...Personalize and send it to the right person...Emphasize how responding will benefit the reader...Make it short and clear...

...Trends don’t determine whether we’ll be able to accomplish something tomorrow. But seeing and then understanding the trends allows us to work with the wind at our backs, instead of fighting it...

...But when it comes to knowledge work, we act as if preventative maintenance isn’t required. We let our email inboxes pile sky-high, continue dumping hundreds of files into every corner of our computer, stick any random thing onto our calendar, and have to do’s scattered across any number of places...

...Your view of the world is no photograph. It’s a construction of your brain that is so fluid and so convincing that it appears to be accurate. But sometimes it’s not...

...When we asked participants about the ease associated with using their top rule, we found negative correlations between how difficult they perceived practicing the rule to be and their financial well-being. In other words, the easier it was for a person to make these decisions, the more financially well-off they were...

...luscious no-bake beauty...

...I was wiped out. But, it was only 11 a.m., and I had a long list of things to finish before the weekend...

...As Columbia Business School professor Eric Johnson explained to us, the more meaningful a potential loss is, the more loss averse we become. In other words, the more there is on the line, the easier it is to get swept into an irrational decision...

...We make a map so we can leave things out...

...Relentlessly prioritize to avoid the wrong high-quality work... (Ed. note: we would recommend these recommendations to others, not just people in a startup)

...These seven strategies will help keep you on the ball for this tax season and in preparing for the future... (Ed. note - speak to us if any/all apply to you as these recommendations are general, not specific to you)

...“There’s a big difference between probability and outcome. Probable things fail to happen—and improbable things happen—all the time.” That’s one of the most important things you can know about investment risk...

...The Law of Triviality states that the amount of time spent discussing an issue in an organization is inversely correlated to its actual importance in the scheme of things...

...These light and eggy cheese puffs are channeling your favorite bar snack...

...Holding back is selfish, because it deprives the group of your insight at the same time that it normalizes non-participation...

...Greed leads many investors to seek shortcuts to investment success. Rather than allowing returns to compound over time, they attempt to turn quick profits by acting on hot tips...

...It would do us well to give ourselves more credit—we’ve all survived occurrences that once seemed like the worst-case scenario, and we can survive many more...

...Ideas will be generated much faster than there's bandwidth to execute on them, so you're doing something right if your backlog is growing indefinitely...

...Perhaps there are many solutions that do not even occur to us, because they resemble passivity rather than action, and we are so deeply trained to hustle...

...To begin you must study the end. You don’t want to be the first to act, you want to be the last man standing...