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
Microsoft’s CEO on the Power of Being a Learn-It-All. (Heleo)
Why I Force Myself to Negotiate. (Lifehacker)
PRODUCTIVITY/SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY
How To Deliver Your Presentation In Half The Time You’d Allotted. (Fast Company)
5 Reasons You Should Always Be Early. (Time Management Ninja)
What I Learned About Deep Productivity from a 30-Day “Digital Declutter”. (Medium)
Nomophobia and the Dream of Productivity: Four Steps Toward Independence. (Laura Stack)
Related: Announce the Reason You Are About to Look at Your Phone. (Lifehacker)
The amount of money that equates to happiness. (Well & Good NYC)
This Is How To Overcome Anger: 5 Powerful Secrets From Mindfulness. (Barking Up the Wrong Tree)
HEALTH/FITNESS
No, the flu shot isn’t fail-safe—but here’s why it’s still worth it. (Well & Good NYC)
Awake Under Anesthesia. (New Yorker)
Eating Leafy Greens Each Day Tied to Sharper Memory, Slower Decline. (NPR)
Excessive alcohol consumption might be linked to early-onset dementia, study finds. (Well & Good NYC)
8 Simple Swaps to Make Comfort Food Healthier. (Greatist)
How to prevent a sugar crash. (Well & Good NYC)
Kick Your Kombucha Habit. (Furthermore from Equinox)
Why Non-Alcoholic Beer Is Germany’s Sports Drink. (Lifehacker)
What is it actually like to meet with a sex therapist?. (Well & Good NYC)
A Big New Diet Study Just Disproved a Lot of Pet Theories on Weight Loss. (Lifehacker)
Young Fitness Fogies Ditch $40 Classes for Hoops, Laps and Jogs. (New York Times)
5 Ways to Use a Stability Ball. (Furthermore from Equinox)
Science Backed Reasons Runners Need to Lift Weights: Upper Body Runners Workout. (Run to the Finish)
Related: Runners Are Neglecting This Body Part. (Furthermore from Equinox)
The Secret to Staying Healthy (Even When You Don’t Feel Like It). (Greatist)
Your next apartment could be a wellness center. (Well & Good NYC)
SPECIAL SECTION: OLYMPICS
8 tips for achieving your goals, straight from Olympic trainers. (Well & Good NYC)
2018 Winter Olympic Games may medal in technology. (Medium)
Kikkan Randall Wins Her 1st Medal In Cross-Country — A Gold — After 18 Tries. (NPR)
Hilariously Average Olympic Dreams Really Do Come True. (Esquire)
Related: Olympic Skier Who Performed No Tricks in Halfpipe Disappointed to Not Be Advancing. (Thrillist)
Thirty-six minutes after the gold medal was won, the Olympics happened. (Washington Post)
TRAVEL
Lufthansa Group sees ancillary revenue opportunity in preferred seating zone. (Future Travel Experience)
Star Alliance unveils Digital Services Platform with Accenture. (Future Travel Experience)
Hawaiian Airlines introduces health and wellness IFE content. (Future Travel Experience)
What If Airlines Were Like Netflix. (Yieldr)
Janet: the top-secret US airline that you’re not supposed to know about. (Telegraph)
Have a healthy relationship with your airplane seatmate, using this data. (Well & Good NYC)
Airlines Struggle to Raise Ticket Prices as Fuel Gets Costlier. (Skift)
Why Flying Has Never Been Safer. (Wall Street Journal)
Airlines May Want Higher Fuel Prices Despite How Contrarian That Seems. (Skift)
Norwegian Air Plans to Move On From a Terrible 2017 With Fleet Expansion. (Skift)
Air France-KLM Isn’t Sure What to Do About Low-Cost Rivals. (Skift)
Where are airlines in the battle for online dominance?. (Tnooz)
Southwest Airlines reviews policy after service dog bites young girl on forehead. (Dallas Morning News) Honestly, it was only a matter of time until this (or worse) happened – I’m hopeful that ESAs will stop being permitted on planes without rigorous screening.
Woman follows handbag into X-ray machine. (BBC World)
Host of new F&B outlets coming to Phoenix Sky Harbour. (Airport World)
LAX trials facial recognition and advanced imaging technology at security. (Future Travel Experience)
The hospitality business. (Airport World)
Humanoid ‘Josie Pepper’ starts work at Munich Airport. (Airport World)
Similar: Munich Airport trials AI-powered robot to provide passenger information in Terminal 2. (Future Travel Experience)
Related: Boston Dynamics is teaching its robot dog to fight back against humans. (Guardian)
How Chatbots Are Breezing in to the Workplace. (Hotel News Now)
Google May Beat Competitors in Mapping Again, This Time for Driverless Cars. (Skift)
Cybersecurity – industry collaboration key to meeting “very real threat of cyberattacks”. (Future Travel Experience)
These Hotels Will Help Keep Your Fitness Plans On Track!. (Million Mile Secrets)
Targeting a New Microgeneration of Luxury Travelers. (Skift)
Leverage Direct Messaging for Your Hotel to Transform Guest Experience. (Hotel News Now)
Why more business travelers are leaving cash behind. (Tnooz)
8 Simple Ways to Increase Your Hotel’s Direct Bookings. (Hotel News Now)
The Ultra-Rich Are Telling Their Travel Agents They Want Extreme Personalization. (Skift)
How to Make Sure You Travel with Medication Legally. (New York Times)
In Germany, the world’s most romantic postbox. (BBC World)
MISCELLANY
How the Elderly Lose Their Rights. Horrifying. (New Yorker)
Trashed: Inside the Deadly World of Private Garbage Collection. (ProPublica)
Commonly Stolen Cars Are Worth Less Than The Sum Of Their Parts. (Lifehacker)
Dude makes ‘why you should swipe right’ PowerPoint for his Tinder and it worked. (Mashable)
So You’ve Been Asked to Be a Bridesmaid. Now What?. (New York Times)
Why Do People Cheat—and Are We Wired To?. (Greatist)
Related: When a Partner Cheats. (New York Times)
One teacher’s brilliant idea to stop school shootings has nothing to do with guns. (Business Insider)
Start Homework ‘Consulting Hours’. (Lifehacker)
12 Questions That Will Change Your Life. (Thrive Global)
Stash Your Keys Under Important Items so You Don’t Leave Them Behind. (Lifehacker)
Two words that will make you happier, calmer, and more certain. (Yes and Yes)
Planting Seeds for the Future. (The Simple Dollar)
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