December 2011
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How to Accomplish More by Doing Less →
It’s not just the number of hours we sit at a desk in that determines the value we generate. It’s the energy we bring to the hours we work. Human beings are designed to pulse rhythmically between spending and renewing energy. That’s how we operate at our best. Maintaining a steady reservoir of energy — physically, mentally, emotionally and even spiritually — requires refueling it...
Hidden iOS 5 Feature Offers Tons of Beautiful... →
Adding emoji greatly expands your texting options. There are hundreds of illustrated icons that depict everything from watermelons to bikinis to frogs to skyscrapers.
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Listen: The Year In Music / NPR
londonlovesyou:
NPR DJs discuss their favourite tracks, artists, albums and musical highlights of the year from both new and established artists.
Listen: here
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Nigella’s edible gingerbread tree-decorations →
Why I Hire People Who Fail →
I’ve said this before but it bears repeating: success by failure is not an oxymoron. When you make a mistake, you’re forced to look back and find out exactly where you went wrong, and formulate a new plan for your next attempt. By contrast, when you succeed, you don’t always know exactly what you did right that made you successful (often, it’s luck).
Why Should We Care About Integrating Schools? →
According to a recent Century Foundation study, “Low-income students attending more affluent schools scored almost two years ahead of low-income students in high-poverty schools. Indeed, low-income students given a chance to attend more affluent schools performed more than half a year better, on average, than middle-income students who attend high-poverty schools.”
How much income makes you 'rich'? $150,000,... →
It’s a reminder of how steeply incomes shoot up at the top end and how many people are crowded at the bottom end. The median individual income in this country, let’s not forget, is $26,400, so the $60,000 that 18 percent of Gallup’s respondents said would be enough to be rich is more than double the median. The $150,000 a year that was the median to be rich in this survey...
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