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Treat your next career change like a verb
These 4 steps can prep you to make a pivot at work.
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To protect your mental health at work, try caring less
6 ways to protect your mental health and impact at work by backing off
Quartz on Agile
After years of intensive analysis, Google discovers the key to good teamwork is being nice
Shared by 164, including Dominic Grzbielok, Twitty, shishir das, Pat Kua, Simon07
“Personal kanban”: a life-changing time-management system that explodes the myth of multitasking
Only 3% of the population are “supertaskers." The rest of us just pretend to be.
Quartz on Bill Gates
All the books Bill Gates has recommended over the last eight years
Bill Gates has become a powerful influence on publishing. An endorsement from the philanthropist and Microsoft cofounder can cause tangible sales spikes, reminiscent of the golden ticket that once…
The robot that takes your job should pay taxes, says Bill Gates
The world's richest man is arguing for taxing and slowing automation.
Quartz on Business
Florida’s battle with Disney, explained
The battle over Disney World's municipal designation ties back to the company's statements on a controversial Florida law.
The best startup ideas have multiple paths to success
The “test two, choose one” approach can help entrepreneurs determine which path to follow in their startup's quest for "product-market fit."
Quartz on Future Of Work
The guy who inspired the "quiet quitting" movement is back to working 50 hours a week
Let's not draw the wrong lessons, again, from Justin's career choices
Quartz on Gig Economy
More Americans now work full-time from home than walk and bike to office jobs
Telecommuting has grown faster than any other way of getting to work—up 159% since 2000.
The on-demand economy is a bubble—and it’s about to burst
Enjoy your favorite apps that make your life easier while you can.
Quartz on Japan
Japan’s 72 seasons can liberate us from our obsession with productivity
Japanese seasons, sekki, and their sub-sections, kō, are a different way of thinking about time and how we give it meaning.
A Japanese robot cafe shows how avatars can foster human connection
The task of designing solutions for homebound populations is particularly acute in Japan, where over a quarter of its population is unable to work due to physical disabilities, mental illness, or old…
«the cafe’s teleworking model could be a path to employment for people saddled with child care and homeschooling duties or people who, for health reasons, can’t be in public during the covid-19 pandemic.»
Quartz on Leadership
A philosopher’s 350-year-old trick to get people to change their minds is now backed up by psychologists
Blaise Pascal set out the most effective way to persuade someone, centuries before there was any formal study of persuasion.
«People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come into the mind of others.»
7 leadership habits to improve prioritization
How leaders can better set priorities for themselves and others
Quartz on Python
PANDAS Meet the man behind the most important tool in data science Written by Dan Kopf 4…
Wes McKinney hated the idea of researchers wasting their time, so he created the wildly popular data science tool called "Pandas" for the Python programming language.
R and Python are joining forces, in the most ambitious crossover event of the year—for programmers
For programmers, this is a blockbuster announcement in the world of data science.
Quartz on Remote Work
What we learned after one month of operating a hybrid office
We've learned a lot in our first month operating a hybrid office, and wanted to share those lessons for managers and executives thinking through similar questions right now.
«Even when you’re in the office, the work itself is still best done with the assumption that everyone is remote.»
The company behind WordPress is closing its gorgeous San Francisco office because its employees never show up
The blogging platform's parent, a remote-working advocate, wound up listing the property.
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Google’s former happiness guru developed a three-second brain exercise for finding joy
Happiness is habit-forming.
«Thin slices of joy occur in life everywhere… and once you start noticing it, something happens, you find it’s always there.»
Most popular personal finance advice contradicts economic theory
Personal-finance experts and economists tend to offer different advice on issues like saving, retirement, and paying down debt.
«Why does personal finance advice so frequently depart from economic theory? The paper suggests the former group tends to take psychology into account, while the latter is operating in a purely rational world.»
Every successful relationship is successful for the same exact reasons
I asked 1,500 people for relationship advice, and kept getting the same answers.
«The other “wrong” reason to enter into a relationship is, like Greg said, to “fix” yourself. This desire to use the love of someone else to soothe your own emotional problems inevitably leads to codependence»
How to prepare for a future in which creativity is a workforce survival skill
We need to apply new thinking to education, retraining, and workplace tools if we want to maximize creativity.
The magic that makes Spotify’s Discover Weekly playlists so damn good
Thirty songs that feel like a gift from a music-loving friend, but were cooked up by an algorithm.
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