The Ultimate Financial Advice for 30-Year-Olds
“Doing okay and being wealthy are two very, very different things. If you’re after the latter, then you need to live as far below your means as possible.”
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The Eight Friends You Need in Your Life
“Mind Openers are the friends who expand your horizons and encourage you to embrace new ideas, opportunities, cultures, and people. They challenge you to think ...
The Story of the Most Important Month of the 20th Century
“Newly appointed as prime minister, Churchill was faced with two monumental tasks: steer the British government away from a peace deal with Germany, and if succ...
The Best Way to Negotiate a Job Salary
“If you can get me X, I’ll accept the offer right away.”
How Being Vague Can Make Your Creative Work More Powerful
“When you eliminate a person’s need to infer — when you explain things — you take the mystery out. By doing this, the person experiencing the art uses their min...
What Happened When a Company Made Every Workday a Half-Day
“Having less time creates periods of heightened productivity called ‘focus dividends.’ By trimming your workday down to five hours, time management comes baked ...
How Facebook Knows Everyone You’ve Ever Met
“Behind the Facebook profile you’ve built for yourself is another one, a shadow profile, built from the inboxes and smartphones of other Facebook users. Contact...
Never Assume People Know What You’re Doing
“Nobody knows what you’re doing. People are not watching your every move. Even now in the age of digital voyeurism where we are broadcasting everything we do fr...
Art Is Advertising for What We Really Need
“One way to conceive of what artists do is to think that they are, in their own way, running advertising campaigns. Not for anything expensive or usually even a...
The Story of a Reluctant Father
“When you have a child, she becomes your past, present, and future.”