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Welcome to this week’s Garden Study Interview! These interviews feature conversations with Garden Study readers like you all about their own gardening rollercoasters. The basics are as follows: You don’t have to be an expert, just enthusiastic I make a document with some straightforward questions and send them off; if you have ideas for questions to include in future Q&As, put them in the comments The goal is to include all types of gardening (container, flower, patio, community, desert, mountain, vegetable you name it) and zones; please be patient, I promise we’ll get to all of them

Very, very few people can be trusted to recommend a book you will actually like. The way we interact with books is so personal. Like all art, we bring to a book all of our own garbage: our traumas and fears, our joys and heartaches. Sometimes we know what we like, but sometimes we are wrong. Earlier today, a friend of mine was describing a book they are reading, and I knew immediately what kind of book it was to me: it was the dreaded “book I will talk shit about for six years before reading and falling in love with.

THE ONSEN EGG may just be the perfect egg of all time. A creamy-extremely-jammy yolk and a buttery-yet-silky set white. The Japanese mastered the art of slow-cooking eggs thousands of years ago cooking them in hot springs called onsens. But you don’t need to go to Japan to cook the perfect egg… You don’t need an onsen. You don’t even need a thermometre. Below, is a method you use at home and we will get onto that in just a minute.

Hello BPL fam, With the recent wave of layoffs in the tech industry (a situation which sadly might get worse with the recent collapse of Silicon Valley Bank), I wanted to write a post that helps PM candidates put themselves out there in the best light. Thus, in this edition of Behind Product Lines, we’ll be looking at how to stand out from the crowd by developing a Product Management portfolio that catches the eyes of hiring managers.

Well, lookie here: I was mentioned in the NY Times “On Comedy” column for a standup set I did filled with jokes about Israel and Palestine ("This is how Jews handle crisis."). Also mentioned in the piece: Dave Chappelle and Larry David. I’m now tryna start a group chat with ‘em called “button pushers.” We’ll see. Here’s the set: And while we’re talking about the Middle East… You can oppose what Israel is doing in Gaza without sounding like a moron, naif, or anti-semite.

The views and opinions expressed in this article are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of Victory Briefs. Lawrence Zhou was the 2014 NSDA National Champion in LD. He is an assistant coach at the Harker School and the Co-Director of Lincoln-Douglas Debate and Director of Publishing at Victory Briefs. As we transition into the off-season and many tournaments around the country are being cancelled out of an abundance of caution due to fears of COVID-19, now is as good a time as any to start learning some new skills.

Embedding a Google reviews link on your website is one of the simplest yet most effective ways to collect more Google reviews. That is why we outlined a few methods for making this button stand out, have a better click-through, and encourage as many customers as possible to leave a review in the Google review form. With these steps, we will show you how to embed a floating widget with a Google reviews button: Register for the Google reviews widget;

A sponsor can be transformative to your career. When I say “sponsor,” I’m talking about someone who opens doors for you, pushes you to take on stretch assignments, and provides you with opportunities you didn't know existed. I've previously written a lot about mentors and sponsors, and the differences between the two. Put simply, mentors give you advice for achieving success, but sponsors create a path for you to get there.

Welcome to the latest issue of Digital Investigations! Earlier this year, I spent a few months investigating Facebook Marketplace, the social giant’s wildly successful peer-to-peer sales product. We uncovered how the company fails to protect buyers and sellers from scam listings, fake accounts and violent crime. The story took months of work, and was based on internal documents, interviews with workers, law enforcement records, and work I did to document scams and fake accounts on Marketplace.