This Chart Shows Why You Should Never Worry About Getting Older Process Improvement: This Coach Improved Every Tiny Thing by 1 Percent In 2010, Dave Brailsford faced a tough job. No British cyclist had ever won the Tour de France, but as the new General Manager and Performance Director for Team Sky (Great Britain’s professional cycling team), Brailsford was asked to change that. His approach was simple. Brailsford believed in a concept that he referred to as the “aggregation of marginal gains.” They started by optimizing the things you might expect: the nutrition of riders, their weekly training program, the ergonomics of the bike seat, and the weight of the tires. But Brailsford and his team didn’t stop there. Brailsford believed that if they could successfully execute this strategy, then Team Sky would be in a position to win the Tour de France in five years time. He was wrong. In 2012, Team Sky rider Sir Bradley Wiggins became the first British cyclist to win the Tour de France. In 2013, Team Sky repeated their feat by winning the Tour de France again, this time with rider Chris Froome. The Aggregation of Marginal Gains

Creating Your Own SSL Certificate Authority (and Dumping Self Signed Certs) | The Data Center Overlords SSL (or TLS if you want to be super totally correct) gives us many things (despite many of the recent shortcomings). Privacy (stop looking at my password)Integrity (data has not been altered in flight)Trust (you are who you say you are) All three of those are needed when you’re buying stuff from say, Amazon (damn you, Amazon Prime!). But we also use SSL for web user interfaces and other GUIs when administering devices in our control. When a website gets an SSL certificate, they typically purchase one from a major certificate authority such as DigiCert, Symantec (they bought Verisign’s registrar business), or if you like the murder of elephants and freedom, GoDaddy. The benefit that these certificate authorities provide is a chain of trust. Your devices, on the other hand, the ones you configure and only your organization accesses, don’t need that trust chain built upon the public infrastrucuture. The process for creating your own certificate authority is pretty straight forward: Like this:

Everything To Know About Your iPhone Camera The iPhone’s camera is capable of a lot of things. These can be tapped into through the various interface elements of the Camera app, which allows access to some . Some tools and functions are available only in certain shooting modes. Burst The iPhone camera's Burst mode continuously takes 10 photos per second. Credit: Apple In Photo or Square mode, you can enter Burst “submode” by pressing and holding the center button. Flash You can set your iPhone’s camera function by tapping the in the Camera app. High-dynamic-range (HDR) imaging is ideal in conditions where a greater range of luminance levels is preferred. Timer When the timer's up, the iPhone camera goes into burst mode. The Camera app comes with a timer function that you can enable or disable by tapping the timer icon. Zoom If, for some reason, you have to shoot someone or something from afar, you can zoom into your subject by . The iPhone camera employs digital zoom only, as opposed to the more preferable optical zoom. Filters Free

Time Assets vs. Time Debts: A Different Way of Thinking About Productivity | James Clear Late in his career, Steve Jobs famously drove his car without a license plate. There were all sorts of theories about why Jobs decided to drive without tags. Some people said he didn’t want to be tracked. Others believed he was trying to make a game of avoiding parking tickets. Jon Callas, a former computer security expert who worked for Apple, revealed a different reason. According to Callas, Steve Jobs discovered a loophole in the California vehicle registration laws. Once he realized this, Jobs arranged a special leasing agreement with his Mercedes dealer so that every six months he would drop off his current car and receive a new Mercedes SL55 AMG to replace it. After hearing the story, many people responded by saying something like, “I guess that’s what you do when you have a lot of money.” Time Assets vs. We often fail to realize, however, that there are certain strategic choices that impact our time on a larger scale. Software is a classic example of a time asset. Assets Speaking.

8 things smart people never reveal about themselves at work At work, sharing the right aspects of yourself in the right ways is an art form. Disclosures that feel like relationship builders in the moment can wind up as obvious no-nos with hindsight. Trouble is, you can’t build a strong professional network if you don’t open up to your colleagues. Doing so is tricky, because revealing the wrong things can have a devastating effect on your career. You must know where the line is and be careful not to cross it, because once you share something, there is no going back. TalentSmart has tested more than a million people and found that the upper echelons of top performance are filled with people who are high in emotional intelligence (90% of top performers, to be exact). Emotional intelligence is the “something” in each of us that is a bit intangible. Emotionally intelligent people are adept at reading others, and this ability shows them what they should and shouldn’t reveal about themselves at work. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Your thoughts are your own. 7. 8.

How to do time blocking As we gear up to launch our Kickstarter for the Perfect Notebook, we have been talking a lot about productivity. The goal of our notebook is capture all your great ideas, and to make you more successful at the same time. We believe the cornerstone of success is doing work that matters, which can only be achieved with thoughtful planning. And that brings us to the topic of this blog post – time blocking. I first read about time blocking on Cal Newport’s blog where he discussed the importance of doing deep work (If you aren’t familiar with deep work, it is the opposite of work like email and things that make you feel productive but don’t actually accomplish much. You spend so much time working. (If you want to learn more about our notebook – sign up below so you don’t miss out when it launches!) Time blocking is really just a method for planning your day. Step 1. What are the most important things on your plate? What are the 5 most important things I want to do this year? Step 2. Step 3.

