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(I submitted this to my Modern Poetry class on Coursera) The Soul unto itself Is an imperial friend  � Or the most agonizing Spy  � An Enemy  �  could send  � Secure against its own  � No treason it can fear  � Itself  �  its Sovereign  �  of itself The Soul should stand in Awe  � This topic of this poem is the soul's relationship to itself. There are two descriptions of this relationship which wrap around each other throughout the poem - master and enemy. Let's consider the phrases of the poem individually. "The Soul unto itself Is an imperial friend  �" The first concept introduced is the "Soul". The soul is the entire essence of a person - his identity, his thoughts, his emotions, his desires, and his will. The soul is a complex thing with multiple dimensions. Plato thought that it had three parts - roughly the animal appetites, the rational being, and the will which arbitrates between them. "Soul" is similar to the wor...

Under an unblinking august moon frost clouds shroud a purple sky. Silver magic splashes everywhere, bathing dust and skin and hair -  and a false-winter chills the dunes beneath the piercing pagan eye. Transfixed by that timeless gaze, I fall under silent command bidding me march through desert lands. A river of moonlight marks the way past dusty worlds of frosted grey spilling over dunes and horizon bend, before coming to a cryptic end, arid miles over the clay. Joined by none of human kind, following countless pilgrims past, I know my journey is not the last to meet the eternal desert mind.

"Do you want to sell sugar water for the rest of your life, or do you want to come with me and change the world?" - Steve Jobs I will be joining the software engineering team at Coursera starting next week. Coursera was my first choice among all possible employers, so I'm thrilled to be able to make that announcement.  The decision process was short and easy. I asked myself, "five years from now, what is going to be the result of all my time and hard work?". If Coursera is successful, my efforts will help millions of people will get a quality education that otherwise wouldn't have one. That's an awesome legacy to boast of. Education is a major challenge and opportunity for the global economy. The high-paying, low-skilled jobs of the past are getting eaten up by robots and software. More than ever, an education is the ticket to the good life.  But the barriers to education are growing higher, not shrinking. The cost of college has shot up way faster than...

I finally figured out where the instinct to make B.S. copycat startups in Silicon Valley comes from - a misplaced sense of risk-aversion. Instead of confidently building the future, a founder tailors his company to appeal to the uncreative bottom 90% of investors. With their backing, his company will peter out over 24 months instead of failing spectacularly in 2. A worse outcome for all involved, but each step feels less scary. I'd rather work on things that matter.

i am new-born i taste the world with my skin wholly and directly, without interpretation i need your love, hold me in your love. hold me in your warmth. mine is freely given come, have my love hold me and i will shine for you. i will repay you a million times, for there is no art like a life and no joy like the first i am small, so small hold me in you i am so small hold me i cry at fresh beauty and justify the cycle of death. my newfound laughter is the fount of redemption i circumscribe the limits of evil, it will never be absolute. i set its boundaries and barriers no darkness can reach this - this holy apprehension