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How the Oldest Company in the World, Japans Temple-Builder Kong Gumi, Has Survived Nearly 1,500 Years
 Image from New York Public Library, via Wikimedia CommonsIf you visit Osaka, you'll be urged to see two old buildings in particular: Osaka Castle and Shitennō-ji (above), Japan's first Buddhist temple.
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WorkHow to Evaluate, Manage, and Strengthen Your Resilience - Harvard Business Review (No paywall)Think back to your last off-site meeting. You and the rest of your team likely poured over reports and spreadsheets, facts and figures. Strewn about the table were probably the tools of your trade: reams of data, balance sheets and P&Ls. Managers understand that clear-eyed analysis — both quantitative and qualitative — is the key to building a resilient business. And yet when it comes to measuring and strengthening our own ability to adapt, grow, and prosper, rarely do we apply the same methodical approach. Work
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Work3 Tips for Creating a Winning Best in Business Application - Inc.com (No paywall)Since 2020, the Inc. Best in Business list has spotlighted U.S.-based private companies known for driving positive change. (Think Impossible Foods, BetterUp, or Rothy's.) This year, the list is expanding to include not just companies big and small from all around the world, but all types of business excellence. Everything from world-class social media campaigns to innovative product launches to impactful leadership decisions is on the table. Whatever you and your team are great at, we want to know about it. WorkHow to Craft a Memorable Message, According to Science - Harvard Business Review (No paywall)Numerous researches have shown that we forget much of what we experience in a day. Knowing this, how do you create messages so there is a better chance of people remembering them? The author uses concepts from memory science to help you craft messages — whether it’s a presentation, an email, or a speech — that will be likely to stick. One way to craft a memorable message is to chunk it up. Explicitly tie together the points that you want to convey under the umbrella of a central idea. With this approach, your listener can stitch the pieces together in a meaningful way and build a rich memory for that material. Or, when communicating about a complex topic, you can make your message memorable with a concrete example instead of something vague. Remember to provide callbacks as recalling something that we previously learned can make it stronger and easier to access when we will need it. Lastly, spark their curiosity. The key to memorable communication lies not in conveying the answer, but in establishing a compelling question.
WorkWorkAMLO's dangerous last blast threatens Mexico - The Economist (No paywall)Most Mexican presidents would be a lame duck in their last month in power. But not Andrés Manuel López Obrador. After newly elected congressmen and women take their seats on September 1st, a month before president-elect Claudia Sheinbaum takes office, Mr López Obrador will take advantage. His ruling party Morena and its allies will be so dominant he will almost certainly be able to pass a constitutional reform of the judiciary.
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WorkWorkAfD makes German election history 85 years after Nazis started World War IIThe AfD emerged as the clear victor in Thuringia, in the east of the country, securing between 32-33 percent of the vote, according to projections by ARD and ZDF public television. This places the party well ahead of the center-Right Christian Democratic Union (CDU), which garnered around 24 percent.
WorkWork WorkHow Our Longest Nerve Orchestrates the Mind-Body Connection | Quanta MagazineIt is late at night. You are alone and wandering empty streets in search of your parked car when you hear footsteps creeping up from behind. Your heart pounds, your blood pressure skyrockets. Goose bumps appear on your arms, sweat on your palms. Your stomach knots and your muscles coil, ready to sprint or fight. WorkProcreate defies AI trend, pledges "no generative AI" in its illustration appOn Sunday, Procreate announced that it will not incorporate generative AI into its popular iPad illustration app. The decision comes in response to an ongoing backlash from some parts of the art community, which has raised concerns about the ethical implications and potential consequences of AI use in creative industries. WorkIn This Beautiful Library, Bats Guard the Books The 60,000 books in the Joanine Library are all hundreds of years old. Keeping texts readable for that long, safe from mold and moisture and nibbling bugs, requires dedication. The library’s original architects designed 6-foot (1.8 meters) stone walls to keep out the elements. Employees dust all day, every day. Work120 Years of New York's Subterranean Literary MuseWithin a day of its opening on Oct. 27, 1904, the New York City subway was already inspiring lyricism: The Times marveled at its “olive-green woodwork, the unfamiliar air, the darkness alongside, and the sudden shooting into beautiful white stations like nothing that the elevated ever had.” WorkStudying Stones Can Rock Your World - The New Yorker (No paywall)Write about what you know, they say. All due respect, that’s lousy advice, far too easily misinterpreted as “write about what you already know.” No doubt you find your own knowledge valuable, your own experiences compelling, the plot twists of your own past gripping; so do we all, but the storehouse of a single life seldom equips us adequately for the task of writing. If you are, say, Volodymyr Zelensky or Frederick Douglass or Sally Ride, the category of “what you know” may in fact be sufficiently unusual and significant to belong in print. For the rest of us, the better, if less pithy, maxim would be: before you write, go out and learn something interesting. WorkWorkWorkString Theorists Accidentally Find a New Formula for Pi - Scientific American (No paywall)The number pi (π) appears in the most unlikely places. It can be found in circles, of course—as well as in pendulums, springs