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When Alexander Hodge showed up in the Coachella scene of HBO’s “Insecure,” eyebrows raised. The actress and creator of HBO’s “Insecure” had already been canceled for a chapter in her 2015 book “The Misadventures of Awkward Girl.” Speaking about the dating obstacles that African-American women and Asian men deal with (specifically considering African-American men and Asian women are more likely to be open to interracial dating), the actress said, “This is why I propose that black women and Asian men join forces in love, marriage and procreation.

Hi Peer, When given the choice, as Windows Phone rode off into the sunset (dramatic pause 😢🌇), I went full Android. And I haven’t looked back since. My daily driver these days is a Google Pixel 3 XL. It serves me well across the whole of work and life. My old Lumia 950 sits boxed, museum ready and snake free, among the Raiders-like shelving in the garage. Last year, my company required an on-device update for Android users.

We’ve got one last post before Christmas! It’s the written Q&A of a really fun interview that Chris Wittyngham and I did this week with Andrés Cordero, the lead soccer commentator for CBS Sports. There’s so much good stuff in here, from Cordero’s meticulous game preparation routine to his advice for students to sharing his incredible story of getting out of Cuba with his family, spending a year in Noriega’s Panama, enduring the U.

Hello from Balboa Island! We are on a tour du Southern California for the boys’ Spring Break. We kicked things off with four nights at the Hotel del Coronado, a magical wonderland on Coronado Island in San Diego, with some of our best friends and their three kids. George was stationed on Coronado when he was in the Navy, so we lived there for two years right after we got married, and every inch of that island is packed with memories from our time there.

The place was Japan, the year 2002. A terrible CLAMP manga (lit. ‘Japanese Comic Book’) was chosen to be adapted into an A·ni·me, a brand new techwizardry designed to salvage kinomatic value out of half-baked panels and plots. It was a good attempt. Unfortunately for humanity, it didn’t work. Okay, maybe it worked if their goal was pander to the worst of desires of 2002’s sex-starved otakus (lit. ‘Japanese Comic Book Incel’), in which case it was a resounding success.

Hey, Nick here! In this newsletter, I curate insights and timeless principles on how to build great products. You’ll improve your product skills with every issue. Here’s a video for you today… Ann Miura-Ko on Floodgates's Thunder Lizard Theory and Achieving Product Market Fit Ann Miura-Ko holds a PhD from Stanford in math modeling of infosec and is a co-founder of the VC firm, Floodgate. She was an early investor in Lyft where she saw her investment grow 10,000x.

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Anna Castellani—the owner and creative mind behind Dekalb Market Hall, The Hugh Food Hall, ANA Bar & Eatery and the late Foragers Market and Foragers Table—will open Nina, a Mediterranean restaurant in DUMBO, on December 1.  The sprawling 3200-square-foot restaurant takes the place of Foragers Market on the corner of Adams and Front Streets. At Nina, you’ll find two magnificent bars, 130 seats, and a state of the art hi-fi system where DJs will spin a large collection of vintage and contemporary vinyl.

Saturday, November 3, 2023 Yesterday, Anna Wintour celebrated her 74th birthday, so as promised on Thursday, we wanted to dedicate this issue to her. There is a lot to say about the fashion icon, and there are many significant moments that happened throughout her years at Vogue but today, let’s look closely at one particular episode that marked the history of Vogue - Anna’s very first cover for the November 1988 issue.