I can still remember when I first realized how naïve I was in thinking—hoping—that laying out the “facts” would suffice to change politicized minds, and especially Republicanones. It was a typically wonkish, liberal revelation: One based on statistics and data. Only this time, the data were showing,…
Why are you paid to go to work? To make something? Provide a service of some sort? You may not realize it, but if you’re paid a fixed salary to be in a specific place for a specific number of hours, you’re actually in a pretty common trade these days. You’re in the business of selling time. As a…
Tweet Post Share Buy Copies I was sitting with the CEO and senior team of a well-respected organization. One at a time, they told me they spend their long days either in back-to-back meetings, respond
There is only one valid definition of a business purpose: to create a customer. Peter Drucker, The Practice of Management “Imagine an NFL coach,” writes Roger Martin, Dean of the Rotman School of Mana
If You’re Busy, You’re Doing Something Wrong: The Surprisingly Relaxed Lives of Elite Achievers November 11th, 2011 · 315 comments The Berlin Study In the early 1990s, a trio of psychologists descende
When it comes to keyboard navigation, Vim impresses the hell out of me, but TextMate keyboard shortcuts take up more of my muscle memory than any other app. I’m sure anyone who’s used any IDE for a wh
To-Do lists are so popular they need no introduction. You’re surrounded by them: at the grocery store, around the house, even in outer space ! It’s easy to see why these agendas are so popular. You li
Since my Google Tech Talk ( previously ) caught fire last month (it's gotten over 100,000 views so far), I've been receiving a lot of really nice email, comments, and questions about how I put my pres
CYCLING IN AUSTRALIA : In 1970, nearly all young people in Australia walked, cycled or took public transport to school or university (84%). Few travelled by car (16%). Fast forward to 2011 and most ch
Share Like many of us, I’ve been thinking a lot about Steve Jobs the last few days – thinking about the man and his legacy. I’ve been having some trouble even understanding the way I feel, let alone b
The Education Issue My Family’s Experiment in Extreme Schooling transcript 0:00/10:07 -0:00 transcript An Education Three American siblings attend an experimental school in Moscow where instruction is
Successful projects start with thorough planning. You aren’t going to create a compelling business proposal by scratching a few notes on a cocktail napkin then firing up Keynote. You need to plan firs
July 7, 2011 Related topics: Process Project Management Ryan Irelan @ryanirelan Vice President of Technology Ryan’s articles Feed In a previous Cognition post , I shared my experiences of working remo
Op-Ed Contributor Stop Coddling the Super-Rich Warren E. Buffett Aug. 14, 2011 Omaha OUR leaders have asked for “shared sacrifice.” But when they did the asking, they spared me. I checked with my mega
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5 ( 1 ) The ultimate guide to how to do cry it out sleep training. Follow this for a step-by-step guide on using cry it out to get baby sleeping well. While this blog has several posts with CIO (Cry I
For most people, a someday/maybe list is simply a shadow inbox. It’s a place to collect (but not process) the cruft of your wishful but unwilling mind. If you’re someone that keeps up with someday/maybes, you probably do it in a text file, OmniFocus, or any of the hundreds of other electronic task…
M y life is broken into two halves. They’re not equal halves, but sometimes they feel that way. The first half is spent trying to figure out how reality works, if time is real, and what it means to be
[Editor's note: The list is now up to 19, thanks to a great reader tip.] Inside your Home folder is a Library folder ( ~/Library ), accessible only to you, that's used to store your personal applicati
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You know a celebrity is coming to the Berklee Performance Center when a campus announcement informs students they will NOT be allowed to queue up at the BPC doors until 2 hours before an 11 o’clock ev
The NBA lockout has begun, and 30 cities now fear the same sad prospect this fall: day after day of staring at a lovely arena built for the pleasures of watching grown men play professional basketball, with no actual professional basketball team around to play in it. Twenty-nine of those cities host…
Starting with a two-for-one pizza deal just three years ago, Groupon has snowballed, becoming a multi-national business with an I.P.O. on the horizon that could value the company at an estimated $20...
Now 30, Justin Timberlake is chilling out, absorbing a painful breakup, and keeping his body on sex-scene alert (see this month’s Friends with Benefits). For all his movie and music cred, the star...
In Tech We Trust Investors Provide Millions to Risky Start-Ups Bill Nguyen, the founder of Color, a company whose highly anticipated app landed with a thud. Credit... Jim Wilson/The New York Times Cla
I have very few rules in life, but this is one of them: Any time a team chokes away the NBA Finals 11 months after throwing a “Welcome Party” for itself, and it happens on the same night that Matt Sto
O n Tuesday and Wednesday at the Hilton Anatole in Dallas, in a massive conference room that could have doubled as one half of a basketball court, an eclectic group of maybe 40 people convened to dete
F act: The Decision was the best thing that happened to the NBA in 15 years. Fact: The year leading up to The Decision spiked TV ratings, boosted Internet traffic, provoked an onslaught of media opini
I recently decided to start collecting archives of articles that I read on the web. In the past, I have depended on memory and Google but either my memory is not what it was or Google is not what it was or the web is just getting too big. The Database The first step was choosing the application or…
Courtesy WWE The Macho Man's outfits were visible from space, and that's just the way he wanted it. January 1980. A Saturday morning. I am watching wrestling only because I can't find anything else. A
Edward Tufte occupies a revered and solitary place in the world of graphic design. Over the last three decades, he has become a kind of oracle in the growing field of data visualization—the practice of taking the sprawling, messy universe of information that makes up the quantitative backbone of…
The weather on the morning of Sunday, May 1st, was a springtime glory: crisp, sunny, infinite blue skies––the sort of conditions that pilots call “severe clear.” Such a morning comes along so infreque