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Try something, get results, keep going — A big goal often demands a big change. Want to.. Get fit? Quit junk food, exercise consistently, and get enough sleep Build a fulfilling career that pays well? You’ll likely need to become the best in your niche or change industries. Create a personal / professional network? Put yourself out…

Taylor Swift’s journey to becoming one of the most successful and respected artists in the music industry is a story of talent, hard work, and resilience. From her humble beginnings as a country singer-songwriter to her transformation into a global pop icon, Taylor has navigated the ups and downs of…

A few insights into boosting your cognitive abilities. — My faulty memory was starting to tick me off. I was forgetting promises, commitments, and names. It felt like I’d taken up a part-time job resetting all my passwords. More importantly, my memory was hurting my relationships and performance at work. I’d resolved to do something about it. So I…

D&D never made the money Hasbro wanted — Dungeons & Dragons is the Kleenex or Nintendo of tabletop roleplaying games. It is the go-to game for a lot of gamers, and the go-to reference for everyone else. That should put it in the catbird seat of pop culture, but it doesn’t. Even with a series coming to Paramount…

“Salty” is a terrible adjective to apply to a job. — Table of Contents · The Peter Principle — rise to your incompetence · The Dead Sea Effect — bad situations get worse · What can we do to avoid these effects? · Check your job for the Peter principle or Dead Sea saltiness ∘ Have you ever dealt with a boss or job that matched one…

Yesterday I closed the doors of my business for the final time. It’s been a tough few weeks, well months really, and I’ve had to make some difficult decisions, had some uncomfortable conversations and unbelievably emotional moments, however I am determined to take this failure and turn it into something…

With generative AI threatening businesses and side hustles, how you can find space? — ChatGPT was the chatbot that has taken the world by storm. At first, it left the world in awe of its capabilities, this feeling of disbelief before a technical prodigy is followed by a wave of fear. In a sense, the hype about its theoretical capabilities has turned into the…

I’ve been interviewed at many companies, and have interviewed dozens of candidates myself. The discrepancy in different companies’ ability to screen candidates is immense, which is surprising: you’d think such a common and critical activity would be well-understood, thought out, and fairly uniform. It’s not. Companies that are good at…

The 1990s were a chaotic period in computing history. Not only was the World Wide Web finally emerging from the lab, but also PCs were becoming more useful outside the workplace. To bring order to the chaos, Microsoft and Intel forged the “Wintel” partnership, which provided a common platform for…