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I built a Japanese vocabulary building tool that pulls words and phrases from popular media, like songs and tv shows. I would love some feedback on whether or not the concept reson…

Makes sense. My designer and I used a shared board on Pinterest in the beginning and that worked fine. The part that got hairy was going back and forth with the actual PSDs of the …

Lots of designers seem to be using Pinterest to collect inspiration. How is this different?

Which is sad, because I've found Medium to be a terrific blogging tool for people who don't want to be full time bloggers. The interface is really very easy to use, with the only a…

But isn't there a certain lack of humility in attempting to solve a set of problems that you have no insight into because they do not affect you at all? There is nothing wrong with…

I found Oblivion to be an homage to some of the best sci-fi over the past few decades (Moon, The Matrix, Independence Day), an effect that was ruined by the feeling that it took it…

Ideally we would help ALL students improve, but isn't it better that we give the kids with more involved parents a fighting chance by letting them opt into a more rigorous school? …

Access to quality education is not a right in this country, but attendance is required for a variety of reasons. Most of them related to creating and maintaining a functioning soci…

As we fight to improve the quality of education in urban areas, it is critical that we pay attention to the results we're getting. That is the point, after all. That said, this art…

The A player rhetoric makes it easy to discard an employee without reflecting on how your actions as a company might be affecting that person's performance. The blame for poor perf…

Might I suggest a third reason: Maintaining your sanity. Not just in terms of remembering that there are other people out there struggling alongside you in the entrepreneurship gam…

People often look worse in photos than they do in real life simply because they don't know the tricks for adjusting their face and bodies to achieve the best effect. This photograp…