and river bends. This everyday number is linked to transcendental mysteries. It has inspired Shakespearean thought puzzles, baking challenges and even an original song. And pi keeps the surprises coming—most recently in January 2024, when physicists Arnab Priya Saha and Aninda Sinha of the Indian Institute of Science presented a completely new formula for calculating it, which they later published in Physical Review Letters. WorkAmerica isn't ready for another war -- because it doesn't have the troopsIndependent journalism is more important than ever. Vox is here to explain this unprecedented election cycle and help you understand the larger stakes. We will break down where the candidates stand on major issues, from economic policy to immigration, foreign policy, criminal justice, and abortion. We’ll answer your biggest questions, and we’ll explain what matters — and why. This timely and essential task, however, is expensive to produce. WorkHarris and Biden Will Make a Labor Day Pitch to Union VotersAlthough Ms. Harris and Mr. Walz will reach voters in three of the top swing states, the events themselves will be smaller than the rallies Ms. Harris has held in recent weeks that have drawn thousands of attendees. She and Mr. Biden are expected to deliver “informal remarks” rather than full speeches, according to the Harris campaign. WorkMusk's Starlink Defies Order to Block X in BrazilAlexandre de Moraes, the Brazilian Supreme Court justice who has led the action against X, froze Starlink’s assets in Brazil last week and blocked it from carrying out transactions in the country. He did so to try to collect on more than $3 million in fines against X for ignoring his orders to suspend accounts. Justice Moraes has accused X of spreading disinformation and hate speech. WorkA Finnish Artist and the Apartment and Paintings She Left Behind in SoHoBoth the artist and her works are now objects of wonder. On Sept. 4, Harper’s Gallery, in Manhattan, will exhibit a small selection of Ms. Leino’s canvases. Peter Hastings Falk, an art historian and independent curator, who is managing the collection for the Iria Leino Trust, said, “We’re making the bold statement, which I think is true, that she’s the first woman abstract painter from Finland, in America.” WorkWorkWild weather across three states ? as it happenedAs shown in an email to the court dated 29 March 2019, Finance's advice said going to the police should be Higgins' choice and that she should be made aware of sexual assault and family violence help line, 1800Respect. WorkWorkWorkA primer on why microbiome research is hardMicrobiomes are, as far as cutting-edge science goes, old news. Knowledge that the microbiome exists and is involved in digestive process has been known for over a half-century. But, with the discovery of H. Pylori’s role in causing peptic ulcers and the subsequently awarded 2005 Nobel Prize in medicine for it, the microbiome began to be viewed differently: something that is intertwined with the neurological, immunological, and metabolic health of its host. And perhaps something that represents a new therapeutic target entirely. Yet, over the course of the last 20 years, the microbiome field has little to show for it, despite billions in funding, thousands of published papers, and dozens of spun-up companies. WorkWorkFraternity Brothers Balk at a $515,000 Party for Defending the FlagIn interviews, several members of the U.N.C. chapter of Alpha Epsilon Pi, a Jewish fraternity, said they were disappointed that the money raised on their behalf was paying for a party. They said they would rather that a significant portion of the money go to a charity that supports Jewish organizations or relief efforts in Gaza. WorkA Maine Camp for Deaf Children Carries On After an Unthinkable LossHis father, Joshua Seal, created the Dirigo Experience two years ago, determined to provide his four young children, and others across Maine, with an experience he never had as a Deaf child growing up there: a traditional summer camp adventure alongside Deaf and hard-of-hearing peers. The name comes from Maine’s state motto, Latin for “I lead.” WorkBiden Seeks Elusive Low Profile as a Turbulent Summer Winds to a CloseSome beachgoers, thrilled to find themselves on the same stretch of sand as the president, offered waves and greetings, but Mr. Biden, wearing red patterned swim shorts, a black cap and his signature aviators, turned his blue lounge chair around to avoid the onlookers — and at least one television camera. His wife, Jill, joined him both days. WorkWorkWorkWorkSocial media: Why algorithms show violence to boysMeta, which owns Instagram and Facebook, says it has more than “50 different tools, resources and features” to give teens “positive and age-appropriate experiences”. According to Meta, it seeks feedback from its own teams and potential policy changes go through robust process. WorkWorkM
WorkWorkOpinion | This Is How To Fix the Housing CrisisWhat’s newer, and worse, is that even those places in the country that historically built a lot of housing and thus offered less expensive alternatives — such as Austin, Texas, and Raleigh, N.C. — have also experienced big price increases, possibly because of less building in their most desirable neighborhoods. Hopefully, this is a blip and does not portend the spread of NIMBYism to these onetime growth machines. WorkWorkWorkWorkIn a Kyiv Classroom, Cries for Help From Children Scarred by WarTwo years later, she is still teaching at 63, three years past the retirement age for teachers, torn by the heartbreak of watching her students grapple with the trauma of air raids, bombings and the loss of loved ones. She worries for those who have been displaced, forced to study online, as well as for former students who have already enlisted in the army and are fighting on the front lines. WorkRussia Hits Ukraine With Wave of Strikes as School Year OpensUkraine’s military is stepping up strikes with domestically produced drones. On Sunday, Russia’s military claimed to have thwarted a major Ukrainian drone attack, but fires at refineries and power plants suggested that at least some had gotten through. |
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