James Altucher Blog
The Ultimate Guide for Becoming an Idea Machine
The way to have good ideas is to get close to killing yourself. It’s like weightlifting. When you lift slightly more …
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Across our curated articles on work, you'll find a range of guides, stories, research studies and actionable tips on how to navigate the workplace, office culture and politics, meetings, open-plan offices, and a whole lot more.
Brain Pickings
Alan Watts on Money vs. Wealth
Among our most toxic symbol-as-reality tricks springs from the concept, use, and pursuit of money: “But this ingrained …
Life WorkThe New York Times
Rethinking Work
How satisfied are we with our jobs? Gallup regularly polls workers around the world to find out. Its survey last year found …
WorkSam Altman
The Post-YC Slump
In general, startups get distracted by fake work. Fake work is both easier and more fun than real work for many founders. Two …
WorkBuilding Asana
Work Hard, Live Well
As an industry, we are falling short of our potential. We could be accomplishing more, and we could be providing a better …
Life WorkAceso Under Glass
Why Open Offices? (Synchronicity)
If one person is wrong, they’re wrong. If a lot of people, some of whom got extremely rich off of their wrong ideas, …
WorkStack Exchange
Why We (Still) Believe In Private Offices
Open plans have been surprisingly hard to kill, despite research showing that they’re unpopular, decrease employee …
WorkK9 Ventures
Finding A Problem Worth Solving
Doing a startup is cool and hip these days (especially in the Valley), but there are too many people who start a company not …
WorkThe Atlantic
Why 'Do What You Love' Is Pernicious Advice
It’s been said in many places and by many luminaries: Do what you love. But what does this phrase actually mean?
WorkTED
Why Work Doesn't Happen At Work
Jason Fried has a radical theory of working: that the office isn’t a good place to do it. In his talk, he lays out the …
Video WorkJSTOR Daily
What Makes Work Meaningful? Ask A Zookeeper
These days, the idea of meaningful work is thrown around lightly at industry conferences and in management manuals, mostly as …
WorkBrain Pickings
Werner Herzog's No-Nonsense Advice To Aspiring Filmmakers And Creative Entrepreneurs
A decade before Kickstarter, he offers idealistic yet practical advice to aspiring filmmakers, which applies with equal …
WorkThe Guardian
David Graeber Interview - 'So Many People Spend Their Working Lives Doing Jobs They Think Are Unnecessary'
The anarchist author, coiner of the phrase ‘We are the 99%’, talks to Stuart Jeffries about ‘bullshit …
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