Jeremy O. Harris Is Spending HBO’s Money on Producing Plays and May Be Funding the Revolution by Helen Shaw (from Vulture) “As part of his HBO deal, Harris has secured a discretionary fund for experimental-theater production, essentially a weird-art slush fund. So he’s now a producer, first donating $80,000 from licensing his own plays toward micro-grants for …
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You Probably Misunderstand Nigerian Prince Emails: The truth behind the internet’s oldest scam by Sean Kernan (from Medium) “It’s better to think of Nigerian prince emails as cash advance scams, myriad endless scenarios requiring money upfront. The concept started as The Spanish Prisoner Scheme in the early 1800s in Europe. A representative (the “trickster”) for …
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But What Will You Do With Your Own Life by Brianna Wiest (from Medium) “There is no universal experience, there is only experience, and what we choose to do with it.” Strangers on a Phone, Theatrically Speaking by Laura Collins-Hughes (from the New York Times) “In the lockdown days of early spring, after they’d left …
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To Find A Better Solution, Ask A Better Question by Hal Gregersen (From Medium) “Today, as I sit in the midst of MIT’s buzzing hive of innovators, I see plenty of people arriving at and articulating questions with the same power to excite the imagination and engage other clever people’s efforts. For the moment, I’ll …