As an entrepreneur, you’ve probably developed your emotional intelligence to some measure of success. Yet there is one component of EQ that I notice still needs practice, even among my most successful entrepreneurial colleagues: listening. The practice goes well beyond the simplified difference between “listening” and “waiting for your turn to talk.”

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The Safdie brothers are at the end of a 10-year road. Uncut Gems, their new gambling thriller with A24 out this Christmas, is their fifth feature film, the second with major distribution, and sixth overall project (not including a handful of shorts). But it’s the script they’ve been conceiving, tweaking, writing, shelving and rewriting for the better part of a decade now, the opus they’ve been building to. The grand summation of their careers thus far. Now that it’s finally out, their labor is validated: Uncut Gems is one of the best movies—if not the best movie—of the year.

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The continued abundance of counterfeit goods on the site is the result of Amazon’s decisions to prioritize a broad selection of products and cheaper prices over the deployment of aggressive technologies and policies that could further stem the problem, according to former executives and outside consultants.

Amazon relies on brands to let the company know about frauds, but even when the company has custody of counterfeit items, it doesn’t always take action. Scads of counterfeit products, including the Hermès bracelet, land in Amazon warehouses before they’re shipped to consumers. But Amazon very rarely inspects them for authenticity.

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