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Growing up in foster care on the South Side of Chicago, Derrius Quarles was used to hearing the word “no.” Certainly, the now-27-year-old is no stranger to racial discrimination, and was inspired to work through these types of problems by studying sociology at Morehouse College in Atlanta.

After graduating in 2013, Quarles and his fellow Morehouse alums, Ras Asan and Brian Williams, thought they could turn their experiences into a compelling business model. So in 2016, the founders put $500 of their own savings toward the launch of Breaux Capital (pronounced “bro”), an online platform and mobile app offering an automated savings tool and social network to connect like-minded Millennials across the country. 

They hope to empower users to take control of their financial futures and make themselves accountable in the present. “We’re a medium to give people the opportunity to build community, affect change, and kickstart their entrepreneurial aspirations,” explains co-founder Asan. “We wanted to use technology to facilitate the process of assisting folks, when it’s not necessarily obvious to them that they have to put away a lot of money today,” adds Quarles, who is Breaux’s CEO.

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This Startup Wants to Help Black Millennials

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https://www.inc.com/zoe-henry/30-under-30-2018-breaux-capital.html

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When it comes to home projects, I am a step-by-step kind of girl. I read the instructions from start to finish, and then reread and execute each step. My husband, on the other hand, prefers to study the diagrams and then jump right in. Think owner’s manual versus IKEA instructions. This preference for one approach over another when learning new information is not uncommon. Indeed the notion that people learn in different ways is such a pervasive belief in American culture that there is a thriving industry dedicated to identifying learning styles and training teachers to meet the needs of different learners.

Just because a notion is popular, however, doesn’t make it true. A recent review of the scientific literature on learning styles found scant evidence to clearly support the idea that outcomes are best when instructional techniques align with individuals’ learning styles. In fact, there are several studies that contradict this belief. It is clear that people have a strong sense of their own learning preferences (e.g., visual, kinesthetic, intuitive), but it is less clear that these preferences matter.

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https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-problem-with-learning-styles/

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Travel is an art, not a science. 

Read enough columns, and you might think being the world’s smartest traveler is a paint-by-number proposition, an easy formula you can follow. 

But as you start planning your summer trips, maybe it’s worth asking if there’s more to it than just buying a manual or clicking on a blog or even reading the most popular travel column in American journalism. 

Perhaps the ability to be a good traveler can be inherited from one of your parents. Consider the DRD4-7R gene, sometimes referred to as the “wanderlust gene.” Curio Collection by Hilton recently tested 30 frequent traveling social media influencers for the gene to evaluate the role curiosity plays in travel and found nine of them had the DRD4-7R allele — about 1½ times the national average.

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https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/advice/2018/05/27/travel-advice-expert-tips-frequent-travelers/638727002/

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