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Last week it came out that Airbnb was launching something that seemed eerily similar to a managed hotel.
http://mashable.com/2017/10/13/airbnb-niido-hotel-time-share/#vgF7KJGZBOqw
To summarize, they are partnering with a development firm to launch something that is more tightly managed under the Airbnb brand....

I was reading an article comparing California vs. Kansas by Robert Reich.
The gist was that as Kansas has cut taxes supposedly to boost growth, their economy has actually contracted, while California, with some of the highest taxes in the nation, has grown, has the best public university system in the U.S. and debatably the...

A quote from Martin Luther King’s autobiography stood out to me today:
One of the greatest problems of history is that the concepts of love and power are usually contrasted as polar opposites. Love is identified with a resignation of power and power with a denial of love. What is needed is a realization that power without...

Sometimes we need safe places to think about things the wrong way so we can eventually think about them the right way.
I’ve thought about this quote recently due to the Trump election victory.
I’ve had conversations about a (minorly) controversial subject before where I played devils advocate. Or I just didn’t understand the issue fully, so my opinion was admittedly, wrong....