Top Gun: Maverick has a 97% fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes. It got a very rare A+ CinemaScore. It is on track to blow away opening weekend expectations with $150M. Maverick is the type of movie that

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I’m Dan Wood, and I’ve been writing Mac software since the Mac’s early days. Many years ago I created the award-winning app “Watson” because I wasn’t content with the status quo of having to go to web

Spoilers for The Matrix Resurrections follow. Proceed with caution! Thomas Anderson’s world is unraveling before his very eyes. He knows that he put a lot of himself into Neo, the protagonist of his g

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I have something to tell you, dear reader. The web is fucked. It’s a sad state of affairs that we’re in - gone are the days of Web 1.0 where the humble personal blog and the likes of GeoCities reigned

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I n every job he has ever had, Gavin has shirked. When he worked in a call centre, he would mute the phone, rather than answer it. When he worked in a pub, he would sneak out of the building and go to

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Editor’s note: In Adventure Journal 17, summer 2020, we published a story called “The Ghost in the Tent,” by journalist Jason Nark, who had been trying to decipher the mystery of a man known only by h

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source A common piece of interacting-with-people advice goes: “often when people complain, they don’t want help, they just want you to listen!” For instance, Nonviolent Communication : ✻ ✻ Nonviolent