Dave's Library

Research shows that consistently working more than 40 hours a week is simply unproductive.

After losing her son Matthew Freeman to the war in Afghanistan, Lisa Freeman started creating teddy bears out of the uniforms of fallen soldiers to help other families cope with their tragedies. The proud mother founded the Matthew Bears, named after her departed son, and has been sewing the free-of-charge teddy bears for the families and friends of the fallen soldiers since 2009.

No matter how tired and irritated we might be about the overwhelming flow of advertisements around us, social ads still manage to catch our attention and shock us pretty easily. It's no wonder, as issues of public interest, like our health, the environment, and human and animal rights, always strike a chord in our hearts and conscience.

Chris Hadfield

Little changes, big results

Paul Graham, Jim Collins, Tony Hsieh, and other business leaders share the questions you should be asking if you want to improve your company.

Some thoughts from Adam Grant on how people have responded to Give and Take

The message here is to get started and fail a lot

Lots of interesting data on master's degrees over the last several decades

Amazing catalog of the best commencement speeches

Unquantifiable arenas like history and the arts are receding from public life, replaced by technology and statistics.

Graduation speeches are the last opportunity for a high school or college to educate its students. It's unsurprising, then, that these institutions often pull in some of the world's most powerful people to leave an equally powerful impression on their students. Here are the best of those speeches and some of the sections that resonate the most.

Vice president for people development at Google on nominating people for training

Cool bedrooms for kids

The right ways to receive feedback

Sometimes when hosting a Skype call – especially for a podcast – you want the other parties on your call to hear not only your voice but perhaps some audio from you, too. Since Skype only allows one audio input at a time, things get a little tricky. Don't worry, it's not too bad, and this vi