“When I know I have to account for my time, even if only to myself, I find myself making wiser decisions. I plan my days more carefully.”
What Can Be Learned from Tracking Every 15 Minutes of Your Week
How to Curate Content
“With so much content at our fingertips, we could go in a million directions. Where to begin? With a point of view.”
Where Joy Hides and How to Find It
“The physical world can be a powerful resource to us in creating happier, healthier lives.”
10 Ideas For The Interested This Week
“The greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.
How to Lead an Awesome Life
“You’ve always got two choices. One: you can swirl and twirl and gloom and doom forever. Two: you can grieve and then face the future with newly sober eyes.”
John Hodgman’s Advice for Writers
“It’s not enough to write what you know — you have to know interesting things. So you have to put yourself into a world where you have experiences.”
Why a Boring Business Is Better Than a Busy One
“Busy is being reactive, and being constantly reactive doesn’t seem like the best way to run a business for the long term.”
Why You Can’t Trust Online Reviews
“People who write online reviews are more likely to buy things in unusual sizes, make returns, be married, have more children, be younger and less wealthy, and have graduate degrees than the average consumer, according to Dr. Simester’s 2014 study. Online reviewers are also 50 percent more likely to shop sales, and they buy four times more products.”
How to Talk to Kids, According to Mr. Rogers
“He insisted that every word, whether spoken by a person or a puppet, be scrutinized closely, because he knew that children — the preschool-age boys and girls who made up the core of his audience — tend to hear things literally.”
How Brands Use Laddering to Get an Edge on Their Competition
“It’s an attempt to de-position your competition by saying, ‘We’re this, and they’re this,’ and then figuring out what attribute you want to talk about that not only reflects you in a positive light, but just as importantly de-positions or sheds your competition in a negative light.”