The Pareto principle (also known as the 80-20 rule,^[1] the law of the vital few, and the principle of factor sparsity) states that, for many events, roughly 80% of the effects come from 20% of the causes.

Oh, it has a name

It’s not THE lecture, but a very pragmatic hour lecture on time management.

Not only is GrubHub crazy convenient, they carbon offset too.

with Amazon’s Mechanical Turk system. I spent $27.50 and surveyed 200 people

Polyglot translates randomly selected words on the sites you visit into a language of your choice, allowing you to learn and practice foreign vocabulary words while you browse the Internet. It won’t help with grammar or local idioms, but it’s a great way to quickly memorize all of the root nouns and verbs you’ll encounter.

Awesome, I’m doing this with Japanese

The MiFi released by Virgin Mobile this week ($150) is almost exactly the same thing as the one offered by Verizon and, until recently, Sprint — but there’s a twist that makes it revolutionary all over again.

I’m definitely going to be getting one of these