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 https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2022/04/triple-peak-day-work-from-home/629457/?utm_source=pocket&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=pockethits&cta=1&src=ph After two years of working from home, I don’t have one unified period of getting things done. I have several mini periods. Work isn’t a contiguous landmass of focus; it’s more like an archipelago of productivity amid a sea of chores, meals, mental breaks, and other responsibilities. In particular, I’ve noticed a new island of work at the end of the day. Sometime around 9 p.m., I’ll open my computer and see that I have about a dozen urgent-ish emails and Slack messages. So, while in front of the television or with a podcast playing in the background, I’ll spend a late-night hour or more replying to these messages, typing the same intro over and over: “Sorry for the delay …” “Oops, I missed this …” “Hey, just seeing that you …” Apparently I’m not alone. Last week, Microsoft published a study ...

 Arthur C Brooks “ How to Build a Life ” is a weekly column by Arthur Brooks, tackling questions of meaning and happiness. Click here to listen to his podcast series on all things happiness, How to Build a Happy Life . I n 2007, a group of researchers began testing a concept that seems, at first blush, as if it would never need testing: whether more happiness is always better than less. The researchers asked college students to rate their feelings on a scale from “unhappy” to “very happy” and compared the results with academic (GPA, missed classes) and social (number of close friends, time spent dating) outcomes. Though the “very happy” participants had the best social lives, they performed worse in school than those who were merely “happy.” The Atlantic Daily Every weekday evening, our editors guide you through the biggest stories of the day, help you discover new ideas, and surprise you with...

https://hbr.org/2022/04/what-the-best-presenters-do-differently?utm_source=pocket-newtab-intl-en by Carmine Gallo April 27, 2022 AlexSava/Getty Images Summary.    Our minds are wired for story. We think in narrative and enjoy consuming content in story form. So understanding the difference between presenting and storytelling is critical to a leader’s ability to engage an audience and move them to action. Unfortunately, ... According to Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, villagers would come from far and wide to hear Abraham Lincoln, then a prairie lawyer with a gift for storytelling. Lincoln didn’t have the benefit of modern technology. He stood on a tree stump instead of a TED stage, and PowerPoint wouldn’t be invented for another 130 years. And yet Lincoln “could simultaneously educate, entertain, and move ...

https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/423447?utm_source=pocket-newtab-intl-en Reading isn't the only way to improve your ability to learn. By Aytekin Tank April 29, 2022 Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. In grade school, I was taught that learning came from studious labor, the discipline of memorization and retention of facts. I carried this same mindset with me into college and later into my first job as a junior programmer.  It wasn’t until years later when I became an entrepreneur that I came across a quote by author Josh Waitzkin that completely changed my perspective. “The key to pursuing excellence is to embrace an organic, long-term learning process, and not to live in a shell of static, safe mediocrity,” he wrote. “Usually, growth comes at the expense of previous comfort or safety.” Sinc...

  4 Technologies Driving The Green Hydrogen Revolution | World Economic Forum (weforum.org) Green hydrogen – produced using renewable energy – currently accounts for just 0.1% of global hydrogen production. But it's a powerful bet for solving renewables' intermittency problem and decarbonizing heavy industry. Scaling up  green hydrogen  does present challenges – but modern digital technology could provide some of the answers. Here's how. The potential of green hydrogen to plug the intermittency of solar and wind whilst burning like natural gas and serving as feedstock in industrial chemical processes has piqued the interest of businesses, governments and investors. Green hydrogen is produced through electrolysis, a process that separates water into hydrogen and oxygen, using electricity generated from renewable sources. Today it accounts for just  0.1%  of global hydrogen production. However, the declining costs of both renewable electricity (accounting for ~70%...

  The economy is presently encountering a bit of a turbulence . Since fuel prices have skyrocketed due to the Ukrainian crisis , a shortage of fuel is leading to inflation . My reading is that excess money supply in the economy is not leading to this , as there is a school of thought which believes that drop in interest rates during COVID led to this , which was primarily meant to kick start the economy .   Since mass sentiments have changed rapidly to hike in interest rates by 40 bps , many folks are moving money out of the stock market and into fixed interest instruments . This is leading to drop in the prices of many bluechip companies , which is helping these to be available now at very affordable rates. This may be a good opportunity to invest in these great companies available now at very attractive valuations.   You can invest in large cap funds like Franklin or SBI Blue Chip or their equivalent or buy straight into equities like Hindustan Unilever , Nestle , HDFC ...

https://www.fastcompany.com/90742937/how-to-use-daily-quadrants-to-get-more-done-each-day?utm_source=pocket-newtab-intl-en By Stephanie Vozza Creating a to-do list can be a useful tool for organizing your day by defining what you need to accomplish. However, when you do those tasks is critical, because it can impact how well you complete them, says Donna McGeorge, author of The 1 Day Refund: Take Back Time, Spend it Wisely . “Pay attention to the clock in your body, not just the one on the wall,” she says. “Human beings have circadian rhythms. We were designed for mental alertness in the morning and physical dexterity in the afternoon. That’s just how the body clock works.” Instead of randomly tackling to-dos, McGeorge breaks up the day into four quadrants, each lasting about two hours. And each quadrant can be an ideal time to tackling different types of work. The first quadrant The first two hours of the day are for high intensity, high-impact work. These tasks are the most...