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Dr Seuss’s Surprising Strategy For Success
In 1960, two men made a bet. There was only $50 on the line, but millions of people would feel the impact of this little wager. The first man, Bennett Cerf, was the founder of the publishing firm,...
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Why You Shouldn’t Build a Billion-Dollar Startup
Entrepreneurs dream about building the next big billion-dollar company. But the Apple, Google, and Facebook-shaped stars in their eyes end up clouding their vision. It’s easy to get caught up...
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Forget About the Lone Creative Genius
At the design firm IDEO, you have to be cooperative or you won’t survive. Engineer and designer Jimmy Chion, for example, spent his first few months at IDEO going from designing “futuristic...
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Why You Will Gain Freedom with a Set Creativity Schedule
Ira Glass not only hosts the popular public radio show, This American Life, but also writes, edits, performs, produces, and manages. There’s plenty of work to keep him busy, which is why he confessed...
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Why You Should Always Write Down Your Bad Ideas
Most of Thomas Edison’s ideas were bad. At least they weren’t good enough to make it out of the laboratory. Or from the patent office to the product line. Thousands of ideas, never to see the light of...
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The Lemonade Stand Effect: Why Kids Love Being Entrepreneurs
At my elementary school, there was one particular day of the year that every kid looked foreword to. Kids loved it, lost their freaking minds over it actually. It was better than field day, better...
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How Distractions At Work Take Up More Time Than You Think
Make an estimate on how many times are you are distracted during an average work day. Now take that number and multiply it by 25. That’s how many minutes of concentration you’re losing. It takes an...
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How Noah Kagan Taught Me The Two Simplest Things About Planning Growth
Every field has “that guy.” Everyone in the industry knows of them and their work. Many secretly try to emulate them — or flat out copy them. They are the person crushing it. They are the person your...
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A scientific guide to creative juices [what they are and how to summon them]
Does this happen to you? It’s Friday and you’re sitting in an all-hands-on-deck staff meeting. The boss needs creative ideas for next quarter. “Concentrate!” You’re told. “Be creative!” You...
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Google Didn’t Get It Wrong: The Open-Office Trend Just Isn’t Right For Your...
First we had hunting, then farms, then factories. Then there were offices, with their doors and thick walls. Then cubicles, thinner and shorter walls and no doors. Today, no more walls. No more doors....
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Anatomy Of A Great Mission Statement
Richard Branson has a thing for mission statements. He likes them. He just thinks most of them suck. Most mission statements are full of blah truisms and are anything but inspirational. A company’s...
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Why Nature Should Be Part Of Your Working Space
What’s difference does your physical environment have on the work you do? Quite a bit. In a 2002 study, two groups of high school students were asked to spend some time making creative collages. One...
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Want To Get More Done? Make Communication Harder
Of all the problems the country faces, very few of them make their way to Oval Office. Yes, there are many problems for the president to solve. There is a lot on his plate. But for every one problem...
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Museum Hack’s Productivity Case Study
We developed IDoneThis to help teams become more productive, and to eliminate the need for time-consuming meetings. But some of our customers have found more creative ways to use us than we even...
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3 Project Management Methodologies That Create Better Work Culture
People like to dismiss project management methodologies (PMM) as frivolous techniques that won’t really improve their business’s productivity. While they’re wrong on that account, they actually miss...
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How to Make Sound Decisions About Your Product Design’s Future
Product design is all about tradeoffs—and when we designed I Done This 2.0, we had a lot to consider. We added new functionality, like blockers. But we also noticed a few patterns in our user behavior...
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How We Host Meetups
When we first started I Done This, getting to know our customers was easy. We also didn’t have a ton of customers. As our subscriber list grew, getting to know our new customers became challenging....
View Article7 Unconventional Co-Working Spaces That Are Raising Eyebrows
If you thought it was too early for the co-working industry to experience disruption, think again. A new breed of co-working spaces is emerging focusing first and foremost on the tenants’ interests,...
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How Distractions At Work Take Up More Time Than You Think
Make an estimate on how many times are you are distracted during an average work day. Now take that number and multiply it by 25. That’s how many minutes of concentration you’re losing. It takes an...
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A Scientific Guide to Summoning Your Creative Juices
Does this happen to you? It’s Friday, and you’re sitting in an all-hands-on-deck staff meeting. The boss needs creative ideas for next quarter. “Concentrate!” you’re told. “Be creative!” You...
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