YouTube, the largest video-sharing site in the world, did not start that way. In 2005, YouTube was launched as a dating website. It offered users twenty dollars to post videos of themselves. That approach failed, and users began to post whatever videos they felt like…
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Project Management Tips – Details Can Be Devilish
James A. H. Murray, the first editor of one of the world’s most comprehensive reference books, the Oxford English Dictionary, dealt with an unbelievable amount of documentation. To prepare the dictionary, volunteers from all over the world sent him quotations, each on its own separate…
Leonardo and the Downside of Multi-Tasking
Many agree that Leonardo da Vinci is the perfect example of “the Renaissance man”—a person with talents embracing many subjects, from painting and sculpture to architecture, science, mechanics, and war. But he’s also known by another lesser-known title: “the great unfinisher.” At his death, in 1519, Leonardo left…