Looking to the Future: 99U, Behance, and Adobe

Behance is joining forces with Adobe to take its mission—and 99U's educational mission—to the next level.

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Keith Yamashita: The 3 Habits of Great Creative Teams

Great teams don't happen by accident, they require a diligent and mindful effort to cultivate the specific habits that lead to success.

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Top 20 Insights, Talks, and Quotables On Making Ideas Happen

From reinventing resumes to harnessing the power of boredom, we collect our most popular content from 2012.

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Our Top Insights, Talks, and Tweets of 2012

From reinventing resumes to harnessing the power of boredom, we collect our most popular content from 2012.

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The Bias Against Creatives as Leaders

Bad news: studies show that creatives are often overlooked as leaders. Good news: the bias can be overcome.

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What to Do When You Fall Back Into Your Old, Less Productive Ways

Bounce back when you "relapse" into bad habits by accepting that mistakes happen while using it as an opportunity to tweak your process.

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Alexis Ohanian: Give a Damn. Give Lots of Damns.

How does a small upstart take on bigger, more established players? By giving a damn. From the founders on down.

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Why You Should Treat Your Freelance Portfolio Like a Stock Portfolio

Think like an investor and keep your freelance pipeline filled with "blue chip" and long-shot clients.

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How to Power Through Any Demanding Task

The simple act of thinking you have unlimited willpower makes it more likely that you will persevere.

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The Jeff Bezos School of Long-Term Thinking

Obey the "two pizza" rule and other ways to plan for the future, as inspired by Amazon's CEO.

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20 Gifts for Productivity Nerds

99U's gift guide for this holiday season.

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Tim Ferriss: On The Creative Process And Getting Your Work Noticed

The author of The 4-Hour Chef on how he markets his work while keeping focused with the help of timers, old laptops, and an avoidance of public speaking.

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How Rejection Breeds Creativity

With a few small changes in your mindset, you can turn rejection into a dramatic boost for your motivation and focus.

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Alexis Madrigal: Why Startups Need To Solve Real Problems Again

Alexis Madrigal tells us how startups can up the ante by shifting away from free "viral" business models & by having more diverse founders.

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How To Use If-Then Planning To Achieve Any Goal

Vague plans don’t get done. Capitalize on the natural language of your brain and be specific when setting goals.

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The Crusades Part 3: Liberation | Lost.Islamic History

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When To Go With Your Gut

Unless you have relevant experience to back you up, going with your intuition when making tough choices may cause more harm than good.

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An Ode To Creative Work, By Behance

A short film celebrating the thankless parts of the creative process that are

necessary to make ideas happen.

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Want To Make Your Environment More Creative? Kill Some Rules.

From Netflix to the streets of London, how we structure rules has a profound impact on creativity.

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Cut Your Losses: How To Know When To Quit

Finishing is important, but when your projects start to cause more harm than good, it may be time to think about throwing in the towel.

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Jonathan Adler: Keep Other People's Opinions Out Of Your Creative Process

"I wanted to follow my heart and not be strategic and throw all preconceived ideas away," says Jonathan Alder in this talk about ignoring other people's opinions and charting your own path to creative fullfillment.

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The Thinking Mindset vs. The Doing Mindset: Pick One (And Only One)

The motivation to think and the motivation to act strike us at different times. Plan your day accordingly.

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99U Is Hiring a Lead Events Producer!

We're seeking a super-talented, freelance events producer to help us execute our biggest annual event, the 99U Conference. Do you have what it takes?

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Building a Crowd: Make Sure Your Book Has Readers Before You Publish

Build a community of fans and customers before you release your work to dramatically increase your chances of success and be lightyears ahead of your peers.

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Grin and Bear It: How to Tackle Your Tougher Tasks

11 tips for your most difficult and dreaded workday tasks from J.J. Ramberg host of Your Business on MSNBC and author of "It's Your Business."

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Grin and Bare It: How to Tackle Your Tougher Tasks

11 tips for your most difficult and dreaded workday tasks from J.J. Ramberg host of Your Business on MSNBC and author of "It's Your Business."

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The Power of Negative Thinking

Pop psychology tells us we can't go wrong with positive thinking. But new studies show that taking account of our obstacles is essential to success.

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Piya Sorcar: Why You Should Obsess Over Quality

Speed isn't everything. Nonprofit founder Piya Sorcar (TeachAIDS) describes how measured growth and iteration can benefit startups dealing with sensitive issues.

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Piya Socar: Why You Should Obsess Over Quality

Speed isn't everything. Nonprofit founder Piya Sorcar (TeachAIDS) describes how measured growth and iteration can benefit startups dealing with sensitive issues.

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Hacking Habits: How To Make New Behaviors Last For Good

Want to write everyday? Start exercising? Quit smoking? We look at how to hack our brains' hard-wired habit loops to change our lives for the better.

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Want Your Message To Stick? Tell A Story

The road to helping others understand and accept our ideas starts with storytelling. A look at how narratives inspire empathy and loyalty.

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What's One Thing You Wish You Had Learned in School?

