Grilled S’mores Pizza
...This dessert pizza is an ideal summer dessert...
Choices - The verb decide
...decide is connected because when you make a choice, you cut out all the other possible choices...
Waiting for a miracle?
...Neither of these outcomes requires a miracle. The first might have low odds, and the second requires persistence...
The Pygmalion Effect: Proving Them Right
...A lot of what we accomplish in life is done in groups. Individual success is often dependent on some degree of team success. Thus, we have a better chance of succeeding when we are around others who succeed. If you want the people around you to have success, you can try raising your expectations...
Focus on Shifting Mindsets and Practices for Hybrid Work
...The people making the decisions about how to return to the office have concerns, especially about whether managers will be able to pull it off...
Hacking Darwin - Recommended Book
...The vast majority of our traits are determined by tens, hundreds, or thousands of genes, in many cases each only playing a small role relative to the others...
The Key to Retaining Young Workers? Better Onboarding
...The authors offer ten ways employers can improve young workers’ onboarding experiences to sustain a mutually beneficial relationship...
BBQ Chicken Salad
...you can use your favorite Ranch and BBQ dressings and pile on those crisp tortilla strips...
Paths not taken
...We focus on the frustration of losing an ‘and’ when we get nervous about the decisions we’re asked to make, when we are hesitant about commitment. And we obsess over the constraints we’ve already accepted because it slows us down and amplifies our fears...
How to become a better listener, according to science
...The simplest formula or recipe I can think of is: Shut up, Listen, Repeat...However, this is easier said than done...
Study finds an unexpected upside to workplace impostor thoughts
...Employees harboring such thoughts often excel at teamwork, cooperation, and socializing...
How to Stop Getting Ripped Off by Hotel Fees
...While you can’t realistically avoid all hotel fees if you choose to stay at said hotel, you are entitled to know what you’ll end up paying—with no surprises...
Why We Sleep - Recommended Book
...When it comes to information processing, think of the wake state principally as reception (experiencing and constantly learning the world around you), NREM sleep as reflection (storing and strengthening those raw ingredients of new facts and skills), and REM sleep as integration (interconnecting these raw ingredients with each other, with all past experiences, and, in doing so, building an ever more accurate model of how the world works, including innovative insights and problem-solving abilities)...
Two kinds of good cooks
...The other understands how the recipe works, sees patterns and opportunities and changes the recipe to fit the problem to be solved. It’s about metaphor in addition to process...
Slow Cooker Texas Pulled Pork
...After five to six long hours, I’ll have melting pork that is jam-packed with BBQ flavor...
Stop Ghosting and Start Saying No
...the longer you wait, the more likely you are to ghost...
How to Clean Your Coffee Makers, Because It's Probably Gross in There
...You should clean your coffee maker at least every three months, but there are things to be aware of...
When to Take Real-time Meetings Async
...Here's how to decide which meetings can be async threads (and which can't)...
And maybe it’s enough
...if you decide you have enough, then you do. And with that choice comes a remarkable sort of freedom...
Wanting - Recommended Book
...It’s a sign of maturity to be able to hold on to two conflicting desires or two opposing ideas at the same time without immediately rejecting one or the other, before there has been time for a careful discernment. To live with desire is to live with tension...
