When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around. | | | | REDEF branding session at Red Antler NYC
(Red Antler) | | | | |  | “When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.”
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| | rantnrave:// The Spark. When I was a child, my mother told me to always ask "why?" when I didn't understand something. It was a directive she slightly regretted towards the end of her life. Early on, she took me to museums and films. We read newspapers and discussed articles, watched the same TV shows and debated afterwards, sparking in me an endless curiosity that was only satiated by the emergence of the internet - a place I could search and browse endlessly, learn at my own pace and enter into discussions about ideas. These moments with my mother, and others like them, inspired me to create REDEF. The Product. We create interest remixes for curious minds. An interest remix is a curated information stream with a specific industry focus wrapped with pop culture nuggets. We're not too interested in the fact that something happened, but we're super interested in what it means, how it affects us, and different perspectives on the topic. Our curators are like DJs, spinning ideas to get your mind moving. We push ourselves to find items beyond where we would normally look, ideas we might not have considered. We hope they'll interest you, too. IAC and EXPEDIA Chairman BARRY DILLER once said: "We're in a world now where it's not enough to be smart. You have to be curious." REDEF is about curiosity. Helping you be more informed so you can take ideas with you. Apply them at work. Share them with your friends and colleagues. Have lively, useful, and positive discussions about them. This is not a daily news site, nor is it an algorithmic discovery engine. We hand-pick everything you see on REDEF. We utilize technology to hunt and gather, but our editorial decisions are our own. The internet is infinite, full of more mind-expanding content than one could ever hope to absorb; we're here to help narrow it down. Learn more... My fake tweet from the Monster-In-Chief... Happy Birthday to FERNANDA PINHEIRO, ALEX ROY, and Allan INFELD. | | | - Jason Hirschhorn, curator |
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| Shadow World reveals the shocking realities of the global arms trade, the only business that counts its profits in billions and its losses in human lives. Based on Andrew Feinstein’s acclaimed book The Shadow World: Inside the Global Arms Trade, the film explores how governments, their militaries and intelligence agencies, defense contractors, arms dealers and agents are intertwined. | | |
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 | Vanity Fair |
| During a May 10 meeting in the Oval Office, the president betrayed his intelligence community by leaking the content of a classified, and highly sensitive, Israeli intelligence operation to two high-ranking Russian envoys, Sergey Kislyak and Sergey Lavrov. This is what he told them-and the ramifications. | | |
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 | Bloomberg |
| Richard Plepler, a quarter-century veteran of the network, on what’s next. | | |
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 | BuzzFeed |
| Reports of sexual harassment destroyed his reputation and his career. But I want to talk about the deeper, subtler, more insidious effect Mark Halperin had on our politics. | | |
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| Marketer Seth Matlins on the damage done by advertising that enforces unrealistic beauty ideals and how the Truth in Advertising Act hopes to generate positive change. | | |
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 | The Guardian |
| The long read: Vacuous management-speak is easily laughed off - but is there a real cost to talking rubbish? | | |
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 | The New York Times |
| Twitter should scrap a founding principle - everyone gains equal footing and any behavior is tolerated - and create a new system that rewards positive contributions. | | |
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 | The Ringer |
| Ahead of James Franco’s ‘The Disaster Artist,’ we talked to the creators, authors, and fans to understand the making of the movie based on the book about the making of the best bad movie ever made. (Got that?) | | |
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 | International Business Times |
| Pensions, universities and nonprofits are stashing public money offshore, despite secret documents that acknowledge the risks. | | |
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 | Quartz |
| Originally appointed by Obama, Pai is dismantling equal access to the internet. | | |
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 | AVC |
| I have written about net neutrality frequently here at AVC. I believe that for as long as we have local monopolies and duopolies for last mile broadband internet in most parts of the US, we need our federal government to actively reign in the broadband providers from doing things that are anti-innovation, anti-consumer, and pro-big business. | | |
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 | The Washington Post |
| As FBI indicts middlemen, maybe it’s time the government took a hard look at the administrators who perpetuate a system destined to be corrupt. | | |
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 | Genius |
| "Streaming is like the Atari era in video gaming. It’s just gonna get bigger." | | |
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| Vanity Fair |
| Netflix’s Ted Sarandos has billions to spend and Oscars in his eyes. But is the streaming service the future of movies, or the death of an art form? It looks more and more as if the Academy Awards may help determine the answer. | | |
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 | Aspen Ideas Festival |
| Journalists say they're operating in a challenging atmosphere, where fake news online has blurred the line between fact and fiction. | | |
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 | Slate |
| Here are just a few of the thousands of people indirectly affected by the scandals tearing through Hollywood and the media. | | |
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 | MediaPost |
| Maybe you weren't early to bitcoin. Maybe you missed the boat on ethereum. But you still want to get rich, right? Announcing the next big cryptocurrency opportunity: LyfeCorp. Get in on ourforthcoming Initial Coin Offering (ICO). Because, this is the ultimate currency-and therefore will be the most valuable coin you can possibly master. The secret to determining the value of anything in the universe, including cryptocurrencies, follows here. | | |
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| BuzzFeed |
| Whitney Houston’s behind-the-scenes role in creating the best-selling soundtrack of The Bodyguard, which turns 25 this year, is a reminder that she was much more than just “The Voice.” | | |
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 | The New Yorker |
| Concerns about President Trump’s role in the case don’t alter the fact that, on economic grounds, the merger demands rigorous inspection. | | |
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 | Fast Company |
| The rise and fall (and rise again) of dessert-based activism. | | |
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 | The Conversation |
| The famous feuding Gallagher brothers of the rock band Oasis illustrate what research shows: Kids who grow up in homes where there is domestic violence often grow up to have troubled relationships. | | |
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 | YouTube |
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