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How to Pick a Career (That Actually Fits You) Wait But Why This is a post about something I’ve been wanting to write about forever: careers. Society tells us a lot of things about what we should want in a career and what the possibilities are—which is weird because I’m pretty sure society knows very little about any of this. When it comes to careers, society is like your great uncle who traps you at holidays and goes on a 15-minute mostly incoherent unsolicited advice monologue, and you tune out almost the whole time because it’s super clear he has very little idea what he’s talking about and that everything he says is like 45 years outdated. Society is like that great uncle, and conventional wisdom is like his rant. Except in this case, instead of tuning it out, we pay rapt attention to every word, and then we make major career decisions based on what he says. Kind of a weird thing for us to do.
This post isn’t me giving you career advice really—it’s a framework that I think can help you make career decisions that actually reflect who you are, what you want, and what our rapidly changing career landscape looks like today. You’re not a pro at this, but you’re certainly more qualified to figure out what’s best for you than our collective un-self-aware great uncle. For those of you yet to start your career who aren’t sure what you want to do with their lives, or those of you currently in the middle of your career who aren’t sure you’re on the right path, I hope this post can help you press the reset button on your thought process and get some clarity.
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WorkWorkWhy corporate top brass defy neat investment models - FT (No paywall)Economists like to model corporate executives as razor-sharp optimisers, using sophisticated analysis to pick investments. (No doubt this is also how some managers like to see themselves.) Potential projects must generate returns above a minimum hurdle rate, which should depend on the companys cost of capital. If borrowing is cheaper, then more projects should seem worthwhile. And rising rates should make executives more discerning, holding back investment.
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WorkHamas hostages: Stories of the people taken from IsraelAlexander Trupanov, was taken hostage with his mother Lena Trupanov, 50, his partner Sapir Cohen, 29, and his grandmother Irina Tati, 73. All were abducted from Kibbutz Nir Oz as they spent the Sabbath together, according to a statement by Canada's Raoul Wallenburg Center for Human Rights. Irina and Lena were released on Wednesday 29 November and Sapir was freed the next day. Work
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WorkWorkSilicon Valley Wants to Fight Fires With FireKodama has raised $12 million for a business that is driven by the reality that much of our forest land these days is stuffed with fuel just waiting to ignite. A few hundred miles from Stanislaus, a man drove a flaming car into a ditch in early August and started the Park Fire, which burned an area larger than the city of Los Angeles.
WorkWhy working longer is a bad retirement planWhen it comes to retirement age, there's a big gap in expectations versus reality. Americans generally retire earlier than planned â often due to factors beyond their control, such as poor health or job loss, research shows. WorkWhat Kamala Harris Said in CNN InterviewVice President Kamala Harris said helping address economic woes and bolstering the middle class would be her day one priority, in her critical first interview since capturing the Democratic presidential nomination.“I think that people are ready for a new way forward, in a way that generations of Americans have been fueled by hope and by optimism,” Harris told CNN, adding that she believed voters were ready “to turn the page” on former President Donald Trump, her Republican rival. WorkWhy the Pentagon is spending billions to bring laser weapons to the battlefieldThe Israel-Hamas conflict has shed new light on the need to defend against threats that range from small rockets to ballistic missiles. Israel has invested in the Iron Beam system, which produces a high-energy laser, to complement the Iron Dome batteries used to launch interceptors to take out incoming rockets."Interceptors are just surface-to-air missiles that shoot down incoming weapons. And there's obviously a limited number of them in the launcher at any given time, and they cost money and they're expendable," said Bryan Clark, a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute. "A laser, on the other hand, gives you essentially an infinite magazine of interception