The value of your story in finding your people — You may never own a pair of J’s, though there’s a chance you’ll know Michael Jordan’s story. You may not have heard one of Amanda Palmer songs, though you may know of her stories with crowdfunding. You may not watch Oprah, and you might still know her as a billionaire…

What you miss if you don’t throw in the towel — I recently posted my friend Vin’s blog post at Hacker News, where it sparked a lot of discussion. In particular, one comment by rcme stood out to me: I find a lot of people who should quit don’t. Their taste becomes compromised and they fall in love with their own…

#3. “I don’t believe in titles, I believe in work.” — Virgil Abloh — Here are 8 lessons, and accompanying quotes, from Virgil Abloh to offer a different perspective in how you approach your creative work: 1. Don’t wait to get chosen; start where you are, and do it yourself When Virgil and Kanye interned at Fendi in 2009, the fashion world wasn’t ready to give them a real chance yet… Both of them knew better than to…

The type of reading you practice will influence your memory — Over a century ago, German psychologist Hermann Ebbinghaus put forward a theory on how quickly people forget information when no attempts are made to retrieve it. Here’s what the curve looks like:

That meeting will be an email (or blog post) — Remote companies are going to draw in the most talented people. As teams grow, they also need to spend more time maintaining communication. …

The majority of experienced developers who responded to this thread applied for a job or joined a company after learning more about it at a corporate engineering blog. u/improbablywronghere wrote, “Finding a blog post from a company is like you an interviewer at some company finding a public GitHub repo…

#2: Let doubt or looking dumb stop you from trying — Most people think about creativity as a mystical trait; creativity is something you’re either born with, or not. You have it, or you don’t. As a close student and practitioner of creativity, in my book Creative Doing and interviews, I constantly debunk this myth. I make the case that everybody…

#2: Stop judging your own work — As an author of a book on creativity, I spend a lot of time discussing creativity with people who want to be more creative. They’ll say things like: “I had some bad experiences as a child, and that made me feel like I wasn’t creative. I’ve always been interested in…

“If you have writer’s block, you’re not reading enough.” Nikki Giovanni — I first started writing because I love reading. I read a fair amount; I write a newsletter where I recommend three books each month to thousands of people. Outside of the Best of Books newsletter, I’ve reviewed books for Lifehacker and written about reading for Business Insider. Naturally, these experiences…