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Maria Popova
Editor, BrainPickings.org
How To Make The Internet More Personal
Maria Popova is a self-proclaimed "curator of interestingness." Her blog and Twitter feed is read by the Who's Who of the media, marketing, and ad worlds. Here's how Popova shapes her daily output:
Timeline
1991
Receives first encyclopedia from grandma
1998
Gets first computer
2003
Moves to the U.S. from Bulgaria to attend the University of Pennsylvania
2005
Starts Brain Pickings as an email newsletter going out to eight people
2007
Learns to code; creates BrainPickings.org
2009
Bulgarian Grandma starts reading Brain Pickings with Google Translate
2010
Moves to New York
Infographic by Brian Rea
A version of this article appears in the June 2012 issue of Fast Company.