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Business is about creating something of value to other people, and selling this thing to the people. Do not get sidetracked by the dream of fast money and fast fame.

There is no one thing to blame. There is no one fix we can make. It really is multifactorial.

A really great introduction to awk for anyone who only uses sed and grep.

News can no longer be (only) about the mass update. Stories need to be targeted to those who might be able to improve the situation. And journalism’s products — which are more than its stories — must be designed to facilitate this.

We find ourselves in a moment at which the freedoms our forefathers intended for us are endangered by the very government meant to secure those freedoms.

Homeownership contributed to the hollowing out of cities and kept renters out of the best neighborhoods. It fed America's overuse of energy and oil. It made it more difficult for those who had lost a job to find another. Perhaps worst of all, it helped us become casually self-deceiving: by telling ourselves that homeownership was a pathway to wealth and stable communities and better test scores, we avoided dealing with these formidable issues head-on.

Former Singapore Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew on the aches and pains of age and the solace of meditation, his struggle to build a thriving nation on a resource-poor island, and his concern that the next generation might take his achievements for granted and let them slip away.

Up and down society, people are moving away from commercial, productive activities and toward pleasant, enlightened but less productive ones.

Never tell the whole story in the headline if you want optimal click-through.

The tension between good and plenty, God and mammon, became the central tension in American life, propelling ferocious energies and explaining why the U.S. is at once so religious and so materialist. Americans are moral materialists, spiritualists working on matter.