I’m from Springfield (yes, that Springfield), and I’m here to tell you a cat...
By now you’ve probably heard more than you ever cared to about Springfield, Ohio. Thanks to the nonsense of Messrs. Trump and Vance, my hometown is receiving the 15 minutes of fame it didn’t ask for...
View ArticleHarris-Trump debate is a reminder that insecure white masculinity is dangerous
The September 10 debate between Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris and Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump was a referendum on gender and the U.S. presidency—Trump’s, that is....
View Article5 tactics for transforming failure into success
When you were a teenager, did you ever do anything you later regretted? Perhaps it was something so outrageous you later couldn’t begin to explain your own behavior. Or maybe it was something so...
View ArticleHow to create a useful agenda for any type of meeting
As the former CEO of five ventures and board member of dozens of others, Naeem Zafar has sat in his fair share of meetings. Zafar, a CEO coach who teaches entrepreneurship and innovation at the...
View ArticleStudents ride trains to learn about sustainability and tourism
Title of course Amtrak Tourism: Trains, Cities, and Sustainability What prompted the idea for the course? As a geographer, I wanted to offer a summer study abroad program on sustainability. However,...
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The housing market is strained. Could repurposing federal land be the answer?
Want more housing market stories from Lance Lambert’s ResiClub in your inbox? Subscribe to the ResiClub newsletter. There is a growing push in both the Democratic Party, including from Kamala Harris,...
View ArticleIt’s time to embrace the career pivot
Contributor Judith Humphrey has had a number of jobs over the course of her professional life. After studying music in school, she taught English in Toronto before pivoting to the business world....
View ArticleThe election is really stressing out your employees. Here’s how you can help
Around 73% of Americans report feeling election anxiety. No matter where your political leanings lie, chances are if you watched last week’s debate, you felt it—the stream of news alerts flooding your...
View ArticleA small Texas town has been haunted by a noisy Bitcoin mine. Now, a nearby...
Granbury, Texas—About 150 angry residents gathered in a conference center here on Monday for a public meeting hosted by the state environmental agency regarding Constellation Energy’s proposal to...
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In Appalachia, a new ‘green bank’ could bring solar power and help slash...
This story was originally published by Grist and BPR, a public radio station serving western North Carolina.Gwen Christon runs an IGA grocery store in Isom, a town in eastern Kentucky that struggles...
View ArticleIs AI is making it harder for workers to find jobs?
I am an assistant professor of management and organizations at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management. My research investigates how AI, undergirded by algorithms, is impacting the...
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Meet the bluetooth speaker of air purifiers
Over the last few years, we’ve all become more aware of what’s in the air we breathe—and for good reasons. Among them? The aerosol transmission of COVID-19, an increase in wildfire smoke, and the...
View ArticleCould ‘unbossing’ fix our engagement problem?
We’ve got a bit of an engagement problem brewing in the U.S. and the world, and the traditional coffee break doesn’t seem to be addressing it: 4.8 million fewer employees are feeling the warm fuzzies...
View ArticleGenerative AI promised limitless creation—instead, it’s all about summarization
In the early days of generative AI—aka less than two years ago—we flocked to ChatGPT to marvel at all that we could create: silly haikus, Shakespearean sonnets, and Seinfeld scenes. Generative AI...
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How Home Depot became the go-to shop for viral Halloween decorations
A common internet joke from a few years back involved going to Target for one thing, and leaving with a cartful of unrelated items. And for the past several years, there’s been a new, very real threat...
View ArticleYour relationships inside and outside of work hinge on micro-interactions....
Micro-interactions are an often unrecognized part of our everyday lives. They are what we say, and don’t say. They are what we listen to and what we ignore, consciously or otherwise. They are the...
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Figma’s new branding is designed for growth mode
There’s an old cliché that you can’t be everything to everyone. Design platforms of late are on a mission to prove otherwise. Figma is the latest example. Today, the company is launching a refreshed...
View ArticleHelp! My coworker keeps DMing me political content on Slack
There are certain social media rules we can all agree on: Ghosting a conversation is impolite, and replying “k” to a text is the equivalent of a backhand slap (violent, wrong, and rude). But what...
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Give Google Calendar an instant event-creating upgrade
Ahem. I’ve come to an extremely important and highly scientific revelation: Approximately 47% of my life is spent dealing with piddly little time-wasters—tasks that seem insignificant in the moment...
View ArticleWhy Hyundai is looking outside its own walls to build a bold new future
Every October, an exhibition in Seoul celebrates the artistic endeavors of ZER01NE, Hyundai Motor Group’s creative talent–nurturing platform. Last year, the theme was 01 HABITAT, which explored the...
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