, the robots will take ev... | https://medium.com/aimarketingassociation/artificial-intelligence-marketing-9c9bcbbacf8c | ['Federico Gobbi'] | 2017-03-31 03:11:30.046000+00:00 | ['Machine Learning', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Marketing', 'Deep Learning', 'Digital Marketing'] |
Quick Bookmark-able Prototyping with Vue.js and Visual Studio Code | Working on the Chewy Design System team generally involves switching between engineering new UI components and constructing prototypes made from existing shared components within our Chewy Design System.
While I won’t be discussing design systems in detail, there is certainly rewarding reading out there for those look... | https://medium.com/chewy-innovation/quick-bookmark-able-prototyping-with-vue-js-and-visual-studio-code-17090b1b9189 | [] | 2020-02-12 20:01:29.085000+00:00 | ['Vscode', 'Design', 'Prototyping', 'Vuejs', 'Chewy'] |
Passing on a Legacy Without Reproducing | When I got married, I was 42 years old.
My wife was 38. One of the things we came to realize early on in our relationship was that we did not want to have children.
We both love kids. In addition to our nephews and niece by blood, we have a number of other kids in our lives which we are Aunty and Uncle to.
We also a... | https://mjblehart.medium.com/passing-on-a-legacy-without-reproducing-561fd606a832 | ['Mj Blehart'] | 2019-06-11 12:27:13.754000+00:00 | ['Self-awareness', 'Mindfulness', 'Writing', 'Inspiration', 'Life'] |
The Art of Difficult Conversations | “The questions that we don’t ask because of fear are framing the very stories that we create in the absence of truth.”
I have been been an avoider of difficult conversations for as long as I can remember. I’m always afraid of being wrong about my feelings (honestly, that alone deserves its own conversation). I’m alway... | https://medium.com/swlh/the-art-of-difficult-conversations-7e54d7adf2a7 | ['Kashara Johnson'] | 2020-01-17 10:52:06.211000+00:00 | ['Self-awareness', 'Mental Health', 'Community', 'Life Lessons', 'Self Improvement'] |
Factory Design Pattern. Overview | Overview
The factory pattern is a popular design pattern in Java because it is one of the best way to create an object. The general idea is allowing the user to create objects without exposing the logic behind it. Instead an interface is provided for the user to know what method to be called to create the object.
Pho... | https://medium.com/dev-genius/factory-pattern-839995462096 | ['Daniel Liu'] | 2020-11-04 18:57:20.141000+00:00 | ['Backend Development', 'Design Patterns', 'Factory Pattern', 'Java', 'Programming'] |
If you want to design effective ads, learn to play battleships | If you want to design effective ads, learn to play battleships
For a game that seemingly has nothing to do with advertising, Battleships can teach us a whole lot.
You’ve probably played Battleships. You know, the game where two players place a set of battleships on a grid, and take it in turns to sink one another’s s... | https://uxdesign.cc/if-you-want-to-design-effective-ads-learn-to-play-battleships-4e43d66206f5 | ['Mack Grenfell'] | 2020-06-14 07:57:41.954000+00:00 | ['Growth', 'Marketing', 'Design', 'Data Science', 'Advertising'] |
The Digital Liquid Lean Startup Methodology | The Digital Liquid Lean Startup Methodology
An approach to deliver relevant solutions to solve the right problems and scale at speed.
The digital liquid lean startup methodology augments the team with advanced digital tools to rapidly build solutions on a scalable architecture—providing an additional boost to the bui... | https://medium.com/the-internal-startup/the-digital-liquid-lean-startup-methodology-6794376a10ef | ['Jimmy Soh'] | 2020-06-28 15:35:29.043000+00:00 | ['Technology', 'Programming', 'Business Strategy', 'Startup', 'Entrepreneurship'] |
Finding Success On Medium | Success on Medium is having an audience.
I am a musician. One thing most musicians desire is an audience. Making music for yourself is fine, but nothing compares to performing for an audience. That instant feedback, that energy, that connection. It is powerful stuff. It is the main reason musicians practice for countl... | https://medium.com/mark-starlin-writes/finding-success-on-medium-2d6223e807c5 | ['Mark Starlin'] | 2019-12-08 20:46:47.391000+00:00 | ['Self-awareness', 'Medium', 'Money', 'Success', 'Writing'] |
Data Journalism: redefining community awareness and decision making in Sudan | The concept of data journalism is allowing data to pave context and build in credibility to the story. Datasets can be found ready made in the internet, or created by extracting it from multimedia files (pdf, videos, audio) or from people through a series of interviews, analysis, research and any other means of discove... | https://ahmed-elaffendi.medium.com/data-journalism-redefining-community-awareness-and-decision-making-in-sudan-ef2eaff0d4f3 | ['Ahmed El-Affendi'] | 2020-10-28 02:47:18.083000+00:00 | ['Journalism', 'Sudan', 'Data Journalism', 'Data Science', 'Writing'] |
Dynamic Pluggable Microservice Framework | Easily deploy RESTful Microservices using this pluggable microservice framework.
No more coding RESTful Interfaces. No more having to debug your RESTful Interfaces.
This is functional programming meets pluggability meets minimal code meets ease of use.
What could be easier than coding your microservices as Python fu... | https://raychorn.medium.com/dynamic-pluggable-microservice-framework-83ddc4b3d26e | [] | 2020-12-15 01:59:15.114000+00:00 | ['Python', 'Functional Programming', 'Dynamic Programming', 'Rest Api', 'Microservices'] |
There Is No Lift to Success — You Have to Take the Stairs | There Is No Lift to Success — You Have to Take the Stairs
More effort is the fastest way to achieve better results.
