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Bloomberg

Nine Secrets I Never Knew About Airports Until I Worked at LAX

From dead bodies in the security line to a cobra in a Pringles can, you wouldn’t believe the crazy things that happen …

Farnam Street

How Performance Reviews Can Kill Your Culture

Performance reviews are designed to motivate and bring the best out of our teams, but they often do the opposite. …

Axios

Job loss predictions over rising minimum wages haven't come true

Eighteen states rang in 2019 with minimum wage increases — some that will ultimately rise as high as $15 an hour — and so …

Harvard Business Review

How to Recruit More Women to Your Company

To explore this disconnect between the good intentions of leaders and true progress on closing the gender gap, LinkedIn …

The Guardian

Pointless emails: they're not just irritating – they have a massive carbon footprint

More than 64m unnecessary emails are sent in Britain every day. Along with clogging up our inboxes they are also damaging the …

Hacker News

How do I understand the results of my job search?

I’m in the middle of a job search. Here are some stats:

• 50 applications submitted
• 21 no response
• 3 no longer hiring
• 11 …

Sametab

The Secret of Employee Engagement

People are the single most important asset in modern organizations. As talent scarcity is increasingly becoming one of the …

kottke.org

The Secret to Enjoying a Long Winter

In winter 2017-18, I was depressed, anxious, wasn’t getting out of bed in the morning, spent endless time on my phone …

Hacker News

What's the most valuable thing you can learn in an hour?

A lot of what hackers do takes years of building knowledge upon knowledge. That’s also true for physicists, marketers, …

NoDesk

Weekly Remote Jobs

This week’s NoDesk remote jobs newsletter features 30 new remote jobs, and includes a feature on Automattic.

The Onion

Health Experts Recommend Standing Up At Desk, Leaving Office, Never Coming Back

In an effort to help working individuals improve their fitness and well-being, experts at the Mayo Clinic issued a new set of …

BBC

Pointless work meetings 'really a form of therapy'

Meetings at work should be seen as a form of “therapy” rather than about decision-making, say researchers.

Cal Newport

If You're Busy, You're Doing Something Wrong: The Surprisingly Relaxed Lives of Elite Achievers

This analysis leads to an important conclusion. Whether you’re a student or well along in your career, if your goal is …

BBC

Why office noise bothers some people more than others

No one likes an office whistler or pen clicker – but for some people, these noises aren’t just a nuisance, …

Medium

It's probably time to learn Chinese

Learning Mandarin has been one of the most rewarding I’ve ever done, up there with learning how to program.

CityLab

Talent May Be Shifting Away From Superstar Cities

In recent years, America has increasingly been defined by a winner-take-all geography, with coastal superstar cities like New …

Chris Achard

How to Find Consulting Clients

The good news is that there is a relatively straightforward path for finding new clients. Yes, it takes some time, and yes, …

Bloomberg

U.S. Workers Show Little Improvement in 21st Century Skills

U.S. workers are failing to improve the skills needed to succeed in an increasingly global economy, according to a government …

CNN

We bought a $1 house in Italy. Here's what happened next

It seemed like a deal too good to be true. A new house – and potentially a whole new life – for sale in sunkissed …

The Outline

We were supposed to be living in pod houses

Introduced in the late ’60s, the Futuro house was shaped like a UFO, contained built-in shag carpet, and could be …

NoDesk

Weekly Remote Jobs

This week’s NoDesk remote jobs newsletter features 37 new remote jobs, and includes a feature on Piktochart.

TechCrunch

Airbnb to verify all of its listings

Following the death of five people at a Halloween party hosted at a California Airbnb rental, and a scathing Vice report …

Medium

Remote Work — Asynchronous Communication

Recently I’ve started a new role at a company where we are all working remote. While we are remote, some of the other …

The College Investor

The Average Net Worth Of Millennials By Age

Let’s not sugar coat it - we’re all a bit voyeuristic when it comes to other people’s money. How much do …

Zapier

The Remote Work Report. Will the office be obsolete by 2030? Knowledge workers think so.

Zapier recently commissioned a survey conducted online by The Harris Poll among over 880 U.S. knowledge workers (those who …

ACLU

Federal Court Rules Suspicionless Searches of Travelers' Phones and Laptops Unconstitutional

In a major victory for privacy rights, a federal court in Boston today ruled that the government’s suspicionless …

YouTube

The Spectacular Rise and Fall of WeWork

In less than one year, WeWork went from having a $47 billion valuation and being the darling of the venture capital world to …

Devon Zuegel

Travel photos are underrated

In other words, I agree that photos can be distracting and unnecessary, not to mention borderline rude. So why do I take …

Barron's

What Job Applicant 'Ghosting' Says About the Current Workplace

Two-sided ghosting in this transactional world signals that the two sides are no longer very invested in making a good match. …