SUMMARY Your brain single handedly defines who you are and how you experience the world. But do you know your brain does this? How it actually works? As I’ve been digging into recent brain research and learning more and more, it amazes me how much information is out there that is not proactively shared with [...]
Lately, I have been obsessed with understanding how our brain works. For the last 2-3 months, I have been spending most of my free time reading books, going to events and listening to podcasts that share the latest developments in brain research. I don’t think that enough people know what scientists are uncovering about how [...]
Do you subscribe and listen to podcasts? If not, you should be and I am happy to explain why. What Makes Podcasts So Special? Podcasts are magazine subscriptions for your ears. (There are also video podcasts, but in my experience, most of the podcasts I come across are produced like that of a radio show.) [...]
Clay and I attended the 2nd annual SuperheroYou conference in San Diego earlier this year. It was unlike any other conference we’ve been to. The speakers were amazing, sharing with us their expertise and recent discoveries around the human brain, body and mind. I cannot emphasize enough the profound impact it had on our self-awareness [...]
There are lots of cool innovations taking place around turning your home into a more productive and automated environment. This, in turn, is helping you save money and be more productive at home. As an example, take a look at the new WeMo switch by Belkin. Control Anything that Plugs-In With a $50 special plug [...]
There are a combination of tools you can use to create yourself a free transparent signature for signing digital documents. You can use MyLiveSignature to create a generic signature or Pixlr to turn a scanned PDF image of your signature into a transparent image for signing documents. You can use this transparent PNG signature to [...]
We discovered ifttt (If This Then That) late last year and have been in love ever since. Ifttt is a powerful tool to automate cross syndication of your social media content, archive and save content you publish to your cloud accounts (like Dropbox and Evernote) and hack together all sorts of ways to streamline your [...]
Here at WorkHacks, we use Gmail as our primary email service, and although Gmail is great in so many ways, having your email as a tab in your browser is less than efficient (and often downright inefficient). We are always on the lookout for native desktop applications to manage our Gmail inbox. Here are 3 [...]