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Opinion Why You Will Marry the Wrong Person Credit... Marion Fayolle IT’S one of the things we are most afraid might happen to us. We go to great lengths to avoid it. And yet we do it all the same: We
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Editor's note: Rian shared an update over on the Postmark blog after 6 months of using the roadmap he described in this post. If you're curious it describes how we moved from planning to execution . I
As told to the First Round Review by Frederique Dame , most recently a product leader at Uber , and before that at SmugMug , Photobucket and Yahoo! . Here, she talks about how cultivating happiness pu
H umans age gradually, but some animals do all their aging in a rush at the end of life, while others don’t age at all, and a few can even age backward. The variety of aging patterns in nature should
New to Framer? Just 3 Things to Get You Started People at Google, Facebook, Twitter, Dropbox, and many other companies make prototypes during their design
Before the invention of the computer, most experimental psychologists thought the brain was an unknowable black box. You could analyze a subject’s behavior—
Tweet Post Share Buy Copies Leer en español Ler em português You’ve managed the same team for the past five years — then one day you find out that your most successful employee uses cognitive-enhancin
No matter how hard they try, brain scientists and cognitive psychologists will never find a copy of Beethoven’s 5th Symphony in the brain – or copies of words, pictures, grammatical rules or any other
In the spirit of capturing some of the observations that I find myself repeating, I’m adding this one to the mix tonight. Unlike the previous two, this is really a piece of concrete advice for product
WHAT A GYM REALLY NEEDS By: Louie Simmons T here are franchises and there are gyms. Westside Barbell is definitely a gym. What's the difference? A franchise is a place where they sell baggy pants, T-s
Perhaps the most surprising aspect of Google’s rise is that it is almost entirely attributable to having the best technology. That sounds like it should be the normal state of affairs, but in truth th
tl;dr : Learn how to plan your day and get organized. “How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour and with that one, is what we are doing.” – Annie Dillard
By Mike Shields Updated April 15, 2015 5:02 am ET To some, Burger King's Chicken Fries are more than just a tasty snack. They are a form of expression, a way people can define themselves and connect w
What is your morning routine? My first alarm goes off at 5:30am, and I promptly snooze it. My second one (which I have in case I accidentally turn off, instead of snooze, the first - it’s happened a f
Researchers still don't fully understand what sets a person's metabolic rate. Solar22/Shutterstock We talk about metabolism like it's something we can manipulate by gulping a pill, downing some green
Startups are knee deep in customer acquisition metrics. Click through rates, cost per click, cost per lead, conversion rate, cost per acquisition, and more. It’s worth remembering that recovering a lo
It’s time to take user onboarding seriously . Every product has an onboarding experience just like every product has a user experience. However, whether or not it's a thoughtful one makes all the diff
Takeaway : Every day you invest your time and energy into different hotspots (like your mind, body, emotions, career, finances, relationships, and fun). Creating a scannable list of your hotspots and
Once upon a time, somewhere in the universe very far from here, lived a peaceful star, which moved peacefully in the immensity of the sky, surrounded by a crowd of peaceful planets about which we have
Bruce Hood is currently the Director of the Bristol Cognitive Development Centre at the University of Bristol. He has been a research fellow at Cambridge University and University College London, a vi
“Perfection is inhuman… What evokes our love … is the imperfection of the human being.” “Where the myth fails, human love begins,” Anaïs Nin wrote in her diary in 1941 . “Then we love a human being, n
Gray Matter Why Are the Highly Educated So Liberal? Credit... Oscar Bolton Green IN 1979, in a short book called “The Future of Intellectuals and the Rise of the New Class,” the sociologist Alvin Goul
There are three things, once one’s basic needs are satisfied, that academic literature points to as the ingredients for happiness: having meaningful social relationships, being good at whatever it is
Big Ideas The Spanish-born designer on the winding path from freelancer to running some of the world's best digital agencies. 0 Award-winning designer Claudio Guglieri likes to “jam.” It’s a word you’
Rajan Patel, lead engineer for Google’s new iOS keyboard : Say you’re texting with a friend about tomorrow’s lunch plans.They ask you for the address. Until now it’s worked like this: Youleave your te
As product managers, the one question that we get asked every now and then is: " What does a product manager do, anyway? " Unfortunately, many of us still stutter while answering this question since p
What is your morning routine? I wake up between 8:00 and 8:30am, depending on what time I go to bed. I care less about the wake-up time than about the number of hours slept - I calculate my alarm time
If the product requirements document is the heart of your product, then the functional specs make up your product’s brain — it explains how everything works together in greater detail. Since all compa
A product manager's core responsibilities include working with a team to design, build, ship, and continuously improve a product. During product manager interviews, most companies love to hone in on y
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