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How to break up with your career - WSJ (No paywall)
 Relationship scientists have spent decades documenting the process of falling out of love: what the emotional roller coaster feels like, how psychological biases keep us from understanding our breakup behaviors, how we fail to prepare for our next relationship. But despite the similarities between breaking up with a lover and breaking up with a career, we rarely see the parallels.
That’s a mistake, because looking at these parallels offers insights for anyone who might consider a career change. The science of relationship breakups can teach us how to read the lingering signs of attachment so we don’t stay in a career too long. It can help us understand what we will most miss about a job in ways that will keep us from panicking and returning to an old job. And it can help us be smart about what comes next, so we don’t rebound into a new job that has little staying power.
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WorkEuropeans Used Cocaine Much Earlier Than Previously Thought, Study Finds“We have evidence of coca leaves being used thousands of years ago,” said Christine VanPool, an anthropologist at the University of Missouri. No one knows exactly how or when coca reached Europeans. But Dr. VanPool believes that Spanish colonizers in South America may have been attracted to cocaine’s analgesic properties. WorkHow we discovered that people who are colorblind are less likely to be picky eatersThe seventh season of Julia Child’s “The French Chef,” the first of the television series to air in color, revealed how color can change the experience of food. While Child had charmed audiences in black and white, seeing “Bouillabaisse à la Marseillaise” in color helped elevate the experience from merely entertaining to mouthwatering.
WorkThe Friendship That Made Google Huge - The New Yorker (No paywall)One day in March of 2000, six of Google’s best engineers gathered in a makeshift war room. The company was in the midst of an unprecedented emergency. In October, its core systems, which crawled the Web to build an “index” of it, had stopped working. Although users could still type in queries at google.com, the results they received were five months out of date. More was at stake than the engineers realized. Google’s co-founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, were negotiating a deal to power a search engine for Yahoo, and they’d promised to deliver an index ten times bigger than the one they had at the time—one capable of keeping up with the World Wide Web, which had doubled in size the previous year. If they failed, google.com would remain a time capsule, the Yahoo deal would likely collapse, and the company would risk burning through its funding into oblivion. WorkGoing open-source as a VC-backed company | BrieferIt's ironic to me that many for-profit companies can't say that out loud. Maybe it's because they're afraid that money will get in the way of making users happy. Or maybe they know it won't, but they're afraid of people thinking it will.
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WorkThe war on terror and the long death of liberal interventionismIndependent 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. WorkHow Harris Waived Away Her 2019 Fracking Ban PositonTwo years ago, President Biden signed into law the world’s biggest climate change spending plan named the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA)—at the time estimated to provide $370 billion in support for emissions reducing programs.
WorkDid Elon Musk Just Offer to Impregnate Taylor Swift? - The Cut (No paywall)On Tuesday night, following what many deemed a victorious debate, Kamala Harris finally secured the Taylor Swift endorsement. Writing under a photo of herself with a cat, Swift praised Harris as a “steady-handed, gifted leader” before signing her announcement “Taylor Swift, Childless Cat Lady.” Most people recognized her tongue-in-cheek nod to J.D. Vance’s derisive comments about women who don’t reproduce. And then there is Elon Musk, a Trump fan and fundraiser, who responded to her joke with the creepiest thought he could drum up. “Fine Taylor,” Musk wrote on X late Tuesday night, “you win…I will give you a child and guard your cats with my life.” Work
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WorkWhen Your New Boss Won't Stop Making Hasty Decisions - Harvard Business Review (No paywall)It’s normal to feel unsettled when you get a new boss, and it can be especially disorienting if they come in and start making decisions that don’t seem to make sense. What should you do if you’re in this situation? Should you speak up or just take their new suggestions in stride? Start by assuming good intentions and take an active role in helping your boss understand the nuances of how the organization operates. Ask tactful, open-ended questions to gain clarity on your boss’s reasoning, and be diplomatic and constructive when expressing reservations. Frame your feedback as a way to achieve shared goals. It can also be helpful to talk with your colleagues about the benefits and drawbacks of your boss’s decisions. It’s an opportunity to gauge your team’s perspective and serve as “a gut check” to determine if others share your concerns. WorkThis government-backed startup is growing blood to help fight shortagesTo make large-scale production a reality, Safi has a long road ahead. McConnell said the company's first launch is likely six or seven years away, in part because it is targeting production of around 100,000 units of blood during its initial launch year. Safi plans to continue to scale until it's manufacturing more than 1 million units annually, he added. WorkWorkWorkHow Taylor Swift Surprised Harris, and Entered a New Political EraIn a political landscape with countless celebrity endorsements that do little to prompt would-be voters into action, Ms. Swift’s support stands out as among the most meaningful: Last year, her post encouraging Americans to vote racked up 35,000 new registrations on Vote.gov. This time, Ms. Swift made her endorsement six days before National Voter Registration Day on Sept. 17, and included a link to Vote.gov to nudge her supporters to register. WorkWorkWorkMining 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. WorkClimate at the Debate: Trump Ignored the Question and Harris HedgedAnd, in an unusual turn, Ms. Harris boasted that under the Biden administration, gas production has reached record highs. It’s a point that until very recently the administration had been reluctant to emphasize. The burning of fossil fuels is the main driver of climate change and at the United Nations climate talks last