How did your "creative education" fall short in school? We asked thousands of Twitter followers, Facebook fans and readers to share their answers.

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10 (More) Amazing Videos About the Creative Process

We hand-pick the web's best videos about the creative process from some of the world's most talented creative minds.

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Why Fighting For Our Ideas Makes Them Better

How can we produce great ideas again and again? New research suggests that healthy critciism is an essential ingredient in the brainstorming process.

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How Barack Obama Gets Things Done

President Barack Obama has the hardest job in the world. So how does he do it? Tips on getting a head start, making decisions, and ignoring your critics.

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13 Desktop Wallpapers To Kickstart Your Creativity

Bite-size wisdom from Jonathan Adler, Alexis Ohanian, Paula Scher, Tony Fadell, and more.

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Teresa Amabile: Track Your Small Wins to Motivate Big Accomplishments

Could keeping a daily diary be the key to unlocking happiness at work? Creativity researcher Teresa Amabile explains the unexpected benefits of tracking daily progress.

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How To Run Your Meetings Like Apple and Google

Contrary to popular belief: meetings are not the devil. We look at how to get more creative - and productive - with your weekly gatherings.

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99U Conference 2013: Tickets Now On Sale!

Tickets for the 2013 99U Conference are now on sale. Based on past demand, we expect they will sell out very quickly. Learn more about registration now.

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Paula Scher: Do What You've Never Done Before

"Once you know what you're doing, it's not as good," says legendary designer Paula Scher in this talk about ignoring the brief & charting your own course.

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99U Conference 2013: Tickets On Sale September 5th!

Tickets for the 2013 99U Conference will go on sale September 5th. Based on past demand, we expect they will sell out very quickly. Learn more about registration now.

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Having Trouble Finishing Your Labor Of Love?

When no one is nagging you to complete your dream project, it can be hard to stay motivated. How to eradicate excuses and power through to the finish.

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Felix Barrett: On Pushing the Limits of Curiosity and Comfort Zones

We talk to the creator of off-Broadway hit "Sleep No More" about how to pique an audience's curiosity by inviting them into adventure.

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The Undeniable Allure of Potential

What's the best way to grab someone's attention? A new study finds that potential has significantly more allure than accomplishment.

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(^_^) JBP/JSS - From Strength to Strength!

(^_^) JBP/JSS - From Strength to Strength! Welcome to all our new members! If you don't get an update for a while, you can assume that things are going well! Meanwhile we're growing strongly. We should also be able to move to our new servers within a week. We've been holding back on company marketing so we don't overwhelm our current servers. As soon as we're on the new servers we'll be able to ramp up company marketing, which will bring more sales and enable us to increase withdrawal limits. Soon after we move to the new servers, we'll also be able to speed up the placing of JSS positions. The backlog will get handled, but it's too early to say how long this will take. The most important thing for new members to realize is that you can earn a great deal with JSS-Tripler. On our Blog you can see that our top earner has earned over $880,000. All of our top 20 earners have earned more than $314,000 each. http://blog.justbeenpaid.com/ It's very easy to make money with JSS-Tripler: http://adv.justbeenpaid.com/?r=lzp57lLQXa&p=jsstripler5 JSS-Tripler is indefinitely sustainable: http://adv.justbeenpaid.com/?r=lzp57lLQXa&p=jsstripler3 The JSS-Tripler Pay-It-Forward System is working well. All members who create their JSS-Tripler accounts for the first time get "$10 free money" in their JSS- Tripler accounts. They can immediately buy a JSS-Tripler position and start earning up to 2% per day! Please tell your prospects that if they create their new JSS-Tripler accounts, they get "$10 free money" to get started. (Note that after 45 days their JSS-Tripler accounts will be debited with $10.) Working for our wealth and success, Frederick Mann P.S. I challenge you to find any program that's easier to make money with than JSS-Tripler. P.P.S. JSS-Tripler is likely to become "the program everyone in the know joins." If you join immediately, you can tell your friends and contacts about it... before they join under someone else.

Jason Goldberg: You Can't Iterate Yourself To A Business Model

Co-founder and CEO Jason Goldberg shares the thinking behind Fab.com's famous pivot and how it translated into incredible success in less than 12 months.

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Want To Make A Great First Impression? Try Giving a Damn

Launching a startup is probably one of the more irrational decisions you can make, so you better well give a damn.

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Tina Seelig: On Unleashing Your Creative Potential

Can you teach creativity? We talk to Tina Seelig of the Stanford d.school about creating the mindset and environment for incredible innovation.

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Desktop Arsenal: 10 Tools We Can't Live Without

Marshall McLuhan famously said, "We shape our tools and then our tools shape us." A look at the gadgets & apps that are shaping our workflow at 99U.

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Why Great Ideas Get Rejected

Everybody says they want more creativity, but do they really? An inherent bias against uncertainty may be at the core of our fear of new ideas.

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Naked Planning

How "going public" and finding a planning partner can make tackling your to-do list effortless.

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Does Helping Others Hurt Your Creativity? The Cost of Interruption

Sometimes a "quick question" can kill your creative flow. We look at recent research on the true impact of interruptions in the workplace.

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