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Palmer Luckey is poised to change video gaming forever. The 21-year-old prodigy has created a virtual reality headset called the Oculus Rift. Watch this demonstration. It’s worth it. Luckey’s invention is considered the coolest gadget at the recent Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas (even better than an Internet-connected toothbrush and heat-sensing iPhone). How is Luckey reshaping the Continue Reading →

Evan Spiegel blew it. For months, security researchers warned Spiegel that Snapchat, the social media platform he and a Stanford buddy created, had a major privacy flaw. The Huffington Post writes Spiegel and his team never fixed the problem. Then, in late 2013, a hacker stole phone records and usernames of millions of Snapchat users and Continue Reading →

As 2013 comes to an end, it’s crucial we look back at the greatest lessons from the news the past 12 months. How else can we expect to improve in 2014? Below are short recaps from 21 News To Live By columns in 2013. In every piece, we found the career advice “hidden” inside the Continue Reading →

You should use some of the rules of rhetoric to persuade the hiring manager to hire you. Note that I’ve selected specific rules below that I believe are most relevant to getting hired and then redefined them to deliver job search advice. Rhetoric Based Rules for Getting Hired INVENTION: Develop Your Argument Decide why you are Continue Reading →

A message to new moms and dads everywhere: don’t be helicopter parents. A psychotherapist recently wrote a column on Slate called “Why Millennials Can’t Grow Up.” The author, Brooke Donatone, says she’s treated at least 100 college and grad students who fall apart at the thought of being an independent adult. She believes a major Continue Reading →

This is a riff about executives improving their strategic career and job search efforts based on a lecture I heard recently at Skidmore College that included a single slide about Gist Reasoning Strategies. Although I found more than a dozen academic abstracts in 8-point type, I admit that I simply went back to the bullet points and Continue Reading →

Hey, super-smart people. Got some news for you. During a recent TED Talk, psychologist Angela Lee Duckworth says while intelligence matters, a high IQ is not the greatest predictor of success. Duckworth says the key is to have grit or determination, the willingness to push through even when the odds are against us. Watch Duckworth’s short Continue Reading →

There’s a lot of speculation over whether or not the Twitter IPO is a smart long-term investment. — NewsToLiveBy (@NewsToLiveBy) November 11, 2013 If Twitter is so valuable, then we should be able to talk about anything in 140 characters or less. Right? — NewsToLiveBy (@NewsToLiveBy) November 11, 2013 With the IPO in mind, an Continue Reading →

Today’s blog continues with Jan Wallen (you can check out her website here), an expert on selling online who literally wrote the book on using LinkedIn, answering more LinkedIn job search questions about how to use this social networking site for job search. (Here’s a link to the previous seven LinkedIn job search questions.) Final Five LinkedIn Continue Reading →

Tim Kreider lit a fire under the blogosphere in late October with an opinion column in The New York Times called “Slaves of the Internet, Unite!” In the piece, Kreider gripes about hard-working young writers who contribute to various web sites and receive no compensation — even when the work generates massive traffic and thousands Continue Reading →