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When it makes sense to abandon a vision, according to Jeff Bezos
Jeff Bezos has been running Amazon for 24 years, many lifetimes in entrepreneur years. At Wired’s 25th anniversary summit in San Francisco today (Oct. 15), he imparted some of his wisdom onto the...
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Is turning off your notifications the ultimate productivity hack?
Enabling notifications is essentially giving other people permission to schedule blocks of time in your day. Specifically, in 23-minute chunks. Researchers have found (pdf) that it takes, on average,...
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Why all work meetings should be video meetings, even the in-person ones
Clark Valberg is staring into his computer’s webcam. As the CEO of InVision, a 750-person software company where every employee works remotely, video conferences are the norm for him. But there’s one...
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The Myers-Briggs Company wants to bring personality tests to work
In 1942, a mother-daughter duo created a personality test that would captivate a generation. It was the middle of World War II, and Katharine Cook Briggs and her daughter Isabel Briggs Myers wanted to...
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Is freelancing a game you have to pay to play?
How much money does it cost to advance your career? It depends on where you spend it. Fiverr, the online marketplace for freelancers, released a new product this week called Learn. The new platform...
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Your next work assignment: Tune into this podcast
Waco is a town of 137,000 people in central Texas. It has six local television stations, about as many local newspapers and magazines, and more than a dozen local radio stations. An hour away in Round...
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The most productive meetings don’t have slide decks
Most meetings are not conversations. They are a series of lectures. Jim from accounting gets up in front of a seated room. He shuffles through a series of slides, reiterating the words on the screen....
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These are the jobs expected to grow the most in the next five years
If robots are automating away the jobs of the future, it makes sense to place your employment bets now. New data from the employment website CareerBuilder might help you make your decision....
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Three settings you can change on your phone right now to help you focus
Stop me if you’ve heard this one. You’re mindlessly scrolling through [Instagram/Facebook/Twitter] when you suddenly snap out of it. Wait, I shouldn’t be wasting my time this way, you think. You close...
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When should startups start to care about where they get their money?
There’s a suddenly inconvenient truth about Softbank’s Vision Fund. The $100 billion fund, which revolutionized the way Silicon Valley thinks about fundraising, has written checks of $1 billion or more...
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1Password is offering free accounts to anyone running for political office
Strong passwords won’t save democracy, but they certainly can help protect it. In anticipation of the 2018 US midterm elections, the cybersecurity company 1Password is offering free accounts to anyone...
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The lure of benefits that help employees pay their student loans
More than ping-pong tables or catered lunches, millennials want to pay down their student loans. Over two-thirds of Americans graduate with student loan debt, which averaged $39,400 for those in the...
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Google reportedly paid the ‘father of Android’ $90 million to resign over...
A bombshell report from The New York Times today (Oct. 25) revealed that Google gave Android founder Andy Rubin a $90 million exit package despite finding sexual-misconduct claims against him to be...
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In the future, companies won’t hire remote employees. They’ll hire remote teams
In Silicon Valley—the 50-mile peninsula between San Jose and San Francisco—there are both more software engineers than anywhere else in the world and not nearly enough of them to meet the Bay Area’s...
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Read Sundar Pichai’s response to sexual misconduct allegations against Google...
What a time to work at Google. On the same day the company revealed its third-quarter earnings, a bombshell report (paywall) from The New York Times revealed that the search giant has a history of...
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Google has a .new time-saving trick for starting docs, slides, sheets, and forms
Here’s a feature that’s sure to delight avid users of Google Drive. The search giant announced last week a new time-saving trick that lets you open a blank document, presentation, spreadsheet, or form...
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A new kind of tourism: co-working trips abroad
There are 30 strangers currently living together in Bali. There are another 30 in Mexico City, and 30 more in Buenos Aires. None of them are locals. None of them are on vacation. And this isn’t an...
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Two Facebook engineers built a tool to cut down on meetings. Now it’s a $900...
There’s work, and then there’s the work that goes into doing your work. And a lot of workers spend more time on the latter. Dustin Moskovitz, a co-founder of Facebook, came to this realization a few...
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Free beer for WeWork’s New York tenants will be capped at four glasses a day
The beer is flowing a little less freely at WeWork locations in New York City. The co-working giant (and New York City’s largest office tenant) has decided to limit the amount of beer it serves to its...
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How common is it to share salary information? It depends on your age
Millennials love to share. They invented the share button and the sharing economy. They share their mundane thoughts on social media and their passwords to streaming services like Hulu and Netflix. So...
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