Productivity

How to Hack Your Education, Learn Faster, And Skip College

March 6, 2013 in Make Money

This is a guest post by author of Hacking Your Education, founder of UnCollege, and entrepreneur Dale Stephens. What’s happened to your self-improvement list since the start of a new year has come and gone? Maybe your bullet points include joining a local gym, swearing off simple carbs, and purchasing a copy of Anna Karenina. Whatever it might […]

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How to Make An Article Go Viral — My Video Presentation (in Italian!) from the BiT Tourism Conference

March 3, 2013 in Productivity

Today, I’m coming at you from London, UK. (Are you in London? Come to my meetup on Tuesday) About a month ago, I left my cozy apartment in NYC to start traveling in Europe—starting off by lecturing at a travel conference in Milan. On February 15, I gave a short talk entitled ‘How to Make […]

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How to Learn A Language: 5 Hacks to Learning German in 3 Months

February 21, 2013 in Make Money

[Editor’s Note: This guest post was written by Brian Kwong, who is currently developing a language learning app, Genius+] Living in a foreign country does not mean that you will magically speak a new language. I am a living proof of this, since my wife Julia and I moved to Austria almost two years ago. […]

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The Visa Concierge — How A Free Personal Assistant Saved My Nike FuelBand

February 18, 2013 in Productivity

If you’re like most Americans, you have a credit card (and if you don’t, you should use them to get a free plane ticket). And if you’re like anyone, you almost certainly didn’t read the terms and conditions that came with it. The funny thing is, in the hands of a smart consumer, credit cards are […]

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How to “Cheat the System” (And How to Become a Professional Copywriter)

January 28, 2013 in Make Money

Without the Internet, how would we be able to take advantage of the system? Hack the System, as I’ve discussed before, is about looking for loopholes in the system — ones that you can benefit from. I talk about it in my Travel Hacking Report — by searching for loopholes, you can learn how to […]

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