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The Real Kevin Bacon

Demystifying the 6 degrees of Kevin Bacon: the past, present, and future center of Hollywood.

Pudding · EN

The last real programmers are dying out...

Fireship · EN

Ryan Serhant: How to Get People to Say Yes

Ryan Serhant is a real estate broker, founder of SERHANT., and star of Bravo’s Million Dollar Listing New York and Netflix’s Owning Manhattan. He explains how to sell without making people feel sold to: build a connection, help first, and earn the right to ask. He also breaks down the psychology of attention and persuasion, … The post Ryan Serhant: How to Get People to Say Yes appeared first on Farnam Street .

Farnam Street · EN

Why the real Christopher Robin resented Pooh Bear

AA Milne's son told the BBC that he took to "avoiding the subject"

BBC Culture · EN

Sync real-time Stripe data to Postgres with Stripe Data Pipeline

Applications rely on current Stripe data to fulfill orders, update customer accounts, and manage access to paid features. Until now, developers have had to build and maintain custom integrations to keep application databases in sync with Stripe. We’re introducing real-time sync to Postgres for Stripe Data Pipeline, which lets them keep databases current without having to build custom integrations.

Stripe Blog · EN

What makes something real?

What is the color red? What counts as a mountain versus a hill? What is a president, and what powers does a president have? According to Lisa Feldman Barrett, PhD, a University Distinguished Professor of Psychology at Northeastern University, the answers have something important in common: They depend, at least in part, on people collectively assigning meaning to physical signals in the world. “What you do, what you don’t do, what you say, what you don’t say — your daily actions help to constitute reality, help to manifest reality,” Barrett says. A different way to think about reality It’s par

Big Think · EN