The Risky Mentality that Made Jeff Bezos So Successful
For Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, success isn’t a race to the top. It’s an adventure. Here's why the explorer mentality has been so critical to his success.
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The Simple Trick to Achieving Your Goals
Here's a simple trick to achieving your goals without incredible doses of willpower or remarkable motivation.
The Secret to Marketing that’s Impossible to Copy
Today, it’s company culture that creates marketing messages that spread. It’s the secret sauce that’s impossible to replicate. Here's why.
The One Thing Virtusize Does Every Day to Provide the Perfect Fit
Virtusize helps clothes shoppers on the web find the right size by comparing measurements to clothes they already own. Here's how they grow their business.
The most productive thing you’ll do today is practice
Daily practice is the key to improve productivity. Doug Lemov explains this in depth in his book Practice Perfect
The Most Innovative Google Employees Aren’t Stanford/MIT grads with Perfect SATs
Innovative Google employees have a strong sense of autonomy, not fancy pedigrees, per Google people analytics.
The Procrastination Workshop: The Best of the Internet
Marc Andreessen’s surprising procrastination antidote to super-productive superpowers and 5 more of the best links from around the web on productivity.
The Struggles of Creativity
Artist Christoph Niemann about making his first app and the creativity struggle: being the artist and the editor at the same time.
The Struggles of Managing the Invisible
The challenge of knowledge worker management is that so much of knowledge work takes place in our heads and out of sight. Here's how managers can cope.
The Perks of Considering Your Plan “Dead”
The Perks of Considering Your Plan "Dead" Sometimes the sheer clarity of hindsight is like life’s annoying way of saying, “I told you so!” Looking in the rearview mirror to see what went wrong is...
The Science of Resolutions
Chances are slim that your resolutions will last. Here's how to make them stick based on the science of resolutions
The Science of Productivity
Productivity is really about how you and your brain work. Gregory Ciotti‘s collaboration with ASAPScience yields a fascinating video on the science of productivity, giving a quick look at willpower, energy management, and effective work habits like documenting your progress. Productively intrigued? Check out Greg’s ful
The Science of Procrastination
AsapSCIENCE explains the science of procrastination - and how to manage your brain wanting to do fun stuff now.
The Sprawling Guide to Content Marketing that Made Us $10,000
Here's everything we've learned about content marketing from making our first $10,000.
The Other Half of Your Job
Half of your job is doing your work, the other half is communicating that it's been done. Working with people is hard, that's why communicating is essential
The Peak Time for Everything
A growing body of research suggests that paying attention to the body clock, and its effects on energy and alertness, can help pinpoint the different times of day when most of us perform our best at specific tasks, from resolving conflicts to thinking creatively. Sue Shellenbarger explores The Peak Time for Everything
The Story Spine
Teresa Norton writes at HBR about how a simple exercise called the story spine can help you get unstuck and make change while “living truthfully” at work. The story spine is a narrative tool created by playwright, improviser, and theater educator Kenn Adams used to craft well-structured stories. As Norton’s post shows,
The Secret Behind Malcolm Gladwell’s Success
“I feel I was simply stubborn enough to want to do my thing… . If there’s something that you want to do, you should just do it. And maybe the world will reward you and maybe it won’t, but it doesn’t matter as long as you’re happy.” The Big Think asked Malcolm Gladwell what the secret was behind his [...]
The Power of the Done List
To-do lists don't work for me, but done lists do. Here's how to keep a done list and why they make you more productive.
The Productive Habits of Alan Turing
Never heard of Alan Turing, the math genius, wartime decoding hero, and computer pioneer? Check out this Radiolab episode in addition to Matthew Lasar’s great overview of the seven Turing Qualities of productivity. The highly productive habits of Alan Turing Try to see things as they are. Don’t get sidetracked by ideol
The Solution to Procrastination?
Don’t wait until you feel like doing something. Boom. Oliver Burkeman’s one-sentence solution to procrastination.
The Path to Productivity
Avoid burnout: Stop measuring your people by the hours they put in, and focus instead on the value they produce. Make that your primary measurement. Then encourage your people to intermittently renew during the day (and on weekends, and over vacations), so that when they’re working, they’re really working. That’s the p
The Power of Daydreaming
Jonathan Schooler explains the power of daydreaming to give questions time to marinate in your brain in order for you to come up with creative solutions.
The Most Useful Checklist
A perfectly sensible lifelong routine for starting your Wednesdays out right with this useful checklist.