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Airbnb Co-Founder Joe Gebbia Talks About the Art of Making Accommodations

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It was the middle of the middle class,” he says. At Brookwood, his art teachers regularly modified the curriculum to make classes more challenging for him. It’s the clothes we wear, the phones we talk on, the lights we see with and the cars we drive. As it turns out, his childhood was fairly simple. “It

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What I Learned the Year We (Nearly) Skipped Christmas

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My suitcase was packed, my traveling clothes all laid out. My mom tried to help by encouraging me to like stuff that other girls my age liked: clothes, boy bands, teen magazines. I bucked her attempts to put me in stylish clothes and instead opted for baggy T-shirts. Mortified, I tried to hide behind a clothing rack.

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How to Talk to Your Boss About Race: A New Book Explores Language Used in the Workplace and How We Can Improve

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These slights can take the form of offhand comments, jokes, backhanded compliments or insults. It can take the form of microaggressions or just plain aggression. Intersectionality refers to the ways in which those holding multiple marginalized identities can experience compounding or entirely unique forms of marginalization.

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Shaping Sara Blakely: Meet the Billionaire Founder of Spanx

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She even signed up for a fear-of-flying seminar to help calm her nerves, but she missed so many classes because of her schedule and constant traveling that her instructor told her, “I don’t know if I should be mad at you or proud of you, but you’re never here because you’re always on a plane.” Practicality is kind of her thing.

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The Big ‘Why’: Unraveling the Purpose of Work in a Changing World

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But now, in certain classes, I’m less inclined to share my perspective,” he says. “I Are we recognizing tasks such as delivering food, washing clothes and taking out the compost as meaningful work? However, he’s experienced the increasingly polarized political landscape affecting the classroom. “In

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Stop Saying "When I Was Your Age"

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Also, nothing makes you look worse than clothes that are too tight, too loose or too worn, so get them altered or get rid of them if needed. There’s nothing quite as valuable to co-workers and company brass than the relationships you have formed over the years with vendors, customers, competitors, etc. Keeping up on current events.

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Eco Friendly Entertainment Options for Your Next Corporate Party

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Have an organic cooking class. You can even serve the prepared meals afterwards on cloth tablecloths and “green” tableware rather than plastic. One of the most effective ways to educate someone is to provide them with information in the form of giveaways. Host a raffle.

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