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What Old Hippies Can Teach Us
Ram Dass, an icon of the counterculture, was this millennial’s unexpected COVID savior
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Gil Kazimirov
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November 2023

How Politicians Dress In Times of Crisis
What They're Trying to Say and Why It Matters
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Gil Kazimirov
Some Moral Courage, Finally
It's time to take a clearer stance on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
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Gil Kazimirov
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How War Looks and Sounds in the Digital Age
And Why It Feels More Personal
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Gil Kazimirov

October 2023

It's a Weird Time to be Israeli and Ukrainian
But I don't know how to be anything else
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Gil Kazimirov
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September 2023

The Fascinating World of Bootleg Soviet Music
And how it set the stage for Russia to become a global piracy powerhouse
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Gil Kazimirov

May 2023

Russia says its Victory Day
But I just think of my grandpa.
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Gil Kazimirov
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January 2022

7 Books I Didn't Read in 2021
It was a huge year
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Gil Kazimirov

December 2021

The Great Healthcare Migration
Techies Are On the Move!
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Gil Kazimirov
Revolutionaries at the Workplace
How'd they get in here?
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Gil Kazimirov
Confessions of a Recovering Corpspeaker
My bad.
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Gil Kazimirov
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November 2021

Read the Damn Documentation
It's the Secret to Innovation
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Gil Kazimirov
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