There’s being in the flow with your work colleagues, and then there is this: När du och dina kollegor har flow på jobbet Posted by Nyheter24 on Sunday, September 13, 2015 Psychologist Mihály Csíkszentmihályi describes the mental state of...
Teacher Appreciation Day and Week isn’t until the end of the school year, but I think it’s an appropriate a time as any to thank teachers — one of the most thankless jobs there is — as they begin another year of nurturing young minds. As someone who taught public...
If you watched the premiere of CBS’s new “Late Show with Stephen Colbert” last night, then you may have already seen the first in a new series of Bank of America TV commercials. The spot was called “Pillars,” and it may have left you...
Here’s to one last fling of summer (and a little content marketing thrown in for good measure). Who doesn’t want to know how to skin a watermelon? Here at Shift Key, we are fans of the watermelon — and were pleased to learn this fine trick to show off to...
Chances are, you’ve seen someecards.com or countless others’ memes along the lines of, “I survived another meeting that should have been an email.” When there are multiple Etsy stores selling t-shirts and mugs with the slogan, you know there...
With the Google logo redesign that was unveiled yesterday, it got us thinking — how often should you refresh your logo? If you look at Google as a case study, they’ve employed a similar, basic font in the four primary colors on a white background throughout their...
All hope isn’t lost — and this is how I know. On Thursday, my husband and I drove to New Orleans and sat on a bench in Jackson Square waiting. My husband didn’t mind carrying the oversized gift bag containing a small red telescope, glow-in-the-dark ceiling stars,...
What do Isaac Newton, Vincent van Gogh, Michelangelo, filmmaker Woody Allen — maybe even comic-producer Larry David — have in common? In addition to being textbook neurotics, there is new research that shows their neuroticism could be connected to their creative...
I’m talking about dashes — the under-utilized cousin of parentheses and commas — and their often confused, more distant relative, the hyphen. Hyphens (-) are the easiest to type quickly on your computer or mobile keyboard. They’re just one keystroke, no shortcuts, no...
Large corporations and bureaucracies generally get a bad rap when it comes to customer service — many with good reason. As for customer service when it comes to government bureaucracies? You’d be hard pressed to find five-star reviews on Yelp. Federal agencies are...
