Smart Skills

When you see a stranger in some kind of hardship, how do you react? Researchers carried out a rare study in a real-life setting to assess the relationship between empathy and altruism. 

We’re ranked behind Saudi Arabia and Korea in empathy. Surprised?     

Cross ‘multi-tasking ninja’ off your resume, it’s out, say Stanford researchers and other cognitive experts. Here are three tips for transitioning back to single-tasking.

The truly awesome part of Facebook’s company culture isn’t the unlimited holidays or the free lunches, says Stuart Crabb, former Global Head of Learning. It’s something much deeper.

Are you a maverick or are you a mouse? Author Julian Guthrie brings us one of the great entrepreneurial adventure stories of our time in ‘How to Make a Spaceship’.

There’s more to intuition than meets the eye.

A new study in nature reports that LSD minimizes fear recognition and enhances emotional empathy and sociality. Is it time to widely utilize ‘trip treatment’?

According to Pulitzer winner Charles Duhigg, the art of focus is training your mind to know what it can safely ignore.

A new study finds that one of the world’s most popular painkillers affects the ability to empathize with the suffering of others. 

From a personal tutoring service for his young cousin, Salman Khan’s company Khan Academy has grown exponentially into a massive, global, online engine for learning.

Should you invest in Bitcoin? Maybe not, says Brad Templeton, but that doesn’t mean the digital currency isn’t amazing in and of itself. Templeton explains what Bitcoin achieves and how it will lead to further innovation.

Chris Anderson, curator of TED Talks, explains how the plummeting price of bandwidth about a decade ago opened opportunities for new innovation to grow.

The CEO of Crowdfunder discusses disruption of the early stage finance process by way of exponential technology while also explaining the benefits of helping young entrepreneurs compete at scale.

Uber is an example of an exponential company that harness technology to revolutionize whole industries.