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The Guardian

'It's a superpower': how walking makes us healthier, happier and brainier

Neuroscientist Shane O’Mara believes that plenty of regular walking unlocks the cognitive powers of the brain like …

DigitalOcean

A Seasonal Report on Developer Trends in the Cloud: Remote Work Edition

• Remote work is the new normal for developers.
• Remote workers are connected.
• But the issue hasn’t disappeared entirely. …

Marcus Wermuth

Be an effective leader in a remote team #1: Setup your Working Routine

In my first series I wanted to talk about what it means to be a leader in a distributed team.

Forge

How to Ask for a Flexible Schedule

A script for convincing your manager to let you work from home or deviate from traditional work hours.

Lighthouse

12 Things You Didn't Plan for When You Started Hiring Remote Employees

If you plan on hiring remote, or you have already recently, this post is for you.

Below we’ve broken down everything …

The New York Times

How Phones Made the World Your Office, Like It or Not: From desk to car to pocket

The telephone began to pervade our lives at the end of the 19th century, and then — as you can see in these photos from The …

Hacker News

What people skills do you wish you learned earlier in your career?

For the past several years I’ve been putting in a lot of time into learning and sharing people skills (without the …

The Wall Street Journal

Yes, You Actually Should Be Using Emojis at Work

Once viewed as a frivolity, emojis are now key to clear and concise communication, esprit de corps and cultivating a shared …

Reddit

My Secret "Digital Nomad Rule" to Optimizing Fulfillment

TL;DR: Don’t hangout with too many “travelers or transients.” Find locals wherever you are that won’t …

Narratively

The Man with the Golden Airline Ticket

My dad was one of the only people with a good-for-life, go-anywhere American Airlines pass. Then they took it away. This is …

Wudan Yan

I was owed about $5,000 from late-paying publications. I tried to hold them all accountable. Here's what happened.

hadn’t worked much in about a month and — perhaps against my better judgment — I looked at my checking account, hoping …

Forbes

Improve Your Team Leadership By Working From Home For A Week

To put your hybrid team skills to the test, I believe in-office leaders should try working from home for a week to gain …

Know Your Team

How to build social connection in a remote team

Virtual team building is tough. Here are 7 ways you can build social connection in a remote team, even from afar.

Thought Catalog

I Make Seven Figures A Year Traveling The World And Honestly 'Influencers' Are Bullshit

But calling yourself an influencer is all about you. That means all you’re doing is talking about yourself and trying …

Our World in Data

Are we happier when we spend more time with others?

The main result, he concluded, is that social connections are one of the most important factors for people’s happiness …

OneZero

Don't Put Your Work Email on Your Personal Phone

Mobile Device Management potentially gives your company the ability to spy on your location, your web browsing, and more.

The New York Times

The Airport Lounge Is Much Improved, if You Can Squeeze In

The airport lounge ain’t what it used to be.

Once seen as quiet retreats for businessmen on expense accounts looking to …

Bonnie Eisenman

What I Know About: Being Sick at Work

I’ve spent a lot of time working on skills to make it easier for me to exist in a professional environment. This …

Fast Company

Airlines are finally fixing the middle seat

“There’s no justice in air travel,” an airline industry insider once told me. A third of passengers on …

Ambition & Balance - by Doist

Why We're Betting Against Real-Time Team Messaging Apps Like Slack

Group chat apps like Slack are built for a specific kind of communication — one-line-at-a-time, real-time conversations. This …

The New York Times

Why 'Find Your Passion' Is Such Terrible Advice

Are you passionate about your work? Fulfilled in every aspect of your career?

If yes, congratulations! You’ve done what …

Julian Shapiro

Writing Well

This handbook is for:

1. Aspiring writers who fear publishing themselves online: This will provide you with confidence in your …

Forbes

He Built A $1 Billion Business Where All 700 Employees Work Remotely

Sid Sijbrandij knows a thing or two about building, scaling and even walking away from companies. His current venture, …

ArchDaily

A Series of Maps Reveals the Difference in How Cities are Perceived by Tourists and Locals

Artist Eric Fischer has developed a project that explores precisely the difference in perceiving - and photographing - a city …

Just Well Mixed

Why airplane windows have round corners

If you’ve ever had the window seat on an airliner, you’ve probably noticed that the corners of the window were …

Justin Jackson

How to be more social at events and conferences

Too often, we think about networking in terms of what we can get. We’re doing it for ourselves; to fill our emotional …

The Conversation

Walking and cycling to work makes commuters happier and more productive

Our study, involving 1,121 full-time workers who commute daily to work, made several important findings:

• Those who commute …

The Hustle

How much money can you make on Amazon Mechanical Turk?

Mechanical Turk offers workers the freedom to complete menial tasks for small sums of cash. But is the platform really a …

MEL Magazine

The Loneliness Epidemic Is So Bad, World Leaders Have Been Forced to Intervene

When politicians are staging national interventions to force us to connect with each other — and actually spending real money …