The first time Herb Hyman spoke with the rep from Starbucks, in 1991, the life of his small business flashed before his eyes. For three decades, Hyman's handful of Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf stores had been filling the caffeine needs of Los Angeles locals and the Hollywood elite: Johnny Carson had his…

About David Shechner David Shechner is a Ph.D molecular biologist who specializes in the biochemistry of RNA. Perhaps predictably, his once-and-future OverThinking tends to focus on scientific , though werewolf-related issues are also fair game. One can find his scientific publications here ; one…

Today’s guest contributor is former Wall Street Journal and Fortune writer, Erik Calonius . Erik collaborated with Dan Ariely on Predictably Irrational and he has a new book out from Penguin Portfolio, Ten Steps Ahead: What Separates Successful Business Visionaries from the Rest of Us. +++ A few…

There’s been a recent retread of the weblogging phenomenon following a few articles at PC Mag , Time , and The Morning News. After posting my own short list of things that ought to be banned from weblogs, I realized that a list of things to be encouraged would be more useful. Some people are new to…

Ben is Product Director for Messaging at Twilio. He has over 10 years of messaging experience, previously as founder and CTO of Mobile Commons, where he oversaw product, technology, and account management. He lives on a small redwood grove in Oakland with his wife Arin and sons Gabriel & Ezekiel , a…

Don't panic! Everything's going to be... OK. Panic. After the end credits roll on Portal 2 , it's kind of hard to believe that this series had its humble beginnings as a student project called Narbacular Drop , which itself just laid down the basic mechanical framework for the kind of…

This article is a collaboration between The New York Times and The Chronicle of Higher Education , a daily source of news, opinion and commentary for professors, administrators and others interested in academe. David Glenn is a senior writer at The Chronicle covering teaching and curriculum. PAUL M.…

THE FAT AND THE FURIOUS The top 1 percent may have the best houses, educations, and lifestyles, says the author, but “their fate is bound up with how the other 99 percent live.” It’s no use pretending that what has obviously happened has not in fact happened. The upper 1 percent of Americans are now…

In 2009, Evan Ratliff, a freelance writer for Wired, and Nicholas Thompson, a senior editor there, had just concluded a particularly satisfying article in which Mr. Ratliff tried to drop off the grid for a month and obscure his whereabouts in the digital age, while Wired magazine offered $5,000 to…

There's a moment in Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP when you come up to a lake, with the moon reflected in the water, and one word appears on screen: believe. And you realize you can walk on water. Sworcery is a game of moments: some as small as watching a deer hop into the bushes, others more…

Updated: 21:56 EDT, 19 March 2011 Rob Waugh reports on the rise to near-mythical status of Jonathan Ive, the remarkable man from Chingford Jonathan Ive (left) has helped turn Apple into the second biggest company in the world, with a higher turnover than Google or Microsoft Few Westerners have ever…

Books explaining why books no longer matter come in many flavors. Illustration by CHRISTOPH NIEMANN When the first Harry Potter book appeared, in 1997, it was just a year before the universal search engine Google was launched. And so Hermione Granger, that charming grind, still goes to the Hogwarts…

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What makes a productive person? What do they do, what habits do they follow? The common notion of productivity is the ability to get a lot done in a short span of time. While it is true, it is not complete. True productivity is the ability to create high impact results in a short amount of time.…

It's hard to believe that I'm currently writing the words I seem to be writing, though a casual stock-taking of my senses dictates that it must be true. Here I am, at my computer, typing letters one by one into a plain text document, rolling along through one of the strangest posts I've ever penned…

Twenty-one years ago, psychologist Neil Fiore released his book The Now Habit . Here's a look at his revolutionary book on overcoming procrastination at work and enjoying our free time guilt-free. $9 The Now Habit: A Strategic Program for Overcoming… From amazon 7 bought by readers GMG may get a…