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10% Happier
In his book, 10% Happier, newscaster Dan Harris, suggests that rather than trying to be happy all the time it's more attainable to imagine what it might feel like to be incrementally happier. A modest...
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One Question For David Carr
In memoriam for my friend, David Carr, who died yesterday. We talked about work and risk in 2012. David was a media and culture columnist for The New York Times. In his 2008 memoir, The Night of the...
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How To Be An Explorer Of The World
Keri Smith describes herself as author/illustrator turned guerilla artist. One night when she couldn't sleep she made a 13 point list for How to Be an Explorer of the World. "1. Always be looking....
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Growing A New Life
Eileen Hugelier Lack of institutional loyalty, by both employers and employees, means that most of us constantly churn through different notions for professional reinvention. As a hobbyist gardener,...
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How 'Finding Nemo' Changed One Woman's Life
I'm a firm believer that you cannot change your life without getting out of the house. And that inspiration can be found in the most unlikely places. Kiki Kienstra told Studio 360 how a kid's...
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Not Taking Risks Is The Riskiest Career Move Of All
This piece first appeared in Harvard Business Review.Mark was a survivor. Until he was fired in 2012, six months shy of his 50th birthday, he’d done everything right — rising through the ranks of the...
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Better Writers Make More Money
I recently discovered fascinating data generated by Grammerly, the online proofreading tool. They reviewed 448 freelance professionals’ profiles for spelling, grammar, and punctuation errors on...
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What If You Don't Want to Be a Manager?
Imagine that you've invested years of blood, sweat and tears at work, and have successfully climbed the corporate ladder, only to wake up one day and realize that you sort of hate what you're doing....
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Trust Your Gut When Founding A Company
This piece first appeared on Quartz. In 1996, Carley Roney and her husband David Liu, launched a wedding site called The Knot. Creating a wedding information business was not an obvious next step for...
View ArticleThe Season For Ocean Meditation
Watch this NASA film showing surface currents circulating in a high-resolution, 3D model ofthe Earth's oceans. Driven by wind and other forces, currents on the ocean surface cover our planet. Some span...
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Be Happy, Don't Hurry.
New research highlights the links between busy lives and bliss. Turns out that the happiest people in the country are more likely to report themselves both as less rushed and with no excess time. John...
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Grains Of Sand Versus Stars In The Sky
Blue Straggler Stars in Globular Cluster M53 by ESA/Hubble via NASA) Robert Krulwich solves the eternal quandary with help from David Blatner's book, Spectrums: Our Mind-Boggling Universe, from...
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Me, My Hair, And I
Thrilled to be among this group. For anyone who has wrestled with their hair (and who among us hasn't?) buy this book. “Women show their roots in ‘Me, My Hair, and I.’” — Vanity Fair“[T]hese...
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One Question for Maira Kalman
Maira Kalman has worked as a designer, author, illustrator and artist for more than thirty years without formal training. Her work is a narrative journal of her life and all its absurdities. She has...
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The Rudeness Epidemic
This post originally appeared on The Harvard Business Review.When his three-hour board interview ended with an offer to join the executives for a beer, 35-year-old Martin* figured he’d nailed the job....
View ArticleFly Through 17th Century London
If the holidays make you feel like time traveling, this piece in the Londonist by Matt Brown will satisfy that itch. "A group of students at De Montfort University created this fly-through of 17th...
View ArticleHow A Bach Canon Works
Brilliant. This moving manuscript depicts a single musical sequence played front to back and then back to front. Give the video a little time to unfold. Courtesy of OpenCulture
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New Healthy Habits: Timing and Persistence Matter
If you are starting the new year with a resolution to get fit, it's worth remembering that patterning new behavior takes time. A few years ago, at a time in my life when I was feeling particularly...
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Creativity Lessons from Charles Dickens and Steve Jobs
This piece originally appeared in The Harvard Business Review.Creativity is the most essential skill for navigating an increasingly complex world — or so said 1,500 CEOs across 60 countries in a recent...
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