Education
6 Self-Improvement Hacks to Instantly Improve the Way You Live and Work
Not only will these make you happier, you'll also notice an increase in personal well-being and productivity at work. If you're looking to improve your life, I'd like to share some useful activities -- backed by science -- that can be done in as little as a few minutes per day. Others [...]
The Top 5 Photography Tips For Absolute Beginners
Photography is one of the hardest things I’ve ever studied — even harder than programming or learning how to write well, if you can believe it. Not that pointing a camera and pressing a button is difficult, of course. What’s difficult is getting a shot to match your vision. It’s [...]
10 Tips To Learn Any Language From An Expert
Are you struggling to pick up a second language (or a third, or a fourth)? Here’s some advice from Matthew Youlden, a Babbelonian who speaks nine languages. Let this master guide you through the easy and fun way to learn any language. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-tTFKra3Ik&feature=youtu.be Matthew Youlden speaks nine languages [...]
10 Books for Dad to Make You Feel Closer
From history buffs, to science nerds, to puzzle aficionadas, book-loving dads will cherish these reads that will give you both something to talk about. Beartown Do you and your father bond over sports? Then give him the latest bestseller from Swedish author Frederik Backman (A Man Called Ove), about the Bears of [...]
6 Professional Development (PD) Reads You Shouldn’t Miss
We asked about the professional development books you’d recommend to your teacher friends. Here are the six that stood out. In May we used our Facebook and Instagram feeds to ask, “What books would you recommend to your teacher friends this summer?” We expected to round up five to 10 [...]
How to Memorize More and Faster Than Other People
People like to joke that the only thing you really “learn” in school is how to memorize. As it turns out, that’s not even the case for most of us. If you go around the room and ask a handful of people how to memorize things quickly and how to [...]