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Dropbox Blog

The Working World: How Estonia's digital society is creating a haven for startups and entrepreneurs

In Estonia, remote work isn’t a just a perk for employees. It’s essential for the employers.

TED

How to turn off work thoughts during your free time

Feeling burned out? You may be spending too much time ruminating about your job, says psychologist Guy Winch. Learn how to …

Forbes

The Real Reasons Why Job Seekers Are Not Given Feedback

All the niceties and politeness are gone. You will now only hear from human resources if they want to move forward with you; …

Pete Codes

Three weeks accommodation in Berlin for $80 by house sitting

A friend last year told me about this house sitting website which sounded too good to be true. For $80 a year you can house …

David Perell

Coolest Things I Learned in 2019

I write a weekly email called the Monday Musings.

The most popular part of the newsletter is a section called “Coolest …

Reddit

What is your biggest digital nomad learning of 2019?

Something you didn’t see coming?

Something that might help someone else thinking about nomading for the first time or …

Harvard Business Review

Why It's So Hard to Change People's Commuting Behavior

Some employers are trying to get involved and reduce car commuting. But how can organizations encourage their employees to …

Zain Amro

Working for a startup makes less sense

Today, there’s an interesting startup dilemma that has become more obvious in the collective consciousness of tech …

Recode

The productivity pit: how Slack is ruining work

Job software like Teams, Slack, and Workplace were supposed to make us more productive. They haven’t.

The New York Times

Vermont, Oklahoma and Now Topeka, Kan., Want You

Topeka, the state capital of Kansas, is the latest community to use money to lure out-of-towners.

Andrew Montalenti

Work is a Queue of Queues

Do you ever get that feeling like no matter how hard you work, you just can’t keep up?

BBC

How busyness leads to bad decisions

When we’re under pressure our mental bandwidth narrows – and that means we focus on the wrong tasks. So what’s …

The New York Times

How to Move Abroad

Millions of Americans move overseas every year, some for love, some for jobs and others to embrace new cultures. Here’s …

The Rainforest Blog

A guide to running offsites for remote companies

Rainforest QA is a distributed team. We have been distributed for seven years, with have Rainforesters all over the world and …

CNN

How to travel without destroying the planet

“Greening” our vacations – making travel more sustainable without relinquishing it entirely – is one …

General Catalyst

Going Distributed: Choosing the Right Remote-Friendly Team Model

This is part one in a “how-to” series for building effective distributed teams. We’ve compiled advice from …

Collaborative Fund

How to Read: Lots of Inputs and a Strong Filter

My reading strategy is to start as many books as I can but finish few of them.

NoDesk

Weekly Remote Jobs

This week’s NoDesk remote jobs newsletter features 35 new remote jobs.

CNN

New airplane seat design will make it easier to sleep in economy

Who hasn’t struggled to sleep on an airplane economy seat, forced to improvise a makeshift pillow out of a rolled up …

Hacker News

What mistakes did you make when starting as a consultant/freelancer?

What was the specific mistake, what did you learn from it, and how did you change the way you do business as a result?

Ambition & Balance - by Doist

How Entrepreneur and Tech Diversity Advocate Tracy Chou Gets Things Done

In this productivity profile, Tracy walks us through her typical workday as a tart-up founder leading a distributed team. She …

MIT Sloan Management Review

Learning for a Living

Learning at work is work, and we must make space for it.

The New York Times Magazine

Does Who You Are at 7 Determine Who You Are at 63?

In 1964, with “Seven Up!” Michael Apted stumbled into making what has become the most profound documentary series …

SitePoint

The Real Future of Remote Work is Asynchronous

While there are still limitations with asynchronous communication and remote work in general, I believe we will see a huge …

The Guardian

Blue spaces: why time spent near water is the secret of happiness

Coastal environments have been shown to improve our health, body and mind. So should doctors start issuing nature-based …

Paul Graham

The Lesson to Unlearn

The most damaging thing you learned in school wasn’t something you learned in any specific class. It was learning to …

The Wall Street Journal

Sicilian Homes Went Up for Auction Starting at €1. More Than 100,000 People Called.

As rural populations wane, mayors are auctioning off abandoned homes, with Americans among the takers.

Our World in Data

The rise of living alone: how one-person households are becoming increasingly common around the world

In the US, the share of adults who live alone nearly doubled over the last 50 years. This is not only happening in the US: …

The New York Times

How Spices Have Made, and Unmade, Empires

From turmeric in Nicaragua to cardamom in Guatemala, nonnative ingredients are redefining trade routes and making unexpected …