When you’re in a new city for one night, randomly picking a restaurant from the lists friends have emailed (or what Yelp or Instagram might suggest) has the potential to be a bust. But also, there’s no interaction with the city and its people. The best use of your time, we highly recommend, is getting yourself on an Eating Europe Tour. Currently in Rome, Florence, Prague, Amsterdam, London, and soon Venice, these guided food tours are a whirlwind of history, craft dishes and drinks, hidden local gems and bumping elbows with the rest of the city. On a recent trip to London, we joined in on the 3.5 hour long Twilight Soho Food Tour (£84 per person) and it was an evening we won’t forget.
Author: knjohn
Comcast’s Netflix Deal Could Open a New Front in Net Neutrality War | WIRED
Watching Netflix using Comcast is about to get a little easier.
The longtime rivals recently confirmed that Comcast’s X1 interactive television box will offer Netflix, obviating the need for a smart TV or third-party device like a Roku or Chromecast. The two companies said little more than the combination arrives “later this year,” and it remains to be seen whether you’ll pay a separate fee to use Netflix. The answer almost certainly is yes. The bigger question is whether you’ll also need Comcast Internet service to watch Netflix over X1—and, if so, whether watching Netflix will eat into your Internet data plan.
7 Reasons All Entrepreneurs Should Strive for Better Writing | Entrepreneur
Some people see entrepreneurs as leaders. Others see them as inventors. Still others see them as salespeople, or as general businesspeople. But very few people see entrepreneurs as writers.
On the surface, writing and entrepreneurship seem like completely unrelated concepts. Sure, you’ll do some writing as an entrepreneur, like in any professional position, but it’s not fundamentally necessary to become a successful business owner. Or is it?
I’d like to submit that all entrepreneurs have a role as a writer, or at the very least that they can benefit from writing regularly. Why?
Your TSA Airport Horror Show Has Been Fixed—for Now | Bloomberg
The 2016 U.S. Airport Summer From Hell tour has been postponed, though the band may reschedule for later this summer.
After weeks in which airlines and airports issued dire warnings that the Transportation Security Administration was likely to suffer nightmarish security-screening delays, the queues have returned to their traditional, non-newsworthy duration. The TSA even boasted on Tuesday about average wait times of less than 10 minutes over the July 4 holiday weekend, as well as PreCheck lanes half that duration.
“TSA’s success this weekend is a testament to the hard work of the men and women of the agency–both its leadership and, more importantly, those on the front lines at the airports,” Jeh Johnson, Secretary of Homeland Security, said in a statement. He added that the agency is “not declaring victory” and plans to do more.
Half a million hoverboards recalled in US | BBC News
A major recall of hoverboards is under way in the US.
The callback affects China-made models sold under a variety of brands and affects about 501,000 units.
The Consumer Product Safety Commission said it followed at least 99 incidents where battery packs had overheated.
In some cases they caught fire leading to burn injuries and property damage. Owners are being told to contact the companies responsible, which should fix the problem or issue a full refund.
5 Ways to Target Millennials With Text Message Marketing | All Business
If you’ve spent any time at all around Millennials, then you know how much they love texting. Millennials rely on texting for just about everything—so much so that, a recent survey by OpenMarket reports, 75 percent would rather give up using their phones make voice calls them to text.
Why do Millennials love texting so much?
76 percent say texting is more convenient and allows them to communicate on their own schedule
63 percent say texting is less disruptive than voice calls
53 percent just say that they’d rather text than call
19 percent say they never check their voice mails.
What does this mean to your business? There’s a huge opportunity to reach out to Millennial customers via text message marketing. For instance, according to the survey, three-fourths of Millennials say text reminders are helpful, but only 30 percent get them from businesses that they patronize.
Just Do It Tomorrow: The Powerful Science of Procrastination | Blinkist
It’s Thursday afternoon, 15:00, and you’re sitting at your computer, pretty worn out after a long week at work. But then an email from your boss drops into your inbox. “We could do with that report you’re working on. Urgently.” Obviously, you immediately drop everything else, and rush to finish it. When you finally hand it in, you are filled with an enormous sense of accomplishment: look how quickly I can work! Your mind croons. I’m so productive. And yet, the following morning, your boss returns that report, highlighting many instances of sloppy work. In your rush to finish it quickly, mistakes snuck in. Why is this? Why does pushing to finish something end up breeding errors which will just take additional time to correct? The answer lies in the two systems of the brain, most famously outlined by Daniel Kahneman in his bestselling book, Thinking, Fast and Slow.
How Making Gift-Giving A Habit Improves Your Mental Health | Life Hack
“People are naturally selfish and everyone just looks out for themselves.” How many times have you heard or thought of a statement like this? Is it true? According to a recent study about selfishness, it appears that people are not naturally selfish! In the study, they discovered that even when the part of the brain that controls generosity was interrupted, participants in the study acted generously out of impulse. This study showed that selflessness can be a natural response, instead of an effort.
This is good news for people who want to build a habit of gift giving. It won’t be so hard to do after all, when your natural impulse is to be generous. If you have ever gone through a season where you are constantly taking and never giving, you will know that it wears on you after a while. Constantly taking and never giving back can actually prevent happiness, the one thing that people around the world are looking for.
10 Statistics About Content Marketing in 2016 You Won’t Believe | Inc.com
2016 is gearing up to be a game-changer for content marketing, and there’s finally plenty of data to back it up. I forecast some big purchases of media platforms from major brands aiming to start pushing niche content to already-loyal audiences.
But it won’t just be content produced on a whim. I think this will be the year where marketers start to use data to develop better strategies, in order to create better content (with smarter distribution).
I’d like to think that’s the direction things are heading, but I’m blown away by some of the statistics I’m seeing that might actually prove me wrong.
Here are 10 that stood out to me the most.
NASA’s Juno Spacecraft Enters Jupiter’s Orbit After 5-Year Journey | NBC News
NASA’s robotic Juno probe began circling the solar system’s largest planet late Monday, ending a nearly five-year journey through deep space and becoming the first spacecraft to enter Jupiter orbit since NASA’s Galileo mission did so in 1995.
The milestone came late Monday, as Juno fired its main engine in a crucial 35-minute burn that slowed the probe down enough to be captured by Jupiter’s powerful gravity. That burn started at 11:18 p.m. EDT and ended on schedule at 11:53 p.m.
Source: NASA’s Juno Spacecraft Enters Jupiter’s Orbit After 5-Year Journey – NBC News
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