epub |eng | 2011-01-25 | Author:Harry Beckwith [BECKWITH, HARRY]

How the New Gets Old: The Ocean That Stopped Roaring On the evening of Friday, January 26, 1968, Jeff Greendorfer and his college roommate arrived at his roommate’s home on ...

epub |eng | 2010-09-13 | Author:Nick Bilton [Bilton, Nick]

For More Details, Click Here … What happens when we’re online that keeps the brain so busy? The online experience isn’t simple or controlled; it’s like the Wild West. The ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2014-02-11 | Author:Christian Madsbjerg & Mikkel B. Rasmussen [Madsbjerg, Christian & Rasmussen, Mikkel B.]

FIVE The Turnaround Lego IT’S A DREARY LATE FALL day in Billund, Denmark. In a town of around six thousand people and a handful of stoplights, one would expect a ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2013-06-01 | Author:Jay Baer

Dan Deacon Turns Fans into Part of the Show Youtility isn’t all business. “For the first time, having your phone out at a concert is not a jerk move,” says ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2010-05-31 | Author:Ariely, Dan [Ariely, Dan]

Consider the story of Andrew Potok, a blind writer who lives in Vermont. Potok was a gifted painter who gradually began losing his sight to an inherited eye disease, retinitis ...

epub |eng | 2013-03-21 | Author:Adam Alter [Alter, Adam]

Cultural Maladies The insecurities that produce aggressive displays of masculinity in some cultures also inspire culture-specific maladies that affect isolated pockets of the population. Anorexia nervosa sufferers who restrict their ...

epub |eng | | Author:Gladwell, Malcolm

FOUR The Power of Context (Part One) BERNIE GOETZ AND THE RISE AND FALL OF NEW YORK CITY CRIME On December 22, 1984, the Saturday before Christmas, Bernhard Goetz left ...

epub |eng | 2011-03-25 | Author:Gary Vaynerchuk

Extend the Conversation If you were on a date, and there was some serious chemistry, you wouldn’t let it end at the restaurant. You’d probably suggest continuing your conversation over ...

epub |eng | 2012-04-24 | Author:Kelsey Timmerman [Timmerman, Kelsey]

It’s 5 PM, and the workers stream out of the space between the retractable gate and the guard building in front of the factory. The majority of them cross the ...

epub |eng | 2011-07-25 | Author:Steve Stoute

The Sound and Rhythm of Sports During my initiation into the field of marketing it had been my observation that a lot of the men and women working in creative ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2011-05-12 | Author:Eli Pariser

The Invisible Campaign When George W. Bush came out of the 2000 election with far fewer votes than Karl Rove expected, Rove set in motion a series of experiments in ...

mobi |eng | 2006-06-06 | Author:Clotaire Rapaille

WHAT’S COOKING? ANYTHING? Like the need for shelter, the biological scheme for dinner is fundamental: all human beings need nourishment. But what is the continuum between the biological requirement to ...

mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2008-03-03 | Author:Dan Ariely

Reflections on the Challenges of Ownership In 2007 and 2008, home values across America plummeted as fast as George W. Bush’s approval ratings. Each month brought with it more bad ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2013-05-13 | Author:Dunn, Elizabeth & Norton, Michael [Dunn, Elizabeth]

Agent: Are you here for work or pleasure? Mike: Work. No, pleasure! I mean, part work and part pleasure, you know, like some of each. Agent: (long pause) And what ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2006-05-01 | Author:Daniel Gilbert

Onward Historians use the word presentism to describe the tendency to judge historical figures by contemporary standards. As much as we all despise racism and sexism, these isms have only ...