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September 24, 2014
What's Really Standing In The Way Of Reaching Your Dreams
Not to burst your bubble, but "follow your dreams" isn't very realistic advice. Here's what you need to conquer to really reach your goals
"Follow Your Dreams" might be the most well-worn piece of advice in our culture.
7 Super-Efficient Ways To Jumpstart Your Morning
How to have your Best. Day. Ever. Brought to you by some very successful people.
Slapping an alarm clock and dragging yourself out of bed is no way to start the next best day ever. We have a few more effective ideas, from the likes of Mark Twain, Benjamin Franklin, and others.
September 23, 2014
The "Synthetic Turducken," Broccoli-Shaped Ribs, And Other Mouth-Tingling Fake Meat Concepts
On The 29th Floor, we tuck into Beyond Meat burgers, ponder peculiar baby back ribs, and get saucy about synthetic foods.
By some counts, the $177 billion meat-producing industry accounts for 18% of all greenhouse gas emissions.
Sheila O'Donnell and John Tuomey Awarded Britain's Highest Architecture Prize
The Irish architects were awarded the Royal Institute of British Architect's Royal Gold Medal for lifetime achievements in architecture.
The U.K.'s professional architecture association, the Royal Institute of British Architects, has named Sheila O'Donnell and John Tuomey of the Dublin-based firm O'Donnell + Tuomey as the recipients of the 2015 Royal Gold Medal, the organization's prestigious lifetime achievement award. This year's recipients are notable on a couple fronts. Just two other husband-and-wife duos have received the prize previously. Born in 1953 and 1954, respectively, O'Donnell and Tuorney are also some of the youngest recipients ever. (Last year's prize went to 87-year-old architecture critic Joseph Rykwert.)
No woman has yet won the Royal Gold Medal without an accompanying male partner.
Home Depot's Customer Security Nightmare Continues
Home Depot's security headaches increase with revelations that a former high-level security employee is now in prison for hacking.
Handyman favorite Home Depot, which recently suffered one of the worst consumer data leaks in history, just learned a lesson the hard way: Always run background checks on your security team. Amid a massive investigation into the company's information security practices, it turns out their former senior architect of IT security was fired from his last job for sabotaging his employer's network--and is now serving federal prison time.
See How Far Everything On Your Desk Has Evolved
Hint: A lot of crap is virtually useless now.
Desks today don't know how easy they have it.
Your Next Innovative Idea Could Be A Restaurant Visit Away
Starwood Hotels' VP and creative director Stephen Gates has some unorthodox sources for creative inspiration that are paying off big.
Kindergarten was a confusing time for Stephen Gates. While most children simply read storybooks, Gates was making them in his basement with his dad. Gates is what he calls a second-generation creative: His father was a creative director and his mother was a toy maker. How Gates sees it, "I'm not really sure I had much choice but to go into design."
This Samsung Cord Will Let Your Mobile Devices Share Power
The new $20 cable transfers power from your Samsung device to anything with a micro USB port.
There are few things as stressful in this modern world as being stranded with a dead mobile device and no power outlets in sight. But with Samsung's new $20 Power Sharing cable, you can transfer power from your Samsung phone to another mobile device.
PayPal Vendors Can Now Accept Bitcoin
The company struck deals with BitPay, Coinbase, and GoCoin to process bitcoin payments.
PayPal, the payments giant once ambivalent about bitcoin, is finally warming to the virtual currency.
The Real Reason You're Procrastinating
If you're putting something off over and over, there's probably a good reason for that.
Over the years, I have become quite a student of anti-procrastination techniques. There's the work-on-something else method (I'm writing this article because I don't feel like editing a different project). There's bribery (I can read a magazine afterwards!) Then there's my favorite method: starting in the middle. I write an easy paragraph, then write a little bit above, and a little bit below, and so on, until, miraculously, I have a draft.
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