It’s safe to say that Bryan Berg has a job unlike any other. Specifically, he makes Guiness-Record-setting sized card towers without a dab of glue or strip of tape in sight. In Sydney building a replica of the Eiffel Tower as part of a Virgin Frequent Flyer publicity effort, he talked about working in an impromptu fashion, and why sometimes you just have to work through sleep fatigue.

It’s no secret that we’ve loved Mac email client Sparrow since the beginning. Its minimalist design and ability to play so well with Gmail immediately won us over. Google acquired Sparrow last year, taking co-founder Dominique Leca with it. We stole a few minutes out of Dom’s schedule to find out his favourite gadgets, best workday tunes and most-loved inspirations.

Everyone loves satire, right? The Onion and The Daily Show are so popular because we all need a little palate-cleansing humour in our daily news stream. Walt Mosspuppet offers the same: a parodic spin on tech journalism in the form of a curmudgeonly, hilariously un-self-aware puppet.

If you’re at all interested in the science and psychology of motivation, chances are you’ve read Daniel Pink’s bestseller Drive. In it, he argues that three simple things propel us: autonomy (wanting to direct our own lives), mastery (wanting to be good at something) and purpose (wanting to make a difference).

“I recommend everyone either fix your job or quit it.” No one is better suited to dish out this wisdom than Brian Lam. In 2011, after running the show at our sister site Gizmodo for five years, Brian started The Wirecutter. It’s not a blog, and it’s not a news site — it’s simply a guide to the world’s best gadgets.

When journalist Clive Thompson tweeted that he was “kind of slow” in terms of productivity, I had serious doubts. For a writer with so much on his plate (including gigs at Wired and The New York Times Magazine, as well as a book coming out this fall), he must have a few tricks up his sleeve, right?