The New and The Next - Issue #60

This system for capturing and organizing your ideas will make sure you’re always ready for your next project or presentation

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?

A proven system for planning and achieving your goals, with a template spreadsheet to help you follow through.

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.

If you follow this rule, you are significantly less likely to go down a road which will leave you filled with regret.

I LOVE this. I think it’s a great idea!

What I designed is a motivation machine, a reliable system you can use where any goal you desire will be started and completed.

When we lose momentum, we become vulnerable to distraction, self-doubt, and apathy. A look at how constant motion is crucial to idea execution.

Forgive yourself for being obsessed, but start paying close attention to how social media functions in your life.

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.

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…

… I’d be a lot happier! =)

Sometimes we can be our own worst enemy. Presenting three classic versions of fear of success, and what to do about them.

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.

The CEO of Rent the Runway says there’s a big difference between crazy-successful founders and effective startup mentors.

We have overstated the benefits of learning to code.

“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…

Gmail, Outlook, and some exciting startups are all trying to rebuild email for 2017.

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.

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.

Innovation is wrought with uncertainty. As a result, anything that promises certainty is attractive to designers and innovators. 

Nobody will ever know

Learn the five product habits that you need to find the critical problems that customers have and solve them better than anyone else.

The marketplace for makers had created a distinctive work culture. Then Wall Street showed up.

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…

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…

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. 

Pretty much.

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?

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.

Brown University has initiated a $120 million campaign to drop all loans from financial aid packages given to their undergraduates.

What would you sacrifice to be debt-free?