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Creativity Secrets From The Man Behind The “Sleep With Me” Podcast

Librarian and lifelong insomniac Drew Ackerman found a creative outlet for his storytelling skills: bedtime stories for grownups.

Librarian and lifelong insomniac Drew Ackerman found a creative outlet for his storytelling skills: bedtime stories for grownups.

Always-on technology and digital devices creeping into our bedrooms have turned all of us into insomniacs. It doesn’t help that we live in a culture that celebrates the “secret to success” as getting by on as little sleep as possible.

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How This Cloud-Based Security Tool Protected The Super Bowl From Hackers

ProtectWise says handling security analytics in the cloud lets it store more data and move faster than its competitors.

ProtectWise says handling security analytics in the cloud lets it store more data and move faster than its competitors.

When football fans checked their email and uploaded photos from Super Bowl 50 this year, the Denver-based security software startup ProtectWise was monitoring traffic from Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, California, for potential threats.

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Inside Apple And IBM’s App Making Machine

This is how the (unlikely) partnership actually works, as told by the people from both companies who manage it every day.

This is how the (unlikely) partnership actually works, as told by the people from both companies who manage it every day.

On a July day in 2014 some people from IBM and Apple got together in a room at Apple headquarters in Cupertino, California to start work on their recently announced business app creation partnership. The fact that the two companies were working together at all sounded a little unlikely; IBM, after all, was once cast in Apple mythology as the big, slow, and safe antithesis of everything Steve Jobs wanted his company to be. At least in the consumer space, the two were bitter rivals.

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What Elite Athletes Can Teach You About Being A Better Business Leader

Playing sports at an elite level requires commitment, humility, and perseverance—all necessary traits of great leaders.

Playing sports at an elite level requires commitment, humility, and perseverance—all necessary traits of great leaders.

Playing sports at an elite level requires commitment, humility, perseverance, and other attributes similar to those of great leaders. In fact, elite athletes can tell us a great deal about how to be better leaders, says Stan Beecham, author of Elite Minds: How Winners Think Differently to Create a Competitive Edge and Maximize Success.

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Can Armies Of Interns Close The Cybersecurity Skills Gap?

One company is tapping talent pipelines far outside Silicon Valley pretty much as soon as they’re built, but can it do that fast enough?

One company is tapping talent pipelines far outside Silicon Valley pretty much as soon as they’re built, but can it do that fast enough?

Cybercrime damages cost the world $3 trillion last year alone, according to a recent report from Cybersecurity Ventures, and that figure is expected to double by 2021, putting it on par with the current sum of U.S. corporate debt. This catastrophe will probably worsen before it improves. As smart-home technology spreads through the Internet of Things (IoT), a Security of Things (IoT) infrastructure will need to come with it.

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These Startup Founders Swear By The ROI Of Reading

For the executives of growing companies, devoting the time to read for a few hours a week adds value in more ways than one.

For the executives of growing companies, devoting the time to read for a few hours a week adds value in more ways than one.

Jessica Mah, the CEO of inDinero, a San Francisco-based accounting software startup, sees reading as so important to the growth of her company that she reads two books a week. Mah, one of Fast Company‘s Most Creative People, explains:

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Four Ways To Show Respect Without Overdoing It

Here’s what it takes to strike the right balance between being polite and seeming overly deferential.

Here’s what it takes to strike the right balance between being polite and seeming overly deferential.

It’s normal to err on the side of being respectful, especially if you’re at the earlier stages of your career, meeting new colleagues, or wooing a prospective client or hiring manager. No one wants to look presumptuous or too informal for the situation.

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