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Apple and the Bananas: A Steve Jobs Personal Remembrance
Apple and the Bananas: A Steve Jobs Personal Remembrance

From Jules Verne to the Iron Curtain, or why ‘bondi blue’ is the defining color of my curiosity.

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Edward Gorey’s Never-Before-Seen Letters and Illustrated Envelopes
Edward Gorey’s Never-Before-Seen Letters and Illustrated Envelopes

What a housefly has to do with Tim Burton and everything that makes snail mail great.

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Lip Service: The Science of Smiles
Lip Service: The Science of Smiles

What crow’s feet have to do with authenticity and why you don’t remember your first smile.

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Networked Knowledge and Combinatorial Creativity
Networked Knowledge and Combinatorial Creativity

Why creativity is like LEGO, or what Richard Dawkins has to do with Susan Sontag and Gandhi.

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Anything You Want: Derek Sivers on the Secrets of Entrepreneurship
Anything You Want: Derek Sivers on the Secrets of Entrepreneurship

Why not to trust futurists, or what the entrepreneurial power of empathy has to do with the art of letting go.

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Breakfast at Tiffany’s Turns 50: Celebrating Audrey Hepburn
Breakfast at Tiffany’s Turns 50: Celebrating Audrey Hepburn

One of Old Hollywood’s most charismatic personalities, captured through the affection lens of a dear friend.

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Five Timeless Books of Insight on Fear and the Creative Process
Five Timeless Books of Insight on Fear and the Creative Process

From Monet to Tiger Woods, or why creating rituals and breaking routines don’t have to be conflicting notions.

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Comic Books for Grown-Ups: 10 Masterpieces of Graphic Nonfiction
Comic Books for Grown-Ups: 10 Masterpieces of Graphic Nonfiction

Seeing the world in six-panel strips, or what Allen Ginsberg has to do with the wonders of zygotes.

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The Influencing Machine: A Brief Visual History of the Media
The Influencing Machine: A Brief Visual History of the Media

What a statue of Saddam has to do with cognitive bias, or how to think critically about improving information.

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Words To Live By: 5 Timeless Commencement Addresses
Words To Live By: 5 Timeless Commencement Addresses

Gifts vs. choices, the benefits of failure, and what calligraphy has to do with Apple’s success.

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