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June 24, 2016
From Habit Breaking To Googlers' Brainstorming: This Week's Top Leadership Stories
This week's top stories may help you brainstorm better, get a handle on your worst habits, and wind down an unwanted work friendship.
This week we learned how Googlers brainstorm, why breaking bad habits is so hard for our brains, and what it takes to end a work friendship gracefully.
June 23, 2016
This Henry VIII Twitter Account Is The Best Way To Learn About Brexit
@KngHnryVIII tells it like it is (and like how it was in the 1500s).
If the current state of politics has got you down, maybe it's time to immerse yourself in the objectively worse governing system of the 16th century—namely, the reign of King Henry VIII.
How The Brexit Vote Reflects This Classic Psychological Error
As British voters head to the polls, they're walking straight into a classic fallacy about cause-and-effect.
British voters are deciding whether to stay in the European Union. But no matter the outcome, the choice itself rests on a pair of fallacies well known to psychologists and especially common among organizations embedded in complex systems.
The OnePlus 3 Is A Shot Across The Bow Of Expensive Premium Phones
The smartphone upstart delivers a whole lot of phone for far less than the industry's biggest names.
Smartphones are looking and acting very much the same these days. So the smart play might be to create phones that look, feel, and act like a premium phone—yet cost well below $500.
A Designer's Guide To The $15 Billion Artificial Intelligence Industry
As artificial intelligence gains ground, designers will need to adapt. Here's how to get started.
Artificial intelligence is a $15 billion dollar industry and growing. With more than 2,600 companies developing intelligent technology, the value of AI is expected to rise to more than $70 billion by 2020. And it's not just attracting the tech giants: USAA is using AI to protect its users from identity theft, and Under Armour has connected its health app, MyFitnessPal, to IBM Watson so users can get a more thorough read of their health.
I Tried Living In This Tiny House On A Vacant Lot In Amsterdam
The Heijmans One might be the solution to housing crunches in cities. As long as you don't mind a little crunched housing.
The first thing you notice about the Heijmans One house is how skinny it is. At 3.5 meters across, it's only a little wider than a parking space—and exactly as wide as the back of a semi, so it can be built in a factory, delivered to an empty space, and set up in a few hours.
Creative Office Design Won't Make You Better At Your Job, But This Might
One of the most important ways our workspaces impact productivity can't be designed by architects and decorators.
When you enter the corporate offices of ViaSat, you're not walking into the headquarters of a global broadband services company. You're stepping into a carefully designed work environment. You're invited, for instance, to slide down the two-story slide. You're offered premium coffee from a full-service coffee bar, and you're shown the bicycles lined up outside the office doors so you can grab one and wheel around the campus.
How To Turn A Casual Introduction Into A Job Referral
Getting put it touch with a hiring manager at an employer you want to work for is only the start. Here's what to do next.
Asking for an introduction to your hiring manager is a great (and highly recommended) way to get a foot in the door. However, early on in my career, I used to think that once I got an introduction, the rest would take care of itself. "I'll charm everyone else this contact introduces me to," I thought, "and they'll have no choice but to make up an incredible opportunity and offer me an absurd amount of money to accept."
Six Ways To Stay Productive After 3 P.M.
Lunchtime has come and gone. It's been a long day, and you really just want to coast to the finish. Here's how to resist the urge.
It's 2:55 p.m. and you're ready to go home. Lunchtime feels like it was ages ago, and your afternoon coffee doesn't seem to be kicking in. Facebook and Twitter are both just a click away. Or maybe you're reading this article to kill some downtime late in the day.
June 22, 2016
Did Facebook Just Deliver A Crushing Blow To Native Advertising?
What looked like a small change to how media companies can share stories could have a huge impact.
Everyone assumes that if Facebook were to drop an anvil on media companies, it'd come in the form of an algorithm reconfiguration, a change in the revenue split on Instant Articles, or some combination of the two.
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