opportunities, because the laser â as long as you've got electricity â will continue to recharge, continue to shoot down incoming weapons."Many of these directed-energy systems are now starting to be used more extensively in the field. The DE M-SHORAD, or Directed Energy Maneuver Short-Range Air Defense system, was tested by the U.S. Army in 2023 at the Yuma proving grounds. The Navy has the HELIOS, or High Energy Laser with Integrated Optical-dazzler and Surveillance, installed on the U.S.S. Preble, an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer."We're at an inflection point right now, when it comes to the use of these directed-energy, laser weapons," said Masao Dahlgren, a fellow with the Missile Defense Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. "Various services in the U.S. military are prototyping these systems, bending metal, putting things out there and experimenting with them."Watch the video to find out what the future of laser weapons holds. WorkHarris Says She Has 'No Regrets' About Defending Biden's Capabilities“History is going to show,” she said, “not only has Joe Biden led an administration that has achieved those extraordinary successes, but the character of the man is one that he has been in his life and career, including as a president, quite selfless and puts the American people first.” WorkWhy Interest Rate Cuts Won't Fix a Global Housing Affordability CrisisWhile the shift in central bank stance is already translating into somewhat lower mortgage rates in many countries, borrowing costs are not expected to fall back to the levels that prevailed during the 2010s. Several economists said 30-year mortgage rates in the United States, for instance, could end up in the 5.5 to 6 percent range, down from their 7.5 percent peak last year but still up notably from the 4 percent that was normal before the pandemic. Work How Workplace Safety Improves PerformanceChasing lower labor costs, most of the United States’ toy and game companies have relocated production outside the country, primarily to Asia. One of the only remaining game manufacturing facilities in the U.S., in East Longmeadow, Massachusetts, was originally operated by Hasbro but is now run by Cartamundi, a Belgian company that manufactures products for Hasbro. It is a unionized factory in a state with high wage, tax, and energy costs. WorkMining for Neutrinos, and for Cosmic AnswersThe telephone, officially called the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment, or DUNE, is the largest science-engineering project beneath American soil in history. It has taken a decade to reach this point and may need another decade before it begins its work. If all goes well, it will turn the squirrelly neutrino into a known quantity, filling a major gap in scientists’ understanding of the universe and, perhaps, return the United States to its former position at the center of particle physics. WorkWorkIndigenous teenager dies at WA's Banksia Hill youth detention centreIn Australia, the crisis support service Lifeline is 13 11 14. The Indigenous crisis hotline is 13 YARN, 13 92 76. In the US, the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline is 1-800-273-8255. In the UK, Samaritans can be contacted on 116 123. Other international suicide helplines can be found at befrienders.org WorkWorkThe California Shoplifting Law That Trump Says Is Too LenientMr. Trump has tried to pin the change on Ms. Harris, who was California’s attorney general at the time it went into effect. But she never publicly took a position on the measure, saying that she wanted to remain neutral because she was responsible for crafting the language of the summary and title of the measure that would appear on the ballot. WorkWill Walz's Rural Upbringing Lure Small-Town Swing Voters?Rural areas of Midwestern swing states abound with hard-liners for Mr. Trump. But here in the region south of Green Bay in swing-state Wisconsin, potential converts are everywhere — like down the street from the bait shop where one of Mr. Van Vonderen’s best friends (“the most gruff, no-nonsense guy,” he said) has come to detest Mr. Trump’s meanspiritedness. Mr. Van Vonderen fears that he is bound to lose his friend to the Harris-Walz team. WorkDonald Trump Courts the ManoverseTo find them, Mr. Trump and his allies have been exploring deep into the universe — a manoverse — of social media stars with male-centric audiences: the Nelk Boys, Mr. White and U.F.C., Dave Portnoy and his Barstool Sports media network, YouTubers like Jake and Logan Paul, podcasters like Theo Von and streamers like Adin Ross. WorkTim Walz Is Happy to Help, Content to Be IgnoredMr. Walz’s presence was somewhat unusual. It was Ms. Harris’s