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Servant leadership is not the answer. | Continue reading
A five point program that's guaranteed to succeed. | Continue reading
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Let's start investing our talents and energy into businesses that support pregnant employees. | Continue reading
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Don't be taken in by the fancy packaging and the Amish beards. | Continue reading
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The humble mung bean is starting to give chickens a run for their money. | Continue reading
Chinese fan girls are standing up for "little brother," aka China. | Continue reading
Programmers discovered that Kite had quietly injected promotional content and data-tracking functionality into open-source apps. Not cool. | Continue reading
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The world has delayed climate action for too long. That means we now don't just need to cut emissions, but also draw carbon dioxide from the air. | Continue reading
Star programmer Hadley Wickham hopes R will become more diverse and play better with other languages. | Continue reading
Over the past few years, Stanford Graduate School of Business professor Paul Oyer has explored the growing gig economy from many perspectives—including from behind the wheel. | Continue reading
A proposed executive order could make it harder for tech companies to take down or suppress content deemed inappropriate. | Continue reading
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A first-hand account of what it's like a when tech giant decides to cut off access to everything you've ever bought from them. | Continue reading
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Wes McKinney hated the idea of researchers wasting their time, so he created the wildly popular data science tool called "Pandas" for the Python programming language. | Continue reading