How Billionaires Like Bill Gates And Elon Musk Are Enjoying The 2024 Olympics

A generation that was once ridiculed for its pop-culture preferences is now both being catered to and calling the shots, from reboots to concerts to Happy Meals. It’s a good time to be a millennial. At least, it is for anyone who enjoys being the cultural marketplace’s new favorite customer.

Any prepared candidate will come ready to answer common interview questions. But how can you tell if someone is a good leader? Welcome to Work Smarter, Fast Company‘s newsletter on career, leadership, and productivity advice. You can sign up to receive this newsletter every week here.

Claude has quietly become one of the most powerful AI tools. Here’s how to best utilize the large language model. This article is republished with permission from Wonder Tools, a newsletter that helps you discover the most useful sites and apps. Subscribe here.

While workers in well-paid jobs have bargaining leverage to assert their legal rights, others in lower-paid jobs face minimal protection and risk direct exploitation in a four-day working week. The U. K. government has announced a proposal that would give workers the right to request a four-day working week.

Human health, economic inequality, the environment, food safety, food waste, biodiversity, or even the composition of the upper atmosphere . . . as many problems have been created or enabled by refrigeration as have been solved by it. Nicola Twilley is the coauthor of Until Proven Safe: The History and Future of Quarantine, named one of the best books of 2021 by Time, NPR, The Guardian, and the Financial Times.

Competition can be healthy, but not when it pits coworkers against each other. Here’s how to build a cooperative environment at work. If you want to get ahead, you’ve got to be ready to take on your competitors. You might adopt an “every person for themselves” approach, doing whatever it takes to gain an advantage.