The New and The Next - Issue #66
“There is no such thing as an attention span. There is only the quality of what you are viewing.”
Favorites
Why Good Managers Are So Rare
Gallup data shows they have a combination of hard-to-teach traits.
Bryan Caplan’s Case against Education Is Persuasive
The main thing students are up to, surveys reveal, is having a good time …
Productivity
Time Tracking Experiment: What I Learned After Analyzing Every Minute of My Life for 30 Days
“How we spend our days is of course how we spend our lives,” wrote author Annie Dillard. “What we do with this hour and that one is what we are doing.”
These Gmail searches can clean up even the messiest inbox
You can use Google’s search bar to look for things within your email. Here are a few Gmail searches which could help you sweep the trash from your inbox.
Go Deeper, Not Wider
I keep imagining a tradition I’d like to invent. After you’re established in your career, and you have some neat stuff in your house, you take a whole year in which you don’t start anything new or acquire any new
Ask Polly: ‘Why Am I So Lazy?’
For this week’s Ask Polly, the Cut’s advice columnist, Heather Havrilesky, answers a reader’s question about laziness.
Work & Money
How to Manage Your Career
You need to pay attention to your career. Here’s how.
Almost all the 10 million jobs created since 2005 are temporary
The conventional full-time job is disappearing.
Exactly how I made $1.1M in sales in 11 months
How Luisa Zhou combined three launches, two courses, and coaching to build her 7-figure business.
How Younger Managers Are Perceived, Perceptions of Younger Managers Aren't Always Accurate
The good and the bad.
College Grads Stuck With Low Wages as U.S. Hiring Heats Up
Connor Reyer gave up after more than a year of looking for a job in his preferred field of forest resources following graduation from the University of Georgia in Athens, finally opting in February for a hotel front-desk job paying $10 an hour.
Marketing & Branding
The Dollar Shave Club Viral Video - How To Make A Viral Video
The Dollar Shave Club Viral Video - How To Make A Hilarious Viral Video. How do you take a product that no one cares about and turn it into a viral video?
The Content Marketer's Guide to UTM Parameters for Tracking Referrals
Data analyst Loryn Thompson explains what UTM parameters are, why they were invented, when you need to use them, and when you absolutely don’t.
Facebook Overhauls News Feed to Focus on What Friends and Family Share
In the next few weeks, you will see fewer viral videos and news articles from media companies, and instead see more posts that include interactions between you and the people you know.
Facebook will 'completely deprioritize publishers': Confessions of a publisher audience development head
Many of the publishers that spent 2016 and 2017 investing in Facebook products like Instant Articles and news feed videos enter the new year with new perspective on the relationship they have with the world’s largest social platform.
#FakeLinks: This Is the Future of Link Building
What I’m about to share is going to be more popular than guest posting or utilising private blog networks to improve search engine rankings in 2018.
Startups & Tech
All the Ways Your Smartphone and Its Apps Can Track You
Here’s a guide to what gets collected by your smartphone and the apps running on it, and how you can take back some control.
Snap’s unusual structure led to a series of breakthroughs — but could it break the company?
Snap’s unusual structure led to a series of breakthroughs — but could it break the company?
Everything is too complicated
I love gadgets and am one of the few crazy people that think CES is incredibly fun, but I want to take a half-step back before it all begins and point out something obvious: most people have no idea how any of these things work, and are already hopelessly confused by the tech they have.
News
He Stole $100 Million From His Clients. Now He’s Living in Luxury on the Côte d’Azur
Rogue banker confessed to running a Ponzi scheme. But was he hiding a bigger crime?
Like a bullet to a gun, scientists can match a photo to the phone that took it
Like a bullet to a gun, scientists can match a photo to the phone that took it. It could lead to a new way to enhance security.
The End of Miss America
Crass emails from pageant leaders show this contest should be on its way out.
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