Reading Hard, Picture Pretty. My Concern with PowerPoint at Work

After graduating, I thought the corporate world would revolve around the baseline skills I learned throughout my educational career. The baseline skills I imagined would be at the forefront of professionalism include things like reading comprehension, grammar, spelling accuracy, and other things your 6th grade teacher might underline in red pen if you used it …

Goggins Mentality: What else can we take away from the life of David Goggins?

In the past few years David Goggins has taken the media by storm. From social media clips to his best-selling book, his story and aura has spread like wildfire. If you don’t know who he is, he’s a former 300lb bug exterminator, turned navy seal, ultra marathon runner, pull-up record holder, paramedic, and more. He …

Book Review – Hooked: How to Build Habit Forming Products

Recently, I read the book Hooked: How to Build- Habit Forming Products by Nir Eyal. The book takes on the connection between behavioral psychology and successful online and electronic products. Eyal proposes a four-step model, called The Hook Model, for building products that can become part of daily habits. He uses Twitter, Instagram, Farmville, Pinterest, …