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In a world where GPS is a thumb stroke away, most people take maps for granted. It's hard to fathom that the oldest surviving maps had little to do...
In ancient Greece, philosophers like Plato and Aristotle were already grappling with the notion of work-life balance. The latter described amusement...
Fresh or frozen? That was the million dollar question facing restaurateur Danny Meyer following a searing New York Times review. The local rag had...
Olympic relay races are the apex of collaboration. If one person falters, it impacts the whole team. When it comes to order, there's no hard-and-fast...
Bill Gates thinks you should hire lazy people. No, seriously. He famously said, "I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will...
A few years ago, on a family vacation, my wife and I took a cooking class. I like cooking, but I'm a novice at best — and the recipe, French...
Almost every morning, I force myself out of bed to hit the gym before work. On pitch-dark winter mornings, I can't help but feel like I'm going...
Early last year, two economists and two large language models chatted on a panel about the future of cognitive automation. The non-humans, ChatGPT and...
"No matter what's been going on, no matter what the mind's been stressed with right now, no matter how the body feels, just for a moment, [let] go of...
One of my sons has a colossal book of bedtime stories. Each night, we try to tackle a couple of them. I'm always amazed at how the takeaways of those...
I dipped one toe in the water and a sharp pain shot through my system. Knowing that I'd never be able to ease my way in, I quickly slid the rest of my...
I used to think of my commute as an opportunity to fully disconnect — to do anything but work. I'd listen to music or podcasts or get my daily...
On a Saturday afternoon in December, I was working on a puzzle with one of my sons. Every so often, he would get up, walk to the kitchen, open the...
History tends to mythologize entrepreneurial names in the tech world. We attribute to them black-and-white lifestyle characteristics, with very little...
I vividly remember when Microsoft rolled out Windows 95. Designed to actually look like a desktop, with icons for the Recycle Bin, Briefcase, Inbox...
In Walden, Henry David Thoreau observed that "We can never have enough of nature," and one of the things I love about working at Jotform's San...
The pandemic brought about sweeping changes in the workplace. One of the most counterintuitive findings was that for many companies, productivity...
Entrepreneurs are ever in search of ways of reducing the number of decisions they make, in part to save brain space for the "big stuff." Some thought...
The morning I decided to write this article, I sat at my desk at Jotform and opened a Google document in one browser, then used another to queue up an...
What's your competitive edge? Leaders should continually ask what goals they want to achieve.
"I love jet lag!" said no one ever. Well, that's not entirely true. Recently, a Washington Post contributor made a case for embracing jet lag, rather...
About writing, Ray Bradbury, author of Fahrenheit 451, once said, "You only fail if you stop." When I began my book Automate Your Busywork: Do Less,...
Lyndon B. Johnson was known for his histrionics — his customary reaction to minor pain or illness was "frantic" and "hysterical," wrote Robert Caro...
Each summer, I take a few weeks off as CEO of Jotform, travel to my family's farm in Turkey, and do my best to truly check out. Instead of tending to...
I had an epiphany about managing my overflowing email inbox while I was on vacation, of all places. For a while, I had been religiously adhering to...
I was gearing up for one of the most important performances of my life. It was my best friend's wedding, and I had the honor — and the anxiety —...
When I think back on my childhood in Turkey, I remember summers on the family farm, where my cousins and I would play outside for hours, inventing our...
In The Sports Gene, author David Epstein examines the 10,000-hour idea. Popularized by Malcolm Gladwell, the idea is that mastering anything requires,...
As a child, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart gave concerts in public venues and private dressing rooms. He performed in his family's apartment in London, where...
It was time to plan our family vacation. My wife had already chosen the destination. We'd bought our plane tickets, and our kids were thrilled. All...
In 1953, Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay became the first mountaineers to reach the summit of Mount Everest. Seventy years later, people travel from...
"The desire for desires" is how Leo Tolstoy once famously described boredom. Based on this quote, you'd think that the author of War and Peace viewed...
Picture this: You're in the middle of a new project at work and everything is just flowing. You're at the top of your productivity game — coming up...
352 times per day. That's the average frequency at which Americans check their smartphones — the equivalent of once every three minutes — and...
I imagine that to just about everyone, running a half marathon represents a challenge, but tackling a half marathon above the Arctic Circle while...