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If you only read one thing.
- Slightly rambling, but very insightful: Why the world of PR is changing | Alistair Campbell
Management.
- Storytelling will be the number one business skill of the next five years | Shane Snow
- Why I left Google: thoughts on trading in pride and security for authenticity | Ellen Huerta
- Is there really such a thing as a ‘workaholic’? | The Atlantic
Innovation.
- 57 startup lessons | Slava Akhmechet, Cofounder of RethinkDB
- How does a company like Google continue to grow exponentially while still staying innovative? | Susan Wojcicki, Google’s Senior Vice President of Advertising
Data and technology.
- A protected Twitter account is not a top-secret Twitter account | Tom Scott
- Seriously, back up your content. | The House Of Lockwood
Insights.
- Why are there so many TV recaps? The rise of a cottage industry, episode by episode | WSJ
- High culture goes hands-on: cultural institutions feel the pressure to offer a “participatory experience” | NYT
- “The perfect customer is dissatisfied but hopeful, uninterested in serious personal development, highly habituated to the television, working full-time, earning a fair amount, indulging during their free time, and somehow just getting by.” | Raptitude
- Planning a Kickstarter campaign? Read this first | The Next Web
- Researchers debunk myth of ‘right-brained’ and ‘left-brained’ personality traits | Science Daily (we knew it).
- New jobs people will have in 2025 | CoExist
- Make brand sustainability resonate with consumers | CoExist
Creativity.
- Things emerging writers need to learn | Missouri Review
- The revolution will be listicled: why this supposed content fad may have actually taken over for good | Content Strategist
STW Group news.
- Have you ever felt like a hack, asks Izzy Matias – Senior Designer at The White Agency
On Nextness this week.
- Beware the big new idea by Sven Baker, Group CEO Designworks.
OMG | cool | wow.
- BlinkLink: A link that disappears after a certain number of people have seen it.
- Batched Inbox: Schedule your email around your workflow, not your workflow around your email.
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