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Breaking bad habits: What we can learn from Vietnam War veterans and their heroin addictions

Nov09
by on November 9, 2014 at 6:30 pm
Posted In: Analysis and Opinion, Around the Web, How-To's, Insider, LifeHacks

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James Clear writes about using behavioral science to master your habits and improve your health. His free guide, Transform Your Habits, has been downloaded more than 80,000 times. This post originally appeared on his blog. It was 1971 and the Vietnam War was heading into its 16th year when two congressmen, Robert Steele from Connecticut and Morgan Murphy from Illinois, made a discovery that stunned the American public. While visiting the troops in Vietnam, the two congressmen discovered that over 15 percent of US soldiers had developed an addiction to heroin. (Later research, which tested every American soldier in Vietnam for heroin addiction,…

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7 indispensable (and free!) website graders and content scores

Nov09
by on November 9, 2014 at 4:00 pm
Posted In: Analysis and Opinion, Around the Web, Design & Dev, Social Media

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This post originally appeared on the Buffer blog. You can audit your content in many ways—be it a quick-and-simple social media audit or a full-scale blog review. You can take the time to run the numbers yourself (a useful exercise!), or you can plug a URL into I’m the type to always plug our Buffer blog URL into a tool to get feedback. If it’s free and simple, count me in. I’ve bookmarked several of my favorites and dug up a handful of other useful graders and tools to come up with the 12 website graders, content scores, and social…

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Last chance: Enter our giveaway to win a new iPhone 6

Nov09
by on November 9, 2014 at 2:30 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Gadgets, Offers

Apple’s iPhone 6 represents the cutting edge in mobile device technology and manufacturing. Available in two sizes and featuring new Retina HD displays, the lightning-fast 64-bit A8 processor for faster performance and improved battery life, and the groundbreaking iSight camera that shoots 1080p video at 60fps and 240fps for slow-motion, it’s the perfect device to fit into your life. We loved the iPhone 6 Plus, as you can see in our review — now, you can get your very own iPhone 6 or iPhone 6 Plus in our giveaway — no purchase necessary! Just visit the Giveaway page and submit…

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How quitting email helped my company communicate better

Nov09
by on November 9, 2014 at 2:00 pm
Posted In: Analysis and Opinion, Around the Web, Entrepreneur, Insider

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Max Nalsky is the founder and CEO of Pyrus, the workplace communication platform. We operate in a world of inboxes. Everyone has his or her collection of points where other people can touch them — email, Facebook, Twitter, Skype – the list goes on. It’s easily overwhelming, and we are cursed with options when it comes to communicating with people nowadays. We can’t get rid of these various means of interaction, and we can’t even choose just one. But we can choose a default that we pay the most attention to. For most, this default inbox is email. After all, email…

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