Weekend Reading: Fear Vs. Greed

While you can’t remove the stress of high-stakes decisions, you can certainly improve your mental clarity. Decision-making is always hard, many of our day-to-day decisions at work come with such costly ramifications if they are incorrect.  Money, layoffs, and client relationships all ride on the ability to make good choices quickly. 

President-elect Donald Trump has said that he hates paying overtime. However, he has also pledged to cut taxes on it. Donald Trump’s first term included many anti-worker policies. His administration rolled back workers’ rights to form unions, made it easier for employers to fire employees, and restricted where and how workers can discuss workplace issues.

The Perplexity CEO recently offered to let the ‘New York Times’ use its tech during a strike, highlighting serious labor concerns with AI. When New York Times tech workers went on strike the day before the election, the newspaper’s publisher, AG Sulzberger, criticized the move, saying it was “troubling that the Tech Guild would try to block [the paper’s] public service at such a consequential moment for our country.” 

Activists rallied around a shared feeling of exclusion from the formal COP process and concerns that the solutions that come out of it are harming their communities. It took Samoan activist Tunaimati’a Jacob Netzler three flights and a bus ride over the course of 24 hours to reach the big climate conference.

It’s a tempting idea, but here’s why the end result could make you blend in with the rest of the applicants. There are two promises of generative AI that seem tailor-made for the job search process. One is that it eases repetitive tasks. The second is that it provides valuable suggestions that could improve your writing.

A new generation of products is designed to curb single-use waste, but experts aren’t sure if it’s a long-term solution. Beauty routines are laden with disposables, with products like makeup wipes, sheet masks, and under-eye patches that spend mere minutes on our faces before being thrown out.