Quote of the day
Once you get the person to stop yelling, you say, “What would you like me to do?”It moves them from their dinosaur brain to their cortex, and then negotiating is possible.
~DR. ALBERT J. BERNSTEIN, author of Am I The Only Sane One Working Here?
AGING
Let us enjoy the greatest human escape of all [The Great Escape: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality
], FT
LEARNING
Distraction is no longer a barrier for learning, Gizmodo
BUSINESS
Amazon says 10 million new customers tried Prime over the holidays, The Verge
PSYCHOLOGY
How to make difficult conversations easy [Dinosaur Brains
, Am I The Only Sane One Working Here?
, Emotional Vampires
], Barking up the wrong tree
CAREERS
The death of the artist–and the birth of the creative entrepreneur [Excellent Sheep]
, The Atlantic
ENTERTAINMENT
There are way too many ‘Best of 2014’ Lists, Five Thirty Eight
NEW YORK
They say art is dead in New York. They’re wrong, NYT
Have a great Tuesday!