Schadenfreude 3 Harsh Truths to Accept if You Want to Be SuccessfulInc Magazine - Wanda ThibodeauxGet rid of the junk philosophies and your path immediately clears. I've yet to meet anyone who doesn't want to be successful. But to meet that goal, you have to have a solid sense of philosophies that
Ryan Giggs The business of sleepgq-magazine.co.uk - Stuart McGurk On a Wednesday afternoon, in a darkened room on the ground floor of the vast PricewaterhouseCoopers building on the bank of the Thames, sleep expert …
Addiction The machine always wins: what drives our addiction to social mediaThe Guardian - Richard SeymourWe are swimming in writing. Our lives have become, in the words of the author and academic Shoshana Zuboff, an “electronic text”. Social media platforms have created a machine for us to write to. The is
Startups How Dropbox, Nike, Salesforce, MailChimp, Google and Pepsi welcome their new hiresTechCrunch - Vladimir PoloThe first day of work at a new job can be very stressful. The unfamiliar surroundings and onslaught of new material can cause new hires some degree of discomfort. But sometimes the atmosphere at the new
Summer Vacation Why Every Entrepreneur Should Take A Vacation Right NowInc Magazine - Raj JanaThis past month I took my first non-business related trip since founding my business. Admittedly, it might have taken me longer to get it on the books than it should have. While on this trip I realized
Lemonade Why insurance startup Lemonade built an in-house creative agencyDigiday - Kristina Monllos Last month, the company tapped agency veteran Nuno Ferrera, who was most recently at 72andSunny working for clients like Facebook and Google, as its …
Long-form Journalism Why These Social Networks Failed So BadlyGizmodo - Whitney Kimball Sixteen years ago, the sun set on Web 1.0, and we embarked by the light of our smartphones to 24/7 connectivity, down a road paved with corporate …
Salaries & Wages This is what to say (and what not to say) during any salary negotiationFast Company - Kathleen DavisTalking about money can be really uncomfortable, no matter how strong your case is for deserving a higher salary. Here’s how to frame the conversation and what to avoid saying at all costs. No one ever
Algae When you’re done with this T-shirt, bury it. It turns into worm food in 12 weeksFast Company - Elizabeth SegranYou can compost Vollebak’s Plant and Algae T-shirt, and it will decompose in just three months. Our landfills are crammed with clothes. The EPA estimates that 10.5 million tons of textiles are thrown them
Bobbi Brown Bobbi Brown's Guide to Success: Go To Fewer Meetings, and Take More ActionEntrepreneur - Jason FeiferMakeup legend Brown is taking her own advice, and building a multiple new brands. This story appears in the September 2019 issue of Entrepreneur. Subscribe » What do you do for a second act, when your
Technology Younger people want to better the world. Older people wish they did more.MIT Technology Review - The Editors We asked young people to tell us their hopes for the future of technology. And we asked older people with long careers behind them to tell us what …
Gmail These 4 Gmail alternatives put your privacy firstFast Company - Michael GrothausIf you don’t want your email provider, its partners, or even hackers skimming your messages, choose one of these providers, which offer end-to-end encryption and other measures. Since its debut in 2004,
Design Where I Work: Skylar MorganDesign Milk - Caroline Williamson Atlanta-based maker Skylar Morgan, who heads up Skylar Morgan Furniture + Design, founded his company in 2002 focusing on handcrafted furniture …
Aging What if aging weren’t inevitable, but a curable disease?MIT Technology Review - David Adam If this controversial idea gains acceptance, it could radically change the way we treat getting old. Each Cyclops had a single eye because, legend has …
Capitalism The end of capitalism has begunThe Guardian - Paul MasonWithout us noticing, we are entering the postcapitalist era. At the heart of further change to come is information technology, new ways of working and the sharing economy. The old ways will take a long
Long-form Journalism In Defense of The Small Social Networkmedium.com - P.E. Moskowitz Ditch Facebook. Log off Twitter. The path to a better internet is going small. A few days ago, I went on Facebook for the first time in weeks. What I …