Image by kinkate from Pixabay
We are always looking for shortcuts and easier ways to do things. We want to achieve more by doing less. People love to hear about hacks and tricks to get great results wi... | https://medium.com/skilluped/there-is-no-lift-to-success-you-have-to-take-the-stairs-b9d02504cf80 | ['Erik Hamre'] | 2020-12-08 12:32:35.235000+00:00 | ['Inspiration', 'Life Lessons', 'Motivation', 'Success', 'Psychology'] |
13 Digital Marketing Ebooks That Will Help You Achieve Your Online Marketing Goals | It pays to sharpen your skills.
“An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.” — Benjamin Franklin.
If you are in digital marketing space, learning tips and tactics from experts can make a lot of things simpler for you. A lot depends upon you and your understanding of the mediums and strategies.
This week, we ... | https://medium.com/the-mission/13-digital-marketing-ebooks-that-will-help-you-achieve-your-online-marketing-goals-5c741b4fb9b5 | ['Shane Barker'] | 2018-06-21 05:05:32.209000+00:00 | ['Marketing Strategies', 'Marketing', 'Digital Marketing', 'Free Ebook', 'Startup'] |
About Me — Greyson Alman. American Football Coach/Personal… | Bio
Background
I’m a 30 something-year-old Filipino-American who was born and raised in Southern California.
I got my B.S. in Mathematics from the University of Redlands. (A small liberal arts college in Southern California)
My plan was to become a High School Math Teacher after graduation. Like most of my plans, t... | https://medium.com/about-me-stories/about-me-greyson-alman-8d33d3a15ace | ['Greyson Alman'] | 2020-12-04 01:02:41.672000+00:00 | ['About Me', 'Self', 'Nonfiction', 'Introduction', 'Writing'] |
11: Post-traumatic urbanism and radical indigenism | This simple notion — that all your basic everyday needs, from education to commerce to healthcare to culture and so on, are located within 15 minutes walk or bike of your front door — requires a way of thinking, planning, designing, and acting that I was first introduced to in Sydney, almost 15 years ago, by Adrian Lah... | https://medium.com/slowdown-papers/11-post-traumatic-urbanism-and-radical-indigenism-c2a21dc7ba69 | ['Dan Hill'] | 2020-04-22 15:32:08.940000+00:00 | ['Cities', 'Design', 'Indigenous', 'Coronavirus', 'Covid 19'] |
I’m Sad About Animals All The Time | I’m Sad About Animals All The Time
I am a committed animal rights activist, but the feeling of hopelessness I have about this cause is starting to get to me…
Photo by Elmira Gokoryan on Unsplash
Dear Nice Vegan,
I’m a committed animal rights activist. I stopped eating meat when I was seven — moments after my mom ex... | https://medium.com/tenderlymag/ask-a-nice-vegan-im-sad-about-animals-all-the-time-7612ad6b01f0 | ['Summer Anne Burton'] | 2019-10-02 16:01:01.588000+00:00 | ['Mental Health', 'Advice', 'Vegan', 'Equality', 'Burnout'] |
The Seven Stages of Writing Grief | More from Susan Orlean Follow
Staff writer, The New Yorker. Author of The Library Book, The Orchid Thief, and more…Head of my very own Literati.com book club (join me!) | https://susanorlean.medium.com/the-seven-stages-of-writing-grief-7cdc9d26ad9 | ['Susan Orlean'] | 2020-12-29 22:25:54.359000+00:00 | ['Writing Tips', 'Journalism', 'First Person', 'Writing'] |
Extra Time During the Age of the Virus | Extra Time During the Age of the Virus
Ideas for those who have extra time in these virus times
Photo by Aron Visuals on Unsplash
First, to those who have no extra time, or who are working as always, thank you! Thank you to the health care workers, grocery store workers, Walmart and Target workers, farmers, distribu... | https://medium.com/predict/extra-time-during-the-age-of-the-virus-39b67154f649 | ['Eric Martin'] | 2020-04-05 16:42:43.152000+00:00 | ['Artificial Intelligence', 'Learning', 'Free Time', 'Coronavirus', 'Extra Time'] |
There Are 1,385,000 New Articles Posted on Medium Every Month | I kind of stole this title...
I mean, not really. But credit where it’s due. Earlier this week, J.J. Pryor wrote a post about Medium statistics and how much people earn. But in the article, I came across this line…
— There are 1,385,000 new articles posted on Medium every month
What the…?
Seriously? 1,385,000 posts... | https://medium.com/linda-caroll/there-are-1-385-000-new-articles-posted-on-medium-every-month-37f988c31b64 | ['Linda Caroll'] | 2020-09-18 14:46:12.964000+00:00 | ['Self', 'Self Growth', 'Inspiration', 'Marketing', 'Writing'] |
The 3 Realizations That Happen During A Spiritual Awakening | The beginning of a spiritual awakening is often a crude ending.
Though we imagine it to be a serene process through which we become acquainted with our innermost selves, it is often the opposite. This process does not comfort you to rest, it awakens you with a fire.
Most people embark on their awakening journey in th... | https://briaeliza.medium.com/the-3-realizations-that-happen-during-a-spiritual-awakening-654793e94c41 | ['Brianna Wiest'] | 2020-01-08 14:56:41.503000+00:00 | ['Spirituality', 'Life Lessons', 'Motivation', 'Psychology', 'Self Improvement'] |
Wow, I Reached 7,000 Followers on Medium! | One thing I don’t often pay much attention to on Medium is my number of followers.
