“We need white space in our daily lives just as much as we need it in our designs because the concept carries over: If our lives are over-cluttered and over-booked, we can’t focus properly on anything.”
What Happens To Health Insurance When Everyone Has A Pre-Existing Condition?
“Personal genetics can empower patients, doctors, and researchers to make more informed decisions around health care. But while this information could help us make better medical choices, it could also be used to fine-tune insurance algorithms, calculating premiums on a sliding scale of genetic risk.”
The Curse Of Being Talented
“Aspiring leaders work hard to live up to others’ expectations, and so the qualities that made them special to begin with — those that helped them excel and feel engaged — tend to get buried. They behave more like everyone else, which saps their energy and ambition.”
10 Ideas Worth Sharing This Week
“I happily don’t know what I’m doing. I feel that it’s an artist’s responsibility to trust that.” — David Byrne
How I Stopped Checking My Phone And Started Using It With Intention
I knew I was doing it too much.
It was easy to justify checking my phone constantly — especially since I write a weekly newsletter that features a collection of valuable ideas found through hours of searching the web and browsing my social feeds.
But a couple weeks ago, I recognized I had fallen into a dangerous loop and that my phone use —especially the time spent checking email and social media feeds — was out of hand.
So I did something about it.
7 Ways To Better Connect With Your Audience
We can learn a lot from the Piano Man.
I went to my first Billy Joel concert last weekend and in addition to a great show, it was a master class on how to connect with an audience.
No matter whether your audience connects with you in a stadium or in their Facebook feed, there’s a lot to be learned from what Billy Joel did on a warm Los Angeles night.
Here’s what I noticed watching Billy that can help you connect to your own tribe.
How To Tell Stories That Get People To Trust You
“Stories are a ‘write API’ for humans — that is, a channel for inserting beliefs into other people’s brains.”
The Way Baby Boomers Use Technology Is Incredible, Not Embarrassing
“Maybe we’re all looking at our boomer parents’ social media strategy (if you can call it that) the wrong way. Lack of gratitude for their love aside, maybe it’s refreshing that they don’t ‘get’ it, that they have no interest in curating some fake proxy version of themselves on the internet. It’s possible that they’re the last vestige of real purity online, and that’s probably why they make us so uncomfortable.”
Why The Business Of Local News Is Broken
“It may be obvious that printing presses don’t make much sense with the Internet, and most websites have moved to ad networks for the obvious reasons; in fact, though, nearly all of the content in most newspapers is not just unnecessary but in fact actively harmful to building a sustainable future for local news.”
Why You Should Avoid Making Promises
“Promises are like debt — they accrue interest. The longer you wait to fulfill them, the more they cost to pay off.”