Office Tactics for Introverts
“Consider ‘recharging’ vs. craving an escape that may not be possible. It is important to recognize when you’re feeling harried and take a beat. Find a place to...
Author: EBenedict
The Complete Guide to Winning at Life When Things Go Wrong
“This guide works when anything shitty happens. Someone criticizes you online? Read this. Someone wants a refund on something that took you five years to build,...
Two Ways to Argue Better
“Listen to people, get them to think about their own experience, and highlight your common humanity.”
Why Having a Niche Is Good for You and Your Business
“When your audience is ‘everyone,’ you have nothing guiding your creative decisions and therefore are forced into one of two strategies: (a) striving to alienat...
How to Gamify Your Life
“Define victory conditions. Write down success and failure criteria. These should be, at least in theory, within your control. If it’s mostly luck, then it’s no...
Most of the Internet Is Fake
“Less than 60 percent of web traffic is human; some years, according to some researchers, a healthy majority of it is bot. For a period of time in 2013, the Tim...
10 Biases to Be Aware of When Building a Product
“The ‘principle of least effort’ basically states that if there are a few ways to get something done, people will always prefer the one that requires the least ...
Screen Time Isn’t as Bad for Kids as You Think
“Exposure to digital media has both positive benefits and dangerous drawbacks. A small percentage of kids are perhaps more vulnerable than others to problematic...
The Difference Between a Job, Hobby, Career, and Vocation
“If you’re in a career right now that you hate, that’s terrible. If you’re in a job that you hate, that’s OK — it doesn’t matter.”
How to Avoid Lazy Thinking
“You say you want your team to think harder and stop just doing exactly what you say. But every time they have a question, you just answer it. Or worse, you giv...