It is important to decide which of 3 life tracks you want to be on: Super-successful sales rep / individual contributor . I.e., make $200k or even $500k+ someday, just closing deals yourself. Crush your number, live the life, take nice vacations, wear expensive suits, buy a cool condo. Live the high…

Helen Sloan / HBO This article contains spoilers through Season 8 Episode 5 of Game of Thrones . In his A Song of Ice and Fire series, George R. R. Martin frames every chapter around the perspective of a single character. This strategy not only helps him build out his complex world, but also…

T hroughout Game of Thrones ’ celebrated, history-making run, it has only brought on one female director and three female writers. Michelle MacLaren directed four episodes of the HBO series, the last of which aired in 2014. Jane Espenson, Vanessa Taylor, and Gursimran Sandhu have contributed to a…

UPDATED : After last Sunday’s episode of “ Game of Thrones ,” Jessica Chastain criticized the show for using the rape and torture that Sophie Turner ’s character, Sansa Stark, endured in previous seasons as the reasons for her strength and cunning. “Rape is not a tool to make a character stronger. A…

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X Story Stream recent articles It was bad enough when the Department of Justice under Attorney General Eric Holder engaged in spying on journalist James Rosen (and even spied on his parents' phone records). And the same cast of characters secretly spied on Associated Press reporters -- also in the…

Giff Constable Oct 23, 2018 Before you rally a team, spend money, and move heaven and earth to bring a new product or new company into being, wouldn’t you want to de-risk your vision, timing and execution? Wouldn’t you want to make more informed decisions? There are two great places to start:…

Anxiety sufferers should be given lavender oil as a first line of treatment instead of addictive drugs, a psychiatrist has claimed. Professor Hans Peter-Volz said doctors are too quick to dish out benzodiazepines and other drugs to patients with anxiety. Instead, patients with a mild form of the…

Despite pitching Wall Street on the promise of Amazon-like returns , investors appear to have discovered the many red flags in Uber’s prospectus. On Friday, the ride-hailing company closed its first day of trading below its I.P.O. price, representing billions of dollars in lost value. Uber continued…

In his 1798 An Essay on the Principle of Population , Thomas Malthus predicted that the world's population growth would outpace food production, leading to global famine and mass starvation. That hasn't happened yet. But a report from the World Resources Institute last year predicts that food…

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc is rolling out machines to automate a job held by thousands of its workers: boxing up customer orders. The company started adding technology to a handful of warehouses in recent years, which scans goods coming down a conveyor belt and envelopes them seconds…

I started my career the way many tech entrepreneurs did–as a management consultant and by doing a stint at a multibillion-dollar Silicon Valley venture capital firm. In my 20s, I was I was well on my way to a lucrative tech career. I happily pulled off all-nighters on a Tuesday or a 10-hour Saturday…

Tech Published Sat, May 11 2019 8:38 AM EDT Updated Sat, May 11 2019 9:32 AM EDT @mattrosoff Key Points Uber’s middling IPO is the capstone to an era of mediocrity in Silicon Valley. This era was enabled by easy venture money and featured small ideas, delayed maturity and highly visible inequality.…

(CNN) Mother's Day means big business for retailers. This year is no different -- shoppers will spend an average of $196 per mom . If you hate all of the commercialization behind the day that celebrates moms, imagine how Anna Jarvis would feel now. The holiday's founder worked so hard to get the…

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LOS ANGELES — The biggest voting district in the United States came up with an audacious answer to the growing national problem of aging, malfunctioning and hackable voting machines. It decided to build its own. Los Angeles County, which has more registered voters than 42 states, gave NBC News an…

There's a sign in Danielle Steel's office that reads, "There are no miracles. There is only discipline." It's a dutiful message, and yet the sheer amount that Steel has accomplished in her five-decade career does seem like the stuff of dreams. Let's look at the numbers, shall we? The author has…

* Iran's Revolutionary Guards reject talks with United States * Senior cleric threatens U.S. Navy as carrier heads to Gulf * Thousands march to support Iranian move on nuclear curbs LONDON/DUBAI, May 10 (Reuters) - Iran could target U.S. commercial ships including oil tankers, the U.S. Maritime…

The U.S. government on Friday approved the formation of a new Silicon Valley stock exchange following regulatory criticism late last year. Backed by top Valley figures such as venture capitalist Marc Andreessen, the Long-Term Stock Exchange was born out of concern from the nation's tech elite who…

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Measles: Doctor urges parents to vaccinate children Measles: Doctor urges parents to vaccinate children Doctor Mary Ramsay told parents of the importance of the measles vaccination during an interview on BBC Radio 4. She said: 'Measles is a horrible disease and it can kill. It does spread very, very…

Sam Kim atop Mt. Baldy Sam was late. Evening had slipped into night, night had faded into dawn, and the driveway in the Culver City neighborhood of Los Angeles where Sam’s car normally sat remained empty. It wasn’t unusual for Sam to keep odd hours, but his wife Sunny and his son David worried all…

Chick-fil-A Tech Blog Oct 22, 2018 The Black Box problem At Chick-fil-A, we are working to build a smarter restaurant. We want to connect, analyze and automate our restaurants as much as possible to help our business scale, increase our restaurant capacity, and make the lives of our restaurant…

Jan 12, 2018 In aggressive industries such as SaaS, strong marketing efforts are essential to grow and thrive. As SaaS developer Chris Herd put it, “You don’t need a better product, you need a more powerful story.” Companies with more visible and trusted brands win out over their competitors which…

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The Claremont Institute has launched a campaign to engage our fellow citizens in discussion and debate about what it means to be an American. As part of that effort, we have begun to point out the increasingly existential danger of identity politics and political correctness to our republic. As if…

Conflicting research released last month gave us a very unclear answer about whether simply watching or being exposed to a television show about teen suicide — Netflix’s 13 Reasons Wh y (13RW) — results in an increase in actual teen suicide in real life. One study found a correlation (not a causal…

Nature declining at ‘unprecedented’ rate, UN study warns AddThis Sharing Buttons Monday, May 06, 2019 - 01:00 PM Wildlife and habitats are declining at an “unprecedented” rate worldwide which directly threatens human beings, a major new study has warned. Up to a million species of plants and animals…

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There are billions of reasons to do this job. Many of today’s self-made billionaires and multimillionaires held a sales job, or jobs, when they were younger — a fact they consider crucial to their current success, according to research conducted by sociologist and historian Rainer Zitelmann and…

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Venice, Italy - 3 May 2019: Training for and completing a first-time marathon "reverses" ageing of major blood vessels, according to research presented today at EuroCMR 2019, a scientific congress of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC). 1 The study found that older and slower runners benefit…

Former Assistant U.S. Attorney Andrew McCarthy believes Americans will soon learn how the Trump-Russia "conspiracy" was created by Obama-era officials to justify investigating the then-candidate's campaign. The coming weeks will expose the true genesis of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia…

(Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) The winner of a national office should have nationwide support NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE T he latest enthusiasm from progressive pundits and activists for replacing the American system of self-government is to abolish the Electoral College and choose presidents by national…

An Adult Woman Goes Home for the Holidays Three hundred sixty-four days of the year, I am an independent person. Then I get to my mother’s house. Ms. Limperis is a comedian. I moved out of my parents’ house when I was 18. I headed off to college and with each passing year, grew older, became more…