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The brain science behind making better decisions faster is pretty compelling. Here are a few tactics to try. We’re just off a solid week of the annual Fast Company Innovation Festival and one of the things that stands out to me every year (along with the stellar programming, of course) is the certainty of attendees asking me: “What should I absolutely see and do?” Understandable.

You’ve been laid off. Should you go public with the news—and how? After Ethan Olkovikas lost his marketing communications job in the third round of company layoffs earlier this year, he faced a common decision: To post or not to post about it on LinkedIn.

Instead of trying to gain the upper hand, we might content ourselves with the goodwill we earn by being up-front, honest, and sincere. “Oh, no, I couldn’t possibly . . .” 

Black folks who laugh ‘turned the world upside down and inside out,’ social critic Ralph Ellison wrote in 1985. Just when the summer uproar over Donald Trump calling his potential rival “Laffin’ Kamala” and “Cackling Copilot Kamala Harris” was beginning to subside, an apparent new round of attacks by Trump and other Republicans has emerged recently.

Imperial County happens to be sitting on enough lithium to produce nearly 400 million batteries. Imperial County consistently ranks among the most economically distressed places in California. Its Salton Sea, the state’s biggest and most toxic lake, is an environmental disaster. And the region’s politics have been dominated by a conservative white elite, despite its supermajority Latino population.

Mansions owned by John Powers Middleton, son of the billionaire owner of the Philadelphia Phillies, were unoccupied when squatters moved in to vandalize them. David McNew/Getty ImagesTwo empty Hollywood Hills mansions were taken over by squatters and covered in graffiti. Graffiti on the mansions is similar to tags on other empty luxury properties in Los Angeles.