Dan Schawbel is the author of Me 2.0: Build a Powerful Brand to Achieve Career Success, and owner of the award winning Personal Branding Blog. Social media resumes are important for attracting hiring managers directly to you, without you having to submit your resume, blindly, to them. The problem with submitting your resume online to job postings is that most job postings aren't even vacant, might not exist, and 80% of jobs offers are received through networking. With a social media resume, you're able to paint a completely different portrait of yourself for hiring managers and customize it to reflect your personal brand. With the inclusion of various multimedia elements, sharing options, integrated social networking feeds and the same elements you'd find in a traditional resume, you are better equipped for success. Social media has allowed us to reverse the recruiting process. Here is the social media resume process: 1. Options for websites Options for blogs 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.

How to Overcome Obstacles Using Toyota’s Five Whys Technique — Better Humans When learning how to break bad habits and form good ones that stick, it’s not uncommon to experience a dip in your motivation and quit – and often right on the edge of a breakthrough. These losses can be chalked up as failures on our part and affect our self-esteem, or worse: discourage us from trying again in the future. The reality is, our problems are seldom behavioural, but situational. It isn’t us that’s the cause of our challenges, but the system we’re using. In other words, it’s not that we’re demotivated; quite the contrary – it’s that we haven’t identified the real obstacles that stand in our way. The obstacles in question may seem obvious – “I didn’t go to bed before midnight because I was watching a movie” – but there’s often an underlying root cause and classifying it is paramount to building the right solution. The Five Whys The Five Whys is a technique adapted from the Toyota Production System. The basis of Toyota’s scientific approach [and] by repeating ‘why?’ 1. 2. Sources

217. The Monster Named Fear This comic originally appeared exclusively in my second Zen Pencils book collection (available from all good retailers!) in 2015. I really enjoy writing these fun poems and wanted to do something special for the book. It features characters long-time readers would be familiar with, but just in case you’re not, here are their original appearances: Ballet Boy Full-Body Education Rising Phoenix Ask Yourself Comedian Great People Do Things Before They’re Ready Guitarist The Calling Mum the painter A Lifetime of Learning I thought I’d post it on the website as I’m currently working on the NEW Zen Pencils book collection and I’m not sure when I’ll be posting new work. Stanley Kubrick's Boxes Stanley Kubrick’s films were landmark events—majestic, memorable and richly researched. But, as the years went by, the time between films grew longer and longer, and less and less was seen of the director. What on earth was he doing? In 1996 I received what was—and probably remains—the most exciting telephone call I have ever had. I hand him a letter written by a fan and addressed to Arthur C Clarke.

If you never have enough time… then slow down “Busy!” I’m not sure when this became the default reply to “How are you?” But rising numbers of us rattle through our days as inadequate servants of insatiable to-do lists. Most of us can expect 1,000 months on earth, longer than any previous generation. Yet we feel time poor. Time pressures are multiplying at a dizzying rate, changing how we perceive time and, crucially, how we use it. We equate time poverty with success, perhaps because only the wealthy are silly enough to brag about it. As soon as you feel busy, time feels different. Too often busyness is a decoy for productivity. It doesn’t help that 28% of office hours vaporise on email, another third on meetings. How to escape the hurry trap? To thrive in a world without limits, impose your own. On Time: Finding Your Pace in a World Addicted to Fast by Catherine Blyth is published by William Collins at £16.99.

20 Things Successful People 'Refuse' to Do | Mo Seetubtim This post originally appeared on BrandMentalist.com 1. They don't define success in a monetary term. Most successful people define success as happiness, having a peace of mind, or helping others. They see money as something that brings them comfort and opens doors of opportunities. They realize that money can't buy them happiness. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. When facing a problem, instead of focusing on the problem, you should focus on your action and what you do to make the situation better. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. Successful people know that it is important to get enough sleep as well as to take time to relax and play in order to be able to perform at their best. 13. 14. When you are clear with what you want in life, coming up with plans and a roadmap to achieving that is easy. In short, by having a goal and a dream, you're half way there. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. Mo is the owner of the famous inspirational blog - BrandMentalist.com.

Before we commence with the festivities, I just wanted to let you know my first book is now a Wall Street Journal bestseller! To check it out, click here. Is someone consistently taking advantage of you? Your romantic partner or your boss? Do you rush around trying to do things for them but they never seem to have your back? And when you try to talk to them about it in a reasonable way, do they fly off the handle or burst into tears — and nothing ever changes? You might be a “caretaker” to someone with narcissistic or borderline traits. Psychotherapist Margalis Fjelstad brings some solid answers in her book: Stop Caretaking the Borderline or Narcissist: How to End the Drama and Get On with Life. Narcissistic Personality Disorder and Borderline Personality Disorder are serious mental health issues — not stuff you want to casually diagnose without a P and H and D after your name. What’s A Narcissist? You probably know a bit about narcissism. From Stop Caretaking the Borderline or Narcissist: