personal improvement
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Study Tests Activity Tracking App to Detect DepressionSome of the most popular apps are the health and fitness ones. What if changes in activity level could flag overlooked symptoms of depression? Researchers at Dartmouth College hope that tracking daily physical activities can be good for your mental health, as well as your fitness. | 
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Bringing Games into the WorkplaceWe are becoming busier by the day, juggling multiple responsibilities both inside and outside the ever-competitive workplace that consumes so much of our time. How do we carve out time to accommodate both work and play? It's a tough question to answer, but doing so can produce big results. | 
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Making a Personal PivotCompanies sometimes make changes in organizational direction to improve their futures. Individuals can also make changes in direction―personal pivots. And like companies, individuals who cannot pivot can become stagnant, neither growing nor dying. Read on for more about some changes you could make. | 
Lee Copeland |
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Automation: Testing or Checking? Interactive exploratory testing and organized automated testing seem to be on opposing ends of a spectrum, but much of that depends on how you apply them. Automated tests don't have to be shallow and boring. You can still explore, learn, and create good tests. Read on for more from Hans Buwalda. |
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Can Womens' Diversity Be Found via Exclusion or Inclusion?Conferences and training programs that focus solely on women are on the rise. Although all of this focus on women's diversity is a way to enable them to step up and obtain better prospects, it leaves us to question whether the diversity lies in their exclusion or inclusion as a group. | 
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The Benefits of Public Speaking for TestersIf you're a tester and you've been avoiding public speaking opportunities because you don't think it applies to your work, you don't know what you would talk about, or you're just nervous to present in front of people, you should change your mind. Public speaking has several benefits for testers. |
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The Keys to Improving Employee Morale You can have the most talented, experienced team of tech professionals all under one roof, but if they don’t have high morale, success will be hard to reach. That’s why a group like Plasticity Labs—which uses data analytics to gauge workplace morale—can even exist. |
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How to Be Successful at Work—and Everywhere Else It would be wonderful if success at work were as easy as following five simple steps, like you may be led to believe from many article titles. Still, an occasional glance at advice about how to be successful is worthwhile. Read on for attributes and practices that can help you down the right path. |
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