year, the United States joined nearly 200 other countries in a pledge to transition away from coal, oil and gas. WorkWorkWorkWorkAmericans used 100 trillion megabytes of wireless data last yearHowever, in the US, there is continued uncertainty over how to find new spectrum for wireless communication. According to the Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Association (CTIA) CEO Meredith Attwell Baker, "to continue to meet the insatiable demand for wireless, drive innovation, and support America's economic competitiveness, the wireless industry needs access to more full-power, licensed spectrum." In November 2023, the White House established the National Spectrum Strategy to improve spectrum access and management. WorkWorkBiden calls IDF's killing of American in West Bank 'totally unacceptable'"Let us be clear: an American citizen was killed by a foreign military in a targeted attack. The appropriate action is for President Biden and Vice-President Harris to speak with the family directly, and order an independent, transparent investigation into the killing of AyÅenur, a volunteer for peace." WorkWorkDanity Kane singer Dawn Richard sues Sean 'Diddy' Combs for sexual assaultCombs initially denied all allegations and pledged to "fight" to clear his name. But in May, CNN released video footage of Combs hitting and kicking Ventura multiple times at a hotel in 2016. Combs then released a video apology, saying he was "truly sorry" and that his actions were "inexcusable". WorkWorkWorkLineLeap lets users pay to skip the line at bars | TechCrunch“Plenty of others have tried to start line-skipping companies for bars and clubs, but none have successfully expanded into multiple markets and lasted more than a couple of years,” Schauff said. “We pride ourselves in being the company that will be our venues’ partner for years to come.” WorkWorkAI illusions and navigating 'The Money Trap' with Alok SamaSubscribe to us on Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify and all the casts. You also can follow Equity on X and Threads, at @EquityPod. For the full episode transcript, for those who prefer reading over listening, check out our full archive of episodes over at Simplecast. WorkWorkWatch: This entrepreneur runs the Oakland Ballers like a startupWith the mindset of a startup founder, Freedman and his co-founder, Bryan Carmel, are taking on a mammoth task. The B’s can’t fully replace the loss of an MLB team — not to mention, Oakland has also lost its NBA and NFL teams over the last five years. But the B’s can build something that prioritizes the fans and gives back to the community. WorkGrieving Ohio Father Tells Trump and Vance to Stop Talking About His SonSince then, Mr. Vance has been highlighting the influx of Haitians to Springfield as a detrimental consequence of the Biden administration’s border policies. The immigrants are in the country legally with authorization to work, and they have moved to the Springfield area to fill jobs in manufacturing and other industries. WorkHarvard's Black Student Enrollment Dips After Affirmative Action EndsAdmissions experts suggested even before the new numbers came out that the most coveted schools, like Harvard, Yale and Princeton, would be best positioned to maintain their Black enrollment because the students who were admitted to them were very likely to accept. So in that view, they are unicorns, part of a highly selective ring of schools that scooped up the top students and remained relatively unaffected by the ban on race-conscious admissions. WorkDebate Puts Trump's Affinity for Putin Back in the SpotlightThat is a seemingly impossible goal. Mr. Zelensky has ruled out any settlement with Russia that does not restore his country’s original borders, while Mr. Putin seems determined to conquer even more of Ukraine than the roughly one-fifth of its territory that his army now occupies. WorkTrump Says He Had a Great Debate. His Allies Privately Say Otherwise.The day after Mr. Trump’s debate with Ms. Harris, his aides and his allies were largely echoing his praise of his performance in public, but privately several conceded that the former president had a rough outing, in stark contrast to his more controlled appearance against Mr. Biden. WorkIs Donald Trump Too Emotional for This?Trump has long made a point of projecting strength and dominance on television and in public, particularly when facing female opponents, and Harris had every reason to try to make him look weak onstage. WorkHow Trump Uses Vitriol for Migrants to Sideline Other IssuesFor her part, the vice president appeared unwilling to get into a back-and-forth on the issue, despite the fact that illegal border crossings have dropped dramatically following tough measures ordered by President Biden. An executive order he signed in June curbed people’s right to seek asylum, among other restrictions. WorkTop Election Officials Warn Postal Service of Mail Ballot IssuesThe Postal Service is in the middle of a sweeping overhaul in an effort to stabilize its finances, after losses of $87 billion over the past 14 years. The effort, led by Mr. DeJoy, has temporarily led to worse service in areas like Atlanta — a big city in a crucial swing state. On-time delivery of first-class mail in the area dropped below 60 percent after a new processing center opened in February, according to the agency’s data. Across the Georgia district, on-time delivery of first-class mail dropped to as low as 35.8 percent in March. WorkFrench Ship That Sank in 1856 Disaster Is Found Off Massachusetts Coast“Being able to find this ship, I felt like I was giving closure to the people who suffered there,” Jennifer Sellitti, 50, said. Ms. Sellitti is a lawyer and historian and wrote a book about the sinking of Le Lyonnais called The Adriatic Affair: A Maritime Hit-and-Run off the Coast of Nantucket. WorkWorkWorkTrump's Playbook on Abortion Includes This False Charge“A survivor of a crime, a violation to their body, does not have the right to make a decision about what happens to their body next,” Ms. Harris responded. “That is immoral. And one does not have to abandon their faith or deeply held beliefs to agree the government, and Donald Trump certainly, should not be telling a woman what to do with her body.” WorkOnline Legions for Trump and Harris Clash, Wielding Images of Cats and AliensIn 2019, as Ms. Harris was preparing for her first presidential campaign, she told the A.C.L.U. that she supported “ensuring that federal prisoners and detainees are able to obtain medically necessary care for gender transition, including surgical care,” but the stance is not part of the platform on immigration that she released this week. |
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