Author: timbatchelder
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Top 10 personal finance books
Top 10 Personal Finance Books of All Time Geoffrey James, inc.com SALES SOURCE These ten books have ten different (and powerful) approaches to accumulating personal wealth. Previous posts have identified the best motivational business books of all time, and the best eye-opening books for the… Top 10 Personal Finance Books of All Time http://flip.it/ItKdA http://flip.it/eHCKQ…
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Creating a great LinkedIn group
7 Ways to Create an Awesome LinkedIn Group Jeff Haden, inc.com OWNER’S MANUAL If this guy can build a thriving group on industrial water treatment (no, really), you can be master of your own niche on LinkedIn. There are almost 2 million LinkedIn Groups, since any of the more than 200 million LinkedIn us… 7…
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Best states for entrepreneurship
10 Top States for Entrepreneurship and Innovation Bill Murphy Jr., inc.com D.C. BILL Recently I told you about the 10 worst states for new business in America. Now here’s where entrepreneurship is thriving. Recently, I told you about the 10 worst states in America for new businesses—at least, according to the… 10 Top States for…
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Airbnb lessons on distruption
Disruption Lessons From Airbnb The Build Network staff, inc.com Your future competitors will likely supply what you do—but from cheaper, off-the-radar sources. There are backyard business terms, and there are—how shall we put it?—more elevated notions. Any kid with a lemonade stand grasps “supply”… Disruption Lessons From Airbnb http://flip.it/4k2ef http://flip.it/tU716 Related articles Disruption Lessons From…
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Gmail now allows you to designate trustee after you die
Act Now Or, When You Die, Your Secret Love Letters Will Belong To Google BY STAN ALCORN, fastcoexist.com Gmail’s recent policy changes that let you designate someone to control your account after you’re gone is just the tip of the iceberg in terms of the confusing issues around who can access your online life once…
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Big data is distrupting Hollywood scriptwriting
How Big Data Is Rewriting Hollywood Scripts By Mark Wilson, fastcodesign.com Ever wonder why all movies seem to look the same? Yeah, there’s a reason. I honestly can’t tell horror movies apart. From set and costume design to the trailers that all seem to have the same…tempo…of…HE’S RIGHT THERE, OMG!!—novelty has… How Big Data Is…
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Glaxo intrapreneurs convince big pharma to help developing world
Turning Big Pharma Toward The Developing World, From The Inside BY MARZENA ZUKOWSKA, fastcoexist.com How three intrapreneurs at GlaxoSmithKline created a program to help diagnose disease in places without access to medicine, and how they convinced the company to support it. How many high-end research scientists does it take to make a dent in ……
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Unilever sees financial benefits of sustainability practices
Unilever’s Aggressive Sustainability Practices Have Paid Off BY ZAK STONE, fastcoexist.com New numbers released by the corporate giant show the incredibly cost-saving benefits of pursuing cleaner policies. Mega-corporation Unilever, owner of everything from Ben and Jerry’s ice cream to Dove soap, announced that it has managed to mak… Unilever’s Aggressive Sustainability Practices Have Paid Off…
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Visualizing changing cost of living vs education
If You Graduated After 1976, You Are Getting Screwed By The Economy BY STAN ALCORN, fastcoexist.com This infographic shows the hard truth for anyone in their late 30s or younger: Everything has been more difficult for you, and it’s just getting worse. The 1970s have strangely become, in retrospect, a golden era, at least for…
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Spleen on a chip
This Spleen-On-A-Chip Will Clean Your Blood Like A Machine BY BEN SCHILLER, fastcoexist.com Using nanobeads that strip out anything bad in your blood, this machine could be a solution to deadly blood infections, especially in places far from a hospital. Which is why the military is very interested. Sepsis is a whole-body inflammato… This Spleen-On-A-Chip…
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Adobe redesigns a pen to draw on the Internet
How Adobe Reinvented The Pen To Draw On The Internet By Mark Wilson, fastcodesign.com What is the future of the cloud-connected interface? How about a simple pen and ruler? This week, Adobe announced that the Creative Suite was becoming the subscription-based Creative Cloud. It didn’t go so well. But amidst the bad news, we ma……
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Ending the tyranny of sleep
