The Guardian
Music can boost your productivity while working from home
3 min · · Music has been shown to improve both productivity and cognitive performance, especially in adults · Shared by 237, including 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Yves Mulkers, ahg, Neil Hart 💙, Thomas Power, Katja Evertz, Tauno, Deb Lee, Nrupal Akolkar, Ines Bieler
Psychology Today
The Art of Making Tough Decisions in a Crisis
4 min · · Here are two processes to help—one from psychology and one from the military. · Shared by 142, including Dr. Russell Hyken, Tom Connor, Thomas Power, Jacob du Toit
Stylist Magazine
Science of happy: 7 small daily habits proven to boost your mood
4 min · · Get involved in these super-simple rituals to feel a little bit better. · Shared by 115, including Thomas Power
TechCrunch
Clubhouse voice chat leads a wave of spontaneous social apps
7 min · · Forget the calendar invite. Just jump into a conversation. That’s the idea powering a fresh batch of social startups poised to take advantage of our cleared schedules amidst quarantine. But they could… · Shared by 214, including Marvin “Polymath but really Just Generalist” Liao, Ben Parr, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Nando 💪🇦🇺🇦🇷, Hailley Griffis, Amanda Goetz, Johannes Lenz, John Rampton, Warren Whitlock, Ouriel @Zengo, Chris Messina, hiten.eth, Jan Firsching 🆒, Bill Johnston, Fanzo, Kunal Bhatia, Sachin Rekhi
National Geographic
‘Zoom fatigue’ is taxing the brain. Here's why that happens.
7 min · · Video calls seemed an elegant solution to remote work, but they wear on the psyche in complicated ways. · Shared by 624, including Dr. Marcell Vollmer 🇺🇦 #StaySafe #VivaTech, Dr. Russell Hyken, HeidiCohen - Top Global Marketer, Christina, Esther Schindler, Raul Tiru 🌎, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Mark Kaigwa, 𝙎𝙝𝙚𝙡𝙡𝙮 𝙎𝙖𝙣𝙘𝙝𝙚𝙯 💡, hiten.eth, Douglas Karr, @ShannaPeeples@mastodon.nl, Katja Evertz, Liliane Ferrari ™, Brian Laung Aoaeh, CFA, Rodolphe Dutel, Thomas Power, Matthias Lampe, Pat Kua, jack hollingsworth
Neuroscience News
Stress thwarts ability to plan ahead by disrupting how we use memory
4 min · · Stress generates lower levels of activity in the hippocampus and frontal-parietal lobe networks, hindering the ability to make certain decisions and plan ahead. · Shared by 85
Towards Data Science
Data Science Concepts Explained to a Five-year-old
10 min · · Describing technical concepts simply in interviews · Shared by 112, including 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, ΛLΞX TRΞJʘ
Scientific American
Lessons from Past Outbreaks Could Help Fight the Coronavirus Pandemic
5 min · · The 1918 influenza pandemic and 2002–2003 SARS outbreak suggest social distancing measures, communication and international cooperation are the most effective methods to slow COVID-19 · Shared by 27, including Matthias Lampe, Jennifer Ouellette
The Atlantic
How the Pandemic Will End
20+ min · · The U.S. may end up with the worst Covid-19 outbreak in the industrialized world. This is how it’s going to play out. · Shared by 1328, including Phil (SubStack link in bio) Plait, William Gibson, Food Babe, David Wallace-Wells, Ezra Klein, 🌻 Laura Fitton (she/her) 🌻, Ed Yong has left The Atlantic, Matt Goodwin, Paul Graham, Dr. Jeffrey Guterman, Marc Lipsitch, Jeff Atwood, Guy Kawasaki, Eric Topol, Hiroko Tabuchi, Tim Harford, Tomas Pueyo, Alexis C. Madrigal, Jay Rosen, Steve Silberman
helpscout.com
Crisis Communication Tips for Customer Service Teams
7 min · · These crisis communication tips will help your team deliver the best service possible during a crisis without burning out or lowering standards. · Shared by 16, including Jeff Toister, Bill Quiseng
Harvard Business Review
That Discomfort You’re Feeling Is Grief
6 min · · The coronavirus pandemic has led to a collective loss of normalcy. · Shared by 893, including Sylvia Duckworth, Michael Hyatt, Kevin Kruse, Charles Duhigg, Marsha Collier, Mathew Ingram, Dr. Laura Markham, Matt Heinz, 🌻 Laura Fitton (she/her) 🌻, Mike Allton, Dave deBronkart, Nilofer Merchant, Hrag, Rachel Botsman, Eric Holthaus, Brian D. Earp, Ph.D., Alex Cavoulacos, Paul Ekman, Biz Carson, Whitney Johnson
Science Magazine
Cellphone tracking could help stem the spread of coronavirus. Is privacy the price?
8 min · · Researchers strategize ways to trace infections and contacts amid data protection laws · Shared by 64, including Mark Kaigwa, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Steven Crowder, Martin Enserink, Faik Ersoy, Thomas Power, Data Science Renee, AAAS, Eric Topol, Marc R Gagné MAPP
The Atlantic
A Failure of Systemic Thinking
9 min · · America’s coronavirus response could have played out another way, if only we’d understood the complexity of the problem. · Shared by 119, including Marie-José Kolly, Clemens M. Schuster, Tim O'Reilly, Christina Farr, Martin Recke, John Nosta, Elad Gil, ɐpuɐʎᴉW ᴉʇɐʍɥǝN, zeynep tufekci, Ed Yong has left The Atlantic, Balaji, Jay Rosen, Niklaus Gerber, adrianoesch, Mathew Ingram
Forbes
Why Companies Turn To Digital Marketing To Survive COVID-19
3 min · · The coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) is posing massive challenges to businesses across the globe by closing events and traditional sales and networking channels. Here we look at why companies that… · Shared by 66, including Bernard Marr, Jonathan Kogan, Gerry Moran, Jacob Jarnvall, Eric Seufert, Bill Slawski ⚓ 🇺🇦, Sandeep Raut, Lee Odden - B2B Marketing, Thomas Power
The New York Times
Harsh Steps Are Needed to Stop the Coronavirus, Experts Say
20+ min · · Scientists who have fought pandemics describe difficult measures needed to defend the United States against a fast-moving pathogen. · Shared by 236, including Paul Irish, Sam Sifton, Brian Stelter, Gary Marcus, Kara Swisher, Marc Lipsitch, SusanaDeLeón, MD, felix salmon, zeldman, Mike Davidson, Mathew Ingram, Christina Hoff Sommers, Marcel Salathé, Elizabeth Picciuto, zeynep tufekci, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Christopher Mims 🤌, Paul Graham, Carl Zimmer, Gerd Leonhard
Fast Company
Coronavirus proves we should all work less
5 min · · We have designed the perfect tools to work productively from home. But that doesn’t mean our homes belong to our work. · Shared by 202, including Guy Kawasaki, Sandy.Polygon, Jennifer Hurst, Thomas Power, Tris Hussey, Gregor B. Rosenauer