The 12 Stages of Burnout
“When we push our creativity and productivity to its limits, we can easily find ourselves teetering on brink of burnout. And there’s a fine line between being i...
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How to Avoid the Busy Trap
“Busyness serves as a kind of existential reassurance, a hedge against emptiness; obviously your life cannot possibly be silly or trivial or meaningless if you ...
101 Books Ted Talk Speakers Recommend
This one doesn’t require much of a summary.
Why the Attention Economy Is Broken
“‘Fake news’ isn’t a Russian conspiracy to undermine our democracy; it is, instead, the end-state of an unhealthy race-to-the-bottom for consumer attention.”
How to Make It Easier to Stick to Your Budget
“The entire concept of budgeting is flawed. Your emotional brain responds to the word budget the same way it responds to the word diet. The connotation is depri...
Why You Should Manage Your Energy Instead of Your Time
“The top 10% of employees with the highest productivity didn’t put in longer hours than anyone else — often they didn’t even work eight-hour days. Instead, the ...
The Real Reason Amazon Bought Whole Foods
“This is the key to understanding the purchase of Whole Foods: to the outside it may seem that Amazon is buying a retailer. The truth, though, is that Amazon is...
35 Words You’re Probably Using Wrong
“Dilemma: Confused with ‘problem’. If you have a problem, you do not know what to do. There may be many solutions. If you have a dilemma, you have a choice of t...
It’s the Best (And Worst) of Times for American Restaurants
“The golden age of restaurants is a bit like today’s golden age of TV. For television viewers, there have never been more options or, perhaps, better quality pr...
How Do I Know If My Writing Is Good?
When somebody asks for advice, their first question is never the one they REALLY want to ask. This theory proved true in a conversation I had with someone who l...