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June 3, 2016
From Email Hacks To Landing The Job Offer: This Week's Top Leadership Stories
This week's top stories may help you better manage your email, nail the final-round interview, and set better career goals.
This week we picked up some tips for sending smarter, more effective emails, learned how to set more realistic expectations for our careers, and found out what makes hiring managers offer you the gig after the final-round interview.
5 Steps For Turning "Let's Get A Coffee" Into A Productive Career Move
Networking? An informal interview? Here's what to do when you aren't sure why you're meeting but know it could be useful.
I recently had a "coffee meeting" with a global leader in my field. It had been booked almost three months earlier and had me (happily) taking a car, plane, train, and jitney each way to meet her. We hadn't explicitly set an agenda or defined the purpose of our chat—but all the effort to make it happen was well worth it.
June 2, 2016
Walmart Will Test Grocery Delivery With Uber And Lyft
...but not Instacart or Postmates.
Walmart announced Friday that it will partner with Uber and Lyft for grocery delivery tests beginning in Denver and Phoenix. It has also quietly been testing same-day-delivery via Deliv with some members of its Sam's Club in Miami.
Apple Quietly Hires One of Its Best HealthKit Ambassadors
The iPhone maker has poached Dr. Rajiv Kumar, a pediatric endocrinologist from Stanford Children's Health.
The CEO of a major hospital is confirming that Apple's health team has made yet another secretive hire: Rajiv Kumar, a top doctor who specializes in treating kids with diabetes. Kumar made headlines in the fall of 2015 by creating a HealthKit-enabled diabetes monitoring system for young patients at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford University.
Samsung's New Gear Fit2 Fitness Band Declares Independence From The Smartphone
The company also unveiled a slick new set of earphones that track distance, speed, heart rate, and calorie burn.
Samsung today unveiled the second generation of its Gear Fit health wearable, the Gear Fit2, as well as a new pair of wireless earphones that have a heartbeat monitor built in.
Uber's Trouble In New York City Won't End With Drivers Guild
One month after Uber agreed to work with a drivers association, another driver group has filed a proposed class-action lawsuit against it.
On Thursday, the New York Taxi Workers Alliance (NYTWA) and 10 Uber drivers filed a lawsuit against Uber in a federal court that alleges the company cheated workers by classifying them as independent contractors. Driver plaintiffs in the proposed class action lawsuit say that some weeks they worked more than 40 hours without overtime pay and earned less than the minimum wage, both of which would be illegal if they had been classified as employees.
Check Out The 72 New Emojis Coming Soon To Your Phone Keyboard
An avocado, pregnant woman, and disco man are among the new emoji options.
The Unicode Consortium gods have spoken, and we will soon enjoy 72 new emojis, including facepalm, dying rose, and avocado.
How Voice Interfaces Are Colonizing Our Lives, By The Numbers
Mary Meeker digs up data on how we really use voice control. Hint: Your mom is involved.
If there's one dominant technological paradigm we'll remember about 2016, it's voice. From chatbots to Amazon Echo to conversational interfaces, our voices—and how we use them—are quickly becoming the primary way we interact with computers.
This Ultra-Sustainable Public School Will Have Its Own Urban Farm
When you're eating lunch at Chicago's Academy for Global Citizenship, the food will be from just outside.
In a couple of years, when third graders at a Chicago school go to math or science class, they may head outside to the school's new urban farm.
Here's How A Month Of Zen Meditation Changed My Life
The Buddhist meditation practice is over 1,500 years old, but modern science says it has very real mental and physical health benefits.
On a trip to Japan last year, one of the places I visited was Kyoto, home to over 2,000 Buddhist temples and Shinto shrines. During one of my daily walks exploring the city and its forested borders, I came across the Ryōan-ji temple, one of the most beautiful Buddhist temples in the world. As you would expect, the temple grounds were full of tourists and locals enjoying the cool May breeze. There were also a handful of Buddhist monks actively engaged in Zen meditation. While meditating, these robed monks seemed impervious to any distraction, a huge feat considering the number of people on the grounds that day. Impressive, yes, but no doubt a mastery gained because, well, what else are monks going to do all day?
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