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Sunday, November 02, 2014

NFTRW Weekly Top Five

Here are the top five comment generating posts of the past week:

20+ Beautiful Modern Staircases

Design Milk: We’re constantly running across photos of truly jaw dropping staircases. So much of the time, stairs look as if they were ignored until the last minute of the design process, but not in these cases.

Why Business Cards Still Matter (and How to Effectively Use Yours)

lifehacker.com: With most business being done digitally, you might think that business cards don't matter anymore. But they can offer a lot. Here's why they're still important for business and how you can get the most out of yours.

Polyes Q1 aims to be the first child-safe 3D sketching pen

www.gizmag.com: Startup company Future Make 3D is developing the Polyes Q1, a 3D pen with a slew of safety features that aims to make it fun and safe for everyone – children included – to sketch out three-dimensional sculptures made of plastic. The cordless, USB-charged pen will come with standard, glow-in-the-dark, transparent and temperature-changing inks and is set to hit Kickstarter sometime next month.

How to Decide What to Delegate

Tuts+ Business Tutorial: The answer is to delegate more effectively, so that you can spend less time on minutiae and more time on strategic decisions. But that’s not always as easy as it sounds. You may need to hire extra staff, meaning more expense. And if you don’t do it right, you can end up creating problems for yourself and your business. There are some key tasks, for example, that you just shouldn’t delegate.

LA Agent to Producer: "I Don't Do Women Directors"

Women and Hollywood: While infuriating, sexist, and unjust, this sentiment really does not surprise me. Here's why: Women are not given the opportunities to direct the big-budget movies that generate large fees for agents. And agents' jobs are to make deals happen.

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