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Why Some People Get Burned Out and Others Dont - (No paywall) Everyone faces stress at work, but some people are able to handle the onslaught of long hours, high pressure, and work crises in a way that wards off burnout. You can get better at handling stress by making several mental shifts: Don’t be the source of your stress. Resist your perfectionist tendencies and your drive for constant high achievement. Recognize when you’re being too hard on yourself, and let go. Recognize your limitations. Don’t try to be a hero. If you don’t have the ability or bandwidth to do something, be honest with yourself and ask for help. Reevaluate your perspective. Do you view a particular situation as a threat to something you value? Or do you view it as a problem to be solved? Change how you see the situation to bring your stress levels down.
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WorkWorkSo, Trump's Helicopter Crash Story Is Just a Crazy Lie? - Intelligencer (No paywall)
 Donald Trump said a lot of wacky things during his August 8 press conference at Mar-a-Lago, as he is wont to do. He claimed Kamala Harris, a former California attorney general, “couldn’t pass the bar exam” (she failed the first time and passed a year later). He said he drew a bigger crowd for his January 6, 2021, “Stop the Steal” rally than Martin Luther King Jr. did for his “I Have a Dream” speech (the crowd at the 1963 March on Washington was about 25 times bigger).
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WorkWorkWhy Ethiopia and Nigeria must press on with reforms - The Economist (No paywall)
For YEARS Nigeria and Ethiopia, sub-Saharan Africa’s second- and third-biggest economies, defied the market orthodoxy embraced elsewhere on the continent. But reform is in the air. Barely a year into his term, Bola Tinubu, Nigeria’s president, has twice let the naira depreciate. At the end of July, meanwhile, Ethiopia floated the birr and received an IMF programme as a reward. In both countries reform-minded technocrats are now at the helm of the central bank.
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WorkWorkVideo shows shocking moment passenger plane crashes
Tens of millions of commercial flights across the globe occur each year, with crashes occurring from time to time. The International Air Transport Association reported in February that, 2023 was the safest year for air travel by many metrics, with one accident for every 1.26 million flights.
WorkMDMA therapy didn't get FDA approval. Now what?
The FDA has decided not to approve MDMA therapy for the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder, dealing an unexpected blow to the growing movement to raise psychedelics from the underground as a new, strangely powerful type of medicine. Work
WorkElon Musk Is Trashing San Francisco. Tech Founders Say They Still Love It - Inc.com (No paywall)
Earlier this week, an internal memo revealed that X is closing its headquarters in San Francisco's Mid-Market neighborhood and moving employees to its San Jose offices, The New York Times reported. X owner Elon Musk had previously criticized San Francisco on the social media platform, complaining about both taxes and crime, and stated that he would be moving the company's headquarters to Texas. WorkIRS Resumes Processing Employee Retention Credit Claims, With Added Scrutiny - Inc.com (No paywall)
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) just gave some good news to business owners still waiting for the agency to process and pay their pandemic-era Employee Retention Credit (ERC) claims. The IRS announced Thursday it has resumed handling applications, after pausing that activity in September. The bad news? There's a higher risk of companies being rejected--especially if they filed at the urging of third-party application service providers.
WorkBusiness Leaders Unite to 'Expand Equity' at TIME's Martha's Vineyard Event
In the walk-up to a historic election season and a time where republicans have repeatedly labeled Vice President Kamala Harris as the “DEI candidate,” TIME and the W.K. Kellogg Foundation hosted a dinner and panel discussion on Martha’s Vineyard called “Expanding Equity: The Power of Purposeful Leadership.” WorkWhat's About to Change For People Buying and Selling Homes
It was huge news at the time: the National Association of Realtors (NAR) agreed in March to pay $418 million and make changes to how the home-buying process works in order to settle a class-action lawsuit that alleged the industry conspired to make agent commissions higher than they needed to be. WorkSusan Wojcicki, Former Chief of YouTube, Dies at 56
When she became YouTube’s chief executive in 2014, Ms. Wojcicki was hailed as the most powerful woman in advertising. She had made Google enormously profitable and was expected to repeat the trick at YouTube. She led Google’s ad business and played a key role in its acquisition of DoubleClick, an advertising technology company, in 2007. WorkWorkWhat We Know About the Plane Crash in Brazil
Videos filmed by people on the ground in Vinhedo showed the aircraft slowly spinning horizontally as it fell from the sky. The loud rumbling of a plane’s engine could be heard. After the plane disappeared from view near a gated community, a giant plume of black smoke was seen rising from the spot. WorkWorkWorkFormer YouTube CEO Susan Wojcick dies, aged 56
Wojcicki, one of the most prominent women in tech, stepped down from her role at YouTube in 2023, a position she held for nine years, saying she wanted to “start a new chapter focused on my family, health and personal projects I’m passionate about”. WorkWorkPrediction: This Stock Will Be Warren Buffett's Top Performer by 2030
American Express is an advertising partner of The Ascent, a Motley Fool company. Brett Schafer has no position in any of the stocks mentioned. The Motley Fool has positions in and recommends Apple, Berkshire Hathaway, Mastercard, and Visa. The Motley Fool recommends the following options: long January 2025 $370 calls on Mastercard and short January 2025 $380 calls on Mastercard. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy. WorkWhy people have fallen out of love with dating apps - The Economist (No paywall)
When Tinder, a mobile dating app, launched on college campuses in America in 2012, it quickly became a hit. Although online dating had been around since Match.com, a website for lonely hearts, launched in 1995, it had long struggled to shed an image of desperation. But Tinder, by letting users sift through photos of countless potential dates with a simple swipe, made it easy and fun. WorkWorkAmerica's school lunch crisis
During an interview with CNN on July 28, days before being named as Kamala Harris' running mate, Tim Walz was imagining how his record as Minnesota governor might be portrayed by his political opponents. "What a monster!" he laughed. "Kids are eating and having full bellies so they can go learn." WorkInside the Worst Three Weeks of Donald Trump's 2024 Campaign
It had been a display of flagrant race-baiting that was egregious even by Mr. Trump’s standards, and it instantly reprogrammed America’s TV news chyrons: He falsely claimed that Ms. Harris had only recently decided to identify as Black for political purposes. WorkWorkHere's the latest on the presidential race.
