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Alexis Ohanian calls the world of web community sites “a kind of brotherhood”—and pokes a little bit of fun at his company’s rivals.
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Reddit’s co-founders were impressed—and deeply proud—when good intentions online started translating into real-world results.
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In Reddit’s early days, the site’s co-founders submitted content under a variety of fake identities in order to make it look like there were more users than there actually were.
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When Reddit’s co-founders approached seed venture fund Y-Combinator to ask for money, they were unceremoniously dismissed. Half a train-ride later, they re-invented the company and created a social news giant.
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A conversation with the co-founder of Reddit.
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“It’s been a dream in the minds of many people to associate the excitement of sense and olfaction and perfumes with other elements from the entertaining world,” says Laudamiel. His […]
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Perfumers sometimes aim to recreate the scents of things not typically associated with smell.
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The world of perfumery must borrow the language of music, botanics, architecture, and taste—and apply them in a rigorous and objective way—to describe its fundamental elements.
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When you smell a perfume you may be smelling hundreds of molecules at once, but the best nose in the world cannot smell more than five distinct scents.
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Judging a fine fragrance is like watching the pieces of a puzzle fit together, or examining the many facets of a building, Christophe Laudamiel.
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A conversation with a fine fragrance perfumer.
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The thrill of acting is “the honor of being able to change a person’s life by what it is you do,” says Grey. Illuminating an idea through your role is […]
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The live performance that you see is unique. It’s yours. And sometimes a live performance can touch a nerve that both the actors and audience can share the experience of.
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Acting always affects every part of your life because taking on the responsibility of someone else’s character is a solitary, lonely, thrilling circumstance.
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When he was performing at just nine years old, Grey looked down from the stage to see audience members sobbing. “I thought, ‘Wow. Wow! This is the real thing.’ This […]
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As the world’s largest brewer, AB InBev’s business is built around increasing the amount of beer people consume. So why is the company advocating for moderate drinking?
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Literature has always been slow to adapt to new technologies, which on the one hand might be its saving grace but could just as well lead to its demise.
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“Portnoy’s Complaint” by Philip Roth and “Kalooki Nights” by Howard Jacboson are Safran Foer’s picks for the best novels about the Holocaust—even though they are not explicitly about the genocide.