September 1, 2017 Cinzia Reale-Castello (Trapper Keepers) // Lucy Quintanilla (Illustration) When E. Bryant Crutchfield began test-marketing his new school notebook in 1978, he thought it would be use
Amazon.com was once the poster child of what happens when excitement about a company detaches from reality. The headlines "Amazon founder named TIME magazine's Person of the Year," and "Analysts Fear
Logo, Bullshit & Co., Inc. Everybody likes logos. Everybody wants their own logo. Everybody wants to make their own logo. Everybody has a computer and some fonts. Anybody can make a logo. What makes d
NBL Nickname Power Rankings Written by Andrew Canion | Twitter @canion Inspired by a recent Grantland column , where the names of all thirty NBA teams were assessed and ranked, I’ve decided to do the same for the NBL. This is an immediately easier task as we have just 8 teams to worry about. There…
I admit it. I love it when the sky is falling. There is no more delicious a state of being than the imminent threat of disaster. During these times, I’ve done great work. I’ve taken teams from “We’re
Business is noisy. Business is full of people worrying loudly about projects, process, and other people. These people have opinions and they share them all over the place — all the time. This collecti
There are two periods of time regarding your job that I’m fond of quoting and they both involve the number three. First, it takes three months to understand a new job. Until those 90 days are over, yo
Aug 17th 2013 THERE is a never-ending supply of business gurus telling us how we can, and must, do more. Sheryl Sandberg urges women to “Lean In” if they want to get ahead. John Bernard offers breathl
This is how it happens, always. I will sit my toddler down at the table. Before her is a hot delicious meal. Perhaps tonight it’s Greek chicken pitas, or enchiladas with grilled corn. Maybe there is a cucumber, tomato and mozzarella salad accompanying seasoned chicken breasts and blueberries. One…
If you watch TV, you'll be led to believe that the problem with the U.S. economy is that one political team or the other is ruining the country. A sharp drop in government spending this year is, in fa
A tech friend gives me shit about being a Jeff Bezos fanboy. I’m unabashedly a fan. His 1997 letter to Amazon shareholders is a blueprint for building a durable franchise in technology. I recently com
Photo Credit It’s long past graduation season, but we recently learned that George Saunders delivered the convocation speech at Syracuse University for the class of 2013, and George was kind enough to
The massive twelve-wheeled demolition truck rumbles down the street and lures the neighbors out to gripe. It's not that the truck or the driver, Lorenzo Coney, are unwelcome. The people here just want
Global The Secret to Finland's Success With Schools, Moms, Kids—and Everything The country has cheaper medical care, smarter children, happier moms, better working conditions, less-anxious unemployed
There were plenty of high profile people at the Economist event in March, but hands down the best session was a simple interview with Ed Catmull , the president of Pixar [update: he has a book out now
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History Dash/Plus is a metadata markup system I created for paper based notes to mark the status of action items on a todo list. It quickly evolved to be equally well versed at marking up meeting note
Now that I’ve described the tools I use to go paperless , discussed my process for spending 10 minutes/day going digital , and talked about ways to secure and protect your digital file cabinet , I tho
One way President Obama acquired a reputation for being “hostile to business” was his propensity to pose awkward questions to business leaders. In February 2011, for instance, in the middle of a break
Big Bird is History: Why We Fund PBS Notable Articles Screening Room October 30, 2012 | 5 books mentioned 4 min read Related Books: Last week, a friend of mine told me he never understood why the gove
This is not a review. I've been relying on Moom for many months and these are examples of how I use it. If you're not using Moom then you probably spend a lot of time moving and tweaking windows on yo
The best speeches, political or otherwise, follow a set of five basic guidelines, says Greta Stahl, content developer (read: speechwriter) at Duarte, a communications firm that advises TED talkers, CE
By now most people will have heard that email addresses, hashed passwords, and some other data has been stolen from Blizzard’s Battle.net servers , and people are advised to change their passwords the
The Home Work Podcast has become one of my favorite new shows. It’s short, and I’ve been learning a lot. About 3 weeks ago Dave and Aaron talked about what they call The Mental Office: Working from ho
Before joining the engineering team at The Omni Group, I was an associate professor at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology . As an academic, I relied on OmniFocus to stay on top of the wide variety of
Every organization is an investment of time. Sometimes, it’s even a good one. I’m reminded of this wonderful graph in which a person figures out a smoother means of doing something though it takes a while to get there. In any case, I’ve had some fun combining Hazel and the Mac OSX Services menu and…
Brainstorming sessions are a counterproductive way of spending time. People usually think of more new ideas on their own than they do in a group. Psychologists refer to “the illusion of group productivity.” One meta-study found that people were less productive in groups in 18 of 22 comparisons.…
Michael starts a project with two initial pillars , a TextExpander snippet and a new OmniFocus folder. 1 I start a project in a similar way. For any reasonably complex project, I create the following,
One of my favorite Apple product announcements happened on September 7, 2005 . In an Apple music event announcement, Steve Jobs got on stage, gave the usual state of the business update, and then he d
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