The Harris-Walz event again drew a big crowd, just as the campaign’s events in Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin did earlier this week, showing renewed enthusiasm among Democrats. Mr. Walz commented on the packed arena, which has a capacity of 20,000 and looked pretty full, except for one section that had been closed off. WorkWorkA week of unrest in the UK - and a week of silence from big tech
Prof Lorna Woods, a professor of internet law at the University of Essex - who helped shape the legislation - told BBC News: \"If the Act were fully in force, it wouldn\'t catch all the content. So while organising a riot would be caught, some of the dog whistling tactics and disinformation would not be.\" WorkHow to Avoid Online Scams and What to Do if You Become a Victim
“What is changing is the criminals’ ability to connect with us and that’s because of the device we carry with us 24/7,” said Amy Nofziger, director of fraud victim support at AARP Fraud Watch Network. “A day doesn’t go by where we don’t have a million-dollar loss.” WorkYour Online Lender May Not Be a Bank. Here's How to Keep Your Money Safe.
This may have seemed like a rather academic point before this year when the collapse of Synapse Financial Technologies — a software provider that sat in the middle of this chain — put into sharp relief the risk that customers face when using these new lenders, rather than depositing money directly into a traditional bank. Because Synapse was not a bank, the F.D.I.C. insurance did not automatically apply, and now nearly $100 million of deposits have been frozen or lost. WorkBangladesh Puts Its Eggs in One Economic Basket. Now, a Reckoning.
It is unclear how long the interim government will remain in place and how broad a mandate it will assume. But it and Mr. Yunus have the “aspirations of many entrusted upon them to deliver justice, create a functional economy and democracy, and establish rule of law and a transparent and accountable government,” said Saad Hammadi, a fellow at the Balsillie School of International Affairs in Canada. WorkHow Economic Grievances Were Exploited in Britain's Violent Unrest
Mr. Farage, who was elected to Parliament in July, added to the web of disinformation that helped kindle the riots by inaccurately suggesting the man who fatally stabbed three young children at a dance class in Southport was an undocumented immigrant. He later came out against the violence. WorkCan Dirt Clean the Climate?
“Pretty simple,” is how a fifth-generation Australian farmer named Stuart McDonald described his experience as he sowed a dusting of fungal spores with his wheat and canola seeds on his farm near Canowindra this year. “It’s not asking us to change too much. It’s not a big capital outlay.” WorkNew Battleground Polls Show Harris Has Fundamentally Changed the Race
Views of Mr. Trump haven’t diminished. In fact, his favorability rating ticked up slightly, to 46 percent across the three states — just enough to represent his highest rating in the history of Times/Siena polling. It’s a tally that might have been enough for a clear lead against Mr. Biden, whose ratings had fallen into the 30s in early July. But for now it’s not enough against the surging Ms. Harris. WorkWorkHow the Olympics Warp Time
Those hundredths of a second are truly microscopic, but they created a huge difference in the experience of the two men: Tebogo won his country’s first Olympic gold medal ever. Bednarek mulled what he could have done better. WorkWhat's So New About the 'New Right'?
“If conservatives care about healthy towns and schools and churches, as they always say they do, they should support the kind of work and wages that nourish those institutions and make them possible,” Hawley wrote earlier this year in Compact, a leading New Right outlet. WorkWorkWorkWorkWorkWorkWorkIsrael-Gaza war live: dozens reported dead after Israeli strike on Gaza school
Lebanon would struggle to meet even a fraction of its aid needs if full-scale war with Israel erupted, a senior official said, as it seeks increased donor support amid persistent border clashes. Nasser Yassin, the minister overseeing contingency planning for a wider conflict, told Reuters that Lebanon would need $100m monthly for food, shelter, healthcare and other needs in a worst-case scenario. Work TradeBriefs Publications are read by over 10,00,000 Industry Executives About Us | Advertise Privacy Policy | Unsubscribe (one-click) You are receiving this mail because of your subscription with TradeBriefs.
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