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Navigating the pandemic has become a numbers game. Last Monday, we met the “rule of six” – a new restriction which dictates that no more than six people may meet at any time – with an extensive list of caveats that absolutely do not include mingling. (These rules were published 23 minutes before they came into effect, which set most of late-night, doom-scrolling Twitter on fire.)

Right, that’s it. I’ve run out of patience. The next middle-class self-employed creative to whine about working from home thanks to coronavirus is going to get a smack.

If you’ve got nothing to hide, so they say, you’ve got nothing to fear. Which begs the question: why, in our era of transparency, do companies still try to exploit gagging orders – and expect it not to come back to bite them?

Is it possible to run a software company alone? originally appeared on Quora: the place to gain and share knowledge, empowering people to learn from others and better understand the world. In terms of founding a company and hiring a few people who would help at first, it’s possible to run a software company alone. There are tons of freelancers and “one-man show” companies that provide professional software services. When you hire the first few people in your team, it’s also normal that you are...

If you’ve passed the interview for a similar job, there are two ways to tell if you are ready: In order to keep it on the safe side and ensure that you can learn and grow with the company, here are several things that you can do in order to alleviate possible problems. Make sure that your skills are up to date. Our front-end lead has been coding sixty hours a week (working on tons of personal projects) for seven years now and still tends to discover new frameworks, libraries, tools that would...

How do I make web dev/programmer friends when I'm a beginner? originally appeared on Quora: the place to gain and share knowledge, empowering people to learn from others and better understand the world. The best path to making friends in the programming world when you're a beginner would be to find folks who are at the same step of the learning cycle as you are. Sure, you can find more experienced folks or complete beginners who are eager to learn, and that would certainly do.

I wrote this story at my most recent internship at the Center for Community Change in Washington, D.C.

Before I became a mom, I woke up naturally, as bluebirds pulled back my covers with their little beaks and doe-eyed deers brought me my slippers. At least that’s my...

As a new software engineer, why should I stay at a company for longer than one to two years? originally appeared on Quora: the place to gain and share knowledge, empowering people to learn from others and better understand the world. More often than not, there’s a company that is rapidly growing and looking for talent due to funding or an influx of new customers (uncommon as compared to the history over the previous years). The work overload is pressing the HR team to increase the salary cap...

When a WW2 Resistant tells a newspaper that in French politics, Le Pen represents the negation of all that the Resistance fought for and calls on everyone to vote Emmanuel Macron next Sunday.

You see through all of the BS - but sometimes it’s just not your place to fix it.

Digital ads rely (mostly) on a media outlet promoting one’s services. It’s (almost) always a cash-driven transaction and widespread across the net for decades. Influencers, on the other hand, tend to promote brands that they are willing to connect to and bet their name on them. Influencer marketing is not a new trend, just as digital ads weren’t anything groundbreaking (given their predecessor the print ads, billboards and other forms of offline banners). Brands have been utilizing influencers and industry leaders in order to promote their products and services for quite some time - probably longer than the ads’ existence. One practical example is Cristiano Ronaldo’s contract with a popular brand. In 2016 alone, he has generated $500M in value for Nike.

The summer I turned 19, having dropped out of college amid some personal upheaval, I decided to apply to be a flight attendant. I wanted to get out into the...

An article ghost written for Dr. Kay.

A little over two months ago an estimated 4,600,000 people marched for women’s rights. Women and men peacefully assembled and protested inequality. It’s been two months of opposition. Two months...

It seems a city has been spotlighted for becoming a haven for the rich. So where to if you want to hang out with the wealthy? – Monaco. The city-state is renowned as the premier playground of the rich and famous and has come in at top of the charts for cities with the highest percentage of millionaires per head of population. A survey from 2014 was carried out by Spear’s magazine and wealth consultancy company WealthInsight, whom found that almost a third of the tiny state’s 37,000 population

Internet marketing has earned its place at the table with core public relations strategies, but get an edge against other brands with certain tools that social-media expert’s use. It’s getting harder to stand out amid the sea of audio, video, images, blogs, and even more against the companies that take full advantage of digital content marketing’s ROI (Return on Investment). Designed with realtors in mind, the tool syncs your Facebook ad campaign directly to your external website. From there,

As I write this today, 5 April, 2017, Kerala is celebrating the 60th anniversary of its first government. The linguistic state came into being on...

Dealing with divorce comes in all shapes and sizes, but unfortunately it’s usually the worst ones – well, sometimes that is. We shouldn’t walk out on love, unless it’s one of the reasons you’re not happy – then that’s a different story. It’s easy when the love you had for one another is shallow, selfish or incomplete. But when the love you had for this person changed your core, then there is no more difficult decision than deciding whether or not the person you’ve married is still the right pe

Don’t just check your priorities - check your perspective.

Dear Terrance, If you are reading this letter, I have successfully manipulated the speed of light and have traveled back in time to deliver you a message. I write this letter to you as your 27 year old self. I am essentially still you, only I am a little older and wiser.

Earlier this week, Jason (How-Does-He-Sleep-At-Night) Chaffetz suggested that with the new, World’s Greatest Healthcare Plan of 2017, people will have the incredible choice between buying a new iPhone and investing...

As Women’s History Month marches on with social media hashtags and documentary screenings and powerful slogans, the perception can come across as if we’ve won. As if we can stop fighting. As if the battle isn’t worth fighting for anyway. But as many of us know, that is far from the truth.

The recent awareness campaign #MelanomaHeroes speaks to me on an even more personal level, as it afforded me the opportunity to publicly thank the two most important people in my life: my twin daughters.

As MPs gave the Government the go-ahead by voting the Brexit bill and the Lords are debating it now, Gina Miller, the businesswoman and philanthropist who successfully challenged the Prime minister over Article 50 at the Supreme Court, kindly accepted to answer my questions in an exclusive interview.

A healthy work-life balance reminds employees that their job doesn’t define them.

Explore Amangani with some of the best skiing in Jackson Hole, offering over 2,471 acres of terrain for experts and beginners alike. If you’re not a skier, you’re in luck – say hello to the bunny slopes, you can take lessons, or go snowmobiling, snowshoeing or on a sleigh ride. Not to mention the view is worth booking the trip alone, a big-sky wilderness resort, perched on a butte near Yellowstone National Park. When it comes to some of the best options for lodging on a ski vacation, Montage De

My parents both watched True Detective before I did. I’d heard the hype, read the reviews, but I had very little interest in a show where Matthew McConaughey played a leading role. Still, I figured I’d ask the people whose opinion I trusted the most what they thought. My mother told me that Dad liked it, but she wasn’t crazy. “There’s no good female characters,” she said. But countless people, my father included, told me to give it a try. So I did.