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My father had a kidney failure and he died. I was knocked for a loop, and I lost my best friend in the whole world. Those of you who have lost a loved one know what that’s like.

MRW watching #starwars the force awakens trailer. Hayya 'Alash Sholah (Let's Pray)!

The important thing is how well your design works, not what people think of it. Do your best work, even if you don’t get any credit for it.

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Read 21 Spectacular Aerial Photos Taken By Drones

The Ultralinx previously featured a talented drone photographer called Jakub Polomski who took some awesome shots of Iceland with his drone. Check them out.

We're only a few days away from the new Nexus announcement, and it's prime time for some leaks. We've already revealed the Nexus 5X and 6P boxes (along wit... by Ryan Whitwam in Exclusives, Huawei, Leaks, News, Nexus 6P

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How I Explained My Job to My Mum

If your own mum doesn’t understand your value in a company, how do you sell it to a client?

Like many of my peers, my dear mother has a really tough time explaining to her friends what I do. I am a creative strategist and live in Indonesia. Naturally, she is proud as punch – but when it comes to updating her friends on my actual job, she dances around the question by describing ‘where’ I work, rather what I do there. I asked her the other day to tell me what she tells her friends. The response was: “You set up Facebook ads at a dog-friendly agency.” It couldn’t be further from the truth.

Not to dig into mum, but her response represents a wider issue in the industry around communication. If you cast your minds back to 1980, the world wide web was still 13 years away; the print and publishing sector had added 370,000 new jobs; and millennial children were just being born. The job that you are in now probably did not exist. Millennial children are creating and taking roles that were previously alien concepts – thanks to developments in technology. The value of many of these newer jobs varies among different groups of people. The job of a strategist to one person could mean anything from a community manager to a user-experience designer, which makes managing expectations quite difficult.

So if your own mother doesn’t understand your value in a company, how do you sell it to a client?

This is a problem that many people in tech currently face – digital strategists, planners, developers and designers. Communicating the capability and role of digital to a brand (as a whole) is so important in portraying its value.

This also helps to get ideas across the line. When clients are unfamiliar, ill-informed or unprepared they feel dumb, and when presented with an idea they will tend to reject it. Communicating your role in the wider business problem in language that people understand – devoid of a generation gap – is key to showing your value in business.

A simple rule is that if your own mother understands your intentions, then you are working towards solving a real human problem.

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Ryan Reynolds Is All Of Us When Assembling An Ikea Crib

Ryan Reynolds is on the cover of the latest issue of GQ and, in a surprisingly down-to-earth video that’s part of a behind-the-scenes look at the shoot, the new dad attempts to take on something all parents fear: assembling a crib from Ikea.

Watch the full video – the struggle is so real.

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I first met Drew Houston four years ago, when Dropbox, the file storage and synchronization company he founded in 2007, reached 25 million users. Dropbox was in the midst of a growth spurt that has...

After years of investment and exploration, syncing files is still the only thing Dropbox does well. Steve Jobs knew this: he famously told Houston (while trying to acquire it) that his company was "a feature and not a product." As Dropbox rocketed to 400 million users, Jobs’ viewpoint was easy to dismiss. But as its rivals caught up, and Dropbox began casting about for its next act, Jobs has come to look more prescient. Dropbox’s consumer products are losing their luster, and their business products lag well behind their competitors.

In a sprawling stretch of desert just eight miles from the Syrian border is a dusty city born out of necessity. These are the people who live there.

Throughout the Za'atari camp, families have decorated their living spaces to make it theirs in an otherwise forgettable, anonymous place. Some have painted bright patterns on the metal exteriors of their caravans; others have grown small gardens, creating patches of color in the beige landscape.

As they wait, people fill their days with art and music or working in the restaurants and business they have built. Trapped in a no-man's land with little control of their own fate, they may be unable to leave or return home.

But they are surviving.