Because there’s something kind of strange about the number of followers you have on Medium: at the end of the day… it doesn’t matter a whole lot.
When you have a few thousand followers on Twitter, theoretically up to a few thousand peo... | https://medium.com/the-partnered-pen/wow-i-reached-7-000-followers-on-medium-952f2fd0d0f9 | ['Brian Rowe'] | 2020-10-06 16:27:09.091000+00:00 | ['Medium', 'Success', 'Followers', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Writing'] |
Why is Blockchain NOT the challenge but the SOLUTION to sustainable energy | 1. Decentralized energy supply system and household participation
One of the most special opportunities that Blockchain brings to the energy sector is that it encourages the growth of electricity ‘prosumers’. Prosumers refers to households that are able to generate electricity or become the supplier of electricity, fo... | https://medium.com/datadriveninvestor/why-is-blockchain-not-the-challenge-but-the-solution-to-sustainable-energy-e3265a42a61a | ['Americana Chen'] | 2020-12-28 12:47:21.101000+00:00 | ['Energy', 'Blockchain', 'Technology', 'Sustainability', 'Renewable Energy'] |
Project: Quick & dirty | Project: Quick & dirty
Dijkstra would not like it
“I mean, if 10 years from now, when you are doing something quick and dirty, you suddenly visualize that I am looking over your shoulders and say to yourself “Dijkstra would not have liked this”, well, that would be enough immortality for me.” — Edsger W. Dijkstra, bo... | https://javarome.medium.com/project-quick-dirty-6d2ca4a8eddb | ['Jérôme Beau'] | 2020-10-13 09:22:53.730000+00:00 | ['Development', 'Project Management', 'Programming', 'Design', 'Quality'] |
How And When To Write In Layers | Every writer faces that difficult scene.
You know the one I’m talking about. You know what needs to happen in that scene, how it should play out, but when it comes to getting it down on paper, you sit staring at the screen.
For me, this often happens during action scenes.
I always worry that I’m not going to give en... | https://stefanivader.medium.com/how-and-when-to-write-in-layers-6daa84b3fe09 | ['Stefani Vader'] | 2019-03-22 13:26:30.274000+00:00 | ['Writing Tips', 'Writers Block', 'Motivation', 'How To', 'Writing'] |
How to get your product noticed | How to get your product noticed
Offer value in exchange for your customers’ attention
Photo by Riccardo Annandale on Unsplash
Recently I launched a new business. It’s based around a little software plugin that I made. I spent lots of time testing it, perfecting the code and packaging it up in a nice looking website ... | https://medium.com/hackernoon/how-to-get-your-product-noticed-b7ff6d1c7dd6 | ['Elliot Leibu'] | 2019-06-08 12:00:03.916000+00:00 | ['Sales', 'Marketing', 'Production Adoption', 'Online', 'Entrepreneurship'] |
How to Figure Out What You Should Do as an Entrepreneur | I’ve always been a writer. More specifically, a blogger. While maintaining an award winning travel blog for ten years, I thought I might be able to replicate that sense of community and notoriety around a personal blog as well. But it only took me one year to realize I couldn’t replicate it through a personal blog beca... | https://medium.com/narrative/how-to-figure-out-what-you-should-do-as-an-entrepreneur-bf7a690ac8f0 | ['Kristi Keller'] | 2020-02-04 16:56:07.741000+00:00 | ['This Happened To Me', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Career Advice', 'Work', 'Writing'] |
Are You Wasting Your Life? | Short Life Lessons:
Are You Wasting Your Life?
We spend most of our time working in dead-end jobs and numb ourselves in front of screens when we are home. Are we wasting our lives?
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My father once told me an anecdote that stuck with me ever since:
Two friends went out for a walk to the local graveya... | https://medium.com/live-your-life-on-purpose/are-you-wasting-your-life-effe345a6748 | [] | 2020-11-02 18:02:36.617000+00:00 | ['Personal Growth', 'Mental Health', 'Productivity', 'Life Lessons', 'Success'] |
Cultivating Attention in the Classroom | Cultivating Attention in the Classroom
A review of James Lang’s *Distracted: Why Students Can’t Focus and What You Can Do About It*
When you were in high school, how much did you see people disciplined for being distracted in class?
One of my teachers used to (by his own admission) throws a chalkboard eraser at dist... | https://medium.com/park-recommendations/cultivating-attention-in-the-classroom-c78364235fae | ['Jason Park'] | 2020-10-20 12:48:40.991000+00:00 | ['Education', 'Books', 'Reading', 'Psychology', 'Teaching'] |
The Science of How Things Backfire | The Science of How Things Backfire
Or, Why Would Anything Ever Go Right?
Urizen shows his book of laws. Image: William Blake Archive
When human endeavors so often go wrongly, we blame people for making bad decisions, whether from a moral, or political, or scientific point of view. This only raises our emotional temp... | https://medium.com/science-and-philosophy/the-science-of-how-things-backfire-e9c6a9d2560e | ['Ted Wade'] | 2020-11-14 18:17:43.389000+00:00 | ['Philosophy', 'Science', 'Psychology', 'Economics', 'Politics'] |
A Visual Approach to Scientific Communication | Process
On the technical side, my workflow can be broken down into four main components—narrative building, scene construction (in Illustrator), animation (in After Effects), packaging (in PowerPoint).
