Dave's Library

Canny negotiators know that people respond to anchors. If you tell me that your baseball card is for sale for $18, I'm unlikely to offer you $3. Your offering price anchored the conversation. The thing is, we do this outside...

Sometimes, you want to win really hard. So hard, you don't even try to do it fairly… or competently.

Deep Thwings Charles Franklin Thwing is a largely forgotten but impressive figure from the early twentieth century. He graduated Harvard in the 1870s,

Something very big, out beyond Neptune, is warping the orbits of small, icy objects circling our sun. Astronomers haven't seen it yet, but say the culprit could be a planet with 10 times Earth's mass.

Graduate beyond random coffee meetings.

Brad Duke won $220 million in the lottery in 2005. Duke talks about the moment he realized he'd won, and how his life changed after winning.

Delaying the completion of a project may actually make you more creative.

You need to be clear in five areas.

Debunking three common misconceptions.

People and companies benefit from alumni networks.

In “Dancing, So As Not to Be Dead,” Ray Bradbury’s introduction to The Illustrated Man, he starts with a story about Laurent, a waiter in Paris, who spends his life between working and dancing. “I …

Aside from the celebrity-studded White House Correspondents' Association dinner, the annual State of the Union address is Washington's ultimate see-and-be-seen affair. Members of Congress jockey for coveted positions along the House chamber's…

If you’re feeling you've let yourself down in the past because you haven’t kept up with your resolutions, don’t fret. Here are five ways to make this the most productive year ever – without a single New Year’s resolution.

Cal Newport's guest post shows how I Will Teach You To Be Rich principles can teach you how to manage your time effectively.

Good things aren’t necessarily a good use of your time.

It’s the start of another year. Wow, I can’t believe it’s already 2016. This time of year people make resolutions only to break them in the coming weeks and months. I, too, have b…

Why do these things correlate? These 15 correlations will blow your mind. (Is this headline sensationalist enough for you to click on it yet?)

Research suggests that some gadgets can make parents less likely to engage in meaningful give-and-take with their children.

But if you’re good at one, you’ll probably get better at the other.

From leadership and sales to robots and beer.

Andre Agassi, Goldie Hawn, Salman Rushdie, and more.

Self-awareness might not be the most important leadership skill after all.

Pod. Work group. Committee. Autonomous collective. Whatever you call it, you’re part of one at Google and probably wherever you work: a team. So if we know what makes managers great, why don’t we know what makes a team great?