How to Lower Your Monthly Broadband Costs · The Wall Street Journal
Daniel Goleman || Mindfulness and Emotional Intelligence · Scott Barry Kaufman
Spotify – GXO's CIO on the Past, Present, and Future of Warehouses - Odd Lots | Podcast on Spotify
Our ever-changing “friendscapes” · Axios
Best of The New Way We Work: How to avoid the biggest resume mistakes · Fast Company
Breakthrough Infections, Explained · The New York Times
61. Should We Just Ignore Our Weaknesses? · Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher
Opinion | The majority of Americans lack a college degree. Why do so many employers require one?
Employers have been sleepwalking into a system that screens out the majority of workers, including millions of people who possess sought-after skills.
Spotify – The Building Blocks of Language - The Pulse | Podcast on Spotify
Systems Leadership for Disruptors and Incumbents · Andreessen Horowitz
Demographic Research - Probabilistic forecasting of maximum human lifespan by 2100 using Bayesian population projections
Volume 44 (2021) - Article 52 | Pages 1271–1294
World population ages 100 and up to grow eightfold by 2050, UN projects | Pew Research Center
The world was home to nearly half a million people ages 100 and older in 2015, more than four times as many as in 1990. And this growth is expected to accelerate.
37. Sendhil Mullainathan Thinks Messing Around is the Best Use of Your Time · Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher
He’s a professor of computation and behavioral science at the University of Chicago, MacArthur “Genius Grant” recipient, and author. Steve and Sendhil laugh their way through a conversation about the importance of play, the benefits of change, and why we remember so little about the books we’ve read — and how Sendhil’s new app solves this problem.
15 of the Most Important Lessons from Financial Independence Blogs | NewRetirement
Some people retire in their 20s and 30s. What's the secret? Here are top lessons from the most popular financial independence blogs.
Covid-19 Forced More Americans to Juggle Working From Home and Child Care
A Labor Department survey shows the extent to which working parents, particularly women, have multitasked.
Americans’ Medical Debts Are Bigger Than Was Known, Totaling $140 Billion
A new study finds that health care has become the country’s largest source of debt in collections. Those debts are largest where Medicaid wasn’t expanded.
Uber And Lyft Drivers Are Being Carjacked at Alarming Rates – The Markup
The Markup confirmed 124 carjackings and attempted carjackings of ride-hail drivers across the country. Drivers say the companies are doing little to help
Pokemon Go still catches 'em all after 5 years
Mobile game boasts $1.4bn in global revenue, more than in first year
Mysterious blue crab shortage spawns big-time sticker shock - E&E News
While the coronavirus pandemic shuttered restaurants and battered the Mid-Atlantic crab industry last year, 2021 has brought more bad news: skyrocketing prices due to a severe shortage of blue crabs in the Chesapeake Bay. The cause of the shortage is something of a mystery.
Generation Z fears being left behind by the push to remote work
Why the youngest workers seem most eager to go back to the office
4 Home Repairs You Need to Hand Over to a Professional
I hope you all are doing great this week! My family and I are in the midst of a first floor renovation, whilst caring for my wife as she continues to recover from her broken
Why California Housing Is So Expensive – The Antiplanner
Mexico City Could Sink Up to 65 Feet
Due to a phenomenon called subsidence, the metropolis's landscape is compacting—and parts of the city are now dropping a foot and a half each year.
Prices on the rise · Vox
Matt is joined by economist Julia Coronado to talk about inflation, markets, and employment in the pandemic recovery economy. They discuss housing, new and used car markets, and possible strategies toward achieving full employment.
Spotify – Introducing Tech Tonic: You Can’t Always Get What you Quant - FT News Briefing | Podcast on Spotify
New York's retail rents set another record low, but restaurants are starting to sign leases again
Food and beverage tenants were the most active in signing retail leases across Manhattan during the second quarter, according to a CBRE study.
Exclusive: Most Americans favor faster shipping over shopping sustainably
Americans are split—who’s surprised?—on whether it’s crucial for retailers to be sustainable, says a new Retail Brew/Harris Poll survey.
Spotify – You Will Never Breathe the Same Again - Your Undivided Attention | Podcast on Spotify
When author and journalist James Nestor began researching a piece on free diving, he was stunned. He found that free divers could hold their breath for up to 8 minutes at a time, and dive to depths of 350 feet on a single breath. As he dug into the history of breath, he discovered that our industrialized lives have led to improper and mindless breathing, with cascading consequences from sleep apnea to reduced mobility. He also discovered an entire world of extraordinary feats achieved through proper and mindful breathing — including healing scoliosis, rejuvenating organs, halting snoring, and even enabling greater sovereignty in our use of technology. What is the transformative potential of breath? And what is the relationship between proper breathing and humane technology?
How Blue Cities Became So Outrageously Unaffordable · Ezra Klein Show - NYT
Jerusalem Demsas is a policy reporter at Vox who covers a range of issues from housing to transportation. And the central question her work asks is this: Why is the party that ostensibly supports big government doing ambitious things constantly failing to do just that, even in the places where it holds the most power?
Testosterone's Role in COVID-19
COVID-19 consistently displays a higher mortality in males. This sex-specific difference in outcomes is seen not only in the current COVID-19 pandemic, but also in prior viral epidemics and pandemics. Sex hormones, such as testosterone, play a clear role ...