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After 25 years, Oprah Winfrey's history-making TV show has come to an end - and so has The Era of the Analog Celebrity. In many ways, Oprah defined what it […]
After a day of strict task 'batching', Cal Newport concludes that the resulting inconvenience in workflow was worth it for the reduced distraction and increased quality of his work.
Seth Godin on why to abandon the excuse-driven life."If you relentlessly work to avoid opportunities to use your ability to blame, you may never actually need to blame anyone."
Before you give a speech, practice it out loud, on your feet, as though you were in front of a live audience. Michael Hyatt says it may not sound revolutionary but it really matters.
John Maeda, President of the Rhode Island School of Design, shares leadership lessons and ways to motivate people. Offering students free pizza, for instance, works wonders.
Glen T. Senk, CEO of Philadelphia-based retailer Urban Outfitters, says among the secrets to success are to lead an authentic life and to hire the right people—then listen to them.
Like Godzilla, Charlie Sheen’s “My Violent Torpedo of Truth” tour continues to roam the countryside, fortunately leaving ontological, rather than physical, destruction in its path. In New York City, however, […]
New forms of writing will bring, as they always have, new ideas and new elements of creative genius.
Although Motuto is just a part of a bigger vision of Castle Rock Research’s President and CEO Gautam Rao, I find the service so fascinating in itself that I would […]
Put your optimism on hold, says John Gray. Times of progress can be deceptive because history is actually cyclical.
Two New York City police officers have been acquitted of raping a woman in her apartment while they were on duty in 2008. In the words of New York lawyer […]
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Human beings are very deeply motivated by four primary drives: to acquire, to bond, to create meaning and defend. One of the organizations that does a great job of balancing […]
There’s a lot of stuff that comes through my Twitter stream. In addition to independent tweets, there also are my posts from here and Mind Dump, my Delicious bookmarks, things that […]
There are so many global problems that we can’t even see. Like the fact that 670 million people lack access to vision correction and around 100 million children don’t have […]
Brooklyn Brewery Brewmaster Garrett Oliver suggests this hangover cure: a greasy bacon, egg and cheese sandwich, strong coffee and a lot of water. "Then think strongly upon your sins."
Alright, so the title of the post is a little cheeky, but right now it appears that the eruption of Grímsvötn that started last Saturday (May 21) is for all intents […]
The arrest of former Serbian military chief, Ratko Mladic finally begins to draw a line underneath the unspeakable savagery that characterised the break-up of the former Yugoslavia. Mladic was the […]
GUEST POST BY JASON SILVA The spectacular think tank and apparel company The Imaginary Foundation states that "To Understand Is To Perceive Patterns". This seemingly simple sentence is actually utterly profound: what it […]
Liberal MSNBC host Ed Schultz apologized for calling conservative pundit Laura Ingraham a "slut" on his radio show. In his on air apology Shultz seems genuinely sorry he said what […]
As The Hangover films make abundantly clear, it's not easy waking up after a night of wild partying. Folk remedies for hangovers abound, but a recently published study offers a cure with a real scientific basis.