The New and The Next - Issue #71
“What you are will show, ultimately. Start now, every day, becoming, in your actions, your regular actions, what you would like to become in the bigger scheme of things.”
“You can be anything you’re good at — as long as they’re hiring.”
Favorites
How to master new skills with ‘deliberate practice’
Sixty minutes spent doing ‘the right thing’ is better than any amount of time spent learning in an unfocussed way,
Admissions Bribery Scandal: Pretending Degree Has Value Is a Scam
There’s a reason that powerful parents scrambled to get their kids into the Ivy League rather than a rigorous, practical school like Caltech or MIT.
**The Psychology of Writing and the Cognitive Science of the Perfect Daily Routine**
Reflecting on the ritualization of creativity, Bukowski famously scoffed that “air and light and time and space have nothing to do with.” Samuel Johnson similarly contended that “a man may write at any time, if he will set himself doggedly to it.
‘You grasped that quite well’: What trailblazing women hear
On International Women’s Day, leading women from across the globe share the comments they are certain their male colleagues would not have encountered.
College Admissions Scandal: Top CEOs Didn't Go to Elite Schools
The perception that only elite schools produce elite leaders needs to die.
The Pixar short that tackles office 'bro' culture
The video is hysterical.
Productivity
Anna Deavere Smith on Discipline and Learning to Stop Letting Others Define You
“What you are will show, ultimately. Start now, every day, becoming, in your actions, your regular actions, what you would like to become in the bigger scheme of things.”
The smart guide to procrastination
To be more productive, have a life.
Work & Money
Why ‘worthless’ humanities degrees may set you up for life
Why bother with degrees like History or English? Here’s why the liberal arts could leave you better prepared for employment than you think.
The fight against compulsive shopping that takes a year
I’m going to try this I think!!
The 4 ‘Attachment Styles,’ and How They Sabotage Your Work-Life Balance
Our subconscious programming — developed through our youth and on into adulthood — plays a huge role in how we survive or thrive at work. Here’s how your “attachment style” may affect your office relationships.
Traditional Higher Education Is Losing Relevance. Here's What's Replacing It
Looking at the Harvard Business Review’s Top 100 CEOs in 2018 list, more CEOs on the list held engineering degrees than MBAs (34 held engineering degrees, while 32 held MBAs).
Why walking makes you a better worker
The average American spends 90 percent of their lives in doors.
Marketing
How to Earn a Senior Content Marketing Role
Work hard, deliver great results, get promoted, become a manager—wouldn’t it be nice if advancing your career were this simple?
A Harvard Linguist's 13 Simple Tips for Becoming a Great Writer
Writing well is hard, but Steven Pinker managed to boil the essentials down to just 13 tweet-length tips.
Startups
Google’s constant product shutdowns are damaging its brand
Google’s product support has become a joke, and the company should be very concerned.
The Problem with Free
Then in 2008, Apple introduced the app store. Paid apps spawned in the app store, but many others were free. From the beginning, this was the understanding for the average consumer. Apps are either free or you can get them at a low price – just under or over a dollar.
Kung Fu
Startup strategy is like Kung Fu. There are many styles that work. But in a bar fight, you’re going to get punched in the face regardless.
Ahead of Its Time, Behind the Curve: Why Evernote Failed to Realize Its Potential
The idea for Evernote began with the personal quest of its founder, Stepan Pachikov. He aimed to solve a giant problem: overcoming the limitations of human memory.
Investigative
YouTube Executives Ignored Warnings, Let Toxic Videos Run Rampant
Proposals to change recommendations and curb conspiracies were sacrificed for engagement, staff say.
Death by a Thousand Clicks: Where Electronic Health Records Went Wrong
The U.S. government has spent $36 billion digitizing medical records for better, safer, and cheaper health care. Now the system is a mess.