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Like my recurring listicle, Good Honest Folk, I’m going to post  a weekly list of great articles. Similar to Buzzfeed “Big Stories” & Gawker’s “Long reads” columns, here posted are reads I loved to read.

Reads & References:

• Tal Bloom, Mystical guidelines for creating great user experiences
• Ben Yagoda, The Most Comma Mistakes
• Charles M. Blow, My Murdered Cousin Had a Name
  • Especially prescient to the recent Gay Marriage Ruling and the awful Church shooting in South Carolina: “I wish that Larry had survived to see a time when the country was fighting to affirm both parts of his identity, fighting to acknowledge that his black life mattered and his love life mattered. I wish he had lived to see more people come to understand the intersectionality of oppression — that racism and homophobia are born of the same beast.” (NYTimes, 6/29/15)
• Kate Baggaley, How Your Brain Knows Summer is Coming
• Conor Friedersdorf, The Satisfaction of an Inventor
• James Hamblin, 100 Percent Is Overrated
  • On teaching flexibility, not labels of identity: “What matters for improving performance is that a person is challenged, which requires a mindset that is receptive to being challenged—if not actively seeking out challenge and failure.” (The Atlantic, 6/30/15)

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