Daily Links 12-2-13

Good morning. Here are a few links to help start out your week. In today's edition: how to use e-mail more efficiently, learning from Ananias and Sapphira, how to be amazing at work, and more.

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The sudden deaths of Ananias and Sapphira in Acts 5 should serve as a warning to Christians. J. D. Greear offers five lessons we should take away from this story.

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Productivity hack: using an e-mail autoresponder to help manage your inbox more efficiently. The beauty of this hack is it eliminates the need  for you to respond immediately and helps manage expectations of when people can expect to hear from you.

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Some very cool Dr. Who themed tea swag.

The TARDIS tea pot. Yes, it's bigger on the inside.

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Five tips on how you can stand out from the crowd at work.

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In 1963, 16 year-old Bruce McAllister was sick of hearing about symbolism in novels. But rather than argue with his teacher about it he went to the source: he wrote to 150 novelists and asked them about symbolism in their own novels. Amazingly, he got quite a few responses. Just goes to show it pays to correspond with novelists.

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25(!) brand names that are used as everyday words. I didn't realize that there were that many.