Oct 29th 2016 WHO will uphold the torch of openness in the West? Not America’s next president. Donald Trump, the grievance-mongering Republican nominee, would build a wall on Mexico’s border and rip u
ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. -- She is the hugely popular owner of the Buffalo Bills , an effervescent woman who, along with her husband, is hailed by many Western New Yorkers for keeping the local NFL franchis
While writing clear, coherent help content is a challenge in itself, after some trial and error you’re sure to have it down pat. The question then becomes, where do you go from here? Just like you wan
GREENVILLE, Ohio — With beads of sweat of dripping from his hairline and his thin-wired glasses fogging up, a young man toils away with a sledgehammer in July’s unforgiving midday heat. Surrounded by
Olaf Blecker O n a recent evening in San Francisco, Tristan Harris, a former product philosopher at Google, took a name tag from a man in pajamas called “Honey Bear” and wrote down his pseudonym for t
Editor's note: This story on Bill Belichick was originally published on Oct. 4, 2016. Belichick turns 68 on Thursday. H e went by Billy at his first NFL job. It was 1975. He was 23, a failed college f
Robin Mientjes Jul 13, 2016 · 5 min read After four years of design work, I’m proud to present Dover Display , a type family based on a simple theory: what if Caslon and Gill Sans had been designed by
Charles Krupa/Associated Press On the morning of Dec. 6, 2010, a plane touched down at Akron-Canton Airport. Thom McDaniels turned on his phone as the plane slowed, and it rang immediately. It was his
Have you heard the story of the scorpion and the frog? It goes like this: a scorpion wants to cross a river. But he can’t swim. So he asks a nearby frog to carry him across. The frog says, “how do I
In your journeys across the web, you probably have encountered the now ubiquitous question “How likely are you to recommend this website to a friend?” It is the question behind the net-promoter score,
By Marc Sessler October 2016 In 1992, Bill Belichick was trying to rebuild the Cleveland Browns -- but that didn't stop him from responding to a student in search of direction. By | October 2016 WHEN A LOST SOUL REACHED OUT, A LEGEND-IN-THE-MAKING ANSWERED We're rolling across the middle of America…
Takeaway : 4 scientifically proven ways to make your to-do list a whole lot sexier: frame the items on your list in a positive light; think about why your goals matter to you personally; divide your g
The Crew platform has shut down as of December 15, 2018 and is now part of Dribbble. We have several tools to help you find and hire design talent, from self-serve sourcing to our creative staffing so
From the series: 1 Timothy Lesson 13: The Discipline That Matters (1 Timothy 4:6-10) As I watched the downhill ski racers in the recent Winter Olympics, I sat on my couch thinking, “It sure would be f
In the world of online and email communication, writing powerful copy makes all the difference. Become a better writer and you’ll accomplish more of what you want. It’s that simple. Writing doesn’t ju
Jacob Jaber Sep 13, 2016 · 4 min read I have exciting news to share but more importantly, a story I want to tell. First, I’ll start with the news. I’m humbled to share that we’ve closed our Series C f
Summary: Contacting customer service often reflects a UX failure, and this happened in 64% of the medium-complex customer journeys we studied. To reduce users’ need to contact your organization, under
Drew Coffman Follow Sep 12, 2016 · 3 min read One of my favorite things to do is to teach. Another one of my favorite things to do is to learn. Both feel very similar to me, and I think it’s impossibl
Workers install a billboard for GitHub Inc., in San Francisco, California, U.S., on Tuesday, Nov. 11, 2014. GitHub, which provides open-source code hosting services and has raised more than $100 milli
A very, very small quadcopter, one inch in diameter can carry a one- or two-gram shaped charge. You can order them from a drone manufacturer in China. You can program the code to say: “Here are thousa
Several years ago, I was given as a gift a remote session with a bibliotherapist at the London headquarters of the School of Life, which offers innovative courses to help people deal with the daily em
Starting or running a business is a risky endeavor. Entrepreneurs and artists deal with a storm of surprises and self-doubt, and they need to constantly learn and adapt to steer the ship to safety. I’
Your article image should be one to two levels of abstraction from what your article is about. It should be like an image of what the reader might dream about after reading your article. It’s a fantas
Index cards are mostly obsolete nowadays. We use them to create flash cards, write recipes, and occasionally fold them up into cool paper airplanes . But their original purpose was nothing less than o
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Is this you? Are you making other feel like this? Group chat is like being in an all-day meeting with random participants and no agenda. In 2006 we launched Campfire, the first modern SAAS group chat
I like seeing numbers. Today, I want to show you how generosity pays – not just in theory, but in practice (with numbers to prove it). But first, a little background to help you understand the numbers
Giff Constable Aug 25, 2016 · 3 min read Yesterday I was asked how a designer differs from a product manager. I found the answer surprisingly hard to give. Everyone designs, but not everyone is a “des
Seth Cain Mar 8, 2016 · 5 min read Understanding what Christianity actually is can be pretty difficult if you aren’t a Christian. And that shouldn’t surprise us. Many Christians don’t understand what
Have you heard Marc Maron’s podcast? It’s called WTF and it’s consistently at the top of the podcast charts. Recently Maron interviewed the inimitable Billy Connolly and I found a scene in the convers
How’s that for a headline? Headlines are an arms race these days, with every article competing to toss in more excitement and bigger promises. One of my biggest annoyances is the way “science” is sham
People ask me about productivity habits all the time. I’ve packaged most of that advice in a productivity webinar available to members of our learning community but I wanted to tell you one counter-in
Echoing the comments of William Deresiewicz , Charlie Munger offers some sage advice on multi-tasking: I will say this, I know no wise person who doesn’t read a lot. I suspect that you can read on the
I joined the software industry in 2008. I was 28. Previously, I'd been a branch manager for a non-profit. My office was ten minutes from my house, and I set my own schedule. But now I had a new career
Being a user-centered designer means that you deliberately seek out the stories, data, and rationale behind your users’ motivations. You endeavor to keep user concerns at the forefront of every design
Photo via Pixabay . You may be wasting your best creative output David Kadavy Aug 18, 2016 · 3 min read Listen to an audio version of this article (MP3) » I’m one of those annoying people who has neve
Hands down, the question I get most from readers is “how do I make my business or website unique?” I’ve talked to at least 10 of you over the past couple of months about that very topic. In marketing
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