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Learn Anything in 20 Hours with This Four-Step Method
With just 20 hours of focused, deliberate practice, you can go from knowing absolutely nothing to performing noticeably well. That's the message from Josh Kaufman, author of The First 20 Hours. In the video above, he reveals the four steps to learning any new skill, fast. It's a long, 20-minute TEDx Talk, but entertaining and enlightening too. The four steps in Kaufman's method are: Deconstruct the skill: Break down the parts and find the most important things to practice first. If you were learning to play a musical instrument, for example, knowing…
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ABC: Always Be Coding — Tech Talk
Be honest. Are you a good engineering candidate? How are you measuring yourself? How many companies have you interviewed at? What is your interview to offer ratio? Try the following formula:# x =…
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Officer Serrano’s Hidden Camera
Officer Pedro Serrano walked through the heavy wooden doors of the 40th Precinct in the South Bronx and headed upstairs to the locker room. For eight years he’d been working out of this…
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I'm Daniel Pink, and This Is How I Work
If you're at all interested in the science and psychology of motivation, chances are you've read Daniel Pink's bestseller Drive. In it, he argues that three simple things propel us: autonomy (wanting…
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You Don't Have to Spend a Ton on a Funeral…
As the director of Funeral Consumers Alliance, a nonprofit that helps people avoid funeral fraud, I know all about mortuary mythology. (That’s what I call the collective "wisdom" about death,…
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"Never Just Remember How to Do Something,…
When you know how to do something, you have a skill. When you understand how something works, you can alter that knowledge and adapt it for your best uses. This gives you confidence and the ability…
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Whey Too Much: Greek Yogurt’s Dark Side
Greek yogurt is a booming $2 billion a year industry — and it's producing millions of pounds of waste that industry insiders are scrambling to figure out what to do with. By Justin Elliott on…
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On Using Your iPhone Abroad Without Getting…
When I stepped off the plane in Mexico I got that sinking feeling. My iPhone wasn't going to work. I mean it was, but, you know, it's expensive to use a cell phone abroad. It's even more expensive to…
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The Design of Code: Organizing JavaScript
Great design is a product of care and attention applied to areas that matter, resulting in a useful, understandable, and hopefully beautiful user interface. But don’t be fooled into thinking…
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Surprise! Mozilla can produce near-native…
In a bid to make JavaScript run ever faster, Mozilla has developed asm.js. It's a limited, stripped down subset of JavaScript that the company claims will offer performance that's within a factor of…
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Gawker London Soldier Hacked To Death By…
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How Sunscreen Works (And Why You're Wrong About…
Your skin shouldn't look like a package of pork cracklins after spending the day outdoors; that's why we invented sunscreen. However, there's a right way and a wrong way to slather on your…
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Learning From Los Gatos — The Peer Society
It’s no surprise that George Packer—one of the most gifted writers in the business—has hit upon a fascinating topic in his latest New Yorker piece: the emerging politics of…
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Four Pricing Principles to Never Forget
Most startups are eventually faced with the key question: How much should we charge? There’s no one true answer. There are no gurus. There’s just you, your financials, and the need to…
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An Unheralded Breakthrough: The Rosetta Stone of…
There is no Nobel Prize in mathematics, but in 2001 the Norwegian government established a million-dollar Abel Prize, which is widely considered as an equivalent of the Nobel for mathematicians. This…
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Steve Jobs’ Dream Device Has Arrived
Don Mattrick of Microsoft reveals the Xbox One during a press event in Redmond, Wa. on Tuesday. Photo by Nick Adams/Reuters Just before he died, Steve Jobs told h
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Welcome to the Real Space Age
(Photo: Courtesy of Virgin Galactic) At dawn one morning last November—just as the edge of Earth comprising Florida spun into the field of light bursting from roughly 93 million miles…
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The Xbox One: Hardware Analysis & Comparison to…
It’s that time of decade again. Time for a new Xbox. It took four years for Microsoft to go from the original Xbox to the Xbox 360. The transition from Xbox 360 to the newly announced Xbox One…