Howard Lovy | Longreads | November 2018 | 17 minutes (4,186 words) On the banks of the Danube, there is a place where the great river takes two sharp 45-degree turns, making it difficult for ships to pass unseen. For centuries, this feature made…

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Not too long ago, I was setting up slides in my classroom to teach a new MBA course when a student mistook me for the IT support specialist who was ostensibly setting up for the professor. Classic stereotyping: Asian woman equals tech support, not…

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Dec 26, 2019 · 7 min read A relative studying my face at the dinner table over Christmas might have assumed that someone made a distasteful joke or that the squash was over-seasoned. Welcome to a place where words matter. On Medium, smart…

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I've complained before that wellness — especially the Instagram version — is typically marketed as a women's issue, promoting products aimed at unfair physical expectations. But pseudoscience does not… Welcome to a place where…

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The writer Shane Parrish, perhaps best known as a self-improvement guru for the Wall Street crowd, recently tweeted, “The four most dangerous words to accomplishing your dreams are: ‘I'll do it later.'” Welcome to a place where…

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