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Dave's Picks | Animal experts warn against the ...

Put down the phone, please.

Dave's Picks | Animal experts warn against the dangers of multi-tasking dog walks
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Dave's Picks | Many Personal Care Products ...

Are your hygiene and beauty regimes helping or harming you?

Dave's Picks | Many Personal Care Products Contain Harmful Chemicals. Here's What To Do About It.
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Dave's Picks | How To Get Absolutely No Sun ...

Are you sun savvy? You’re about to be!

Dave's Picks | How To Get Absolutely No Sun This Summer.
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Dave's Picks | A TikTok user's rehabbed curb ...

File Under: Sometimes you luck out, and other times, curb scores just might not be worth the hassle…

Dave's Picks | A TikTok user's rehabbed curb couch stirs debate over bedbug risk : NPR
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Dave's Picks | They built the digital world. ...

How tech workers are discovering that woodworking and other hands-on activities offer a change of pace and an opportunity to tap into a rich history of craftsmanship.

Dave's Picks | They built the digital world. Now they just want to sew and make chairs.

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Dave's Picks | NYT Essay — King of Pop Tyshawn Jones

Dave's Picks | NYT Essay — King of Pop Tyshawn Jones

Super cool piece and interactive photo essay on skateboarding master Tyshawn Jones. Check it!

Tyshawn Jones’s jaw-dropping athleticism has made him a skateboarding icon. But is skateboarding big enough for someone like Tyshawn Jones?

By Willy Staley

Photographs by Philip Montgomery
Videos by Danilo Parra and Zach Sky

One of Tyshawn Jones’s favorite places to skate is the William F. Passannante Ballfield in Greenwich Village. Even by skateboarding’s flexible standards, this park is barren: a flat expanse of asphalt with paint denoting a baseball diamond. There are no ledges sweaty with wax, no stairs to jump down, not even a measly curb; once you leave the painted infield, the ground becomes too chunky to really skate on. And yet it’s still a destination in New York, known to locals as ‘‘T.F. West’’ — short for ‘‘training facility,’’ a convoluted inside joke about the fact that there’s nothing to skate there.

Is My Millennial Co-Worker a Narcissist, or Am I a Jealous Jerk?

Is My Millennial Co-Worker a Narcissist, or Am I a Jealous Jerk?

“My co-worker seems to work more for their (I don’t want to specify gender) personal brand than for the company. This team member posts their whereabouts on Slack: They’re at a conference, at class (coursework tangential to their job), working from home! They keep us up to date on the minutiae of their travel (leaving at 11 a.m.! on a train without Wi-Fi until 7 p.m.!). They meet their goals, but I’m not privy to what their results look like — are they treading water or exceeding their goals?

Dave Speaks | NY's New License Plates Will Still Be Made By Prisoners Earning 65 Cents An Hour

Dave Speaks | NY's New License Plates Will Still Be Made By Prisoners Earning 65 Cents An Hour

Next spring, New York State is issuing new license plates, and New Yorkers can now cast their vote for the new design. "License plates are a symbol of who we are as a state and New Yorkers should have a voice and a vote in its final design," Governor Andrew Cuomo said in a release. But the new license plates will still be produced by people incarcerated by the state, who earn an average wage of 65 cents an hour.

Roughly 2,100 prisoners work for Corcraft, which is "the ‘brand name’ for the Division of Correctional Industries,” operated by the state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision (DOCCS). The prisoners make a variety of products, from hand soap dispensers to desks to pillows, and generate around $50 million in annual sales, mostly to local governments. The revenue goes to the state general fund.

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Dave Speaks | Old ways, new ways — How to stick to good habits

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Dave Speaks | Old ways, new ways — How to stick to good habits

Summer is ending , Fall is approaching . . . I feel this is a good read on how to stick to your good habits and keep that summer bod of yours in check throughout the Winter months!

Katy Milkman played tennis at Princeton, and when she finished college, she went to the gym every day. But when she started grad school, her fitness routine went south.

"At the end of a long day of classes, I was exhausted," Milkman says. "Frankly, the last thing I wanted to do was drag myself to the gym. What I really wanted to do was watch TV or read Harry Potter."

Dave Speaks | If you put your keys in a safe place you will never find them again.

Dave Speaks | If you put your keys in a safe place you will never find them again.

Now that you have your new apartment, it is kind of like traveling to the new world, there is a whole slew of details you will need to know. Don’t be overwhelmed. For frequently asked questions about what happens when you are a tenant with Dave visit your specific password protected building page. If you don’t know your password email db@speaktodave.com

Now if you can’t remember where you put your keys. GOOD LUCK.

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