Takeaway : Focus on the process when intention setting—the actions you need to get what you want. For example, “finish TPS report” might turn into “write TPS report for 45 uninterrupted minutes.” Estimated Reading Time : 2 minutes, 26s. Regular readers of this blog are probably familiar with the…

Takeaway : Meetings take too much time—the best way to counter this is to shrink your meeting lengths, and focus those conversations. The 10 strategies below will help you do both. Estimated Reading Time : 4 minutes, 28s. One of my personal productivity rules is to never attend meetings that lack an…

The Theory (with examples) In Clayton Christensen’s book, How Will You Measure Your Life , he talks about his jobs-to-be-done theory . The theory states that when a consumer (me or you) buys a product, they buy it to perform a particular job. The theory says that when a marketer positions a product…

Takeaway : The fewer new and rich experiences we have, the quicker time passes. The solution is two-fold: make an effort to experience more interesting things, and savor what’s familiar. Estimated Reading Time : 3 minutes, 5s. Over the last few years, I’ve noticed time has started to move more…

The Chang’e-4 lunar probe being launched from Xichang, China, last month. Credit... Reuters 阅读简体中文版 閱讀繁體中文版 BEIJING — China reached a milestone in space exploration on Thursday, landing a vehicle on the far side of the moon for the first time in history, the country’s space agency announced. The…

Shia LaBeouf is nervous about this story—“I have so much fear about this thing,” he confesses to me when we first meet—and it drives him to do what he’s always done when faced with something he cannot fully control: Prepare. Obsessively. For the past two months, he’s conducted practice interviews…

Photo illustration by Slate Slate’s expanded voting rights coverage is made possible by the support of Slate Plus members and readers like you. To vote in the United States, you can’t simply go cast a ballot. In most states, you first have to register. If you’ve registered, you have to have…

The results of the 2018 midterm elections were both predictable and predicted, although that wasn’t necessarily how it seemed when Nancy Pelosi started Election Day by telling reporters that Democrats would absolutely win control of the House of Representatives. “One hundred per cent,” she said, in…

Traumas and tragedies change people, at least briefly. They change lives for those closest; they emotionally affect those farther away; sometimes they change society as a whole. One remarkable thing about President Donald Trump’s reaction to the massacre Saturday at a synagogue in Pittsburgh is how…

As a freewheeling president in one of the world’s most regimented jobs, Donald Trump appears to be redefining the nature of the role. | Andrew Harnik/AP Photo The president’s schedule shows huge swaths of his day unplanned, allowing his whims and momentary interests to drive White House business.…

Even President Donald Trump can’t shape the media narrative to his will amid an attempt at mass political assassination and a nationwide manhunt. | Nicholas Kamm/AFP/Getty Images A failed terrorist in Florida succeeds in overshadowing the president's message, to Trump's annoyance. The would-be…

Michael introduced itself to North America with 155-mile-per-hour gusts of wind and a barometric pressure of 919 millibars, the third-strongest hurricane to ever make continental US landfall. It was a monster, and it stayed a monster as it rolled through Georgia and then on toward the Carolinas. And…

Solange, photographed in New York City on July 30, 2018. Credit... Photograph by Collier Schorr. Styled by Carlos Nazario Skip to contentSkip to site index On the eve of her next album, the singer has hybridized her many talents — music, dance, activism, aesthetics — to inspire a new model for the…

Let me tell you about my handsome son, Mizue . He's a cat. He cuddles up beside me and pushes his little furry head against me when he wants to be petted. He purrs and rubs up on everyone he meets. He's the best dude, is what I'm saying here, and I am goddamn sick of people saying that cats aren't…

“I haven’t been to Washington my whole life. Probably never slept over. All of a sudden, I’m president of the United States,” Trump said. Photo: Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images Around 12:20 p.m. on Tuesday, I was on my way out of the White House after a series of meetings in the West Wing. I was…

Senators Charles E. Grassley and Dianne Feinstein talking with aides last week during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing. Credit... Gabriella Demczuk for The New York Times WASHINGTON — The nomination of Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court has exposed just how far the Senate has drifted…

WASHINGTON – Sen. Orrin Hatch is taking heat for telling reporters that he thought Christine Blasey Ford was an "attractive witness" during a break from her testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday. "It’s too early to make those kinds of determinations, but she’s a good witness.…

The New York Times reports that Brett Kavanaugh plans to offer the Senate Judiciary Committee pages from his high school social calendar which include no mention of a scheduled engagement with a teenage Christine Blasey in the summer of 1982, as if that somehow proves that he did not attempt to rape…

Deborah Ramirez, a Yale classmate of Brett Kavanaugh’s, has described a dormitory party gone awry and a drunken incident that she wants the F.B.I. to investigate. Photograph by Benjamin Rasmussen for The New Yorker As Senate Republicans press for a swift vote to confirm Brett Kavanaugh, President…

Trump’s Nemesis in the Age of Pinocchio Glenn Kessler’s database of presidential untruths will become a reference, a talisman. Opinion Columnist President Donald Trump hosts a roundtable discussion on prison reform with state leaders on Thursday at Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, N.J.…

