Tag: Business

From crypto to farmland, ‘alts’ are all the rage with younger investors. Experts say to exercise caution. It’s hard to blame young investors for losing faith in the stock markets over the past year, given that the S&P 500 is down around 15% year-to-date. Even so, most financial experts would still likely tell millennial and Gen Z investors to trust in the market’s ability to bounce back—after all, it always has, historically speaking.Read Full Story

Everything is going wrong at just the wrong time for Musk. The train wreck that is Twitter under Elon Musk continues to see more dysfunction seemingly every day. In the past 24 hours, Musk has put controversial anti-Semite Kanye West into temporary Twitter jail for tweeting an image of a swastika inside a Star of David—something West did hours after praising Hitler during an interview with conspiracy theorist Alex Jones.Read Full Story

More than 30 companies participated in a 6-month pilot to test how well a 4-day workweek worked. The results saw more productivity, less burnout, and higher job satisfaction. Last April, Kickstarter became one of the latest companies to test a four-day workweek. Salaries stayed the same, but employees got Fridays off. (Monday through Thursday, they worked a regular eight-hour schedule.) Like other businesses that have made the shift, the crowdfunding giant saw counterintuitive results: Despite the drop in hours, productivity grew.Read Full Story

From immersive installations to licensed goods, color trends are a big business. “Viva Magenta” could’ve been a lyric plucked from a Coldplay song. Instead, it’s an expression of exclamation for Pantone’s Color of the Year 2023. “It’s like celebrating life,” says Laurie Pressman, the vice president of the Pantone Color Institute.Read Full Story

Will human biases prevent us from enjoying computer-generated creative works? A writer sulks, stumpedThen computers take controlAnd, the job is doneRead Full Story

The controversial rapper has been booted from Twitter yet again, this time under Elon Musk’s watch. Ye, the rapper formerly known as Kanye West, has just discovered that even Elon Musk’s version of Twitter has limits on “free speech.” Musk confirmed on Friday that Ye has been suspended from the platform—again. The suspension of Ye’s Twitter account comes after the rapper tweeted a photo of a swastika inside the Star of David, reports The New York Times.Read Full Story

On December 3, 1982, John Warnock and Chuck Geschke started a company to make visual communication better. It’s still at work on that challenge—and its horizons have never stopped expanding. “That was magic.”Read Full Story

I’ve always thought I was a comedian. Basketball players can do this job for only 20 years. So I don’t have a lot of time to accomplish what I want. Every game is a big game for me. I’m always going to find ways to make myself better, but I think it’s because I feel like I haven’t accomplished anything. I haven’t won a championship. When I got [to Florida, from Cameroon], I was 16. I had just started playing basketball. I didn’t know English. That was the first time being away from home and having to take care of myself. I wasn’t expecting to get to the NBA. I just wanted to come to high school and get a scholarship for college. The main thing that I dealt with was not even basketball. I lost my little brother in 2014 out of nowhere. That was a big shock. Then being hurt for two years [with a broken foot] and not being able to get on the court was hard. But you’ve got to keep working hard, even through those inju

There’s a balance between the necessity to go as far as possible to get your story and safety. I’m based in Germany but work in Ukraine. I have assignments around the world. Boundaries between work and life have blurred, and the word schedule does not exist anymore. On an intense assignment, such as a conflict or a humanitarian crisis, you’re working all the time. [At the Associated Press], we have training sessions. They include first aid, behavior in conflict zones, and negotiations. There’s a balance between the necessity to go as far as possible to get your story and safety. It takes a mental toll. It’s important not to go into denial. Humans can survive any traumatic event if they know why. The hardest thing for a human being is to suffer and to not understand why. When I see terrible things, I know why this is happening to me—I made a choice to be there. I have a favorite photographer, Reza Deghati. He took a photograph of an o

Let’s examine some of the pros and cons of the four-day workweek. Although the 40-hour workweek has been standard for over 80 years, advancements in technology and efficiency in the workplace have decreased the time it takes to accomplish a task. You may have noticed your employees now have more time on their hands, although the signs could be subtle: an uptick in internet surfing, more extended lunches, or maybe #watercooler is becoming the most active channel on your company Slack.Read Full Story