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December 7 · Issue #61 · View online |
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“Invention requires a long-term willingness to be misunderstood.”
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How brands secretly buy their way into Forbes, Fast Company, and HuffPost stories
An Outline investigation found that contributors to prominent publications have taken payments in exchange for positive coverage.
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"Why Did My SEO Ranking Drop?" How to Find and Fix Falling Blog Posts Before It's Too Late
Your blog posts once had great Google rankings – but then, it dropped. How can you find which posts are falling, and how can you fix them … fast?
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When You Change the World and No One Notices
Do you know what’s happening in this picture? Literally one of the most important events in human history. But here’s the most amazing part of the story: Hardly anyone paid attention at the time.
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How to Quickly Learn Essential Keyboard Shortcuts in Any Program
Keyboard shortcuts save you a lot of time, but can take awhile to learn. Use these tools to quickly learn keyboard shortcuts for the programs you use daily.
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Facebook's VP of Product on Mastering Focus and Intentional Work
Facebook VP of Product Fidji Simo shares tactics to master focus in a world where possibilities are endless and the stakes are high.
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7 Planners That Will Make 2018 Your Most Productive Year Ever
When digital tools fall short, these paper planners will help you get organized
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How to Completely Ignore Distractions and Consistently Enter Flow States
According to Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi in his book Flow, flow is “the optimal state of consciousness where we feel our best and perform our best.” Most people sleepwalk through life without ever…
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How to be great at almost anything.
Time management techniques and mindsets that will help you make the most of life, become more successful and generally be happier. Straight from Muhammad Ali and John Wooden.
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Why You're Resistant to Being Productive
A friend was telling me yesterday that he’s been struggling to get daily tasks done. He’d rather just put them off.
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Email sanity: How to achieve Inbox Zero using four apps
Inbox Zero involves more than just setting a goal and vowing to do better at answering email.
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How To Design Your Ideal Workday Based On Your Sleep Habits
According to sleep expert Michael Breus, you can pack the most into your working hours by knowing your sleep type.
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How to Ask Your Boss for Time to Learn New Things
A six-step plan for making a persuasive request.
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Your Resume Is Worthless Because You're Not Mentioning This 1 Thing (It's Not A Skill) | Inc.com
Your resume should be more than a list of your skills.
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Ask HN: What are the big differences working at a startup, bigco, old smallco?
-Siloed into your specific role - if there’s a new technology or idea you want to implement, there’s usually a few levels of approvals you need to go through
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Why Working Women With Migraines Suffer in Silence
I had my first migraine when I was 10, on vacation with my dad at a resort in France.
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As A Solo Developer, I Decided To Offer Phone Support, And This Is What Happened
This year, around February, I started offering telephone support for Taxnote, which I hadn’t done up until then, because the idea made me anxious. I intended
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The Weird Reason Why People Immediately Respect You (or Not), According to Science
What does your voice say about you? Follow these 3 steps, and you’ll make a more authentic first impression.
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How an Anti-Growth Mentality Helped Basecamp Grow to Over 2 Million Customers
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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The best visual description of a company I’ve ever seen
Back in 2010, I saw Andrew Mason give a talk at Startup School that included a slide that really blew my mind. The slide wasn’t about Groupon (Andrew’s company), it was about Meetup.com.
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Google officially increases length of snippets in search results
Company says change is meant to provide more descriptive snippets.
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How Stripe Designs Beautiful Websites
Examining the tips and tricks used to make Stripe’s website design a notch above the rest.
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Why Retention Is The Silent Killer
Retention - not only does it make companies - but it also quietly breaks
them. For this reason, poor user retention has become the silent startup
killer.
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Content Marketing Is Easier When You (Partially) Delegate These 12 Tasks
You might believe that it somehow gets easier — or requires less time — to market your business as your online presence grows.
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15 Facebook Groups Every SEO Should Join
A comprehensive review of the best hand-picked Facebook groups for SEOs. The best places to learn SEO and to get your questions answered.
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Messages Matter: Exploring the Evolution of Conversation
December 3rd 2017 marks the 25th anniversary of the first SMS text message ever sent.
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Why You Should Run A Competitive Analysis On Facebook Ads
Want to spy on your competitors’ Facebook Ads? Do you know how to run a competitive analysis? Click to learn how to use your competitor’s ads to improve yours.
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This Is How Much Marketers Know About You Based on One Facebook Like
A new study indicates that it’s incredibly easy to target ads based on users’ personality types.
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Facebook Messenger Marketing: 7 Ideas You Can Try Today
Learn how to get started with Facebook Messenger marketing with these seven simply ideas (before every business is doing them).
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First Round State of Startups 2017
First Round does these yearly. They’re awesome!
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Exclusive: Uber paid 20-year-old Florida man to keep data breach secret
A 20-year-old Florida man was responsible for the large data breach at Uber Technologies Inc [UBER.UL] last year and was paid by Uber to destroy the data through a so-called “bug bounty” program normally used to identify small code vulnerabilities.
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Where Silicon Valley Is Going to Get in Touch With Its Soul
The Esalen Institute, a storied hippie hotel in Big Sur, Calif., has reopened with a mission to help technologists who discover that “inside they’re hurting.”
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How a half-educated tech elite delivered us into evil
If our supersmart tech leaders knew a bit more about history or philosophy we wouldn’t be in the mess we’re in now
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Cryptocurrency ICOs are the tech bubble we have been waiting for
In cryptocurrencies, the “store of value” is simply everyone’s agreement that there is value here. There is no asset. And that is what a bubble looks like.
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Why Trying New Things Is So Hard to Do
Most people make relatively few personal experiments, in both small and big things. The cost of passivity is enormous.
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How to Detect When Someone's Lying (and Get Them to Tell the Truth)
Lies are inevitable, but getting duped isn’t. When you’re in the presence of a liar, you can often uncover the truth by paying attention to very specific nonverbal cues.
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Literal death machine offers a way to peacefully slip out of existence
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Good Bad Like Dislike
There’s a magnificent exercise that I like to do for myself on a periodic basis. I’m sure it has a more formal name but I call it “Good Bad Like Dislike.”
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Developing a Real Plan for a Better Life
For the last few years, I’ve done something of an “end of the year” review of my life. I take some time to sit down, take authentic stock of my life, look
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Stanford University data glitch exposes truth about scholarships
Stanford Business School officials are admitting that for years they have given steep price breaks to preferred applicants while claiming the scholarships were only for needy students — and say they will close a glitch that allowed public access to thousands of confidential student financial aid records.
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