Advice for folks in tech who are at the beginning or middle of building their careers: Focus on weak ties. Once you’ve got let’s say ~100 diverse relationships within the tech community you’re probably a single hop from most people you don’t already know. 

“The cornerstone of great leadership is authenticity. Leaders ask us to believe, to give more, to sacrifice. To trust a leader, his or her leadership must be genuine, a true reflection of their strengths, values and culture. Leaders can engender that trust in many different ways, leading from the front or the back, provided their authenticity is apparent.”

“If you are a fan of Tim Ferriss like I am you will be blown away by his recent podcast episode with the one and only Seth Godin. It’s one of the best episodes in the last 6 months by Tim, HANDS DOWN and there are so many lessons that every entrepreneur NEEDS to know.

I listened to it right when it came out, again the day after and have now gone back to it 5x’s because of all the gems in there. In the last week I took a bunch of notes, did research around the topics, read a ton of more stuff from other people diving deeper on these lessons and then decided I needed to share this with other people that love this stuff like I do. This is how this post came to be.”

“People who are more isolated than they want to be from others find that they are less happy, their health declines earlier in midlife, their brain functioning declines sooner and they live shorter lives than people who are not lonely,” Waldinger said in his TedTalk. “And good, close relationships seem to buffer us from some of the slings and arrows of getting old.”

It is still a long ways off, but we just moved one step closer to a true cancer vaccine.

Scientists deprived a group of study participants of different amounts of sleep. Some got a full night’s sleep, others got their hours of sleep cut down, and some got no sleep whatsoever. After a while, the slightly-deprived people were as bad off as the people who had gotten no sleep. The difference was, they didn’t know it.

Veritas Genetics was one of the first companies to sequence the entire human genome for less than $1,000 in 2015. It’s now taken that technology a step further by delivering the results of your entire genome in an app.

FastCompany culled the best practices of leaders of all types of organizations to learn how they make better decisions.

“If we live in a world of crisis,” she continues, “we also live in a world that romanticizes crisis—that finds in it fodder for an addiction to the twenty-four-hour news cycle, multiple information streams, and constant stimulation.” Samet believes that our growing addiction to the narrative of crisis has gone hand in hand with an increasing veneration of leadership—a veneration that leaves us vulnerable to “the false prophets, the smooth operators, the gangsters, and the demagogues” who say they can save us.

Too much teamwork exhausts employees and saps productivity. Here’s how to avoid it. 

Fantastic 50 minute video on applying LEAN and Agile concepts to your team to speed them up. Bob Gower makes fantastic analogies that help leaders communicate core concepts.  Highly recommended for managers and leaders. 

An in-depth look at why we choose to retain ownership of Hubstaff and remain bootstrapped instead of accepting investment offers.

Flight, 3D printed furniture, deleteable walls - Here are just some of the things the next hundred years has to offer our homes.

One could argue that technology is changing our world so fast that the very edge of what we can each imagine is no longer science fiction but rather is quite possibly something we will be achieved within decades. Change is for certain. And the next twenty-two years are sure to be a wild ride.

Exclusive new data shows how debt, unemployment and property prices have combined to stop millennials taking their share of western wealth