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
4 Ways to Know it’s Time to Pursue Your Business Idea. (Daily Muse)
How to Hire the Right Person. (New York Times)
5 Types of Difficult Bosses (and How to Deal). (The Every Girl)
6 Signs You’re Doing a Great Job (Even Though Your Boss Doesn’t Say it). (Daily Muse)
Here Are 3 Immediate Changes Women Can Make For Career Success. (Forbes)
Everyone Likes Flex Time, but We Punish Women Who Use It. (Harvard Business Journal)
Why is the office our least productive place? (A Life of Productivity)
PRODUCTIVITY/SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY
Why we should kill the 40-hour work week. (Crew Blog)
Don’t Call a Meeting When You Should Send an Email Instead. (Time Management Ninja)
A Better Way To Think About ‘Busy’. (Yes and Yes)
Why Smart People Love Spending Time Alone. (Thrillist)
The Skill Set: 8 Ways to Create a Meaningful Life. (Ivanka Trump)
The Problem With Being Too Agreeable. (Lifehacker)
2017 Testing Your Sanity? Here Are 5 Ways to Cope. (My Fitness Pal)
This Is How To Win With Passive-Aggressive People: 5 Proven Secrets. (Barking Up the Wrong Tree)
Lost Your Keys Again? 8 Tips for Finding Misplaced Objects.. (Gretchen Rubin)
10 Reasons You Have Too Much Clutter. (Time Management Ninja)
Loyalty runs deep: How retailers keep customers coming back. (PwC)
HEALTH/FITNESS
Language Lessons Start in the Womb. (New York Times)
This Is Your Heart on (and off) Exercise. (My Fitness Pal)
Healthy Lifestyle Hacks That Really Work. (My Fitness Pal)
New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art Multitasks as a Workout Center. (Skift)
Travelers With Nut Allergies Clash With Airlines. (New York Times)
TRAVEL
Delta Air Lines Has Ways of Making Passengers Pay for Their Free Meals. (Skift)
Why Do People Cry More on Planes? (Vice)
Carriers Move to Accommodate Increased Demand for Canary Islands. (Skift)
IAG Makes Bigger Bet on the Narrow-Body Long-Haul Revolution. (Skift)
A Game Plan for Enduring the Longest Flight in the World. (Skift)
Surf Air breaks into Europe. (Tnooz)
Skip Europe: The World’s Greatest Destination Cities Americans Overlook. (Thrillist)
What Marriott Learned From Starwood’s Loyalty and Digital Expertise. (Skift)
Reducing the emphasis on points in the new Marriott Rewards program. (Wandering Aramean)
Hotel Revenue Managers Say They Want a Revolution. (Skift)
Hoteliers would like to employ more robots. (Economist)
Similar: Robot delivers meals and services to hotel room. (Tnooz)
Stowe Mountain Resort in Vermont Sold to Vail for $50M. I’m pretty excited about this! (Hotel News Now)
More details: Vail Resorts to Buy Vermont’s Stowe Mountain Ski Operations for $50 Million. (Skift)
New York’s Grand Central Terminal Strives to Be a Destination in Its Own Right. (Skift)
Our New Opportunity to Make America’s Transportation System Great Again – Part 5. Fascinating cultural shift coming! (Travel Insider)
Related: Elon Musk Wants to Invest in Underground Transit. (Skift)
How Travel Brands Do Customer Service Right on Social Media. (Skift)
I Underpack for Trips So I Don’t Have to Think About Clothes. (Racked)
MISCELLANY
Why This Family Goes Anywhere But Home for Christmas. (Real Simple)
6 Fit Issues Issues Tailors Can Fix (and 4 They Can’t). (PureWow)
Some Thoughts on the ‘Lost Generation’. (The Simple Dollar)
Study reveals which moves can take you from disco disaster to dancing queen. (Guardian)
The Man Who Broke Ticketmaster. (Vice)
Behind the Scam: What Does It Take to Be a ‘Best-Selling Author’? $3 and 5 Minutes. (Medium)
22 free (or cheap!) things to do when payday is far away. (Medium)
The Tail End. Interesting to think about life as how many more times you’ll get to do something. (Wait But Why)
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