The New and The Next - Issue #64

Inside the passionate culture of thought leadership on the hardest-working social network.

The secret behind how font sizes affect your website’s user experience and conversions and which ones you should be using.

LinkedIn and Glassdoor are great places to search for jobs—if the companies you’re interested in are actively posting positions there. But what about companies that use lesser-known job boards or only post openings on their websites? 

This year, I became addicted to and deleted the following apps: Twitter, Hacker News, Reddit, Press (an RSS reader), and Instagram. 

When a company is growing quickly, there are always new roles to fill and opportunities to promote from within. Looking for experience seems like a no-brainer, but in the face of an evolving economy and workforce, aptitude and capacity can ultimately prove more important.

After dropping out of rabbinical seminary, I was directionless. I spent a lot of time on the internet.

Maggie Leung, VP of Content at Nerdwallet, has encountered every management challenge. Here, she shares the one practice that helps her thrive through difficult decisions and conversations.

You claim that job boards don’t work. Yet virtually every job in the world is advertised on job boards, and employers use job boards all the time! Just look at all the traffic they get. I think you’re missing the boat — please admit that there’s plenty of evidence the job boards do work!

Updated December 2017 to reflect how my strategy for finding new consulting clients has evolved in the past few years. Sorry if some parts feel disjointed.

It’s our existential question as SEO professionals — is SEO still growing? Or have Google’s actions reduced the opportunity potential? I see this phrased in all sorts of ways:

I’ve dedicated $24,000 of my budget to a team that gives me extra input on topics for each video and any possible show notes to add.

It’s easy to get a warped picture of the future of ecommerce. What’s hard is separating the noise from the substance. Here’s a data-heavy look at ten trends …

One commonality of great thinkers, CEOs, and entrepreneurs throughout history is that they see reality on a deeper level. This helps them figuratively play chess while everyone else plays checkers…

If you want to be an American inventor, you’ll need two things: to excel at math and science, and to have a rich family. 

The design industry is drowning in tech. Not too long ago, creative professionals were limited to a few software programs to do their work. 

Earlier this month, I ordered contact lenses from Hubble—a startup that sells them directly to consumers—using a fake prescription from a made-up doctor. 

My younger sister always gives me very good advice. Once, for instance, she told me, “You need to stop asking Google questions about your life.” And she was right: Treating an Internet search engine as an advice column isn’t necessarily the best way to navigate life.

The studies say it’s a pretty great time to be flying solo – more people than ever are living alone, opting not to marry, and leading fulfilling single lives (with lots of sex).

Research shows there are 8 different types of friends you need in order to feel fulfilled. Here’s what they are and how to find them.

Time with friends, colleagues, siblings, and children diminishes over the course of a lifetime. The older we get, the person we spend the most time with is the one we see in the mirror.