Want to stay in bed longer? Here’s what I’ve been loving, laughing at, and getting intrigued by all week long. Now cozy up with your laptop/tablet and enjoy 🙂
CAREER
Dream Jobs: I’m a S’mores Expert at the Ritz Carlton. (Yahoo Travel)
Denver Leads Forbes’ 2015 List Of The Best Places For Business And Careers. (Forbes)
A 23-year-old Google employee lives in a truck and saves 90% of his income. (Business Insider)
Please Leave a Message: Business Voicemail Etiquette Tips. (Laura Stack)
What To Do After A Bad Performance Review. (Ellevate Network)
Here are the real reasons you’re not getting promoted at work. (Business Insider)
How to (professionally) say you’re drowning in work. (Mashable)
How to enjoy work (even when you’re busy). (Yes and Yes)
Gender at Work Is Not a Women’s Issue. (Harvard Business Journal)
PRODUCTIVITY/SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY
15 Ways to Motivate Yourself That Actually Work. (Greatist)
Check Your Vibes: 8 Ways To Find Extra Time In Your Day. (The Frisky)
How To Take Advantage Of Your Brain’s Hidden Productivity Powers. (Fast Company)
What Happened to Hobbies? (The Every Girl)
This Is The #1 Ritual You Need To Do Every Day. (Barking Up the Wrong Tree)
How to Use Your Travel Time Productively. (Harvard Business Journal)
HEALTH/FITNESS
28 Proven Ways to Boost Your Energy. (My Fitness Pal)
In ‘Just Eat It,’ Filmmakers Feast For 6 Months On Discarded Food. (NPR)
What Happens In Your Body One Hour After Drinking A Can Of Coke. (Design Taxi)
Skip the Sweatpants: Your Pre-Thanksgiving Detox Plan. (Daily Burn)
This is hilarious! The Terrible Tragedy of the Healthy Eater. (NW Edible)
Shawn Johnson on Body Shamers and Getting Healthy: ‘It Hasn’t Been Easy’. (Yahoo Health)
TRAVEL
Boulder real estate hits top 1 percent of country’s most expensive markets. (Denver Post)
Jackson Hole Toilets Tell a Story of a New Generation of Chinese Tourists. (Skift)
Monet of the Mountain: How a Ski Maps Painter Owns His Niche Market. (99U)
Branding Experts on Guest Reactions to Marriott-Starwood Acquisition. (Skift)
Can Guests Tell a Difference Among the Glut of Hotel Brands?. (Skift)
Airbnb Emphasizes Its Host Community to Make Sleeping With Strangers Less Weird. (Skift)
The Long, Slow Decline of the First-Class Flying Experienc. (Skift)
American Airlines’ New Loyalty Program Makes Big Changes to AAdvantage. (Skift)
Sweet!! – Virgin America: Denver, here we come. (USA Today)
This Startup Promises to Sell a $19 Ticket Out of Airport Hell. (Skift)
Most dangerous footpath’ becomes world’s hottest tourist attraction. (Daily Mail)
MISCELLANY
The Unabridged History of Social Media. (Medium)
5 things the media does to manufacture outrage.. (Medium)
Americans have been developing a new shopping habit for years — and now it’s hurting stores. (Business Insider)
The media did cover attacks on (insert country here). You just weren’t reading it. (Medium)
What ISIS Really Wants. (The Atlantic)
9 Dirty Tricks Bartenders Use to Take More of Your Money. (Thrillist)
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My good friend works with the marshmallow-ologist at the Ritz Carlton. I’ll have to make it a goal to stop by for fancy s’mores this winter.
That is SO cool!
I kept expecting the ’28 ways to boost your energy’ to be a fun article about various artisanal coffees….. but it wasn’t!? I’m so confused.
You are so addicted to coffee that you don’t even know there are other ways to wake up 😉