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Are You Ambitious Enough?
You don’t have to become a backstabbing monster to achieve success,
but you do need to admit your ambition – if only to yourself.
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The Art of Momentum: Why Your Ideas Need Speed
When we lose momentum, we become vulnerable to distraction, self-doubt, and apathy. A look at how constant motion is crucial to idea execution.
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Frans Johansson: The Secret Truth About Executing Great Ideas
Actions DO speak louder than words (or tactics, or strategic planning). Frans Johansson illustrates why groundbreaking innovators generate and execute far more ideas than their counterparts.
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Job Interview Arsenal: 20 Questions to Ask (Or Be Ready to Answer!)
"Time spent on hiring is time well spent," as they say. We round up 20 great questions for gaining insight into even the most wily interviewee.
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Finish Your Masterpiece with Deliberate Goal Planning
To achieve great things, start by clarifying your end game. A look at how to finish creative projects, with examples from Michelangelo to the Beatles.
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Insightful articles and links from around the web.
9/2/2010
Responsibility and authority
It turns out you can get a lot done if you focus on responsibility rather than authority.
Negative Emotions Diminished by Difficult Mental Challenges
Can thinking about being happy make you less happy?
Wave Goodbye
Tech autopsy of Google Wave: did Google forget to answer the essential question "what's it for?"
9/1/2010
ColorBlendy: See how two colors blend easily
A handy design tool to test how colors blend while overlaid or multiplied.
Ten Things Your Employees Wish You Knew About Them
"If you think it's tough being a manager these days, try being an employee."
What Ernest Hemingway, Toni Morrison, and R. Crumb Have in Common
How those great Paris Review interviews happen. Behind-the-scenes process look.
Tweetin' Grannies and Gramps Outpace Social Whippersnappers
Survey says the fastest growing demographic in Social Media is the over 50 set.
8/31/2010
12 Natural Laws of Business
Great business advice from Zingerman.
Internet may phase out printed Oxford Dictionary
The 130 pound O.E.D. may soon slim down to almost nothing with a move to digital.
Why FAILFaire?
Interesting concept: The FAILFaire, a place where it’s ok to talk about what didn’t work.
What Should I Do to My Work Laptop Before I Leave My Job?
How to leave your work computer sparkling clean to preserve privacy.
8/30/2010
Digital Devices Deprive Brain of Needed Downtime
We fill subway rides and gym visits with mobile devices when our brains should be processing experiences and knowledge.
Ghostly Discovery
Tailor electronic music to your mood with Ghostly International.
Westerners vs. the World: We are the WEIRD ones
"If you're a Westerner, your intuitions about human psychology are probably wrong."
8/27/2010
Jennifer Egan: Gallery of a Writer’s Impulses
Jennifer Egan's unique, memory-spattered website.
The Acceleration of Addictiveness
We'll increasingly be defined by what we say no to.
Tall Tales, Truth and My Twitter Diet
On community, accountability: How the New York Times' TV writer used Twitter to lose weight.
8/26/2010
You snooze, you lose
Can you be successful and barely sleep? Judah Friedlander, Martha Stewart, and more get 4 or less hours a night.
How to apologize
The components of a "scientifically perfect" apology (via The Morning News).
The importance of enjoying the habit
What's the one thing that makes habit forming successful? Not discipline or willpower, but enjoying the habit.
8/25/2010
Sleep Secrets Revealed in Human Hair
Turns out, your sleep cycle is all in the "gene clock" of your hair.
When It's the Candidate's Turn to Ask
Because turnabout is fair play, so be ready for some pointed questions as interviewer.
The beauty of data visualization
We're living in an information glut. How to navigate it? Design. David McCandless's TED Talk.
8/24/2010
How to Make the Most of a Small Workspace
Don't cop-out on your workspace design just because it can't accommodate as much as you'd like.
Creativity Matters
John Maeda responds to Po Bronson's Newsweek article on the "Creativity Crisis."
7 insights to make you a great designer
Seven design inspirations from the this Spring's AGIdeas Conference.
8/23/2010
You're Hired! Now, the Real Test.
Six qualities that every new staff member should have, from Jim Collins.
Koufax On Koufax
"About my hitting, the less said the better." Vintage Sandy Koufax interview.
Telling Tails
"The more dangerous problem with unsuccessful stories is usually much less complex: I am bored."
8/20/2010
25 Useful Videos and Presentations for Designers
Smashing Magazine curates presentations from the best design-related conferences around the globe.
Team-Based Savings Software Helps Users Avoid Impulse Purchases
A social networking app that reinforces smart financial decisions.
Washington, We Have a Problem
How does the president manage his time? A day in the life of Obama.
