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Running Effective Meetings – 70 Actions to Immediately Improve Your Performance & Productivity

James Kelly

[Studies have shown](http://www.pnas.org/content/106/14/6008.full) auditory memory is typically inferior to visual memory, and while most of us can read for hours, our ability to focus on a speech is more constrained.

A Speech Is Not an Essay

John Coleman

it’s good [to gently fight this monocropping — by actively hunting around and foraging for stuff](https://medium.com/forge/9-ways-to-rewild-your-attention-d7c9334b6b90) to look at, read, and see that’s far afield, quirkier, and more niche.

The Power of Indulging Your Weird, Offbeat Obsessions

Clive Thompson

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