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How The Most Productive CEOs Keep Email In Check
How many hours a day do you spend sifting through your inbox? Does the idea of taking up arms against a sea of emails each morning feel hopeless? You aren’t alone. Some of the most productive people...
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How I Knew When Saying “Yes” Was Hurting My Productivity (And Worse)
Years ago I got divorced and went from married suburbanite to urban bachelor in the span of a few weeks. Talk about a bumpy landing. I didn’t have any friends, family, or social support downtown, so it...
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We Need To Figure Things Out For Ourselves
A week after the election, Yale history professor Timothy Snyder posted an ominous warning on his Facebook page. “Americans are no wiser than the Europeans who saw democracy yield to fascism, Nazism,...
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Would Your Company Pass This Stringent Good Workplace Audit?
Many companies claim to be good places to work. The reality to those inside the shop, however, might feel very different. In the process of churning out cool products or some memorable service,...
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Five Things Amazon’s Alexa Needs to Make Sense On Smartphones
Ever since the failure of its Fire phone, Amazon has needed a way to embed its services more deeply into smartphones. Now, the company has an opportunity in Alexa, its virtual assistant that’s become a...
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The Bigger Lesson From Facebook’s New Bereavement Leave Policy
Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg’s world came to a sudden halt when her husband, Dave Goldberg, died suddenly, at age 47, during a spring 2015 trip to Mexico. In the months that followed, the self-assured...
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SlingStudio Aims To Make Multi-Stream Video Production More Accessible
For a short period of time, I once wanted to be an event videographer. I was working as a television news producer at the time and saw how much videographers were able charge for weddings and other...
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Uber’s Flying Car Chief On Noise Pollution And The Future Of Sky Taxis
Flying cars still seem like one of those futuristic technologies that only exists for now in the realm of science fiction and old episodes of The Jetsons. But Uber is taking the technology seriously...
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The One Thing You Need To Do To Become More Creative
If you want to become more creative, the answer may lie in becoming more courageous. A new class at USC Annenberg called Improvisational Leadership is encouraging students to step outside of their...
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The Robots Are Coming For Your Wardrobe
Artificial intelligence is rapidly changing just about every industry, with billions being poured into algorithms for everything from self-driving cars to detecting cancer to chatbots. Not so much...
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Four People In Your Professional Network You’re Probably Undervaluing
Most people think networking is about making new connections—which is true—but you also have to invest in the connections you already have, whether they’re people you met at the last networking event,...
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The Best Part Of Netflix’s “Girlboss” Has Nothing To Do...
As the cheeky disclaimer reads at the beginning of each episode, Netflix’s new show Girlboss is “a loose retelling of true events” pertaining to Nasty Gal entrepreneur Sophia Amoruso’s life . . . “real...
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Watching The David S. Pumpkins Episode of “SNL” Is Just Painful Now
Sleep paralysis is a phenomenon where, in the midst of falling asleep, one experiences terrifying hallucinations, along with an inability to move. I’ve never personally endured this physiological...
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3 Questions For Figuring Out Why Recruiters Keep Ignoring You
All job hunters hear the advice to “stand out,” “be different,” and “separate yourself from the crowd.”But what exactly does that mean with regard to your job search? Do you send a fruit basket to your...
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Google’s New $17,000 Jump Camera Aims To Democratize VR Content Creation
Almost every day, it seems, a new camera for shooting virtual reality content is announced. Ranging from consumer-grade devices that cost a few hundred dollars to those meant for Hollywood filmmakers...
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This Community-Run Business Creates A Sustainable Stream Of Food, Water, And...
In the Democratic Republic of Congo, where nearly one in 10 children dies before the age of five and half the population lacks access to clean drinking water, the traditional approach to...
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How Droga5 Turned An Idea of “Preparing For Next” Into Met-Rx’s New Ad
What’s the old yarn about the journey being more important than the destination? Turns out, that’s an apt metaphor for the motivation of elite athletes. At least that what we learn in this new campaign...
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Director Alejandro González Iñárritu Brings His Emotions To Tribeca
Alejandro González Iñárritu is not only in touch with his emotions, he’s proven his skill of shaping them into art.The Academy-Award winning director of Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)...
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This Site Lets You Pay The Water Bill For A Family In Need
When Detroit began shutting off the water supply to thousands of the city’s poorest and most vulnerable residents who were behind on their water bills in 2014, U.N. experts called it a violation of...
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Shea Moisture Just Made A Lot Of Its Consumers Very Upset
Today, you may have been surprised to see Shea Moisture trending on Twitter. It’s a popular brand with a strong following, but nowadays when a brand is trending, there’s reason to believe something...
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