A brief summary of each follows: | https://medium.com/hh-design/a-visual-approach-to-scientific-communication-68c868b69d6b | ['Chen Ye'] | 2016-01-04 06:45:21.938000+00:00 | ['Biology', 'Visualization', 'Design'] |
How to upload my own notebook to Kaggle | Kaggle, a subsidiary of Google LLC, is an online community of data scientists and machine learning practitioners. Kaggle allows users to find and publish data sets, explore and build models in a web-based data-science environment, work with other data scientists and machine learning engineers, and enter competitions to... | https://rajputankit22.medium.com/how-to-upload-my-own-notebook-to-kaggle-2b0dedbb5a6b | ['Ankit Kumar Rajpoot'] | 2020-06-07 16:47:13.314000+00:00 | ['Python', 'Dataset', 'Kaggle', 'Notebook'] |
Why I’m leaving Silicon Valley | Here’s something I never thought I’d say: this is my last week in Silicon Valley.
This post is a personal one. Rather than sharing insights on Blockchain or Javascript, I’d like to walk through my inner journey the past few years.
It’s a journey that’s left me itching for change — and driving down to Los Angeles to s... | https://preethikasireddy.medium.com/why-im-leaving-silicon-valley-72919edb3297 | ['Preethi Kasireddy'] | 2020-12-12 00:06:48.187000+00:00 | ['Startup', 'Silicon Valley', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Blockchain', 'Cryptocurrency'] |
Leave Stress Behind Home is for Relaxation | Leave Stress Behind Home is for Relaxation
Three tips on how you can relax while at home.
Going home should be a calming time, but the simple truth is that you’re most likely going to get more stressed out when you finally arrive. Dishes to do, a home to clean, kids to worry about, and a spouse that may just want to ... | https://medium.com/thrive-global/leave-stress-behind-home-is-for-relaxation-4986ff43d3a4 | ['Saliba Faddoul'] | 2019-04-10 21:38:51.273000+00:00 | ['Wellbeing', 'Productivity', 'Life Lessons', 'Wellness', 'Lifestyle'] |
7 Golden Rules for Not Taking Things Too Personally | Do you take things personally?
Of course you do — we all do. It’s almost impossible to float through life immune to the judgments of others, unless you interact with no-one, ever.
But the difficulty comes when we take things too personally, when we let the opinions of others pierce our emotional skins, superficially ... | https://karennimmo.medium.com/7-golden-rules-for-not-taking-things-too-personally-581efcae02f4 | ['Karen Nimmo'] | 2020-11-24 11:07:28.285000+00:00 | ['Self Improvement', 'Life Lessons', 'Mental Health', 'Psychology', 'Inspiration'] |
I used Instagram captions to earn $10,000 a month as a writer | Two years ago, I quit my job at a Fortune 100 company to pursue my passion as a nutritionist. I went back to school to do a master's degree and very quickly went from being a financially stable, got-my-life-together 24-year-old to just another directionless, penniless millennial.
I now earn $10,000+ a month as a full-... | https://medium.com/better-marketing/i-used-instagram-captions-to-earn-10-000-a-month-as-a-writer-e7ce00bcfd4e | ['Emilina Lomas'] | 2020-10-21 20:30:00.683000+00:00 | ['Marketing', 'Digital Marketing', 'Writing', 'Instagram', 'Social Media'] |
Designing a chatbot with IBM Watson Assistant | Chatbot, also known as “conversational agent”, is a trending technology. Chatbots are changing the business landscape. Its emergence in the enterprise has several implications that require some thought. Building a bot is not a hard task; with the rise of many platforms, it’s now easier than ever to develop and deploy o... | https://medium.com/ibm-garage/designing-a-chatbot-with-ibm-watson-assistant-7e11b94c2b3d | ['Ernese Norelus'] | 2019-09-30 22:58:06.041000+00:00 | ['Design Thinking', 'Design', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Chatbots', 'Bots'] |
No longer alone, no longer invisible | No longer alone, no longer invisible
A love letter to a love story
‘Heartstopper’ is a love story — between friends, between lovers, between family.
Written and illustrated by Alice Oseman, Heartstopper follows the lives of Nick and Charlie, two teenage boys who meet at school and fall in love — the full synopsis is... | https://medium.com/the-open-bookshelf/no-longer-alone-no-longer-invisible-7ecac90ba0a8 | ['Sabrina Ki'] | 2020-04-24 08:42:55.662000+00:00 | ['Book Review', 'Books', 'Mental Health', 'LGBTQ', 'Culture'] |
Designing Multi-Faceted Lives | “With our society’s ever-growing emphasis on self-care and self-improvement, maybe what we could all use is a whole-hearted commitment to designing multi-faceted lives for ourselves. ”
Our world seems to be an increasingly scary place to live. There’s so much fear and anger bubbling up from deep below the surface. Thi... | https://medium.com/swlh/designing-multi-faceted-lives-ba2b900372c6 | ['Kashara Johnson'] | 2019-09-09 11:59:18.068000+00:00 | ['Self-awareness', 'Self Improvement', 'Life Lessons', 'Personal Development', 'Mental Health'] |
“Anxiety is a body event.” | As a clinician in private practice, one of the phrases that I hear myself saying over and over, often in this way is this: “Remember, anxiety is a body event.”
So what does this mean?
First, this statement, “anxiety is a body event”, reminds us that when we feel anxiety, it is made up of physical sensations. While yo... | https://medium.com/whenanxietystrikes/anxiety-is-a-body-event-52dcbd73c381 | ['Jason B. Hobbs Lcsw'] | 2019-03-20 14:06:20.356000+00:00 | ['Mental Health', 'Psychology', 'Anxiety', 'Parenting', 'Therapy'] |
Ten Considerations Before You Create Another Chart About COVID-19 | 3. Aggregations and calculations that can be done with the case data are not necessarily what should be done with the case data.
