How to make the healthiest coffee
...What's the healthiest way to make a fresh cup of coffee? A new study examining links between coffee brewing methods and risks of heart attacks and death has concluded that filtered brew is safest...
How to Ask a College for More Financial Aid
...First, don’t wait to ask for more money if you truly need it. There is no telling what may happen to aid budgets in the coming months, given a likely deluge of families seeking relief from financial pain...
On predicting the future
...We spend our days guessing how an action will impact the future, and we’re often wrong...
Stillness Is the Key - Recommended Book
...When we know what to say no to, we can say yes to the things that matter...
The hunger-boredom paradigm explained by scientists
...Drinking water, occupying your brain with a hobby or craft, exercising or striking up a fun conversation with someone are all ways you can beat the boredom-hunger paradigm...
Pull-Apart Pretzel Skillet with Beer Cheese Dip
...use whatever excuse you need to make this Pull-Apart Pretzel Skillet with Beer Cheese Dip immediately because it’s fantastic and can’t wait until fall...
You Can Virtually Visit These Vacation Destinations From Your Couch
...If spending more time at home lately has you itching to travel, you’re not alone...
The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right - Recommended Book
...the volume and complexity of knowledge today has exceeded our ability as individuals to properly deliver it to people—consistently, correctly, safely...
Beyond the Inbox: Rules for Reducing Email
...Immediately move obligations out of your inbox and into role-specific repositories...
All models are wrong, some models are useful
...By definition, the model for your problem, your organization, your opportunity–it’s not actually the thing being studied, it’s a simplified version of it...
Lessons from Keith Rabois Essay 3: How to be an Effective Executive
...Running yourself...Running your team...
Stealing Fire - Recommended Book
...When [you] are juggling time, you borrow from tomorrow, and tomorrow you have less time than you have today...It’s a very costly loan...
7 Ways to Get a Good Night’s Sleep, According to Neuroscience
...Unfortunately, thanks to a host of disruptions and diversions, including electric lighting, cell phones and laptops, longer work hours, anxiety, alcohol, and caffeine use, about half of adults sleep less than seven hours a night...
Pickle Chips
...Serve with a side of Ranch or Bleu Cheese Dressing for dipping...
Working from home? 7 smart tips to help you get more done
...but if you are stuck inside and still need to do your job, it’s important to set up a productive shop...
The Algebra of Happiness - Recommended Book
...The slope of the trajectory for your career is (unfairly) set in the first five years post-graduation. If you want the trajectory to be steep, you’ll need to burn a lot of fuel. The world is not yours for the taking, but for the trying. Try hard, really hard...
Your Response to Mistakes Defines You
...Mistakes are bad, no doubt, but not learning from them is worse. The key to learning from mistakes is to admit them without excuses or defensiveness, rub your nose in them a little, and make the changes you need to make to grow going forward. If you can’t admit your mistakes, you won’t grow...
The Germ-Cleaning Power of an Open Window
...fresh air is generally a great way to rid your space of pathogens. Open a window and let the breeze blow those germs away...
Today
...We only get it once...
Factfulness - Recommended Book
...We tend to assume that all items on a list are equally important, but usually just a few of them are more important than all the others put together...Fear plus urgency make for stupid, drastic decisions with unpredictable side effects...