At a White House media briefing on Thursday, a group of senior Trump Administration officials warned that Russian efforts to meddle in American politics are continuing in the run-up to November’s midterms. “Our focus here today is simply to tell the American people we acknowledge the threat,” Dan…

Trump Will Have Blood on His Hands His demonization of the news media won’t fall on deaf ears. Opinion Columnist The crowd at a Make America Great Again rally in Pennsylvania on Thursday, stoked by President Trump’s statements, was particularly hostile to the press. Credit... Al Drago for The New…

Ms. Sanchez, a 26-year old Brooklyn native, was the creative director of Kith before she became the rapper’s image director. Mellany Sanchez in Brooklyn. Credit... Eric Chakeen for The New York Times Mellany Sanchez Age: 26 Hometown: Bushwick, Brooklyn Now Lives: A sneaker-and-magazine-filled…

President Trump used to love tweeting. I mean, he still loves tweeting, obviously, relying on it as an end run on those insistent media jerks who are always trying to contextualize things with “facts.” But he used to love tweeting, knocking out 20 or 30 tweets and retweets a day. That was the case…

America is changed. Politics is transformed. But how much has Big Media adjusted? Not nearly enough. On Tuesday night, many major news organizations were caught flat-footed as 28-year-old Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez pulled off one of the biggest political upsets in years, unseating powerhouse Joseph…

U.S. President Donald Trump boards Air Force One. Photographer: Kevin Dietsch/Pool via Bloomberg Photographer: Kevin Dietsch/Pool via Bloomberg President Donald Trump appeared to return a call from a prankster posing as New Jersey’s Democratic Senator Bob Menendez during an Air Force One flight…

“This used to be a bad neighborhood.” Two areas of New York City that have recently gentrified have a corresponding high rate of quality-of-life complaints, which sometimes draws police attention. Ramon Hernandez has been sitting in a fold-up chair on his Harlem block every summer for decades. One…

@Team_Mitch via Twitter When Justice Antonin Scalia died unexpectedly, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell pulled a new rule of American politics out of thin air and said there could be no vote on a replacement during a hotly contested election year. When Justice Anthony Kennedy announced his…

Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, right, administered the oath of office to Justice Neil M. Gorsuch, a former Kennedy clerk and President Trump’s first Supreme Court pick, at the White House last year. Credit... Stephen Crowley/The New York Times WASHINGTON — President Trump singled him out for praise…

Photo by Simon Blackley / Flickr Jason Meinhardt’s restaurant The Red Hen, a small cafe in the suburbs of Atlanta, Georgia, closed almost a decade ago. But over the past few days, Meinhardt has been fielding a stream of irate complaints about his defunct establishment, courtesy of an internet mob…

Undocumented immigrants arriving Sunday in McAllen, Tex., after being processed by Customs and Border Protection and released. Credit... Tamir Kalifa for The New York Times WASHINGTON — President Trump said on Twitter this weekend that undocumented immigrants were invaders who “must immediately,…

A video still image from YouTube shows Esteban Guzman, left, with the unidentified woman who unleashed a diatribe against Mexicans. Credit... via Youtube Leer en español A man and his mother were doing yard work in California when a woman unleashed a diatribe against Mexicans, and — invoking…

A group of protesters accosted Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi outside the screening of the new documentary about Mister Rogers at the Tampa Theatre on Friday night, questioning her about her recent actions on health care policy and her stance on immigration. A video of the confrontation, taken…

Story Highlights Three-quarters of Americans think immigration is a good thing 65% of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents agree 39% say immigration should be kept at present level, 28% say increased WASHINGTON, D.C. -- A record-high 75% of Americans, including majorities of all party…

Donald Trump Photo illustration by Slate. Photo by Olivier Douliery/AFP/Getty Images. Donald Trump is unpopular. This fact is often lost in analysis that treats his most committed supporters as barometers of the country at large. But it’s true: Most Americans disapprove of President Trump and oppose…

Anthony Bourdain, the famed chef, author and television correspondent, killed himself in a French hotel room earlier this month. Credit... Chris Pizzello/Invision, via Associated Press Anthony Bourdain did not have narcotics in his body when he died this month, a French judicial official said. Mr.…

Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts spoke at a convention for members of the Democratic Party in Nevada on Saturday, drawing a standing ovation with an exhortation to “drive Donald Trump and his enablers out of power.” Credit... Bridget Bennett for The New York Times HENDERSON, Nev. — The…

Personal writings of Albert Einstein from 1922 to 1923 reveal the musings of a man grappling with countries and cultures he had never experienced before. Credit... Associated Press 阅读简体中文版 閱讀繁體中文版 LONDON — In 1922, the same year he received the Nobel Prize in Physics , Albert Einstein set out with…

In 2018, journalism has expanded well past a job or a technical skill defined by the gathering and efficient communication of news. In the Trump era, journalism is a fight . It’s a never-ending battle against misinformation, a bombardment of insults and attacks and t-shirts that suggest lynching…