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The $144,146,165 Button
Tiny changes can have massive results. Need proof? Three buttons in a cab can increase tips 220%. Please share this article; it's how ideas spread.
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Hard Work Is Never Wasted
In school, a lot of kids ask “When will I ever need to know this?” Why do I need to know how to solve for x? Who cares whether Amenhotep or Ramesses ruled Egypt first? When will I ever need to write...
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Compared to What
It’s easy to convince yourself that you’re doing well if you compare yourself to your peers who are doing worse than you. Unfortunately, this is a recipe for mediocracy. Eventually, your self-induced...
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How To Succeed (Advice from Seth Godin)
Advice from Seth Godin: You don’t need all of these, and some are mutually exclusive (while others are not). And most don’t work, don’t scale or can’t be arranged: Be very focused on your goal and work...
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Lazy, Weak and Dumb
People overwhelmingly think they’re smarter, stronger, more industrious and better looking than they really are. To some extent, this is healthy. If most of us realized how ugly and dumb we really...
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Changing Tides
Digital delivery and consumption has completely changed the publishing industry. For thousands of years, reading was something you did by yourself. Unless you announced it, nobody knew if you even...
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Taking Control of Your Life: Concierge Medicine
Dr. Solis was on the edge of burnout after 21 years of running a traditional medical practice. Trying to see between 30 and 40 patients a day, keeping track of a roster of over 3,000 patients, and...
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Why Your Food Doesn’t Look Like The Ad
Great marketing from McDonald’s, showing exactly how they get their food to look so good in photos: Instead of ignoring the question, avoiding it, or getting defensive (by say, comparing their products...
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Link Dump
How do good hotels stay always feel so fresh and clean? Lots and lots of manpower. How the cast of friends banded together to leverage their per episode salaries into seven figures. Great negotiating...
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Opportunity Cost
How much does it cost to help your friend move on a Saturday? What if you had planned to take your son to a ballgame? What if you had planned to work overtime? There’s a cost to everything you do,...
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On Plagiarism
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing. - Salvador Dali Or, as Mark Twain explains in more fervent prose: Oh, dear me, how unspeakably funny and owlishly idiotic and grotesque was...
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You’re Always Allowed to do Big Work
No matter what position you’re in, whether it’s janitor or CEO, a huge part of your day is spent doing “small work”. This includes the clerical stuff, the scheduling, the filing, the organizing, and...
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Systematic Learning
Chris Guillebeau was interested in building a lifestyle business (i.e. something that requires little startup capital and lots of flexibility). Instead of picking a business at random, Chris did what...
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Declare Victory or Failure
Whenever you start a project, you should have a plan for finishing it. One outcome is to declare victory, to find that moment when you have satisfied your objectives and reached a goal. The other...
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Showing Up
As you go through life, you’ll meet the people who have it all figured out. The girl who, in 8th grade, starting taking zoology classes at the local junior college because she knew she wanted to be a...
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