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Digital Marketing. Videos. Pearltrees videos. 4 Sneaky Ways to Determine Company Culture in an Interview. When you’re looking for a new job, you don’t just want the right position—you want the right culture fit: An office that matches your laid-back vibe, your work-hard-play-hard attitude, or your uber-creative personality.

4 Sneaky Ways to Determine Company Culture in an Interview

A team that supports your love for collaboration, your do-it-yourself spirit, or your desire to have a great mentor. Sure, you could do good work anywhere—but if the attitudes and predispositions of the workplace feel like second nature, you’re more likely to hit the ground running (and to be happy there for the long haul). But unfortunately, you can’t just ask “Can you tell me about the company culture?”

And consider yourself covered. Six Habits of Highly Empathic People. This article originally appeared on Greater Good and is republished with permission.

Six Habits of Highly Empathic People

If you think you’re hearing the word “empathy” everywhere, you’re right. It’s now on the lips of scientists and business leaders, education experts and political activists. Why You Love That Ikea Table, Even If It's Crooked. Hide captionBuilding your own stuff boosts your feelings of pride and competence, and also signals to others that you are competent. iStockphoto.com Have you ever spent a couple of hours working on a craft project — or a presentation for work — and then fallen in love with what you've accomplished?

Why You Love That Ikea Table, Even If It's Crooked

Davidvbogart : @arnettwill Will, thoughts... Hodgman: FOREVER. A memoir of female lust. When as a teenager Katherine Angel felt herself suddenly overflowing with lust, she began to wonder: Where are the similarly hungry women?

A memoir of female lust

In “Unmastered: A Book on Desire, Most Difficult to Tell,” she says of her burgeoning erotic wanting, “The words I would have put this into, had I felt the urge — the words I still put this into — are these: I feel like a man.” This is a book for every woman who has ever felt like a man for being sexual.