As Stuart Heritage puts it for the Guardian, “Barack Obama has pared his wardrobe down to such a degree that he can confidently walk into any situation and make decisions that directly impact on the future of mankind.” The president is not alone in this practice. The late, great, Steve Jobs wore Read more…
The ideal business sells a product which cannot be easily substituted or copied. This means that the product is an original or at least it’s something that can be copyrighted or patented. via The Perfect Business – Tuesday, August 05, 2014.
At the end of the day, we have to be willing to step out of our comfort zones — whether it be our knowledge base, our skillset, or our network and see our careers as paths of continuous growth that expand outward and upward. via How to Have a Long-Term Read more…
What promises to make people more productive ends up making them more anxious. If a child or a romantic partner don’t text back right away, Roberts notes, people assume the worst. Just a decade ago teenagers could spend all day out of touch without triggering a panic attack in their Read more…
How much of your valuable time do you lose parked in front of a screen? Two-thirds of wealthy people watch less than an hour of TV a day and almost that many—63 percent—spend less than an hour a day on the Internet unless it is job-related. Instead, these successful people Read more…
“Vertex42’s list of free templates ranges from weekly planners and wedding checklists to monthly budgets and chore charts. All the templates work for Excel, and several are also available for OpenOffice Calc and Google Sheets. It’s just what you need to be a spreadsheet ninja.” via Download Free Excel Templates Read more…
“John is a productive big city lawyer who manages to tackle a major writing project on the side (cryptically referenced in the above plan) while still ending work by 6:30 pm or earlier. If weekly planning enables this for John, imagine what it might enable for you.” via How a Read more…
Don’t Take It Personally When one person works from home, it’s pretty much guaranteed that he or she will sometimes be distracted, preoccupied, and otherwise not totally present. For the same reasons, it’s sometimes hard to respect work boundaries at home the same way you would at the office. via Read more…
There’s no substitute for hands-on experience, but for most students, real world tools can be cost prohibitive. That’s why we created the GitHub Student Developer Pack with some of our partners and friends: to give students free access to the best developer tools in one place so they can learn Read more…
“Doing this means thinking and talking about what truly inspires you, whatever that might be. It requires figuring out how to take incremental steps that are under your control and that move you in the direction you want to go, while bringing others along with you. It’s not easy (and Read more…