David Lidsky's Blog, page 391

New York law now mandates that major retail stores add ‘panic buttons’ for workers

Your Walmart cashier might have a new button under their register soon.

You’ve heard of Panic! At The Disco—well, how about panic buttons at the Costco?

2,000 employees to lose jobs as LL Flooring, formerly Lumber Liquidators, ceases operations

The company closed nearly 100 stores earlier this year.

LL Flooring, a competitor of Home Depot and Lowe’s, is going out of business. The company, founded in 1993 and previously called Lumber Liquidators, has been one of the biggest flooring suppliers in the U.S. for decades. 

UNESCO says ‘selfie-tourism’ is destroying the world’s best landmarks

The tsunami of people looking for a picture perfect social media post is damaging our cultural and natural landmarks.

We are destroying civilization one photograph at a time. Don’t take it from me. Take it from UNESCO—the United Nations’ branch in charge of defending humanity’s cultural heritage—which is is calling a three-alarm fire on the destructive rise of “selfie tourism.”

Say goodbye to static user interfaces

The future is generative interfaces, which evolves based on user interactions and preferences.

What if the apps and websites you use every day adapted to your needs in real time? If they instantly generated the exact content and functions you need, when you need them?

Telegram CEO Durov says the messaging app will tackle criticism of how it moderates content

Durov said Telegram had already disabled new media uploads to a stand-alone blogging tool ‘which seems to have been misused by anonymous actors.’

Telegram boss Pavel Durov said on Friday that the messaging app would tackle criticism of its content moderation and remove some features that had been abused for illegal activity.

How to start assuming the best in people

Humans have a natural instinct that can cause us to assume the worst, says this expert. But there’s value in fighting against this temptation.

The person who cuts in front of you in line is a jerk. The neighbor with a sign promoting a ballot measure you disagree with is evil. And the coworker who has an opinion different from yours is uneducated. 

Seven & i rejects Couche-Tard’s $38.5 billion takeover bid

A Seven & i takeover would eclipse the existing largest-ever foreign buyout in Japan.

Japanese retail giant Seven & i Holdings said on Friday it had turned down Canada’s Alimentation Couche-Tard’s $38.5 billion cash bid, rejecting an offer that would be the largest-ever foreign buyout of a Japanese company.

The growing movement to help workers achieve digital balance

More companies are encouraging their employees to achieve better digital balance, empowering them to disconnect after work hours.

If Carly Taylor was going back to in-person work, she had some ground rules. There would be no more after-work responses to her Slack and email. She was willing to go “above and beyond” in the digital days, but now she believed in her right to log off.

6 myth-busting facts about entrepreneurship and poverty

With the right kind of support, people in poverty can create a path to prosperity.

Nearly one in 5 people in the world lives in poverty. Even in many developed countries such as the U.S., poverty rates exceed 12%. In an age of breathtaking technological progress and dynamic social change, poverty remains stubbornly persistent.

‘Historic mistake’: Yellen issues warning about possible future of clean energy legislation

Without mentioning Trump, Yellen said that eliminating the IRA’s clean energy tax credits ‘would be a historic mistake.’

U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Thursday warned that any attempts to roll back the Biden administration’s clean energy tax credits would raise costs for families and jeopardize new investments in U.S. manufacturing that are creating jobs.