These 8 tips will help reduce holiday cooking stress
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM Spice up your holiday cooking with these eight helpful and stress-reducing tips and savor the true joy of the season: making merry memories with those you cherish most. Smart store-bought swaps Professionals and home cooks alike agree on a simple principle Read More...
Four benefits of Virtual Reality that go beyond entertainment
Although virtual reality has only been available to the everyday consumer for a few years now, the technology has progressed by leaps and bounds in terms of actually reaching a believable level of reality--one that we might expect to see in video games and movies. Even though VR is being Read More...
Try these simple life hacks to better safeguard your time
Time is precious. If you want to do your best work, then safeguarding the time you dedicate to that work is absolutely essential. With that in mind, here are 3 simple hacks to help you safeguard your time. Burst working: Employees at career advice company The Muse have discovered that the most Read More...
Do you get bored talking to strangers? Try this next time you talk to one
Conversations with strangers can go one of two ways. Some are unyieldingly boring—an exchange of information in which neither side reveals more about themselves than could be gleaned from LinkedIn. But in some interactions there’s an alchemy at work, the meeting of two minds sparking a change Read More...
Want to spare your iPhone’s battery life? Put it on dark mode
OK. We recognize that not all of our readers are owners of an iPhone, but if you are one, keep reading. According to new tests done by PhoneBuff, putting your iPhone in dark mode can significantly improve your phone’s battery life. Using two identical devices, one in light and one in dark mode, Read More...