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Lots of teams today struggle with scheduling something usually called technical work: system improvements that the team finds important, but nobody actually asked for them. Do too little technical wor

Nir Eyal thinks we’re spending too much time trying to make work easy. He’s a behavioral design expert who taught at Stanford and has written two best-selling books. But he thinks most of the producti

Paul Rider runs on Mulholland Drive in Los Angeles, March 25, 2011. Researchers say a moderate running regimen is actually beneficial for the joints of people with healthy knees. Dennis J. Provost for NPR Yes, it’s true: Jogging, long thought to hurt knees with all that pounding and rattling around,…

(Bloomberg Opinion) -- The work-from-home movement is gaining steam in Silicon Valley as a flurry of companies – big and small – are embracing remote-working policies beyond the pandemic. But even as

In January, as reports about the spread of a novel coronavirus emerged from China, Mark Zuckerberg began to prepare for a potential pandemic. He began turning his teams to projects that would be usefu

Over the past few decades, we’ve seen significant changes in how employers think about their workforce. The historical model was to focus hiring on individuals in your geographic backyard , then provi

User experience (UX) is everything today. Poor digital experience can easily and quickly reflect in your client list and thus, your bottom line. It starts from

The solution is to embrace the hybrid state and give it the best chance of success by turning your company into a remote-first culture. What does remote-first mean? Remote first means there is no disa

When the headquarters of Mission Bio reopens next week, employees will find many of the familiar perks they enjoyed before Silicon Valley went into lockdown have changed. Instead of the communal trays of catered lunches served a few times a week, each employee will get their own boxed meal. The…

As tech giants introduce new work from home guidelines, employees are considering moving away from Silicon Valley and companies contemplate adjusting salaries (@sarahfrier / Bloomberg) https://t.co/UP6BO15qVj https://t.co/lly22yrVvZ

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Turn on any TV, open any web browser or smartphone, and you're like to see news and reports about millions of people working from home. Chances are you're reading this while working from home. If you're not, please, get up, shut your laptop, put on a mask and go home , unless you're an essential…

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Everyone deals with excess spending a little differently: some of us opt for an intense all-out sprint approach to financial health while others plod on with slow, steady consistency like hitting a daily step goal. Whatever your intensity level, we’ve got ten ideas to spend less money. Prefer to…

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When it comes to food, there are some cases when too much of a good thing can be harmful. Take ice cream sundaes, for example, or deep-fried cheese curds. You

With the growing remote-work trend affecting more industries than ever, product organizations increasingly find themselves managing projects with contributors in many different geographic locations. But even if their teams are scattered all over the world, product managers are still responsible for…

Pharmakeus Jul 24, 2015 · 11 min read Draft published July 23, 2015 The goal of this guide is to provide an overview of how to optimally ingest psychostimulants for studying. I will attempt to provide general, non-technical guidance in order to promote an effective and safe method to take…

Current Passions Year 2019 My title is Senior Maverick for Wired , a magazine I helped co-found 25 years ago. I do one article for Wired per year. My most recent article is a cover story about augmented reality called Mirrorworld . It describes what I believe will be what happens after the web and…

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Published March 18, 2018 in Jira Software A guest blog post from Yves Riel of Okapya, makers of the Checklist and Rekall add-ons for Jira. Published March 18, 2018 in Jira Software Group Product Manager What is a definition of done? When I ask agile teams, “Where is your DoD?” they sometimes look at…

Locked in an uphill battle against AWS and Microsoft in infrastructure cloud computing, Google Cloud has made the adjustments needed to gain ground, according to CEO Thomas Kurian. Now all it needs to do is navigate its employees, partners and customers through one of the biggest economic shocks in…

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Zoom fatigue is now setting in, as it moves from being a social lifeline to a chore, used for all interactions while aggravating anxieties in an exhausting time (@scottros / Axios) https://t.co/yvapP3jvDv https://t.co/Fih49yobky

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Greatly anticipating its arrival, I unboxed the iPad Pro Magic Keyboard as soon as it appeared at my door, and before I even attached my iPad Pro, I was put off. It felt too stiff to open. Then I did attach my iPad Pro (immediate thought: “Man, these magnets are strong ”), closed and opened the…

April 2020 As lockdowns lessen in the coming weeks, we’ll be opening the doors to World 2.0. The New World should look quite different, a difference that provides pockets of air that can be filled by new companies and founders. Before we dig into the changes, a few principles might guide thinking: A…

A tent in an outdoor I.C.U. hospital in Central Park. Credit... Misha Friedman for The New York Times There will be no quick return to our previous lives, according to nearly two dozen experts. But there is hope for managing the scourge now and in the long term. A tent in an outdoor I.C.U. hospital…

COVID-19 has accelerated the adoption of tech and ecommerce that will impact the lives of people who aren't online, especially in the developing world (@benedictevans) https://t.co/FwcmRuxwWW https://t.co/wOEWpIpoQQ

Every Western institution was unprepared for the coronavirus pandemic, despite many prior warnings. This monumental failure of institutional effectiveness will

January 2016 Life is short, as everyone knows. When I was a kid I used to wonderabout this. Is life actually short, or are we really complainingabout its finiteness? Would we be just as likely to feel life wasshort if we lived 10 times as long? Since there didn't seem any way to answer this…

Estimation is hard. For software developers, it's among the most difficult–if not the most difficult–aspects of the job. It must take into account a slew of factors that help product owners make decisions that affect the entire team–and the business. With all that at stake, it's no wonder everyone…

“You and I are very lucky,” he said to me once. “Because whatever else is going on, we’ve always got our physics.” Richard Feynman and Stephen Wolfram Transcribed from a talk given at the Boston Public Library, April 2005. This essay is in Stephen Wolfram’s Idea Makers: Personal Perspectives on the…

In Agile software development , the Fibonacci scale consists of a sequence of numbers used for estimating the relative size of user stories in points. Agile

Unless you’ve been living in an actual cave, you’ve probably heard all about the Paleo – or “caveman” – diet. Maybe you’ve even tried it. A little meat here, some fresh veggies there. Perhaps going grain- or processed-food-free. It’s a cool idea that captures the imagination. But is it healthy? And…

Download PDF Copy By Reviewed by Dr. Catherine Shaffer, Ph.D. Also called the caveman diet, the paleo diet is based on what our hunter-gatherer ancestors would have eaten during the Paleolithic period, which was 10,000 to 2.5 million years ago. Various Paleo diet foods. Image Credit: MaraZe /…