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Two common conversation starters we get: “Do I have a first edition?” and “I have a first edition.” The first one portends work for us and likely disappointment for the customer; the second one often leads to us explaining why the book is not a first edition while trying not to make the customer feel like a total numbnuts. Luckily there are lots of ways of ascertaining whether or not you have a first edition and this is not the first article written on the subject.

Cult leader personalities can be really dangerous. You should learn to spot them and be cautious of them. This can be difficult, given the alluring nature of these people. Note what I did not say there. I did not say that cult leader personalities are always evil, or that they should be cast out of society. It’s true that all the cult leader types I have known have caused some damage.

Starting a men’s group seven years ago has had the highest return of any investment I’ve made into my personal growth. I can’t think of any better way to nurture meaningful relationships and stay committed to doing our deep “inner-work.” My experience in group has been everything. A place to cry with laughter and collapse in the depths of pain. A place to celebrate my victories and get called out on my bullshit.

Welcome to Is My Kid the Asshole?, a newsletter from science and parenting journalist Melinda Wenner Moyer, which you can read more about here. If you like it, please subscribe and/or share this post with someone else who would too. Dear Is My Kid the Asshole, In general, right now, things for my teen are looking up: Classes are back in-person, it’s almost the end of the school year, and I hear vaccines are going to be available for adolescents soon.

Follow Olivia on Instagram // TikTok // Twitter Olivia Julianna is an abortion rights activist, democracy organizer, and political influencer from Houston, Texas. With over 1 million followers across TikTok, Twitter, and Instagram, her content has accumulated over 1 billion views, changing the political landscape and putting youth voices front and center in the fight for the future of democracy.  Olivia came to national prominence for initiating the takedown of a whistleblower website that targeted anyone in Texas who aiding abortion access, and for raising $2.

How to Think Like a Roman Emperor: The Stoic Philosophy of Marcus Aurelius (2019) has been read (or listened to) by over a quarter of a million people since it was published, in twenty different languages. This is a brief summary of the contents. The introduction explains how I came to write the book, drawing on my background in academic philosophy and training as a cognitive-behavioural psychotherapist, after nearly twenty years of writing and teaching Stoicism.

SQL is an old technology, and like most things from the 70s, it needs to be washed, possibly shaved, put up, forgotten, and hope it never comes back into style. But you see it everywhere, and some specialists seem to know everything about it and don’t permit you to work on it. You are at a big company, so there are DBAs, Data Engineering, Data Excellence, Data Operations, and Data Compliance teams, which all seem to use SQL to make you feel stupid or unworthy of access.

Today I am going to walk you through a framework for using ChatGPT as your personal “writing remixer.” If you’re anything like me, it’s easy to feel “stuck” in a certain pattern of writing. So sometimes it’s helpful to switch things up and try out different tones, styles, and voices. But rather than try and “create” these yourself, we’re going to employ our digital intern ChatGPT who can instantly do this for us.

git cherry-pick is one of the useful commands in Git that helps you to copy, paste commit(s) from one branch to another. Simple. Note that cherry-pick will copy the commits so that the original commit will still be present in the source branch. Most devs will consider cherry-picking is a bad practice that can cause problems like having duplicate commits in multiple branches, messing up with the git history, and others.