Tableau and other tools make it easy to quickly create charts, graphs, and maps, as well as to run calculations with those numbers. It’s also common practice in data visualization to create ... | https://medium.com/nightingale/ten-considerations-before-you-create-another-chart-about-covid-19-27d3bd691be8 | ['Amanda Makulec'] | 2020-04-27 18:54:22.572000+00:00 | ['Public Health', 'Dataviz', 'Covid 19', 'Coronavirus', 'Topicsindv'] |
The Trick to Early Morning Productivity Hacks | We all want to find ways to be more productive and maximize our days. We hunt for lifehacks on how to improve our performance and find article upon article advising us to wake up at 3, 4, or 5 am to work out, meditate, do yoga, hit the gym, etc. before actually “starting” the day (going to work?).
We’re inundated with... | https://andrewofnewyork.medium.com/early-morning-productivity-hacks-have-nothing-to-do-with-waking-up-a-zombie-373d649ec1bd | ['Andrew Rowley'] | 2020-03-26 14:07:20.872000+00:00 | ['Work Life Balance', 'Motivation', 'Work', 'Productivity', 'Life'] |
10 Reasons to Edit After You Publish | It may drive your publisher crazy, but its the best way to increase your metrics
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100 years ago, writers had to wait until they were dead to gain fame and fortune, and only ten years ago, the idea that your words could be read by thousands without even knowing the name of your editor w... | https://medium.com/suggestion-box/i-m-a-publishers-nightmare-444ba9bf84c3 | ['Sarene B. Arias'] | 2020-09-30 19:18:13.573000+00:00 | ['Marketing', 'Self Improvement', 'Writing', 'Blogging', 'Innovation'] |
PandasGUI: Analyzing Pandas dataframes with a Graphical User Interface | Today the pandas library has become the defacto tool for doing any exploratory data analysis in Python. Its versatility, flexibility, and ease of use makes it the library of choice for many data scientists today. The pandas' library also enjoys excellent community support and thus is always under active development and... | https://towardsdatascience.com/pandasgui-analyzing-pandas-dataframes-with-a-graphical-user-interface-36f5c1357b1d | ['Parul Pandey'] | 2020-10-23 13:35:14.189000+00:00 | ['Pandas Dataframe', 'Pandas', 'GUI', 'Python', 'Exploratory Data Analysis'] |
REMARKABLE NETWORKS: SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST COMMUNITY | REMARKABLE NETWORKS: SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST COMMUNITY
The 2019 Sustainability Graduate Programs Student Showcase
Tuesday, September 17, 2019
Jay Lanier of Interface delivered the keynote address for the 2019 Sustainability Graduate Programs Student Showcase held at The Graduate School at Brookstown Inn. The event... | https://medium.com/the-sustainability-graduate-programs/remarkable-networks-survival-of-the-fittest-community-9b6855dbb3aa | ['Wake Forest Mas'] | 2019-10-16 21:04:54.684000+00:00 | ['Biomimicry', 'Zero Waste', 'Sustainability', 'Environment', 'Manufacturing'] |
How Breaking Your Good Habits Now Can Create Stronger, Healthier Habits in the Future | Nobody wants to break perfectly healthy habits on purpose. I did.
Photo by Giancarlo Revolledo on Unsplash
Whether you are training for a marathon, writing a book, or strictly following a healthy diet, there comes a time where you might fall off the wagon.
A lot of people try to stay on track and consecutively mark ... | https://medium.com/age-of-awareness/how-breaking-your-good-habits-now-can-create-stronger-healthier-habits-in-the-future-33b952f18df8 | ['Michal Bernolak'] | 2019-03-28 17:56:56.348000+00:00 | ['Self Improvement', 'Startup', 'Productivity', 'Habits', 'Strategy'] |
Open-sourcing KingPin, building blocks for scaling Pinterest | Shu Zhang | Pinterest engineer, Infrastructure
When we first started building Pinterest, we used Python as our development language, which helped us build quickly and reliably. Over the years we built many tools around Python, including Pinball, MySQL_utils and pymemcache, as well as a set of libraries used daily for ... | https://medium.com/pinterest-engineering/open-sourcing-kingpin-building-blocks-for-scaling-pinterest-8febe81f2c1c | ['Pinterest Engineering'] | 2017-02-21 19:33:53.218000+00:00 | ['Python', 'Open Source', 'Microservices', 'Kingpin', 'DevOps'] |
10 Simple Steps to Steady Blogging | Do you struggle to keep up with consistently posting to your blog, email newsletter, or even a podcast? Let’s solve that once and for all, right now. I’m going to share the 10 simple steps that will create an easily manageable system for your blog.
This is what I have learned after helping people launch thousands of b... | https://medium.com/creative-shift/10-simple-steps-to-steady-blogging-3f08ba7dacce | ['Dan Blank'] | 2017-11-03 10:47:25.680000+00:00 | ['Email Marketing', 'Marketing', 'Writing', 'Blogging', 'Writer'] |
Notes on TypeScript: Inferring React PropTypes | These notes should help in better understanding TypeScript and might be helpful when needing to lookup up how to leverage TypeScript in a specific situation. All examples are based on TypeScript 3.2.
PropTypes and Inference
More often than not we might be working on an existing React application, where a team has dec... | https://medium.com/javascript-inside/notes-on-typescript-inferring-react-proptypes-dfb93100523d | ['A. Sharif'] | 2019-03-10 16:52:39.370000+00:00 | ['Typescript', 'React', 'Web Development'] |
There Used to be Music | My life is filled with music.
