Online dating site OKCupid has found an inexplicable number of men happen to be exactly six feet tall and there are four times as many people who claim to earn $100,000 per year as there should be. False advertising, or misrepresentation, is standard in any marketplace; the…
What does it take to become a more convincing communicator? New research suggests that linguistic mirroring — that is, adjusting your communication style to match that of your audience — is an effective tool to increase your ability to influence others. In this piece, the…
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There's an angry divisive tension in the air that threatens to make modern politics impossible. Elizabeth Lesser explores the two sides of human nature within us (call them "the mystic" and "the warrior”) that can be harnessed to elevate the way we treat each other. She shares a…
How do false beliefs spread, and what are the consequences?
Born nearly two thousand years before Darwin and Freud, Epictetus seems to have anticipated a way out of their prisons.
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How we applied qualitative learning, human labeling and machine learning to iteratively develop Airbnb’s Community Support Taxonomy.
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Andrew Kevin Walker, writer of the movie "Seven", gives five tips on how to improve your writing.
Michael Sippey has been building tech products for over 20 years. His most valuable ideas, though? They came from speaking with customers. Here's how.
This quote comes to us from Ms. Allie Webb, the Founder and CEO of Drybar a blow dry only salon. A blow dry salon is not like any hair salon. It offers, just as name indicates, blow dry and styling…
Keyword research is the process of analyzing the search-engine queries of real people. That data — a window into the desires of searchers — is a gold mine for search engine optimization.
Fences are never beautiful. May be the picket fences are. But when designed to keep two sides from moving easily from one side to the other they are not usually described as beautiful. Price fences…
‘The Problem with…’ series covers controversial topics related to efforts to improve healthcare quality, including widely recommended but deceptively difficult strategies for improvement and pervasive problems that seem to resist solution. The ‘5 whys’ technique is one of the…
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I’ve been working on a marketing automation tool (more on that at the end of the post). Or rather, I’ve been working on an idea for a marketing automation tool as I don’t want a single line of code written before I’d experienced a notable pull from target customers. (This may…
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Never underestimate the power your own insecurities can generate.
In the spirit of capturing some of the observations that I find myself repeating, I’m adding this one to the mix tonight. Unlike the previous two, this is really a piece of concrete advice f…
In a showdown between Russia and NATO, the ‘Suwałki Gap’ would likely be the first point of contact.
Aidy Bryant on saying goodbye to "Saturday Night Live" and charting her future in Hollywood.
It's been long known in the industry that brand term keywords garner a much higher click-through-rate. As a result, marketers often start by bidding on their own brand terms.
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Part Two of the Needfinding/Ideation/MVP Creation Charette This is the second part of a three part essay on rapid MVP creation to start testing assumptions. Part One is here. It was written for my …
Want to talk about one of the strangest, if not the strangest American crime film to emerge in the first half of the 1970s? Then, let’s talk about Michael Ritchie’s neo-noir Prime Cut, as it turns …
Harvard Business Review - When you send an email, the first thing your recipient sees is the subject line, so make sure it’s as clear as possible: What is your email’s purpose? What do you want your recipient to do? Take a page from military personnel. Their subject lines use…
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Reddit has never been a place where you could necessarily connect one user with one account. Parody accounts are commonplace -- to a fault if you ask some -- and there have been more than one fiasco involving users who pretend to be different people with different accounts; it's…
Founders and product managers alike wear this proudly on their sleeves (or twitter bios) The Ultimate Product Person – who loves products, building products and sweating the details. Skim thr…