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The Holy Trinity
If you’re questioning your career choice, there’s a website called: WTFshouldidowithmylife.com. You click through options until something resonates, and then you can read a little …
Making sense of our surroundings
Dave Snowden, Welsh management consultant and knowledge management researcher, understands how we get to understand things. He understands that we can understand cause and effect …
Free at last
Embrace yourself and embrace the people who embrace you. Embrace your weird, embrace your brain, embrace what inspires you. Staying different is what keeps you free. …
Deciding who needs a hand
Finding the people who need help is the first step to really helping. It’s easy to give a hand to someone who’s almost there: the …
I can tell what the future will bring
Ayah Bdeir, founder of littleBits, knows what the future holds. littleBits is a set of electronic building blocks that can be put together to form …
Two birds, one culture
Open, honest communication. Creativity and culture in the workplace come from the same place: A feeling of trust and safety in your workspace, with your …
Achieving something
In an article on USA Today, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella relates an anecdote that changed his approach to work: Nadella credits his work attitude to …
Be amazing at one thing
This was my father’s advice to me, back when I was just starting out. It’s not a mind-blowing statement, but that doesn’t make it easy. …
Like viruses, ideas need to spread
Seth Godin lets you know before you open his book The Ideavirus that you might not feel like you’ve learned anything new. But you’ll confirm …
What’s cooler than being cool?
In an interview with Peter Shapiro, one of the owners of the wildly successful Brooklyn Bowl, he says he opened the first Bowl in New …
What we learn from chickens.
Margaret Heffernan told a story once about chickens on NPR. In brief: A scientist bred two flocks of chickens, one flock of overall highly-regarded egg …
Technology changes. People don’t.
Deb Schultz has a famous line: “Technology changes, humans don’t.” We can make prettier phones or more exciting apps, but if they don’t speak to people, …
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