To me, it’s essentially synonymous with silence because I never truly experience the latter due to all the music.
One particular night was no different. The windows were open while I cooked dinner. The music was loud but distant. It was coming from an amphitheater nearby I think. It had ... | https://medium.com/the-partnered-pen/there-used-to-be-music-d1f7b594bde0 | ['Juliette Roanoke'] | 2020-09-18 01:01:47.940000+00:00 | ['Self', 'Mental Health', 'Schizophrenia', 'This Happened To Me', 'Psychology'] |
Here’s The Style Of Business Plan You Should Write | Here’s The Style Of Business Plan You Should Write
Should you go all-in on a 20+ page business plan?
Bogdan Karlenko
The first big project many new entrepreneurs take on for their new venture is the business plan.
Having written a lot of business plans over my career for myself and my clients, I have a strong opini... | https://medium.com/sales-mastery/heres-the-style-of-business-plan-you-should-write-1728aa99d4f3 | ['Sophia Sunwoo'] | 2020-06-01 15:01:01.170000+00:00 | ['Entrepreneur', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Business Plan', 'Startup'] |
The 10 Commandments of Social Media Marketing | 5. Be Generous With the Information You Give to Followers
In the past, I have had clients that were way too worried about losing business by giving too much away. I’ve had catering clients refuse to use brilliant wedding tips articles all because one comment suggested having a pot luck wedding reception.
Restaurants ... | https://medium.com/better-marketing/10-commandments-of-social-media-marketing-8446129e6e1 | ['Shannon Ashley'] | 2019-09-27 15:42:24.731000+00:00 | ['Freelancing', 'Social Media', 'Marketing', 'Success', 'Writing'] |
Nostalgic for New Bookstores? Not I. | Not even if Barnes & Noble disappears tomorrow.
Photo by freddie marriage on Unsplash
As you probably know, the book-selling and publishing industries are undergoing severe change, economic convulsions and high tech disintermediation.
That last one is a fancy word for new technological developments causing extreme d... | https://richardstooker.medium.com/nostalgic-for-new-bookstores-not-i-7f60066360af | ['Richard Stooker'] | 2019-06-07 16:31:00.745000+00:00 | ['Books', 'Publishing', 'Reading', 'Fiction', 'Writing'] |
The Difference Between Trustworthiness and Trust Is “Merit” | Trustworthiness
Truth is some people “seem” to be trustworthy, while they are merely brilliant manipulators who mastered the art of mirroring:
When someone mirrors us, they are doing a range of things. They may mimic us, emulate us, be interested in us, share our interests, point out our strengths, gently point out o... | https://medium.com/know-thyself-heal-thyself/the-difference-between-trustworthiness-and-trust-is-merit-2bc90bc9b482 | ['Myriam Ben Salem'] | 2020-12-28 09:58:02.358000+00:00 | ['Self', 'Philosophy', 'Trust', 'Relationships', 'Psychology'] |
Michael Orthofer on Why Fiction Matters (Ep. 11) | COWEN: What’s your theory of America? Where have we gone wrong? You say correctly there was more interest in foreign fiction in the 1970s, right? We’ve moved away from that. Why has that happened? What’s the institutional failure behind that? You could say lack of someone like you may be part of it, but you’re here now... | https://medium.com/conversations-with-tyler/michael-orthofer-complete-review-fiction-literary-saloon-b028a1ca2620 | ['Mercatus Center'] | 2020-07-02 20:26:50.292000+00:00 | ['Books', 'Podcast', 'Fiction', 'Interview', 'Writing'] |
Preserving My Writing In Print | I came to a realization after writing on Medium for almost two years. All of my Medium writing existed only in digital form.
Those under the age of 35 are probably fine with their photos, music, and writing existing only in digital format. But for many of us, a physical book is a wonderful thing. It is more than just ... | https://medium.com/mark-starlin-writes/preserving-my-writing-in-print-8e32a2338547 | ['Mark Starlin'] | 2020-09-09 17:57:39.072000+00:00 | ['Other Stories', 'Books', 'Writing', 'Stories', 'Self Publishing'] |
Some People Won’t Like It When You Market Your Work | Some People Won’t Like It When You Market Your Work
But don’t let that stop you
Photo by Jukebox Print on Unsplash
I got chewed out the other day for sending out a publication letter with a link to the trending stories on that pub. The criticism seemed to be that I’m greedy and selfish for wanting more people to rea... | https://medium.com/better-marketing/some-people-wont-like-it-when-you-market-your-work-92ef77248756 | ['Shannon Ashley'] | 2019-12-11 19:33:09.976000+00:00 | ['Marketing', 'Writing', 'Work', 'Blogging', 'Life'] |
Web Notifications Introduction: News on Lock(screens) | Web Notifications Introduction: News on Lock(screens)
How the Guardian US Mobile Innovation Lab has experimented with telling stories in web notifications.
An Android lock screen at the beginning of our EU referendum experiment.
At the end of last week, we (the Mobile Lab) all turned to look at each other. “Can you ... | https://medium.com/the-guardian-mobile-innovation-lab/web-notifications-introduction-news-on-lock-screens-ba0d685cb4e2 | ['Sasha Koren'] | 2016-07-11 17:16:01.908000+00:00 | ['Journalism', 'News', 'Mobile', 'Storytelling', 'Web Notifications'] |
How I tricked myself into writing a novel | My happy place: writing. Also, a martini.
