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wilwheaton: kadrey: Lego Just Got Told Off By A 7-Year-Old Girl “ Dear Lego company: My name is Charlotte. I am 7 years old and I love legos but I don’t like that there are more Lego boy people and barely any Lego girls. Today I went to a store and saw legos in two sections the girls pink and the boys blue. All the girls did was sit at home, go to the beach, and […]

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“Do what you love” disguises the fact that being able to choose a career primarily for personal reward is a privilege, a sign of socioeconomic class. Even if a self-employed graphic designer had parents who could pay for art school and co-sign a lease for a slick Brooklyn apartment, she can bestow DWYL as career advice upon those covetous of her success. If we believe that working as a Silicon Valley entrepreneur or a museum […]

2013 in review

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Years in review

2013 was my first full year in the US. The longer I stay, the less I understand – and I mean from a positive sense. There is much more here than meets the eye, and a lot of my Swedish pre-justices about this country turned out to be wrong. I also had more of them than I thought. The nuances get lost and those are the ones that are really interesting.  This is the fourth […]