The New and The Next - Issue #61

An Outline investigation found that contributors to prominent publications have taken payments in exchange for positive coverage.

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?

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.

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.

Facebook VP of Product Fidji Simo shares tactics to master focus in a world where possibilities are endless and the stakes are high.

When digital tools fall short, these paper planners will help you get organized

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…

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.

A friend was telling me yesterday that he’s been struggling to get daily tasks done. He’d rather just put them off. 

Inbox Zero involves more than just setting a goal and vowing to do better at answering email.

According to sleep expert Michael Breus, you can pack the most into your working hours by knowing your sleep type.

A six-step plan for making a persuasive request.

Your resume should be more than a list of your skills.

-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

I had my first migraine when I was 10, on vacation with my dad at a resort in France.

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

What does your voice say about you? Follow these 3 steps, and you’ll make a more authentic first impression.

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

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. 

Company says change is meant to provide more descriptive snippets.

Examining the tips and tricks used to make Stripe’s website design a notch above the rest.

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.

You might believe that it somehow gets easier — or requires less time — to market your business as your online presence grows.

A comprehensive review of the best hand-picked Facebook groups for SEOs. The best places to learn SEO and to get your questions answered.

December 3rd 2017 marks the 25th anniversary of the first SMS text message ever sent.

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.

A new study indicates that it’s incredibly easy to target ads based on users’ personality types.

Learn how to get started with Facebook Messenger marketing with these seven simply ideas (before every business is doing them).

First Round does these yearly. They’re awesome!

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.

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.”

If our supersmart tech leaders knew a bit more about history or philosophy we wouldn’t be in the mess we’re in now

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.

Most people make relatively few personal experiments, in both small and big things. The cost of passivity is enormous.

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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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.”

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

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.