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Jeremy Caplan

7 tools to help block tech distractions

Pause your email, meet a virtual accountability partner, and more.

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Next Big Idea Club

How to be driven to succeed by every metric and still find inner peace

The authors of Shine advise us to understand and accept that being driven is a blessing and a curse, and it’s all about awareness. With awareness, the magic happens.

Gino Wickman is the author of the bestselling, award-winning book Traction, along with six other titles that together have sold over 2 million copies. He is the creator of EOS (Entrepreneurial Operating System), and cofounder of EOS Worldwide, one of the largest business coaching companies in the world.

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Adele Peters

How 3 very different cities are successfully fighting rising rents

In Minneapolis, the median rent has barely risen in seven years. It’s one example of how better housing policy can make a difference.

A record number of Americans can’t afford their rent. A Harvard report earlier this year found that half of U.S. renters are “rent-burdened,” meaning they spend more than 30% of their income on rent and utilities. Twelve million households spend more than half of their income. Evictions are rising. A record number of people are experiencing...

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Grace Snelling

Meow Wolf’s cofounder is building a trippy spa of the future in Austin

A first look at Submersive, an immersive spa concept that will open in 2026.

Fifteen years ago, Corvas Brinkerhoff, cofounder of the immersive arts experience Meow Wolf, was relaxing at a Japanese-style bathhouse in Santa Fe. That’s when he was struck by the idea that would eventually become his next big business venture.

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Nate Berg

Architects transformed these rundown motels into vibrant homes for formerly unhoused families

A new kind of transitional housing for families in Southern California is filling a big gap.

In the Southern California city of Lancaster, on the edge of the Mojave desert, two drab and aging motels have been transformed into a campus of housing that’s bursting with color and purpose. The two motels are now 38 units of transitional housing for families experiencing homelessness.

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Sloan Leo Cowan

What does it mean to ‘queer’ design?

Seven prompts for thinking about design differently.

Looking at the mainstream practice of service design today, something is clearly not working. Over the last decade, service design has evolved into a commodified brand or product—one that has been streamlined, sanitized, and codified into something devoid of personality or individuality.

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Amanda Hoover

Recruiters Are Going Analog to Fight the AI Application Overload

Indeed and LinkedIn are incorporating more generative AI to improve the recruiting and job-hunting processes. Some recruiters are still unconvinced.

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Mark Schofield

Miami Grand Prix 2024: 7 F1 storylines as the grid returns to the United States

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F1 is coming to the United States for the first time this season. Here are the major storylines

Formula 1 is headed back to the United States. Months after the inaugural Las Vegas Grand Prix, the grid will be down in Florida this weekend for the third Miami Grand Prix.

And, as is customary every time F1 makes a trip stateside, the discussion of F1’s popularity in the United States will be a major talking point.

Buoyed by the success of the...

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Emilia David

Financial Times signs licensing deal with OpenAI

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The Financial Times has struck a deal with OpenAI to license its content and develop AI tools, the latest news organization to work with the AI company.

The FT writes in a press release that ChatGPT users will see summaries, quotes, and links to its articles. Any prompt that returns information from the FT will be attributed to the publication.

In return, OpenAI will work with the news organization to develop new AI...

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Don't Be Ashamed, These 33 Products Can Help With Those Embarrassing But Very Human Problems

You'll probably wish you'd found these products forever ago.

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Marjorie Radlo-Zandi

How even the smallest acts of kindness make us happier and healthier

Kindness is also contagious—and science backs that up. This entrepreneur rediscovered that phenomenon when her community pulled together after a wintry blast knocked out power.

When a windy arctic blast raged through the Northeast U.S. this past winter, more than 600,000 people lost power for days. I was one of them. Because we don’t own a generator, our family toughed it out in the freezing cold without power. It tested everyone’s mettle. But when I stepped back from my extreme...

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Inside Climate News

Nixon’s White House was far ahead of its time on climate research. Then it was abandoned

A 1971 plan for a global carbon dioxide monitoring network never came to fruition.

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Andrew Fennell

How to build meaningful professional relationships

These steps can help you build genuine professional relationships that last.

Cultivating meaningful professional relationships can open doors to all kinds of exciting new career opportunities. However, it takes a certain set of skills to be able to build, and keep, these relationships. These skills are vital if you hope to grow your network and progress in your career. 

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Reece Rogers

Apple's iPhone Browser-Choice Option Sucks. Its Competitors Have Ideas to Improve It

European iPhone owners are being shown a new pop-up screen listing alternatives to the Safari browser. The developers of the browsers shown on that screen are torn about the user experience.

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Which "Gilmore Girls" Character Are You Based On The Things You're Drawn To?

Name a better comfort show... I'll wait!

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Baxter Holmes

Suns' firepower can't overcome 'details' in sweep

"Roster-wise, everybody talks about the firepower, but you look around the league: It comes down to the details," Suns guard Devin Booker said after his team was swept out of the playoffs by the Timberwolves.

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Baxter Holmes

Wolves' Finch ruptures patellar tendon in collision

Timberwolves coach Chris Finch was helped off the court late in his team's series-clinching win over the Suns with a ruptured patellar tendon in his right knee after Mike Conley collided with him on the sideline.

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David Gilbert

Why China Is So Bad at Disinformation

China’s state-sponsored disinformation campaign has been running at a massive scale for seven years—but no one is looking at it.

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What Reality TV Dating Show Would You Find Love On?

It's time for your TV romance!

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