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November 19, 2014
What It's Like To Be An Entrepreneur With OCD
Some creative behavioral solutions helped David Schottenstein, cofounder of Viewabill, turn a challenge into an asset.
Lots of people joke about "being OCD," but for some entrepreneurs, it's literal.
How To Make People Care About The Environment
Greenpeace USA's new executive director, Annie Leonard, is expanding the group's reach by presenting complex issues in a fun way.
How To Make To-Do Lists Better, Faster, And More Fun
We asked the experts: How can we make our to-do lists better? Can we get things done faster? Is is possible to make a to-do list fun?
It's the oldest, simplest, yet probably still the most effective method for making sure you get everything done: the humble to-do list. But is there a way to get more out of your daily check list? We asked the experts: How can we make our to-do lists better, how can we streamline them to get things done faster? Is is possible to make a to-do list fun?
Why Business Books Are Blue (And Other Tricky Marketing Techniques)
Yes, you judge books by their covers. Here's what draws you in.
I review a lot of business books. Consequently, publishers often send me copies of new releases. As I was cleaning out my office the other day, and staring at about 50 book covers, I had a thought: Why are so many of these books blue or orange? What do cover designers know about what lures readers in?
Two Influential Organizations Set Their Sites On Helping Women Entrepreneurs
PwC and the Points of Light Foundation announce a new initiative to help women founders gain access to capital, contacts and support.
It's no secret that companies with women on boards and in leadership have been shown to perform better than those that don't. But the numbers of women in top spots is still discouragingly low.
2 Ways We Can Shift Our Own Attitudes To Be More Productive
The way we view the world isn't static. Here are two science-backed ways we can hack how we think to be successful.
Isn't it fascinating that stories from long ago that we hold of ourselves and of others and that others hold of us find their way into our present? And maybe more than just find their way. Some guide our days, invisible in presence but powerful in force. This is a mind-set—a way of looking at the world, a situation, or ourselves; a set of assumptions that guides our actions. Mind-sets can determine whole schools of thought. Mind-sets determine for many of us what we believe is possible.
Brain Science Explains The Most Productive Ways To Procrastinate
Research on the brain's decision-making systems reveals the five most productive ways to waste time.
Sit down to work on a specific task and you may find your mind veering off on a different track, spiraling down into the black hole of procrastination.
November 18, 2014
Facebook's New Groups App Is An Act Of Unbundling That Makes Sense--At Least For Me
The more important a part of Facebook is to you, the better the case for building an entire app around it.
Confession time: Over the past year or so, I've been using Facebook more than ever. But almost all of the incremental time I spend with it happens within Facebook Groups, the service's feature which lets people with a shared interest engage in sharing which can be public, semi-private, or extremely private.
Behold: The Taco Emoji
Also up for induction into Unicode 8.0: A hot dog, a burrito, and a poppin' bottle.
The taco emoji is nigh. In an update on its blog, the Unicode Consortium, the nonprofit in charge of standardizing coding, announced 37 new emoji candidates that could—not definitely, but maybe!—be added to Unicode 8.0, which is due out in the middle of next year.
Searching For Past Tweets Just Got Way Easier
All public tweets are now indexed by the social network.
If you've ever tried searching for past tweets online, you've probably found it incredibly frustrating and ultimately futile. That changes today.
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