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Reading Better
In many ways reading is similar. Your reading ability depends on what you already know. The key to reading faster or remembering more is often as simple as reading more. Learn more about reading better.
Four Life Lessons From Performance Artist Marina Abramović
For the first three months, I place each student at a table with a thousand pieces of white paper and a trash can underneath. Every day they have to sit at the table for several hours and write ideas. They put the ideas they like on the right side of the table; the ones they…
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Another Way To Make Money
Outside England’s Bristol Zoo, there is a parking lot for 150 cars and 8 buses. For 25 years, the parking fees were managed by a very pleasant attendant. The fee for cars was about $1.40, and the fee for buses was about $7.00. Then, one day, after 25 solid years of never missing a day…
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What You Can (Never / Always) Change
What You Can Never Change: 1. The past 2. The world 3. Other people What You Can Always Change: 1. Your attitude 2. Your assumptions 3. Your beliefs
Icebreakers With … Malcolm Gladwell
The podcast host and author talks The Little Mermaid, self-driving cars, and Canadian zombies.
The Sriracha Story
Tired of all the smoke and mirrors of overhyped entrepreneurship? All the hand-wavy buzz words of the startup du jour? This is a wonderful story of product, product, product meets focus, focus, focus.
Why Are Gamers So Much Better Than Scientists At Catching Fraud?
I’ve argued before that buggy games are a leading indicator of changes in average software quality; gamers like finding exploits, and exploits are a variety of bug, so they end up uncovering quality issues fast. But there’s also a cultural difference: gamers seem to expect higher quality software. The fact that games are not a…
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Time To Change Your Relationship To Fear
What can we learn from fear? How can we use it to redefine the space between risk and injury? How can we make it into a wedge that makes us better able to act in the world instead of retreating from the dangers life throws at us?
Do Your Job
Yet we have from Marcus Aurelius’s acknowledgments in Meditations a sense of how he tried to comport himself and its worth applying to our partisan and social media-driven times as well. From the literary critic Alexander, Marcus says he learned, “Not to be constantly correcting people, or in particular not to jump on them whenever…
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Only Actions Count
Great thread on Twitter by Dan Rose about Jeff Bezos. Only Actions count:
