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April 12, 2016
How To Avoid Being Replaced By A Robot
Your job will probably be affected by automation, but the future isn't as bleak as it seems. Here's 5 steps to remain relevant and employed.
The fear of job loss due to automation is no longer relegated to only physical-labor manufacturing jobs and relatively simple transaction-based, customer-service workers (i.e., bank tellers, grocery store clerks, and travel agents). Companies are increasingly adopting sophisticated "cognitive" technologies across a new swath of knowledge-worker jobs in fields such as finance, health care, and insurance.
How Can You Tell If A Goal Is Achievable And Realistic?
Goals that are too easy or hard aren't compelling, but hitting the sweet spot in between may be as challenging as your goals themselves.
Like many people, I set New Year's resolutions. I'm a longtime runner, and this year, I challenged myself to hit a certain speed goal on the treadmill by March 31.
Three Habits Of The Most Creative Problem Solvers
Innovative thinkers can sometimes make a mess of things before they find a solution, but they have the stamina to keep looking.
Some people are better at getting out of tough challenges than others. Many of them, at least in our experience, are entrepreneurs. But all of them are creative, innovative thinkers.
April 11, 2016
25 Incredibly Useful Free Sites And Services
Save time, protect your privacy, stash some cash, and more with these no-cost wonders.
With all the mobile technology that's available today, sometimes it's easy to overlook the lowly desktop web browser. But that big, nimble rectangle of connected, glowy goodness has continued its course as an indispensible tool over the years.
Sesame Street's Newest Muppet Is A Purple Feminist From Afghanistan
Meet Zari, a muppet with a vision for female empowerment.
[image error]A new Muppet is on the scene, and she happens to be a super-cool feminist living in Afghanistan.
John Oliver On Why Your Credit Score Is Probably BS
Those three little numbers are a wildly infallible proxy for credit-worthiness.
John Oliver has finally said what we're all secretly thinking: Credit reports are a sham.
Messenger Chatbots Likely To Top The Agenda At Facebook's F8 This Week
Other big topics will include Instant Articles, Live Video, 360 Video, and much more.
When more than 2,000 people descend on San Francisco this week for Facebook's annual two-day F8 developers conference, their discussions and decisions will have a huge impact on how you and 1.59 billion other people around the world use the social network. Topping the bill, by all accounts, is the company's foray into chatbots that allow users to order products directly through Messenger.
Fisher-Price Taps Jonathan Adler To Make Baby Gear Chic
Leave it to Adler to make toys as beautiful as home decor.
[image error] Enter The 2016 Innovation By Design Awards now through May 5!Fisher-Price might be known for some of the world's most iconic toys, but sales have stagnated. So Mattel, Fisher-Price's parent company, has enlisted star designer Jonathan Adler as creative director to reimagine the line as "happy chic" home decor. Adler will debut his first Fisher-Price toys, baby gear, infant clothing, and bedding for the company in 2017.
"Catastrophe" Star Sharon Horgan On Writing Roles For Herself Nobody Else Was Writing
The creator/star of Catastrophe talks about how her writing career began, collaborating with Rob Delaney, and why she is now spoiled.
To have any chance of finding characters she actually wanted to play, Sharon Horgan discovered early on that she'd have to write them herself.
Your Future Home Will Be Designed For Sharing (By Airbnb)
The rental company is considering the next step: designing spaces made specifically for homeowners who want to easily rent out spare rooms.
Joe Gebbia, Airbnb's cofounder and chief product officer, likes to observe the simple ways that Airbnb hosts "hack" their homes in order to take on guests. He stayed with one New York City mother who had a bunk bed in her son's room, so she could rent the master bedroom. Others build extra storage space, for sheets and towels and the like, or install electronic locks. He has a list of more than 50 examples made by talking with Airbnb hosts around the world.
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