For most of my life I’ve wanted to write Something Grand: something with an impressive word count. A novel. Ideally a well-written, enjoyable-to-read novel that would sell a million copies, get five stars on GoodReads and qualify me as the Great Canadian Writer of my generatio... | https://medium.com/swlh/how-i-tricked-myself-into-writing-a-novel-d726953979b6 | ['Heather Mcleod'] | 2019-09-25 17:52:42.060000+00:00 | ['Creative Process', 'Motivation', 'Writing', 'Creative Writing', 'Inspiration'] |
Forget Science; This is COVID-19 We’re Dealing With! | Forget Science; This is COVID-19 We’re Dealing With!
How public health policy threw science under the bus in response to the novel coronavirus.
Ignoring Years Lost and Quality of Life Lost
While raw mortality figures get the most headlines, not all deaths are equal. I mentioned this idea in “The Cost of Saving a Lif... | https://medium.com/politicoid/forget-science-this-is-covid-19-were-dealing-with-35c3a9aa8627 | ['Daniel Goldman'] | 2020-05-14 12:06:07.879000+00:00 | ['Economics', 'Pubic Health', 'Science', 'Coronavirus', 'Politics'] |
Design is storytelling: a model | The best resources for designers starting in Design, UX, and UI. Bootcamp is a new product publication from the team behind the UX Collective (http://uxdesign.cc). To submit your story: hello@uxdesign.cc
Follow | https://medium.com/design-bootcamp/design-is-storytelling-a-model-a9d1b01cb97e | ['Arushi Singh'] | 2020-12-21 01:56:22.417000+00:00 | ['Storytelling', 'Design Process', 'Design', 'Design Storytelling', 'Design Thinking'] |
How to create dashboard for free with Google Sheets and Chart.js | Dashboards are a convenient method for quickly present data. For data scientists and analysts, it’s the tool of choice for showing results of their work to the non-technical recipients. Of course, there are many services for making online dashboards with no or little code. Using ready-made solutions such as Tableau, Ql... | https://towardsdatascience.com/how-to-create-dashboard-for-free-with-google-sheets-and-chart-js-8c319ab8809b | ['Rafał Rybnik'] | 2020-12-29 14:41:57.492000+00:00 | ['Data Science', 'Charts', 'Dashboard', 'Web Development', 'Visualization'] |
My Boss of 4 Years Ghosted Me When I Told Him I Had to Quit My Job | I used to be a big fan of social media marketing. Work from home! Set your own hours! Work in your PJs, put on Netflix, and keep your baby at home. So convenient! (And a little like online dating.)
Sadly, there’s also a dark side to the social media hustle of the gig economy. Writers often overlook it because we so de... | https://medium.com/awkwardly-honest/my-boss-of-4-years-ghosted-me-when-i-told-him-i-had-to-quit-my-job-b974c998940c | ['Shannon Ashley'] | 2019-03-09 21:09:00.675000+00:00 | ['Entrepreneurship', 'Culture', 'Social Media', 'Freelancing', 'Writing'] |
Hand Stimming Can Be a Life Saver | Misunderstanding
My suspicion is that most people find stimming disruptive because they are very forcefully ignoring, neglecting, and repressing their own intense cravings to stim.
I am not saying people are consciously choosing to neglect, but that we’ve been socially trained in the direction of bypassing this commo... | https://medium.com/psychologically/why-so-much-hand-stimming-dc6d29c2359c | ['Kelsey Jean Marie'] | 2020-11-10 10:47:25.970000+00:00 | ['Mental Health', 'Advice', 'Autism', 'Life Lessons', 'Psychology'] |
Why Excellence has Lost its Meaning. And How to Fix It. | “Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren’t used to an environment where excellence is expected,” Steve Jobs advised on the importance of maintaining high standards. And yet, these words — excellence and quality — have become so relentlessly overused and misapplied that they’ve largely become meaningless. With every... | https://jswilder16.medium.com/why-excellence-has-lost-its-meaning-and-how-to-fix-it-710a63e81233 | ['Jake Wilder'] | 2019-08-17 14:06:20.629000+00:00 | ['Management', 'Leadership', 'Productivity', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Self Improvement'] |
Peak Performance for Anxiety Sufferers | Research shows our worries aren’t as well-founded as we often think.
Beyond my anxiety, beyond this writing, the universe waits, inexhaustible, inviting.
Jorge Luis Borges, A Personal Anthology
People diagnosed with anxiety disorders are often concerned that they aren’t doing as well as they should be doing. This ca... | https://granthbrennermd.medium.com/peak-performance-for-anxiety-sufferers-a294b97975f7 | ['Grant H Brenner'] | 2019-04-29 00:05:12.405000+00:00 | ['Mindfulness', 'Mental Health', 'Psychology', 'Anxiety', 'Self Improvement'] |
Version Control for Jupyter Notebook | Jupyter Notebook Best Practices for Data Science by Jonathan Whitmore has been incredibly helpful and I’ve been strongly encouraging team members to adopt at least a subset of them, specifically the post-save hook and the notebook naming convention.
Post-save Hook
The idea is to automatically save a copy of the noteb... | https://towardsdatascience.com/version-control-for-jupyter-notebook-3e6cef13392d | ['Ceshine Lee'] | 2019-03-13 10:09:41.400000+00:00 | ['Python', 'Data Science', 'Jupyter Notebook'] |
I Published over 150 Stories on Medium — Here’s What I Learned | If you’re new to Medium; write, a lot.
As I said, I’ve managed to push out around 2–3 articles per day since September. However, I took a break these last few weeks, where I noticed something utterly heartbreaking.
