Staying focused on the right things can make all the difference.
There are three skills you need to be financially successful: making money, keeping money, growing money. James Altucher is mostly only good at making money.
These Are The Mind Tricks Restaurants Use To Make You Spend More Money
Be suspicious of the menu design, and other tips from restaurant industry insiders.
When you make decisions at a restaurant, you’re exercising your own free will: True or false?
Why Women Are Turning To “Blowtox” Injections To Preserve Their Hairdos
Undergoing a medical procedure to prevent sweating during exercise might sound ridiculous—but it’s not all about the hair.
Jeannel Astarita has long, thick hair that gets frizzy when she sweats. It takes her 40 minutes to blow dry it and another 20 minutes to curl it, and she’ll go to great lengths to avoid this routine. That used to mean skipping workouts after work and weekend bike rides with her husband.
This SAT Prep Platform Works On Motivation As Much As Content Knowledge
Testive’s tech and coaching model focus on getting students to do what they’d rather put off.
While college entrance exams are now optional for some schools, and the status of the tests has flagged amid discussions of bias and limited predictive value, the SAT and ACT are still important elements of the college admissions process. The belief that it’s in college-bound kids’ best interest to get the highest score they can has resulted in a multibillion-dollar test-prep industry that more than doubled in size between 1998 and 2012. When the SAT changes in January 2016 (it’s going back to two sections and 1,600 points, among other revisions), there’s sure to be extra demand to be on top of the new test.
Support For Entrepreneurs May End Up On The UN’s Next Agenda
Elizabeth Gore is spearheading a campaign to build a worldwide support network for new businesses for the next 15 years.
As the world prepares to create 600 million new jobs by a deadline of 2020, Dell entrepreneur in residence Elizabeth Gore is trying to put entrepreneur support on the UN’s official agenda for the next 15 years.
This Simple Video Explains How Easy (And Cheap!) It Is To Install Bike Lanes–Without Slowing Traffic
Care for the “3-to-2” road diet? Or how about an old “4-to-2” instead? This video shows all the innovative ways you can make room for bikes on the road.
Bike lanes encourage people to cycle more (which is good for their health), boost revenue at stores along the route, and even cut traffic congestion. So, how do we get more bike lanes?
Free Reddit Check Tests Your Online Self For Terribleness
Misogyny. Racism. Reddit can be a bad place. Has it rubbed off on you?
It was the most nervous I’ve been on the Internet in a long time. I barely use Reddit. And when I do, it’s not exactly to share virtual high fives at recently defunct cesspools of racism like #coontown. But typing my username into FreeRedditCheck, knowing that it was about to scan years of my Reddit history and assign me a percentage score for “Terrible.” Bloggers have weird browsing histories, okay?
How Goodwill Is Refining Its Stores To Appeal To A Wider Audience
The charity organization has been opening stylish, well-curated boutique stores in affluent areas in an effort to expand their retail operation.
Upon entering Rare, a boutique in Anaheim, California, customers are greeted with chicly dressed mannequins and standing racks full of designer clothing. Vintage furniture is arranged in a lounge area in the corner, below a cluster of hanging succulents. In the back of the store, behind a set of very DIY-looking book shelves that double as a reading area, a sign printed on a wall of stacked books boasts, “We are anything but ordinary. We are Rare.”
An Ex-Apple Engineer Takes On The Furniture Industry With Couches You Can FedEx
Campaign, a Bay Area startup, yanks buying furniture into the 21st century.
Brad Sewell—formerly a design and manufacturing engineer at Apple—thinks we’re buying furniture all wrong. The problems, as Sewell told Co.Design, lie in high shipping costs, lengthy shipping time, and crappy materials that won’t hold up over the years. His company Campaign, which launched this week, seeks to upend the way we think about our furniture.
New Installation Invades Central London With 100,000 Balloons
Charles Pétillon’s Heartbeat looks like a giant cumulonimbus cloud hovering above visitors’ heads at London’s Covent Garden.
Paris-based artist Charles Pétillon has a reputation for filling abandoned spaces with ethereal balloon formations. For his first installation in a public space and his largest undertaking to date, Heartbeat, he injects London’s lively and historic Covent Garden with 100,000 hovering white balloons.
