At Asana, we strive to practice mindfulness in our approach to all the work we do. In this post, Kimberly Snodgrass, Executive Assistant to Justin Rosenstein,…
Optimize These 3 Areas in Your Life for Highest Productivity
Answer by Justin Rosenstein , co-founder of Asana, on Quora . I’m a software developer, designer, and entrepreneur. I’m the co-founder of Asana , team…
How to balance full-time work with creative projects – The Creative Independent
November 27, 2018 Part of: Making time for creative work Finding balance Staying on track Having a day job Copied link to guide! Be honest about your 9 to 5…
The Joel Test: 12 Steps to Better Code
Have you ever heard of SEMA ? It’s a fairly esoteric system for measuring how good a software team is. No, wait! Don’t follow that link! It will take you about…
The Power of Research: How We Grew Traffic on The Canva Blog By 226.47% In 60 Days
What do you do when you start a blog? Most people jump right in. They choose a theme, browse around for awesome plugins, set up Mailchimp and do all this other……
Why the world needs deep generalists, not specialists
You should hire a polymath but you probably won’t find one. Originally published on JOTFORM.COM It was a meeting of the minds — three of the world’s most…
In Pursuit of Production Minimalism — Brandur Leach
While working at Lockheed during the cold war, KellyJohnson was reported to have coined KISS (“keep itsimple, stupid”); a principle that suggests glibly…
How to PRIORITIZE: My New System for Planning My Weeks | Gillian Perkins
How to Prioritize: My New System for Planning My Weeks A couple months ago I posted a video about “ How I Organize My Life ” that ended up becoming one of my…
Run less software – Inside Intercom
by Rich Archbold, Senior Director of Engineering at Intercom It’s hard to win a battle you don’t realise you’re in. It’s even harder if you don’t know all of…
Entropy of Social Networks: Why they all go bad – Anshu Sharma – Medium
Yes, we have a new social network and I am a proud profile carrying member of the new elite created by an artificial scarcity of invites. A technique now pretty…
Intro to the YC Seed Deck
Demo Day for our Winter 2018 batch is a week from today. We’re largely focused on preparing companies for their on-stage presentations, but are also working…
How to Design a Better Pitch Deck
The following is an adaption of a presentation I give to YC startups before we have them create their presentation slide decks for Demo Day. Here’s how to make…
Pixar’s 22 Rules of Storytelling | Aerogramme Writers’ Studio
Pixar’s Rules of Storytelling were originally tweeted by Emma Coats , Pixar’s Story Artist. Number 9 on the list – When you’re stuck, make a list of what…
How we built Hamiltix.net for less than $1 a month on AWS
The details of running a complex ticket ranking site for under a dollar a month on AWS Ok not quite $1… After the free-tier expires it will be less than $5,…
Stripe Atlas: Software as a Service pricing
Stripe Atlas , which helps internet companies get up and running, frequently gets asked questions by software-as-a-service entrepreneurs on how to improve the…
Are you in your write mind? How to overcome writer’s block
That big presentation, report, or assignment isn’t going to write itself. And yet, you feel compelled to finish every non-essential task on your to-do list…
Ellen Langer: Mindfulness over matter – YouTube
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Cryptocurrency mining affects over 500 million people. And they have no idea it is happening.
This autumn the news spread that some websites had been making money by mining cryptocurrencies in their users’ browsers. We have been among the first to add…
34 Things You Need to Give Up to Be Successful
1. Wasting five minutes. When you have five minutes of down time, how do you spend that time? Most people use it as an excuse to rest or laze. By lazing for…
Warren Buffett’s “2 List” Strategy: How to Maximize Your Focus and Master Your Priorities
With well over 50 billion dollars to his name, Warren Buffett is consistently ranked among the wealthiest people in the world. Out of all the investors in the…