Dream Of A Future Where You Don’t Have To Waste Time Sleeping BY BEN SCHILLER, fastcoexist.com Scientists are working hard on finding ways—pharmaceutical, neurological—to end the tyranny of eight hours a night. Think about what we might do with 50% more “conscious lifetime”? You could spend more time with the kids, visit Africa, or st……
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Melon: a headband that measures your mental focus
Kickstarting: A Headband That Measures Your Mental Focus By Kyle VanHemert, fastcodesign.com Melon explores an interesting new frontier of the quantified self: your noggin’. Does checking Twitter during the workday really leave you scatterbrained? Could taking up meditation help you tune out the noise and focus better? Melon… Kickstarting: A Headband That Measures Your Mental…
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Building a 22 foot bee tower in Buffalo
Students Build A 22-Foot-Tall Home For Local Bees By Sammy Medina, fastcodesign.com The Elevator B tower is part of a larger effort to regenerate a historic district in Buffalo. It’s not a good time to be a bee. In the last several years, unprecedented numbers of honeybees have been killed off, and no one is…
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If you want to be happier, live near a park
Want To Be Happy? Live Near A Park BY BEN SCHILLER, fastcoexist.com New research finds that the effect of green space on personal well-being is more than you might guess. As urban planners debate the merits of, say, a new shopping center versus maintaining the local park, they might consider this: over… Want To Be…
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Can weed make you healthier and fitter?
BY ARIEL SCHWARTZ, fastcoexist.com Munchies aside, new science indicates that getting high might have shockingly beneficial effects to your health and weight. The stereotype of pot smokers as people who wolf down Cheetos, brownies, and whatever else happens to be in the r… Not Smoking Weed Is Why You’re Fat http://flip.it/tWgqn http://flip.it/P9HMl Not Smoking Weed…
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Making Amsterdam the coolest city in the world
Is Amsterdam The Global Seat Of Cool? A New Tourism Spot Says Yes By: Jennifer Miller, fastcocreate.com And tells us how to say “Van Gogh.” Are you looking for a vintage, hip, indie, artisanal, open-minded vacation? Welcome to Holland. A new ad, Holland, The Original Cool, created by the Dutch government to lure American… Is…
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How to feed the world with insects
A Grand Plan For Feeding The World With Insects BY BEN SCHILLER, fastcoexist.com We need more protein for the developing world, but we really don’t need to be raising more livestock. The solution might be buzzing around your head right now. How do you feed 9 and half billion people without destroying the planet? Accord……
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Tweet yourself to a dream job
How To Tweet Your Way To Your Dream Job By: Lydia Dishman, fastcompany.com Three out of four people are in constant job-search mode and, increasingly, Twitter is their tool of choice. Here’s how to make 140 characters work for you. Can a tweet—or three—land you a dream job? That’s a question Taylor Aldredge now… http://flip.it/ZMN7U…
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Google time lapse photos of human destruction of the earth
See Humanity’s Effect On Earth In These Stunning Time-Lapse Satellite Photos BY ZAK STONE, fastcoexist.com From growing Vegas to chopping down the Amazon, these Google photos of the last three decades of the Earth from space let you see both human ingenuity and our destructive power. The booming economies of Gulf oil states. The rise…
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External light converts all of your pics into music videos
Kickstarting: An App That Turns Your Digital Photos Into Hyperactive Music Videos By Kyle VanHemert, fastcodesign.com Eternal Light lets you actually do something with all those snapshots you’ve amassed over the years. The great thing about having good cameras on our smartphones isn’t necessarily that we can take pictures whenever the inspiration… Kickstarting: An App…
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Postach.io converts your Evernotes to a content management system
Postach.io Turns An Evernote Notebook Into A Blog Sarah Perez, techcrunch.com One of the more interesting projects to emerge from Evernote’s 2013 Devcup hackathon is called Postach.io, a new blogging platform that turns your Evernote notebook into a content management system. Input Logic, the Vancouver-based… Postach.io Turns An Evernote Notebook Into A Blog http://flip.it/vOkRS http://flip.it/IV8va…
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Psychedelic science: the emerging science of plant based therapy
Open Your Mind to the New Psychedelic Science Greg Miller, wired.com In recent years, a small cadre of scientists has cautiously rekindled the scientific study of psychedelics. At a recent conference, they reported new findings on how these drugs scramble brain activity in ways that might help explain their… Open Your Mind to the New…
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