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art + education = fashion

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Nerds http://ow.ly/3t7xgI

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Andy Warhol and his preciousssss, 1965. (found on the back page of Saveur Magazine, October 2013) 

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This really made my week.. Had a great time talking to the kind folks of #LSMNYC yesterday

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Had a great time at #LeanNJ yesterday, talking to 80+ entrepreneurs about #Customer #Acquisition (and my 9 mo old). Shout to @chike_uzoka for the photo!

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Dave Chappelle Maya Angelou Iconoclasts Part 2 of…:

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Uff what ya heard

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Sarah Kendzior in Al Jazeera

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Maya Angelou (April 4, 1928-May 28, 2014). Dancer. Singer. Poet. Author. Speaker. Educator. Creative. Inspirer. Mother. Black woman. Beautiful. She means so much to me. Everything. May she rest in peace. 

"My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style."

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Maya Angelou dead at 86. 

Read some of her poetry available for free online here.

(Image Source: Chester Higgins Jr via Getty Images)

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RIP Maya Angelou - towering intellectual, burgeoning soul

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100 years later, what does Europe’s WWI battlefield landscape look like? via Smithsonian Magazine

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Xu Bing and the story of The Phoenix, which will be on display at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine this week

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Lauren Belski at the Franklin Park Reading Series, 12/9/13

Buy the drawing here.

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Was a huge privilege and a pleasure to talk about customer acquisition and digital strategy at Lean Startup Machine yesterday. Thanks Steve Royster for having me! Would be there today as well but this baby furniture is not going to assemble itself unfortunately. #LeanNewark @leannewark

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profits

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“Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you.”

Chuck Klosterman (via lovequotesrus)

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on this labor day, thought it might be fun to share this quote from the FT about how algos are replacing humans

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Malala will win the Nobel Peace Prize before she turns 18.