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The most popular stories on Pocket Brought to you by: Shut Up and Sit Down Joshua Rothman, The New Yorker In politics and business, we lionize leadership. But how much do we really know about what makes a great leader? Save to Pocket SPONSORED Bring Your Tools and Teams Together for Better Collaboration HipChat is your team command center. Integrate 100+ tools such as JIRA, Asana, Trello and Google Hangouts right into your chat room. Start Chatting, It's Free What It’s Really Like to Risk It All in Silicon Valley Claire Cain Miller , The New York Times Before Nathalie Miller decided to walk away from Instacart, the grocery delivery start-up now worth more than $2 billion, she made a spreadsheet to analyze how much money she was leaving on the table. Save to Pocket Curiosity Depends on What You Already Know Zach St. George, Nautilus Humans have a drive to eat. We have a drive to drink. We have a drive to reproduce. Curiosity is no different. Save to Pocket Mental Illness Is a Result of Misery, yet Still We Stigmatise It Richard Bentall, The Guardian Patients are being shunned in the mistaken belief they have biological defects. In fact the evidence shows that most have endured traumas. Save to Pocket The Reactions Geoff Teehan, Medium After nearly a year of work and months of testing, we’re really excited to be launching Reactions and learning more about how it’s used around the world. We’re hopeful everyone likes Reactions now that we’re rolling it out more broadly. Save to Pocket Eight Strategies for Politely Saying No Kristin Wong, Lifehacker Sometimes you just need to say “no” to people. Maybe it’s a friend asking for a favor, and you can’t commit. Maybe it’s your boss asking if you have time for another project, and you don’t. Whatever the scenario, here are a few polite ways to turn someone down. Save to Pocket The New Mind Control Robert Epstein, Aeon The internet has spawned subtle forms of influence that can flip elections and manipulate everything we say, think and do. Save to Pocket After The Gold Rush Jon Evans, Techcrunch The startup gold rush of the last ten years is over. Sorry. Those hordes of ambitious entrepreneurs still stampeding to the Bay Area in the hopes of building their Minimum Viable Product, getting into Y Combinator, and growing their app into the Next Big Thing–they’re already too late. Save to Pocket Some Kids Sell Lemonade. He Starts a Chain. Claire Martin, The New York Times Two summers ago, Jack Bonneau started a lemonade stand to earn some cash. Instead of setting it up on a street corner in his Broomfield, Colo., neighborhood, he and his father, Steve, came up with a more ambitious plan. Jack, then 8, would peddle cups of lemonade at the local farmers’ market throughout the summer. Save to Pocket Like these recommendations? See more in Pocket › Blog Unsubscribe  •   Privacy Policy  •   Sponsor  •   Help Center You are receiving this email because you signed up for Pocket. If you enjoy our curated recommendations, why not forward this email to a friend? Read It Later, Inc., 731 Market Street Suite 410, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA © 2015 Read It Later, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

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