How to Improve Your Email Habits
“Making a behavior harder to do makes it less likely to occur. I looked for ways to make opening email more difficult. Surprisingly, I found just adding a few e...
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101 Books Ted Talk Speakers Recommend
This one doesn’t require much of a summary.
How to Write Engaging Headlines
“Curiosity drives shares. But the trick is to find a way to spark that curiosity in every headline. It’s why headlines that start with ‘Here’s why…’ or ‘The one...
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.”
10 Ideas For The Interested This Week
“Every day has the potential to be the greatest day of your life.” — Lin-Manuel Miranda
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 ...
How to Improve at Anything Using the Plus-Equal-Minus Method
“The simple mantra, ‘I know nothing’ has helped me so many times in the past seven years. I owe any success to those simple three words: I. Know. Nothing.”
The Ultimate Guide to Blogging Success in 2017
“You need to divide your audience or customers into two groups. Numbers and people. The numbers are the ones you can’t care about. They’re the faceless statisti...
Six Things You Need to Recover from Every Day
“People who are successful in their work are often content being “unsuccessful” in the other areas of their lives — particularly their relationships. In other w...