IKEA is now letting customers pay for goods with their time. Yes, that’s right: the more time customers spend travelling to IKEA, the more they can buy. Because beginning from this month, IKEA Dubai is running a campaign that will allow customers to spend their time as a currency, simply by showing IKEA checkout staff their Google Maps timeline, which proves how much time they’ve spent travelling to IKEA stores.
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3 Ways to Be a Better Listener
As an entrepreneur, you’ve probably developed your emotional intelligence to some measure of success. Yet there is one component of EQ that I notice still needs practice, even among my most successful entrepreneurial colleagues: listening. The practice goes well beyond the simplified difference between “listening” and “waiting for your turn to talk.”
Inside the Making Of ‘Uncut Gems’
The Safdie brothers are at the end of a 10-year road. Uncut Gems, their new gambling thriller with A24 out this Christmas, is their fifth feature film, the second with major distribution, and sixth overall project (not including a handful of shorts). But it’s the script they’ve been conceiving, tweaking, writing, shelving and rewriting for the better part of a decade now, the opus they’ve been building to. The grand summation of their careers thus far. Now that it’s finally out, their labor is validated: Uncut Gems is one of the best movies—if not the best movie—of the year.