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May 31, 2016
How Overachieving Parents Can Avoid Ruining Their Kids' Lives
A psychologist shares four strategies to help parents avoid boxing their kids into narrow definitions of success.
In the corporate world, success is pretty easy to define. You can tell how well you're doing by your job title, your salary, your company's profit margin, your annual review. But when you come home, how do these notions of accomplishment bleed into how you treat your kids?
Business Leaders Share Their Biggest Concerns About The Future Of Business
From a lack of diversity to the political landscape, business people in the thick of it convey their worries.
What's keeping today's business leaders up late at night? A lot. Blame it on the upheaval of 2016's presidential election, the debt crisis in Europe, falling oil prices, or what to make of China's slowdown. Modern business leaders know that any concern in the world can quickly become an immediate threat in their own corner of the world, as we've become more interconnected and dependent on one another.
This Is The Secret To Keeping Secrets
Ethics aside, these are the psychological reasons why it's so hard not to spill the beans.
Ever have someone share a piece of information in confidence and ask you not to tell it to anyone else—then you spilled the beans anyway? Of course you did! You're human. Some of us are better at keeping secrets than others. In order to understand why—and what makes the temptation to break the silence on others' secrets run so high—you first need to understand the psychology of secrecy itself.
In The Future We'll All Have Multiple Jobs
Robots may replace us at menial tasks, but we are more likely to be moonlighting to advance our careers in the future.
The latest report from Adobe reveals that a majority (70%) of U.S. office workers report loving their jobs. In fact, they love work so much, they spend a lot of off hours thinking about it, and are likely to have a second job to help them improve the first.
May 28, 2016
The Crucial Thing Commencement Speakers Get Wrong About Success
As one writer sees it, social media and commencement speeches both leave us with grand narratives that can do more harm than good.
In a speech at Singularity University a few years ago, Google founder Larry Page told a rapt audience that he evaluates prospective companies and entrepreneurs by a single metric: Asking them if what they're working on is something that could "change the world."
3 Unrealistic Career Goals You Need To Abandon
Life doesn't happen on a schedule, and neither should your career.
Setting goals is par for the course when it comes to your career. Whether it's for the near future like "land a new job within three months" or long term, like "become partner at the firm in 10 years," it's natural to make plans.
May 27, 2016
Jaunt CEO Steps Down, VR Company Now Looking For A Growth-Oriented Replacement
Disney was the lead investor on a $65 million round in the company last year.
The CEO of Jaunt, one of the most high-profile virtual reality companies, is stepping down.
Watch Tony Hawk Show Off His Mad Skills in Zero Gravity
Hawk proves he can skateboard in just about any condition, including near weightlessness.
Remember that episode of the Nickelodeon show Rocket Power, where Otto and the crew visit Tony Hawk's secret lair—dubbed The Hawk's Nest—and roller blade, skateboard, and snowboard through a veritable skaters' wonderland until they meet a cartoon Tony Hawk?
There's Little Energy In Congress For Making Encryption Law
The bill with the highest profile, Burr-Feinstein, is little more than a giveaway to the FBI and NSA.
Don't look for Congress to make a law on government access to encrypted data anytime soon. As members rush for the airport before the Memorial Day break, the high-profile standoff between Apple and the FBI over encryption backdoors is likely far from the top of their minds.
The Inside Story Of Donald Trump's Only High-Tech Venture
The Republican nominee's foray into interactive TV was an "early version of Netflix" but it didn't catch on.
A federal appeals court judge held a hearing in D.C. to criticize independent counsel Kenneth Starr for news leaks about his investigation into President Bill Clinton's affair with Monica Lewinsky. Saving Private Ryan dominated the box office and Brandy and Monica's "The Boy Is Mine" sat at the top of the charts. And First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton spoke before the nation's largest Latino civil rights group, urging Latinos to get high-tech skills because "the 21st century will be ruthless."
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