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December 8, 2014
How To Change Your Habits With The Help Of One Clever Marketing Trick
We made our goals that much easier to accomplish with this particularly cunning and easy-to-implement trick.
We all have goals, whether they're lofty plans like getting a promotion or taking on more responsibility at work or simple lifestyle changes like going to bed earlier or eating healthier—it's how we accomplish these goals that's not as easy to identify.
Six Ways To Objectively Determine Your Worth At Work
Stop relying on guesswork and follow these steps to figure out your personal value proposition.
One of the basic tenets of any successful negotiation is to know your worth. Having a sound understanding of what you bring to the table and how important or valuable it is to the other party gives you an important edge, especially when you're trying to advance your career.
December 5, 2014
Why Lyft Thinks The Market Will Be Big Enough For Both Lyft And Uber
"Transportation is going to transition from a period of ownership to transportation as a service," says Lyft president John Zimmer.
Recently the peer-to-peer ride-sharing company Lyft announced a new program that allows employers to automatically cover transportation costs incurred by employees. It's called Lyft for Work. The setup is simple: Employers set a recurring limit in Lyft for employee transportation—to and from meetings, carpools, etc.—and any unused credits are left unbilled.
How NASA Will Send Humans To Mars
NASA scientists are tackling a big challenge: building capsules that will take humanity to Mars.
It's official: NASA's Orion project, which will send humans to Mars, is a success. A test flight on Friday morning was successful; NASA's command center called it "the most perfect flight you could ever imagine."
Chic And Lightweight(ish): Has The Ultimate Urban Cargo Bike Arrived?
Launching today at Design Miami, KiBiSi's sleek, 50-pound cargo bike is as compact as a city bike but can carry a big load of luggage.
Wicker bike baskets can be cute, but they usually can't carry much stuff, especially not for busy urban commuters. Cargo bikes are one solution, but the ones on the market tend to be behemoths, with awkwardly large storage boxes or miniature flatbed trailers.
One Engineer's Solution For All That Tedious Tinder Swiping
You've been overthinking this whole swiping thing.
In perhaps the laziest/most ingenious effort to potentially hook up with someone, YouTube user and software engineer James Befurt has constructed a device that automatically swipes right on Tinder profiles. Using a computer program hooked up to what looks like a stylus, Befurt has cut out all that meddlesome manual labor of swiping your way toward love/lust.
Richard Branson And Virgin Want To Take You On A Cruise
Seeks to be hip alternative to big-three cruise lines.
Virgin Group, which has already put its unique spin on air travel and health clubs, wants to enter the cruise ship game. Richard Branson's Virgin Cruises will attempt to "shake up a staid industry dominated by three big companies that all offer a similar flavor of family-friendly entertainment on the high seas," according to the New York Times's DealBook.
"I'm Sure That Some People Didn't Like Working With Me Or For Me Because Of My Race": A Conversation With Ken Coleman
We talk to the tech pioneer about his career, racial biases in hiring, and why he's hopeful for the future.
Ken Coleman, 69, has been a tech pioneer in Silicon Valley before "disrupting" was even a cliché. He became an executive at Hewlett-Packard in the '70s, and a decade later hired a summer intern named Ben Horowitz at Silicon Graphics. Horowitz, of course, went onto investing fame and fortune and has since brought his mentor on board as an advisor to his own firm, Andreessen Horowitz. In the wake of our look at Tristan Walker and the persistent problem of race in tech hiring, we talked to Coleman about his career, what his experience in the field has been, and what he thinks should change. Coleman is still "optimistic," despite it all. "The great thing about technology," he says, "is it creates opportunities for everybody."
Watch NASA Successfully Launch Orion, Which Could One Day Take Us To Mars
After a day of setbacks, NASA's best hope for a colony on the Red Planet finally took off.
We have lift-off!
Sony Hackers Allegedly Possess Celebrity Social Security Numbers
Heaps of employee and celebrity personal data may have been included in stolen documents.
The fallout of the hack on Sony Pictures Entertainment continues to twist and turn after North Korea finally denied any involvement in the breach, putting to rest (at least temporarily) concerns that the country had acted in retaliation for the studio making a movie about "Kim Jong-un."
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