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When I hire designers, I look for future perfect people. Some people have the potential, but they haven’t had the opportunities. Their portfolios are full of mediocre work, but it’s not because they’re mediocre designers. It’s because they’ve been given mediocre opportunities. A lot of future perfect people are stuck in current mediocre positions. They just haven’t had the chance to do their best work. While it’s a bonus to find that perfect person today, I find more it more rewarding (for me and them) to pluck the future perfect person out of their mediocre job today. I love betting on people with potential. When they finally get that chance to do their best work, they blossom in such a special way. And as the owner of a company, few things make me prouder than seeing someone excelling in a way that their resume/portfolio/references wouldn’t have suggested they could.
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The Idea File System: How to Capture and Organize All of Your Ideas
This system for capturing and organizing your ideas will make sure you’re always ready for your next project or presentation
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Tech's push to teach coding isn't about kids' success – it's about cutting wages
Today’s hi-tech wages threaten Silicon Valley’s bottom line. What better way to drive down coders’ pay than by investing in a new generation of cheap labor?
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Quantitative Life Goals: How to Plan and Finish What You Start
A proven system for planning and achieving your goals, with a template spreadsheet to help you follow through.
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38 More Projects till You Die: The Opportunity Cost of Focus
Think carefully before doubling down on your next project. You only get to do that so many times, and you’d hate to run out of opportunities.
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Take Your Life Back with the 30 x 30 x 30 Rule
If you follow this rule, you are significantly less likely to go down a road which will leave you filled with regret.
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Introducing First Search—The World’s Best Startup Advice, Curated and Searchable
I LOVE this. I think it’s a great idea!
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The Motivation Machine: How to Get & Stay Motivated for Any Goal
What I designed is a motivation machine, a reliable system you can use where any goal you desire will be started and completed.
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The Art of Momentum: Why Your Ideas Need Speed
When we lose momentum, we become vulnerable to distraction, self-doubt, and apathy. A look at how constant motion is crucial to idea execution.
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Ask Polly: ‘I Can’t Stop Wasting My Life on Instagram!’
Forgive yourself for being obsessed, but start paying close attention to how social media functions in your life.
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GTD in 15 minutes – A Pragmatic Guide to Getting Things Done
GTD—or “Getting things done”—is a framework for organizing and tracking your tasks and projects. Its aim is a bit higher than just “getting things done”, though.
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The Ultimate List of the Best Productivity Resources
And the best tips and tricks are now rounded up here, in one handy list. With blogs and podcasts to check out, people to follow, and apps to try, we’ve got the ultimate list of where to look when you…
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What if everyday were payday?!
… I’d be a lot happier! =)
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Are You (Subconsciously) Afraid of Success?
Sometimes we can be our own worst enemy. Presenting three classic versions of fear of success, and what to do about them.
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Freelance Payment Terms: How to get paid on time, every time
Our experts share the payment terms and tactics we use to create great
client experiences, so all freelancers can finally get paid like any other
business.
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How smart entrepreneurs pick their business mentors
The CEO of Rent the Runway says there’s a big difference between crazy-successful founders and effective startup mentors.
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Learning to code will eventually be as useful as learning Ancient Greek
We have overstated the benefits of learning to code.
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Are Programmers Headed Toward Another Bursting Bubble?
“Do you think IT and some lower-level programming jobs are going to go the way of the dodo? Seems a bit like a massive job bubble that’s gonna burst. It’s my opinion that one of the only things…
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Email Is Broken. Can Anyone Fix It?
Gmail, Outlook, and some exciting startups are all trying to rebuild email for 2017.
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Will Intelligent Personal Assistants Replace Websites?
In the way websites once replaced phones, will intelligent personal assistants like Siri and Cortana soon replace websites? Tom Anthony examines 4 trends that are contributing to the IPA takeover and has some advice on how you can keep up.
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Keyword Search Volume: Things you didn’t know you don’t know
A well-reasoned explanation for what stands behind the keyword search volume in various tools and why you should not blindly rely on this number.
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The Illusion of Measuring What Customers Want
Innovation is wrought with uncertainty. As a result, anything that promises certainty is attractive to designers and innovators.
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This Chrome plugin lets you view your friends’ Instagram Stories anonymously
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How Shopify Grew From a Snowboard Shop to a $10B Commerce Ecosystem
Learn the five product habits that you need to find the critical problems that customers have and solve them better than anyone else.
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Inside the Revolution at Etsy
The marketplace for makers had created a distinctive work culture. Then Wall Street showed up.
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Four Questions Every Marketplace Startup Should Be Able to Answer
The six years I spent building products at Airbnb, scaling the marketplace over 100X, transformed how I understand the work of starting a marketplace platform. No startup is immune to hiccups and…
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May the next Etsy learn its lessons
Venture capital taught Etsy that making money wasn’t a skill it needed to learn early on. Go on, it said, spend the millions. And when you’ve spent those, come back and get some more. So Etsy did…
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Google and Facebook are building the ultimate perk: housing
Silicon Valley is ground zero for atypical employee benefits. At Facebook in Menlo Park, Calif., employees ride communal bicycles between buildings and eat for free at more than 24 restaurants.
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Did technology kill the truth?
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How to Block All the Troubling Stories in Your Social Media Feeds
Wouldn’t it be nice if there were a way to keep up with family and friends, and even a bare minimum of news, without being forced to see every dreadful thing that the Facebook sidebar throws in your face?
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Alcohol or marijuana: Which is worse for your health?
When contrasting weed and alcohol, there are lots of factors to consider, including effects on your heart, brain, and behavior. One seems to be worse for you.
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Brown University raising $120 million to eliminate all student loans
Brown University has initiated a $120 million campaign to drop all loans from financial aid packages given to their undergraduates.
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Millennials would give up this right to wipe out their student loans
What would you sacrifice to be debt-free?
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