Chris Anderson, the man behind TED, wants to end email woes with a charter. Ironically, it violates its own rule no 1, by being way longer than necessary. Let’s face it, it all comes down to one rule: Use your brain when sending emails.

How good are your decisions when you have an urgent need to go for a piss? Actually pretty good, better than if you had gone to toilet before. Here’s a article on how seemingly trivial external factors influence the way we make decisions. There’s plenty of them in the text, but here’s one key hint: Next time you ask your boss for a pay rise, make sure you sit on a hard chair and he has a cup of hot coffee in his hands.

I was expecting a good laugh, when I clicked on the headline “Bruce Lee’s Top 20 Tips for Living a Successful Life”. Turns out, that Chinese guy was not only good at hitting people on the head, but also nails when it comes to, well, living a successful life. All you have to do is compile his quotes to a meaningful set of advices. My favourite: Don’t think outside of the box, kill the box.