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…

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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…

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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…

You may own your stuff, but it owns you right back. It owns your money, your time, your attention, and space in your home. I dress with 33 items or less and…

A lot of the advice we give startups is tactical; meant to be helpful on a day to day or week to week basis. But some advice is more fundamental. We’ve…

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Talk about what they are doing well and what they could improve. You can concentrate on their ongoing work and collaborations with other people. Here’s a good…

Dear Designer, drop the Pantone, drop the graphics tablet and ring a friend telling him about your new project. If you can explain it with words, then it will…

In Brief The Problem Too many CEOs fail at their jobs. From 2000 to 2013, 25% of the Fortune 500 chief executives who left their firms were forced out. The…

Neil Williams & Saurabh Sharma u/spladug & u/foklepoint We’re constantly deploying code at Reddit . Every engineer writes code, gets it reviewed, checks it in,…

In a recent interview, the MD of Daimler Benz (Mercedes Benz) said their competitors are no longer other car companies but Tesla (obvious), Google, Apple,…

Lifestyle business are truly something remarkable . They allow the founders to live life on their own terms, with much more freedom from societal constraints.…

When I was writing books on networking and programming topics in the early 2000s, the web was a good, but an incomplete resource. Blogging had started to take…

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The IKEA effect is a cognitive bias that can influence the outcome and perceived value of products to a big degree. People tend to place high value on products…

Charlie Munger settled into his seat in front of the crowd at the University of Southern California. It was 1994 and Munger had spent the last 20 years working…