Overworked managers keep ghosting their teams
As managers struggle under heightened pressure to do more with less, their staff are feeling ignored, and checking out. The vicious cycle is documented across numerous studies and surveys which...
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This Florida city was hit hard when the 2008 housing bubble burst—now prices...
Want more housing stories from Lance Lambert’s ResiClub in your inbox? Subscribe to the free, daily ResiClub newsletter. At the height of the pandemic housing boom in May 2022, FirstKey Homes, an...
View ArticleWhat I learned about selling as I built a successful company
Everybody needs sales skills. We all have something we want others to buy into, whether it’s an idea we have, a proposal we want supported, or a product we are pushing. When our pitch is successful,...
View ArticleHow to deal with election anxiety, according to a psychiatrist
Instead of excitement about the upcoming election, many of my patients and friends—regardless of political affiliation—report they’re terrified at the thought of the “other side” winning. Democrats...
View ArticleHow U.S. public transit went from racially integrated to divided post-war
Since the 1940s, there has been a broad shift away from public transit across the U.S., and service has declined in many cities, including New York, Boston, Denver, Orlando, and St. Louis. A look back...
View ArticleWill the U.S. ever embrace social housing?
Forget the opera and the Schönbrunn Palace. Some of the hottest tourist attractions in Vienna these days are the city’s social housing complexes. Delegation after delegation of American politicians,...
View ArticleMost managers are stuck maintaining the status quo. This is the mindset shift...
Pop quiz: Which trait do you value most in your organizational leaders? A) Rapid response to emerging issues B) Ability to foster change C) Hand-eye coordination Odds are your gut tells you “A”—that...
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Tim Walz loves camo. Now Democrats do, too
Camo hats, the preferred accessory of hunters and military officers, are about to appear on the heads of your local progressive. And it’s all thanks to Tim Walz. Last week, Kamala Harris announced she...
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This 3D knitting machine could weave your next piece of furniture
The furniture of the future could be made from nothing more than two long strands of yarn. A prototype manufacturing machine developed at Carnegie Mellon University is transforming traditional textile...
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Seven months in, NYC’s hourly pay law has delivery workers earning $19.56—the...
William Medina has been delivering food for DoorDash and Uber Eats in Queens since 2019, when he moved to New York from Bogotá, Colombia. He’s risked his health picking up and delivering food to...
View ArticleWhy Neuralink’s Blindsight and brain implants to restore sight won’t work...
Elon Musk recently pronounced that the next Neuralink project will be a “Blindsight” cortical implant to restore vision: “Resolution will be low at first, like early Nintendo graphics, but ultimately...
View ArticleWhy TikTok’s ‘Underconsumption Core’ trend won’t die
Brands, are you listening? For more than a month now, people across social media have been bragging about the scuffed, worn-out shoes they’ve been wearing since middle school and how they use their...
View ArticleHow rat poison is impacting carnivores worldwide
Rats thrive around humans, for good reason: They feed off crops and garbage and readily adapt to many settings, from farms to the world’s largest cities. To control them, people often resort to...
View ArticleSurvey finds that Gen Z is actually the most likely to create a budget
Millennials were relentlessly ridiculed for their avocado toast consumption; for Gen Z, it’s $7 iced lattes. The stereotypes that younger generations spend too much seem to follow a similar pattern:...
View ArticleWhy competent workers become incompetent managers
Managers play a crucial role in shaping an employee’s experience. For example, research shows that nearly 70% of the variability in employee engagement can be predicted by their managers’ behavior,...
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Why you should look down—not up—when you’re near a skyscraper
When it comes to the world’s tallest buildings, the tendency is to look up. Skyscraping giants are redefining city skylines around the world, from New York to Shanghai to Jeddah. But for all their...
View ArticleHigh-tech clothing can help protect workers from the heat—but not from their...
This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. Nick Lubecki has been an urban farmer in Pittsburgh for the last 15 years. The heat has noticeably intensified...
View Article5 strategies to avoid mid-year burnout this summer
We are officially halfway through summer. And while summer is a time for fun and sun it is also a natural inflection point for taking stock of the year’s progress. And many workers are feeling midyear...
View ArticleWhy this beauty start-up just picked up a major defense contract
Debut Biotechnology was founded to “set a new standard in beauty.” Now it may end up shaping how the Pentagon prepares for war. Since its inception in 2019, the San Diego-based company has presented...
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At a new Tucson high school, students don’t just prepare for health care...
Many former high school students might recall a regular, if bizarre rite of passage: dissecting a frog during biology class. At Pima JTED, or joint technological education district, a new vocational...
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