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After probing his deep-state background and Illuminati connections, I was hoping to be rid of the Jeffrey Epstein file but here we are spinning another round in this Part IV of a saga of sexual perversion and financial crime that refuses to go away. via Pocket

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I was coaching Sanjay,* a leader in a technology firm who felt stuck and frustrated. He wasn’t where he wanted to be at this point in his career. He had come to our coaching session, as usual, prepared to discuss the challenges he was currently facing. via Pocket

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If you’re like most people, you’ve probably never met a robot. But you will. I met one on a windy, bright day last January, on the short-grass prairie near Colorado’s border with Kansas, in the company of a rail-thin 31-year-old from San Francisco named Noah Ready-Campbell. via Pocket

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A lot of pixels have been scattered and ink spilled about the importance of building an Open Source Program Office (from here on in, OSPO) in your software company. If you’re the one the job has landed on, congratulations! Right now, I am that person. via Pocket

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For this Humans of Machine Learning (#humansofml) interview, I’m thrilled to share my conversation with Han Xiao. I had been looking forward to this interview for a while. I’ve followed Han since the early days of his personal blog and have really been inspired by him. via Pocket

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When I was waking up at 6 AM to study Support Vector Machines I thought: “This is really tough! But, hey, at least I will become very valuable for my future employer!”. If I could get the DeLorean, I would go back in time and call “Bulls**t!” on myself. via Pocket

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Differences in leadership culture can create unexpected paradoxes. American bosses, for example, think of themselves as egalitarian, yet to the famously hierarchical Japanese, they can come across as dictatorial. via Pocket

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The idea of Universal Basic Income (UBI) is for the government to transfer a lump sum to every individual or household, regardless of how much they earn on their own. As Matt Yglesias recently described it, it’s essentially a plan to make social security universal. via Pocket

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JP Morgan Chase & Co. is the biggest bank in the United States. It is one of the largest employers in the American banking sector, with more than 240,000 employees serving millions of customers. via Pocket

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PDF: We made a fancy PDF of this post for printing and offline viewing. Buy it here. (Or see a preview.) Note: The reason this post took three weeks to finish is that as I dug into research on Artificial Intelligence, I could not believe what I was reading. via Pocket

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The claims are ludicrous. (I try to maintain professional language, but sometimes …) For instance, the story appears to say that we will go from one million grounds and maintenance workers in the U.S. to only 50,000 in 10 to 20 years, because robots will take over those jobs. via Pocket

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From my parents’ teenage years in the 1930s and ’40s through my teenage years in the 1970s, American economic life became a lot more fair and democratic and secure than it had been when my grandparents were teenagers. via Pocket

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I skip breakfast each day and eat two meals, the first around 1pm and the second around 8pm. Then, I fast for 16 hours until I start eating again the next day at 1pm. via Pocket

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The “future of freemium” article is something I truly believe in, deeply within myself. Since I’m 100% positive it will become true, I’ll call it one of my theses The future of freemium is a short article diving into how the world will work soon enough. via Pocket

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IN THE wee hours after Singapore’s general election on July 10th hundreds of supporters of the Workers’ Party (WP), the main opposition outfit, streamed onto the streets to celebrate their party’s showing, in defiance of the city-state’s strict social-distancing rules. via Pocket

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Top image credit: Workers’ Party Facebook via Pocket