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If you only read one thing.
- On smarm: now “snark” is frowned upon, but sanctimony and conflict aversion might be even worse, argues Tom Scocca in this week’s most talked-about essay | Gawker
Management.
- Happy workaholics need boundaries, not “balance” | HBR
- Find balance over your years, not your days | Raptitude
- Career advice: “it’s better to be running towards things than away from things” | Dave Trott
- Never heard of it: “I had started noticing a habit I had, a tendency to nod or make vague assentive noises when people around me talked about things I’d never heard of” | A List Apart
Innovation.
- “I feel like every day I’m out of the office I’m falling behind.” Inside the mind of venture capitalist Marc Andreessen | Fortune Management
Data and technology.
- A profile of Yahoo’s Melissa Mayer | Vanity Fair
- How much does it cost to develop an app? The true price of starting from scratch | The Next Web
Insights.
- Letting go: six secrets from Google’s BrandLab | Google’s Think Insights
- How not to say the wrong thing in a crisis | LA Times
- 30 things brands should stop doing in 2014 | Digiday
- The difference between content marketing, native advertising and brand journalism | Contently
Creativity.
- The dutch-elm disease of creative minds. “I have inadvertently allowed my inner critic to become the writer in residence of my very soul” | NYT
- Fourteen screenwriters on how they write | NYT Magazine
- How sleep makes your mind more creative | Mindhacks
- How do you enjoy yourself? Learning the eight conditions of flow | Sideways Thoughts
OMG | cool | wow.
- Aesop have provided their customers with a beautifully-designed reading list.
- New Yorker critic and fiesty tweeter Emily Nussbaum’s best television of 2013.
- Eyeglass brand Warby Parker’s blog is very good.
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