Bill and Melinda Gates said software is making school textbooks obsolete, and it could save college students thousands of dollars

View online           Strategy Select           Bill and Melinda Gates said software is making school textbooks obsolete, and it could save college students thousands of dollars   Not only is technology making physical textbooks "a thing of the past," Bill and Melinda Gates wrote, but it's making education cheaper, too.   READ MORE           A neuroscientist says a simple question can defuse the anxiety you feel when your morning alarm goes off   According to one scientist, that feeling of morning dread could really just be your body trying to tell you something.   READ MORE           The biggest hurdle to closing the American skills gap isn't money or resources   Vocational training and apprenticeships will only become more important in the US over the next 20 years.   READ MORE             People are so attached to their phones that they're missing out on a resource successful people have used for centuries   Spending time alone — without your phone or computer — is linked to greater creativity, productivity, and happiness. You need to do it more often.   READ MORE           A former Google exec has some counterintuitive advice for anyone who wants to be a good boss   A boss should warn employees that, at some point, they'll mess something up — and it's the employees' job to call them out on it.   READ MORE           An NYSE exec who spent a week resisting email for 7 hours a day quickly caved to her inbox, but took away a productivity strategy she uses to this day   Betty Liu, an executive at the New York Stock Exchange, once tried an experiment in which she didn't check her email from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.   READ MORE           At 19, I left my job to build a billion-dollar company. But I didn't do it, and considered myself a failure for years until I made a critical change in my thinking   In 2011, Sahil Lavingia left his job to build Gumroad, which he dreamed would become a billion-dollar company. It didn't — and he's fine with it.   READ MORE           Was this email forwarded to you? SUBSCRIBE NOW     Share this     You received this email because you signed up to the Business Insider newsleitter using the email: ipat39@gmail.com   Email preferences Unsubscribe TERMS OF SERVICE PRIVACY POLICY 1 Liberty Plaza, 8th Floor. New York, NY 10006