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Roy Mars was peeing in his compost last weekend — it adds nitrogen — when he looked up and saw something streak across the sky. “It looked like a shooting star,” the custom furniture maker said. But he’s seen those before, he said, and it wasn’t one. “It was a streak of light that started going over my head,” he said.

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…if I were hiring, the first thing I’d look at would be the prospective employee’s Twitter feed. What are they linking to? What are they reading? If they’re linking to great stuff from a disparate range of sources, if they’re following smart people on Twitter, if they’re engaged in the conversation — that’s hugely valuable. More valuable, in fact, than being able to put together an artfully-constructed lede.