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NoHQ

Sid Sijbrandij: "People don't want to commute; they just don't want to miss out"

We’re remote because people stopped showing up. In the beginning, there was no office because it was me in the …

Paul Jarvis

Do we have to love our work?

Passion or love doesn’t have to be part of the work/job equation. The value of work is that you get paid to do it, not …

Tim Harford

The curious economics of being ripped off on holiday

Travellers are well used to these: the strange cover charge in the tourist-trap restaurant; the outrageous price of the hotel …

Nautilus

This Simple Structure Unites All Human Languages

Human language is amazingly creative. If you make up a sentence of any complexity, and search for that exact sentence on the …

Reddit

Why I won't use Airbnb again

So a couple weeks ago, we had a pretty ridiculous fiasco with Airbnb, in which they claimed that “A fan legally …

BBC

Why 'flight shame' is making people swap planes for trains

The flight shame movement is about feeling accountable for your carbon footprint

• but it is also about rediscovering the joy …

The Wall Street Journal

Your Parents' Financial Advice Is (Kind Of) Wrong

The personal-finance playbook followed by past generations doesn’t add up for many people the way it used to. …

Our World in Data

Talent is everywhere, opportunity is not. We are all losing out because of this.

The world needs ideas and innovation to make progress against the many problems we face. Creative and talented people that …

Forge

The Correct Way to Email

It’s still the best way to communicate professionally, but only if you follow these guidelines.

The Costa Rica Star

Costa Rica Work From Home Bill Signed Into Law

President Carlos Alvarado has officially signed the work-from-home bill into law, which allows telecommuting as an …

Elemental

Dancing May Be the Best Form of Exercise

The trouble with exercise is that it’s easy to avoid. Only 23% of American adults meet the federal recommendations for …

The New York Times

Company Socializing Has Become Work: Two words: Mandatory. Fun.

In the era of the virtual office, when even workers who are physically present often wall off their senses with oversized …

Hacker News

Cons of Being on a Remote/Distributed Team?

I know there are plenty of benefits of working remote such as flexibility. I would love to know about some of the issues you …

The Onion

Working In General Vicinity For 8 Hours A Day Misinterpreted As Friendship

Saying he had wholly misread his office mate’s mild, occasional interest in talking to him, sources confirmed Monday …

The New York Times

Young People Are Going to Save Us All From Office Life

Gen Z-ers and millennials have been called lazy and entitled. Could they, instead, be among the first to understand the …

Reddit

Digital nomads, what's your end game?

Are you planning on traveling until you find somewhere you want to live forever, or will you eventually return to your home …

Quartz

Photographer removes our smartphones to show our strange and lonely new world

Are you reading this on a handheld device? There’s a good chance you are. Now imagine how’d you look if that …

Bloomberg

More Robots Mean 120 Million Workers Need to be Retrained

More than 120 million workers globally will need retraining in the next three years due to artificial intelligence’s …

The Startup

The Rise of "Remote Working"

This means that companies are now in a position, if they choose, to give any worker the choice of whether they want to do …

Open Blog

How to Create A Remote Work Routine That Works

In this post I’ll share the four biggest lessons I’ve learned on how to create remote work spaces and routines …

The New York Times

An Open Letter (and a Rant) on Age Discrimination at Work

One writer, in his 50s, has applied to more than 100 jobs. And a second has had it up to her silver bob with younger …

Forge

To Do Better Work, Change Your Environment

How to find your ideal space for focus, collaboration, or creativity.

McSweeney's

Our Open-Plan Office Failed, So We're Moving to a Towering Panopticon

Good news! In response to your “concerns” about our current open-plan creative campus, we are pleased to announce …

Up and to the Right

Journaling

Many of my anxieties, worries, and decisions tend to get warped, distorted, and intermixed in my mind as I sit there mulling …

The Guardian

Underpopulated Italian region offers visitors €25,000 to move in

An underpopulated region in southern Italy is offering newcomers €700 per month for three years to live in one of its …

The Conversation

Why I quit my day job researching happiness and started cycling to Bhutan

I’d had enough. It was October 2017, and I’d been wondering what the point of my job was for far too long, and …

First Round Review

40 Favorite Interview Questions from Some of the Sharpest Folks We Know

What follows is an exclusive list of 40 interview questions, sent to us by the sharpest folks we’ve met or just …

Reddit

What's the very best thing you ever invested in for life on the road?

For me it was my camera, what have you bought that made your travellers life easier/more fruitful?

AVC

Scaling In Lower Cost Locations

I feel that the ability to spin up and then successfully operate remote engineering locations is a skill that technology …