first television interview since President Biden dropped out of the race, and the fact that she brought Mr. Walz along with her, like a wingman, did not go unremarked by her opponent. On Thursday morning, former President Donald J. Trump criticized her for having Mr. Walz there. WorkA Donor's Message, Revealed in a Museum Renovation: He Hated This DesignIn an era where the petty gripes of billionaires can veer into the outrageous, exorbitant or just plain absurd, Mr. Sainsbury’s successful analog trolling offers a more relatable stunt. We can’t all build competing spaceships or purchase warring social media platforms, but we all have pen and paper. Who among us wouldn’t love such delayed vindication, plucked from the debris of our nemeses? WorkWork7 Takeaways From Harris's First Major InterviewAs it turns out, Ms. Harris is a better salesperson for Mr. Biden’s accomplishments and defender of his record than he ever was. Perhaps that’s little surprise, given the president’s diminished political skills and trouble speaking coherently in recent years. WorkWorkWorkTrump Floats Coverage Mandate for I.V.F. Treatment“Trump lies as much if not more than he breathes, but voters aren’t stupid,” Sarafina Chitika, a spokeswoman for the Harris campaign, said in a statement. “Because Trump overturned Roe v. Wade, I.V.F. is already under attack and women’s freedoms have been ripped away in states across the country.” WorkWorkWorkX braced for Brazil ban as judge's deadline passesJustice Moraes had ordered that X accounts accused of spreading disinformation - many supporters of the former right-wing president Jair Bolsonaro - must be blocked while they are under investigation. He said the company\'s legal representatives would be held liable if any accounts were reactivated. WorkWill sustainable aviation fuels take off?Sign up for our Future Earth newsletter to get exclusive insight on the latest climate and environment news from the BBC\'s Climate Editor Justin Rowlatt, delivered to your inbox every week. Outside the UK? Sign up to our international newsletter here. WorkWorkers could get right to four-day weekPrime Minister Sir Keir Starmer calls the proposals \"the biggest upgrade to workers\' rights in a generation\" and Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner argues they will be \"good for the economy\". WorkTrain penalty fare overhaul urged: 'We were fined
WorkBoar's Head Plant Tied to 9 Deaths Had Mold, Leaky Pipes and FliesAt the same time, U.S.D.A. inspectors documented flies, bits of meat on food-contact surfaces and mold on a wall at the Boar’s Head plant in Jarratt, Va. From June 2023 through this August, inspectors listed 84 problems at the facility. Listeria was not mentioned in more 80 pages of inspection records on the plant that were released by the agency. WorkWorkHarris and Trump Have Housing Plans. Economists Have Doubts.Ms. Harris is promising to increase housing supply by expanding the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit, providing incentives for state and local investment in housing and creating a $40 billion tax credit to make affordable projects economically feasible for builders. WorkThe Report Card on Guaranteed Income Is Still Incomplete“Cash transfers probably do less to improve people’s lives than the proponents of them thought that they would,” said Sarah Miller, an author of the study and economist at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business. “The flip side is that they probably don’t have the harmful effects that detractors were concerned about.” WorkWorkOffice Retreats Without Leaving the OfficeHolland Denvir, the founder of Denvir Enterprises, a brand consultancy in Los Angeles, transformed an office storage space measuring 6-by-11 feet into a shag-carpeted enclave known as the Womb Room. Seven years ago, when Mx. Denvir, who uses plural pronouns, worked as an interior designer, they would escape to their car to meditate during lunch — it was the only space that offered solitude when they wanted to decompress. WorkWorkWorkHere's how data centers became a billion-dollar real estate investment\"We do see that land gets more value when it is on the appropriate power line for a data center need,\" said Rachel Wacker, executive director of the Greater Dallas County Development Alliance. \"My experience again working with data centers is they do value that and they do come to the table aggressively, in order to obtain that land.\" TradeBriefs Publications are read by over 100,000 Industry Executives About Us | Advertise | Privacy PolicyUnsubscribe (one-click) You are receiving this mail because of your subscription with TradeBriefs.
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