Parkinson’s Law: “Work expands to fill the time available for its completion.” By Yvonne Milosevic How many meetings a week have you been having since the pandemic began? According to a Dialpad survey, many professionals spend up to a third of their workweek mired in meetings. And a Microsoft…
By Yvonne Milosevic Few people debate the virtues of sleep. Or about how getting enough of it improves our cognitive performance at work or school. But researchers at the UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School have looked at slumber from an unexpected angle. They wanted to learn…
By Yvonne Milosevic Here at the Blacklight, we’ve shared strategies for improving your motivation a time or two. Today, we’re coming at this from a new angle: namely, that motivation is overrated. You read right—you can succeed even when you’re feeling utterly unenthusiastic. This isn’t to say you should abandon…
By Yvonne Milosevic Productivity hacks are our jam at the Blacklight, as seen here, here, and here. Today we’ve got two new ones on the agenda: deep work and deep breaks. These practices go together like PB&J, milk and cookies, and, if it’s after 5 o’clock, gin and tonic. But…
A Day of Disconnect to Help You Reconnect By Yvonne Milosevic Let’s all say this together: Hello! My name is __________, and I’m a smartphone zombie. ICYMI, cell phone addiction now has a proper clinical name: nomophobia (no-mobile-phone-phobia). Symptoms include that panicky feeling you get…
These bedtime habits set you up for happier workdays. By Yvonne Milosevic What does your typical evening routine look like? If you’re like many people, the hours between dinner and bedtime usually get filled up binge-watching shows on Netflix, checking work emails, and scrolling through…
By Yvonne Milosevic If you’re one of the millions of people fighting a constant battle against digital distractions, Stanford MBA and former GSB lecturer Nir Eyal wants you to know that all hope is not lost. In his new book Indistractable: How to Control Your…
By Yvonne Milosevic Is the morning commute making you miserable AF? You might be feeding those sour feelings if things like music or social media browsing occupy your mind during your transpo time, Harvard researchers have found. Yup, it sounds bonkers. But the ways we’ve…
By Robin Madell Today’s poor choices can morph into tomorrow’s bad habits. Research from a classic study on habit formation found that it takes just over two months on average for an action to become habitual. That’s not long in the span of your career…
In our interview series What’s Your Wish, we bring you kick-ass career and life insights from inspiring business leaders. Find out how they landed where they are today. What makes them tick. How they have overcome obstacles. Advice they would offer to recent graduates. And always,…