Not a day goes by when I don’t hear about the next big thing in consumer tech. It could almost seem business as usual to hear about another fast-growth startup, but when you look closer at the startups that are capturing the hearts of cons…
I’ve been on a 10-year quest to find the perfect way to organize myself and my teams. Sure, it’s been a crooked path, dotted with wrong turns and missteps, but over the last three years at Zapier I’ve developed a system that works …
Let’s face it, a lot of us are coping with challenges, and these struggles can impact our mood. It’s hard to be upbeat and positive when every day feels like rinse and repeat version of the previous one. It can also be hard to gauge your …
If you’re looking for motivation to get more sleep, there are plenty of studies I could point you to, like this recent one showing that insufficient sleep causes toxic gunk to build up in your brain. Or how about this one that found sl…
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Nick Kroll’s career has largely been defined by the cavalcade of memorable characters th…
In business, the way we define and think of failure is crucial to enhancing our ability to learn from it. We must first recognize that failure can be a major determinant for success, no matter the discipline.
No one wants to fail publicly. It’s …
There is a lot of evidence that compliments benefit both the giver and the receiver. Giving compliments makes you feel good about your relationship with other people and also gives you the joy of brightening someone’s day. And getting an unexpec…
Earlier this month, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced that four weeks of national paid family and medical leave was getting added back into President Biden’s social safety net bill, just a week after Democrats initially removed the provision….
If you’ve been thinking about a job change recently, you’re not alone. The pandemic gave people time to rethink how and why they work, with close to 50% of working Americans saying the pandemic has changed how they feel about their career…
Over the course of my career as an art and creative director and later as a product experience designer, I kept a secret for a long time: I am colorblind.
I can see colors. I just happen to have difficulty telling the difference between shades of color…
