Hello there! In this article I will go a bit deeper into how the Bullet Journal system works and walk you through how to get started. The absolute best place to get started with the Bullet Journal is
One of the most powerful concepts I’ve ever come across in business is the idea of the customer’s Desired Outcome. And if you’re thinking “one of the most powerful concepts in business” seems like a p
Andy Budd 10th May 2016 It’s understandable why we’re all so interested in fast-growing businesses, thanks to the drama involved. Will the company in question be able to raise the next round of funding, or will they hit the end of the runway in a ball of flames? Will they be able to hire fast enough…
dave wheeler FOR HBR Leer en español No matter what industry you are in or what job you do, you probably have experienced the frustration of working within a dysfunctional team — one marked by drawn-o
This is a temporary archive of the May 2016 Top Performer free lesson series. This page will only be available until May 21st, after which it will be taken down. If you want to get the remaining lesso
Published on May 25, 2016 She slides into the car, and even before she buckles her seat belt, her phone is alight in her hands. A 13-year-old girl after a day of eighth grade. She says hello. Her au pair asks, “Ready to go?” She doesn’t respond, her thumb on Instagram. A Barbara Walters meme is on…
The goal of the web is to engage you, to get you to click, scroll, double tap, laugh, cry, and share, to get you to stay up late online and then wake up in the morning and do it all over again. And I
On Icons Icons save space. Icons look crisp. Icons give quick answers to hard questions: How do we make it nicer? How can we brand it? How do we make it more fun? We ♥ icons. Until they start messing
There’s lots of resources for getting started with Jobs-to-be-Done interview techniques. Yet most of these apply to physical products. If you work in a software company, you might rightly ask how the
Customer Success - what is it? When I tell people I work in "Customer Success", they immediately think I do either Customer Support, or sales*. In a way, they are correct. I do both. Today, and more in the future, I'll dig deep into this particular industry*. A traditional marketing funnel narrows…
To a certain kind of nerd, Ev Williams is the Forrest Gump of internet media. Williams helped write the software that made us call blogs blogs . He founded a podcast company years before most people l
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Google Fonts first launched in 2010 as an engineering initiative to move the web forward and make it faster—using different technologies like cross-site caching of fonts and smart compression tools—an
What separates strategic, visionary thinkers from the rest of us? And why do we tend to worry about our ability to remember names—or where our keys are—rather than loss of cognitive memory that makes
“I ’m leaving the company in two weeks,” Dick Costolo said abruptly, hisface stricken, his fingers banging the wood-slab table before him.Costolo, the bald and lithe chief executive of Twitter , was s
Tristan Harris Jan 27, 2016 · 11 min read Estimated reading time: 11 minutes, 28 seconds I spent the last three years as Product Philosopher at Google, where I studied how technology affects people’s
On Technology Credit... Illustration by Karlssonwilker Inc. In the mid-’80s, a German engineer named Friedhelm Hillebrand helped devise a way for cellphones to send and receive text messages. Back the
The initial pronouns are sand, washed away by caprice and intuition. Matt Cardy/Getty Images Something has been mysteriously absent from many of my recent emails: me. Hope all is well with you , I wri
An Interview with Matt Haughey, Founder of MetaFilter Indie.vc May 3, 2016 · 13 min read MetaFilter , started in the late ’90s as one of the original group blogs, grew into a small but active communit
Think back to the most important email you sent last month. What comes to mind? For most, it may have been a newsletter that generated a lot of new product signups. Or maybe it was an upsell campaign
About The Author Rian is passionate about designing and building software that people love to use. After spending several years working in Silicon Valley and Cape Town, he is … More about Rianvan der
It has come to my attention that one of the more noticeable traits in my design work is my willingness to use what is perceived to be an excessive number of typefaces. I’ve seen countless articles wri
rands Mar 15, 2016 · 9 min read When it was five of you sitting the same room, it was easy. When someone needed to know something, they stood up in the middle of the room and asked, “Who broke the bui
If you're one of 500 million people who use Dropbox, it's just a folder on your computer desktop that lets you easily store files on the Internet, send them to others, and synchronize them across your
Evening Ritual: The 7 Things That Will Make You Happy At Night Everybody talks about morning rituals to get the day started right. ( Even I have .) But ending the day right can be even more important.
From teams to individuals, we aimed for a straightforward, consistent system to communicate the occasional, the week-to-week, and the day-to-day to everyone across our company. No matter the company,
Mar 2nd 2016 W hen I was young, there was nothing so bad as being asked to work. Now I find it hard to conjure up that feeling, but I see it in my five-year-old daughter. “Can I please have some water
The goal was to get in and move up. In the fall of 2013, ten new employees signed on with Lyft in San Francisco, to work in customer support making $35,000 a year. Mostly in their mid-20s, two had law
Credit... Illustration by James Graham The Work Issue It takes more than just policies to make a workplace truly flexible. The whole office culture has to change. Credit... Illustration by James Graha
Hey emoji users: Did you know that when you send your friend on your Nexus, they might see on their iPhone? And it’s not just ; this type of thing can happen for all emoji (yes, even ). In a paper ( d
The rise of the internet and the widespread availability of digital technology has surrounded us with endless sources of distraction: texts, emails and Instagrams from friends, streaming music and vid
So, you just found out you’re an introvert. Now you have a new way of understanding yourself and how you relate to the world. You can’t get enough of your new identity, so you’re reading every listicl
Medium is launching a set of tools to help publications publish and make money on the web. Dubbed Medium for Publishers, the WordPress competitor will offer publishers a free content management system
Goal-directed design and personas are staples in the product design handbook. While design tools and methods used are constantly evolving, the concept of a persona has largely remained the same since
A reader writes: I am a contracts manager for a Fortune 500 company; I would liken my position to that of a paralegal. I work for the vice president of sales for my business unit. Because the nature o
User experience design is fundamentally about communicating a centralised canon of knowledge around a design, even if that canon is transient in nature. It’s about formalising otherwise silent assumptions and scrutinising those assumptions to see if they hold water. This results in the effective…
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Why I own two digital agencies and buy small software companies for a living JD Graffam Mar 22, 2016 · 7 min read “Buyers like us, we have a lot of options. It’s a buyer’s market.” My friend, a succes
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