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What’s a mental model? Your shortcut to being more productive, more often
Everyone has their own way of looking at the world.
A field guide to unlearning
How forgetting what you know will actually make you smarter.
Why you need to forecast your feelings to achieve big goals
How would you feel if, six months from now, you lost your job? How will you feel if you meet the love of your life tomorrow? What kind of work will make you happy a year from now? How much money would it take for you to feel carefree?
What you should really measure in your annual performance reviews (and why)
Performance reviews need a refresh. Here’s how we’re improving them.
Try this popular japanese morning routine for a better workday
Morning routines are great for a lot of reasons: They encourage productive habits, an increased focus on important goals, and motivated people all over the world swear they’re the secret to their success.
The one critical skill most designers overlook
They spend a lot of time learning about the newest tools or debating the best interaction design patterns. But they’re missing out on this skill.
Lessons from leaders on how to combat and prevent job burnout
You’re in back-to-back meetings all day, talking with your team about the exciting projects you’ll work on over the coming days and weeks. But by the time you get around to actually doing the work, it’s late in the evening, you’ve managed to scarf down some leftovers, and have successfully avoided exercising for the fifth week in a row.
The M&A process is broken
It’s outdated, inefficient, and combative. Which is why we’re publishing the Atlassian Term Sheet to fix it.
Why do you get vacation guilt (and how can you beat it)?
When’s the last time you took a vacation from work? Like a real, unplugged vacation?
Why black metal is great music for programming (but doom metal isn’t)
Power chords vs. blast beats… vocals vs. vokills. We teamed up with Pandora and Stack Overflow to bring you a metalhead’s guide to coding music.
In a creative drought? 3 ways to get your ideas flowing
We’ve all been there. Staring at a whiteboard, trying to pick a strategy out of thin air. Struggling to think of a name for your trivia team. Watching that blinking cursor dance atop a fresh document, waiting for your input. Just waiting…Drawing a blank is all too common when you’re tasked with coming up with something new. Whether it’s in art, business, or life—creativity on tap (like that fresh beer at your local brewery) isn’t something you’re guaranteed to always have.This problem is something you can prepare for, though. We’ve all got a wellspring of ideas inside us—you just have to know where to find it.
How to stop thinking about work (even when the workday is over)
You’re finished with work for the day. You shut down your computer, grab the used coffee cups from your desk, and head home. You’re done. But are you…really?
Delivering the best cloud experience for all teams
Anu Bharadwaj, Atlassian’s Head of Cloud Product, shares some highlights from this year’s Atlassian Summit about the investments we’re making in building powerful and reliable cloud products.
Are these defense mechanisms preventing you from being productive?
Allow me to kick things off with a (perhaps embarrassing?) confession: The very thought of writing this piece seemed really intimidating to me.