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VHX is bringing digital video distribution up to speed with this internet-fueled modern age, delivering DRM-free video, such as Aziz Ansari’s Dangerously Delicious and Indie Game: The Movie, directly to fans. Having launched as a social video community — a way to discover, share, and queue video for later — VHX could s
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Here’s a little sunny and fish encouragement. Keep making tiny, wonderful triumphs happen!
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In the past year, Wistia went doubled its headcount to a total of fifteen people. Here's how they grew their team and kept a tight-knit culture.
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The power of Kawaii: viewing cute images promotes a careful behavior and improves focus. Look at photos of cute animals to drive focus at work!
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Years ago, when I was researching an article on research into stress, one social scientist passed on a simple tip: “At some point every day, you have to say, ‘No more work.’” No matter how many tasks remain undone, you have to relax at some point and enjoy the evening. John Tierney, NY Times columnist [...]
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John Lennon’s to-do list varied from meeting guys with HBO, to buying marmalade, to errands around the house. Even rockstars get stuff done! We wonder how he recorded his accomplishments. (via brainpickings)
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The following guest blog post was written by Kable Jones, aka krunkster on iDoneThis. Kable is a firefighter with a 150-day streak of getting stuff done. Although the overachievers of the world likely fill their calendar boxes with ease, the rest of us may occasionally stare at the IDT email with an “oh no” feeling. [.
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Passing 10,000 users felt awesome and we did it with three dead simple techniques that anyone can execute. 1. Custom narratives for influential communities. I wrote in April how we made it to 5,000 users by constructing custom narratives for Hacker News, Reddit, and Lifehacker. We described iDoneThis to a community as
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Here's how we started from zero and got our first 5,000 users. We got users from existing communities by constructing custom narratives for them.
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We’re in Lifehacker today! iDoneThis is a new webapp that takes your goals and habits you want to build, reminds you to work towards them daily or weekly (you can choose), and puts you on a virtual team of people with similar goals so you can work together, support each…
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Google has found that the most innovative workers — also the ‘happiest,’ by its definition — are those who have a strong sense of mission about their work and who also feel that they have much personal autonomy. Big Data, Trying to Build Better Workers - NYTimes.com Google has long…
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Happy holidays, Happy days off work, Happy eating, catching up, and slowing down! We’re sharing the greatest hits and bestest bits of the iDoneThis blog this year. Today, the best of Ginni’s surveys on company culture, inspirational role models, and awesome startups: 17 Women Startup Leaders Name Their Modern Day…
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MckHLBWuz7E harvest: Jack White, on inspiration, creativity, and work ethic: Inspiration and work ethic — they ride right next to each other…. Not every day you’re gonna wake up and the clouds are gonna part and rays from heaven are gonna come down and you’re gonna write a song from…
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"If you don’t give a damn about anything, no one will give a damn about you." — Jessica Hagy offers great advice and brilliant illustrations over at Forbes on How to Be More Interesting (In 10 Simple Steps). Her points are also spot on for how to get awesome stuff done.…
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iDoneThis will be hosting our first #prodtalk Tweet Chat of a series on productivity, motivation, and getting more done! The topic: Our recent post, Silicon Valley’s Productivity Secrets, has piqued a lot of interest, and we’d love to hear more about your thoughts and reactions! What do you think about scalable…
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Just a reminder that happiness and health is just as important as working hard in getting more awesome stuff done! Happy Friday!
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The productivity industry doesn’t do this work to entertain us. They’re trying hard to help you get more done better. Emphasis on done. Seth Godin, on the whole point of getting more productive: moving past efficiency to the more important stuff of being brave.
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Tim Kreider writes about modern life’s worship of busyness and how to slow down in The “Busy” Trap for the New York Times Opinionator.
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We love this mindmap, How to Focus in the Age of Distraction. Dozens of useful suggestions in one place! Click on the image for a larger version. Foster good habits, manage your e-mail, disconnect and detox from technology, manage your workspace, work in focused bursts, and take time to reflect and review!
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Ever sage advice from the unflappable, stylish Tim Gunn. Garbage can be made into couture? Whatever you’re doing, you can make it work!
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