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
Here are Google, Amazon, and Facebook’s secrets to hiring the best people. (Quartz)
Don’t Start a Business with Your Friends. (Ivanka Trump)
Related: 5 Qualities to Look for in a Business Partner. (Ivanka Trump)
The 30 Things We Learned at the 2016 99U Conference. (99U)
Don’t End a Meeting Without Doing These 3 Things. (Harvard Business Journal)
Related: Meeting etiquette rules every professional should know. (Business Insider)
How To Shake Boredom & Become The Smartest Person At Your Company. (Under 30 CEO)
If you have a five year plan, your work isn’t interesting enough. (A Life of Productivity)
3 Reasons You Can’t Motivate Yourself at Work Anymore—and How to Overcome Each One. (Daily Muse)
How to Negotiate a Raise (If You’re a Woman). Hilarious! (McSweeneys)
PRODUCTIVITY/SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY
Schedule Meeting Margins. (Cal Newport)
How to Prioritize When Your To-Do List Wants to Kill You. (The Every Girl)
You don’t need more time. (Ooomf)
Don’t even try! (…to do everything). (Patty Azzarello)
But… 21 Things You Have Been Putting Off Forever. (Time Management Ninja)
The science behind online dating profiles. (BBC World)
Second-Level Thinking: What Smart People Use to Outperform. (Farnam Street)
Why So Many Smart People Aren’t Happy. (The Atlantic)
I Stopped Complaining for One Month. Here’s How It Changed Me. So funny that we are doing this one month apart! (Greatist)
HEALTH/FITNESS
Your Beauty Products Are Not Killing You. (Racked)
Can Wine Before Bed Really Help You Lose Weight?. (Daily Burn)
Why you shouldn’t exercise to lose weight, explained with 60+ studies. (Vox)
How the Media Gets Weight Loss So Wrong. (Greatist)
For Women Who Run, the Bathroom Problem. (New York Times)
10 Rules You Need To Follow If You’re Dating or Married To A Runner. (Lifting Revolution)
How to Set a Guinness World Record for Racing in Costume. (Runners World)
An Easy Way to Prevent Blisters? Try Tape. (New York Times)
How to Plan an Epic Self-Supported Long Run. (Rock Creek Runner)
Beware: The Group Fitness Crutch. (Furthermore from Equinox)
TRAVEL
New York Airports Threaten to Remove TSA in Favor of Alternate Screeners. (Skift)
3 Ways to Radically Improve International Arrivals to the U.S.. (Skift)
Ranting online about travel more popular than trying to get a refund. (Tnooz)
New York City vs. San Francisco: Part Deux. (Medium)
MISCELLANY
Korean Waffle Pizza Is Here and It’s About to Blow Up Your Instagram. I want to make this! (LA Mag)
Time-Saving Kitchen Tricks From Line Cooks. (Thrillist)
The day we discovered our parents were Russian spies. Wow, this is an unbelievable story! (Guardian)
Photographer Mashes Photos Together For Hilarious Results. (Bored Panda)
13 Questions to Ask Before Getting Married. (New York Times)
The Costume Designer for ‘The Good Wife’ on How the Show Changed the Way Women Dress. (Elle Magazine)
Play the ‘woman card’ and reap these ‘rewards’!. (Washington Post)
Finally, for a laugh: Some uses for women in Trump’s America. (Washington Post)
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