I’d normally average around a few hundred views per day. Yet, I almost dwindled to a measly 5–10 views ... | https://medium.com/swlh/i-published-over-150-stories-on-medium-heres-what-i-learned-5920a6bbbb36 | ['Jazz Parks'] | 2020-11-27 09:47:29.781000+00:00 | ['Self', 'Life Lessons', 'Blog', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Writing'] |
Here’s a short-form post about my experiment with short-form posts. I’ll keep this one short. | Here’s a short-form post about my experiment with short-form posts. I’ll keep this one short.
Real. Short.
If you want to know the results of my little experiment, here you go: | https://medium.com/the-book-mechanic/heres-a-short-form-post-about-my-experiment-with-short-form-posts-i-ll-keep-this-one-short-c2bea750f329 | ['August Birch'] | 2020-12-16 16:08:55.242000+00:00 | ['Medim', 'Marketing', 'Money', 'Life Lessons', 'Writing'] |
The Resilient Postdoc: How to be ok in an uncertain career. | The resilient postdoc
In case the time I have invested in wrestling this might return some interest for postgrad students and postdocs with the same worries, here’s some unsolicited advice on building resilience in the face of postdoc career anxiety.
Where are the exits? The most important and productive thing to do ... | https://medium.com/swlh/the-resilient-postdoc-how-to-be-ok-with-uncertainty-cb9660ace549 | ['Michael Whitehead'] | 2019-09-30 12:01:39.926000+00:00 | ['Early Career Researchers', 'Mental Health', 'Careers', 'Science', 'Academia'] |
Anxiety Ruined My Sleepover — here’s how to stop it ruining yours. | Popping my head over the edge of my bed I gave my friend Missy a smile. She was laying on the mattress that we had dragged off the day bed in the living room. It was now situated on my bedroom floor, next to my bed. Mum had made it up all nice and cosy for her — white downy sheets, pink and green blankets and extra flu... | https://medium.com/swlh/anxiety-ruined-my-sleepover-heres-how-to-stop-it-ruining-yours-5646fff278e5 | ['Elizabeth Wright'] | 2020-01-17 00:26:31.313000+00:00 | ['Friendship', 'Life', 'Mental Health', 'Psychology', 'Anxiety'] |
The reality of being a junior software engineer at a small startup | Real world software development is indeed quite different from what they teach in school.
Photo by Annie Spratt on Unsplash
Here is what I have learned after working at a startup that builds a web application tailored to customers’ specific requirements.
1. Being a full stack engineer is not an option but a necessit... | https://medium.com/free-code-camp/the-reality-of-being-a-junior-software-engineer-at-a-small-startup-3d50004fb721 | ['Tan Le Tian'] | 2019-05-06 15:47:31.677000+00:00 | ['Software Engineering', 'Junior Developer', 'Tech', 'Startup', 'Programming'] |
Kaggle #1 Winning Approach for Image Classification Challenge | The task of classifying the images into respective classes, the task has been divided into 5 steps:
STEP 1:
The first and the most important task in Machine Learning is to analyze the dataset before proceeding with any algorithms. This is important in order to understand the complexity of the dataset which will event... | https://medium.com/neuralspace/kaggle-1-winning-approach-for-image-classification-challenge-9c1188157a86 | ['Kumar Shridhar'] | 2018-09-30 12:57:25.480000+00:00 | ['Machine Learning', 'Kaggle', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Convolutional Network', 'Deep Learning'] |
Psychological Wars in Jobless Mind | What happened now? What is my future? How I can get job? Do I have to improve my skills? How I will survive without earning? What happened if I will reject in interview? Others have more skills and confidence. My life will be destroy if couldn’t get job now. All my friends have jobs or business, How I can compete with ... | https://medium.com/nyc-design/physiological-wars-in-jobless-mind-c20e74ffa4be | ['Salman Habib'] | 2020-09-22 03:27:32.800000+00:00 | ['Jobs', 'User Experience', 'New York', 'Fear', 'Psychology'] |
How Our Journalism Creators Program is Taking Flight | How Our Journalism Creators Program is Taking Flight
Launching our 100-day online-only pilot program
I’m excited to share that today we’ve invited 20 journalism innovators to join us from around the world, selected from a stellar application pool for the first iteration of our new Journalism Creators Program. We rece... | https://medium.com/journalism-innovation/how-our-journalism-creators-program-is-taking-flight-aee0d7aca346 | ['Jeremy Caplan'] | 2020-10-07 18:40:47.890000+00:00 | ['Passion Economy', 'Journalism Education', 'Journalism Innovation', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Journalism'] |
How To Publish Less And Make Thousands More | Ever since I started writing on Medium, people told me to publish twice a day to earn the most money. But, if you publish twice a day, you either run out of things to say or the quality of your writing suffers. I struggled with this dilemma at the end of last year. I couldn’t publish twice a day anymore because I had t... | https://medium.com/jun-wu-blog/how-to-publish-less-and-make-thousands-more-8b5271f8b0d1 | ['Jun Wu'] | 2020-04-11 13:09:50.975000+00:00 | ['Marketing', 'Content Marketing', 'Writing Tips', 'Content Creation', 'Writing'] |
This Is What Loneliness Feels Like (And What It Does To Us) | ‘Eventually most of us come to see that our feelings of unbelonging are unexceptional, and that the truly heroic act is to carry on trying to connect with others, even if it can be dispiriting to keep doing something you are not very good at.’ — Joe Moran, Shrinking Violets
For a long time, I avoided writing about lon... | https://medium.com/swlh/this-is-what-loneliness-feels-like-1796e1a7ea8d | ['Rosie L'] | 2018-11-26 18:24:33.379000+00:00 | ['Self Improvement', 'Life Lessons', 'Writing', 'Loneliness', 'Mental Health'] |
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