it’s been recommended over 6,500 times... the problem is this: the article is… crushingly insubstantial... there are dozens of similar pieces churning around Medium at any time: how to listicles, life-hack guides, autodidactic treatises on ‘personal growth’ etc etc... in the spirit of “if you can’t beat them join them”, here is my hastily co…

My future self is awesome. He doesn’t mind taking up any task I save for him... and never complains about any work I decide he will do for me in the future. My past self is a dickhead. He keeps screwing things up and my current self always has to clean up after him... If he had planned ahead a little better I wouldn’t have to manage all this s…

With just a handful of hacks, meetings can be speedier, more productive, and more enjoyable for everyone involved. - 9 Science-Backed Methods for a Happier, More Productive Meeting

What is this wiki? It aims to be a practical resource, almost a sort of handbook, for leaders wanting to create radically more productive, soulful and purposeful business and nonprofits, government agencies, schools and hospitals. 

the most effective transformation initiatives draw upon four key actions to change mind-sets and behaviors... role modeling, fostering understanding and conviction, reinforcing changes through formal mechanisms, and developing talent and skills.... successful transformations are nearly eight times more likely to use all four actions than to us…

"Harness your productivity with these ideas." I took issue with a few of these via sidebar comments, but most are good. - 28 Ideas for Becoming 5 Times More Productive Every Week — Personal Growth — Medium

The absence of hierarchy does not necessarily mean no structure. - Holacracy vs. Hierarchy vs. Flat Orgs — Holacracy — Medium

At Buffer, we create all the images for our blogposts and social media sharing without any outside design help. We rely on a handful of amazing tools and resources to get the job done, and I’ll be happy to share with you the ones we use and the extras that we’ve found helpful or interesting. - 23 Tools and Resources to Create Images for Social …

In this class, we uncover the narrative structures and strategies used by social change practitioners and entrepreneurs for building community and inspiring action... a workshop for makers and social entrepreneurs ... storytelling to transform themselves, their teams, and their broader communities. - Transformative Storytelling — Foossa Files …

let’s step back and look at the furies of the year so far, as the pace of 2015 media changes whets our appetite for 2016. Here are 10 could-be headlines for the season ahead.

First, some useful definitions: "Imagination is envisioning things that don’t exist... Creativity is applying imagination to address a challenge. Innovation is applying creativity to generate unique solutions. And entrepreneurship is applying innovations, scaling the ideas, by inspiring others’ imagination... the way to innovate is to look a…

Technology First starts by selecting a very specific medium for communication, then creatively exploits its full potential.... the opposite of blank slate.... Enable creative thinking by embracing arbitrary constraints. ... Put emotional adjectives in front of specific technologies... Pick an everyday interaction and internet-enable it. - Ne…

Thinking of pursuing your next idea? Read this definitive guide first... a Minimal Viable Product (MVP) is all about verifying the fact that there is a market where your potential company can call home and bring in paying customers. It’s about finding your early adopters and seeing exactly they are willing to pay for.... [but] an entreprene…

- How They Did It: Part II — Medium

A bunch of useful tools for telling stories, with examples. - How They Did It — Part I — Medium

Easily assemble a variety of content types - videos, slides, PDF, webpages... - as an elegant and interactive reading experience that you share with your audience. We call it a “tute”

Companies where leaders don't empower their teams are like merry-go-rounds: plenty of movement, but stuck in place. One of my biggest failures as a leader came just as I thought I was excelling. I judged my worth based on how many decisions I was involved in, how many meetings I sat in on, and how people checked with me first for approval. On t…

nothing about Federman’s job responsibilities at Fortune are traditional for a Time Inc. employee. He works closely with colleagues in editorial, public relations and marketing. He mines analytics for data about the best times to post stories and what’s connecting with readers. He identifies trending stories and occasionally writes one ... helps d…

I am, however, not loving what responses are doing to my profile page. There is value in a response, to be sure, and I don’t want to lose that but when a reader visits my page, it is littered with my responses to other articles — interesting stuff for me and the respondee, not so much for the new reader. - I love responses — I love to respond a…

This software is a clever mix between Sketch, Keynote, Flash and After Effect (plus some bonus features specifically for interactive prototypes)... Easily creating tap transitions from one screen to another is, to me, the core of the software. - Principle : the prototyping tool you’ve got to try — STARTUPS + WANDERLUST + LIFE HACKING — Medium

In our busy modern world, I’ve found one very surprising key to bringing more quiet to the mind and in turn practicing more mindfulness, and that is using a good task management system, such as the productivity methodology GTD... knowing that I have everything captured in a trusted GTD system gives my mind space to rest and focus on whatever is…

A morning routine sets the tone for the whole day, and if you do each day right, you’ll do life right... Habit Stacking is a way to build a new habit into your life by stacking it on top of something you’re currently doing. For example, before I brush my teeth in the morning (current habit) I will meditate (new habit) for 3 minutes... Try to…

While so much attention has been focused on the industry-shaking Age of Distribution (Facebook Instant Articles, Snapchat Discover, and now Apple News), the stealth game changer may be built into iOS 9: its ad blocker... set back direct competitor Google [and]... reward and channel revenue to its new buddies, its publisher partners... those …

Immediately after every lecture, meeting, or any significant experience, take 30 seconds — no more, no less — to write down the most important points. - The 30 second habit with a lifelong impact — STARTUPS + WANDERLUST + LIFE HACKING — Medium

- OpenElections: Using Tabula for Extracting Data from PDFs - YouTube

FalseHilarious: “[US] Corporations on Twitter”. Worth watching if only for the humour, but it’s interesting that these sort of mistakes haven’t been made that often by the EU Institutions, as I originally feared in 2009, with the more-amusing-than-revolting exception of The Great Berlusconi TwitterWall Kerfuffle (2010).

Apple isn't the only one developing an exclusive news service for its mobile customers. Samsung has announced a partnership with Axel Springer... to develop a news platform exclusive to Samsung Galaxy... UPDAY is being pitched as an "aggregated news content platform," with stories selected both algorithmically and by a local team of news editor…

The Old Work organises labour as a factory model of work... focused on fixing the bad stuff and continuous improvement (of the old stuff)... the New Work looks to bring everyone together in a living Community to discover, reconfigure and make new combinations of strengths to innovate. They look to discover through stories the deepest level of e…

Here’s the trick I figured out to send a ton of personal emails automatically. - How to Send a Ton of Personal-Looking Emails Automatically — STARTUPS + WANDERLUST + LIFE HACKING — Medium

Readers aren't the only ones who want quick and easy access to information. You, the infographic creator, are also short on time. You need simple, quick ways to create beautiful infographics. Forget about Photoshop and other time-consuming image-creation methods. These tools make creating infographics simpler than ever: - 20 tools to help yo…