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Why you should always under-promise and over-deliver

Mar30
by on March 30, 2014 at 4:00 pm
Posted In: Analysis and Opinion, Around the Web, Entrepreneur, LifeHacks

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Andrea Ayres-Deets is the Lead Writer at ooomf, an invite-only network connecting short-term software projects with handpicked developers and designers. Andrea writes about psychology, creativity, and business over on the ooomf blog. “Sure boss, I can have that article to you in two hours.” That’s an unnaturally short period of time. I knew it, my boss knew it—yet here we were—both agreeing to this farce. Two hours later I had produced not an article, but random words thrown into a document with some pictures. I shot him an e-mail with the subject line: Here! Is this okay?! Can fix if needed… Meanwhile, I’d anxiously…

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5 things every beginning Android app developer should know

Mar30
by on March 30, 2014 at 3:00 pm
Posted In: Analysis and Opinion, Around the Web, Design & Dev

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Gil Dudkiewicz is the CEO of StartApp, a mobile advertising platform. The world has entered a mobile age, and the app industry is booming as a result. Worth $53 billion in 2012, the global app economy is expected to grow to $143 billion by 2016. Everyone wants a piece of the digital pie, but few mobile app developers are armed with the facts. Every app is just one drop in the vast ocean of the app store. If you want to stand out and have a chance of building a profitable user base, there are a few things you should…

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The wellness trifecta: Tech resources to optimize your diet, sleep, and fitness

Mar30
by on March 30, 2014 at 1:00 pm
Posted In: Analysis and Opinion, Around the Web, LifeHacks, Roundups

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Ari Meisel is a serial entrepreneur and the author of ”Less Doing, More Living: Make Everything in Life Easier.” No matter how technologically efficient you become, if you aren’t sleeping or eating well, and you have too much stress, there is a limit to how effective you can be. That’s why wellness is the cornerstone of my productivity system, Less Doing. I see optimal health as a triangle with sleep, nutrition, and fitness at the points and supplements in the middle. You need all of these elements and in you have to apply limited resources to the entire triangle. For example, if…

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