Work-life Balance 5 lies you’ve been told about time managementFast Company - Elizabeth Grace SaundersI’ve been a time management coach for over 10 years, and these common misconceptions about organizing your life make me so mad. I’ve been a time management coach for over 10 years. What that means is I
C.S. Lewis Starting a New Leadership Role? These 3 Humble Actions Will Help You Make a Powerful First ImpressionInc Magazine - Joe HirschSharpen your listening, ask for feedback, and find ways to serve. Landing a new job, especially a promotion, can be an exciting career move -- but not without its share of complications. This can be particularly
Facebook Facebook has been collecting, listening, transcribing Messenger chatsBusiness Insider - Troy WolvertonFacebook has been collecting audio from users' voice chats and paying outside contractors to transcribe it, Bloomberg's Sarah Frier reported on Tuesday. Users affected are those who opted into having voice
Performance Testing How to Create a Product that Truly Delights CustomersReadWrite - Q ManningEarlier this year, Twitter quietly removed its vowels and released Twttr, a platform that essentially acted as a prototype for design changes and feature tweaks the company was considering for its regular
Marketing Scribe Books Is Disrupting Self-Publishing by Giving Away All the Secrets for FreeInc Magazine - Benjamin P. HardyCo-founder Tucker Max says that giving everyone access to the kind of info his rivals charge big bucks for is all part of Scribe's mission--and also gives the company a competitive advantage. For most
Netflix Netflix needs to grow, but it’s sacrificing great original series to do soThe Verge - Julia AlexanderOnly five years ago, Netflix seemed like it was rewriting the rules of television, making huge deals for bold projects that would have been unthinkable on network TV (BoJack Horseman, What/If, and The
Highly Intelligent People Avoid Making Bad Decisions By Doing 6 Things, According to PsychologyInc Magazine - Scott MautzDecisions, decisions. You make them all day long, big and small. It's hard enough to make the right call when you have the time, support, and resources you need, which rarely happens. Much more common
Cybersecurity Hackers Can Turn Everyday Speakers Into Acoustic CyberweaponsWIRED - Lily Hay Newman Speakers are everywhere, whether it's expensive, standalone sound systems, laptops, smart home devices, or cheap portables. And while you rely on …
Play buttonLogos No Logo at 20: have we lost the battle against the total branding of our lives?The Guardian - Dan HancoxWhile our minds were elsewhere, the superbrands ramped up their cannibalisation of every aspect of our cultural lives Whether it’s Dove against body fascism or Gillette tackling toxic masculinity, our
Startups No-Code Website Builder Webflow Went From Near Bankruptcy To A $72 Million Series A Funding RoundForbes - Alex Konrad"Last year, Webflow was the number one product we were telling people about," says Lattice CEO Jack Altman, whose site is visible here within Webflow's tools. Convinced they had a different model than
Startups Use This Commonly Overlooked Strategy to Increase Customer Success, Loyalty, and BelongingInc Magazine - Sonia ThompsonThe other day I went to lunch with a group of ladies. We all follow gluten-free diets and met up to eat pizza at a restaurant where everything on the menu is gluten-free. This is the second gluten-free
Athleisure Athleisure, barre and kale: the tyranny of the ideal womanThe Guardian - Jia TolentinoHow we became suckers for the hard labor of self-optimization. By Jia Tolentino The ideal woman has always been generic. I bet you can picture the version of her that runs the show today. She’s of indeterminate
Genes Why we like what we like: A scientist’s surprising findingsNational Geographic - Bill SullivanYour genes, your germs, and your environment all may influence your tastes in food—as well as partners and politics. There may be nothing more self-defining than our tastes. Whether in food, wine, romantic
Millennials We've had Generations X, Y and Z: Meet Generation AlphaAxios - Ursula Perano They're tech heavy, extremely connected and the most senior among them is about 9 years old. Say hello to Generation Alpha. Why it matters: …
