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The Surprising Reason Writing Remains Essential in an AI-Driven World
 There is another important element to writing that often gets overlooked. Writing requires the compression of an idea. When done poorly, compression removes insights. When done well, compression keeps the insights and removes the rest. Compression requires both thinking and understanding, which is one reason writing is so important.
Great writing requires you to position your idea in a way that will resonate with the reader. Average writers start with what they want to say without considering how it will land with the reader. Great writers understand the journey starts with what the reader desires. Think of the difference as starting at the beginning or the end of a maze. When you start at the beginning, you have to convince people the path is the right one. When you start at the end, they already know you’re taking them where they want to go.
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WorkLive news: S&P 500 touches new intraday high - FT (No paywall)was .css-lhfuqt{-webkit-text-decoration:line-through;text-decoration:line-through;}AED2148 now .css-79fz17{-webkit-text-decoration:none;text-decoration:none;}AED999 for your first year. Make up your own mind. Build robust opinions with the FT’s trusted journalism.Offer available here until 24th October. WorkThe broken business model of British universities - The Economist (No paywall)The Labour Party barely talked about higher education in the run-up to this year’s election. In government, universities’ problems are harder to ignore. In a dour speech on September 10th Sir Keir Starmer, the prime minister, included universities among a list of public services that he said were “crumbling” and “worse than we expected”.
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WorkWork WorkWorkThe Origins of Friday the 13thIt’s the first Friday the 13th of 2024, undoubtedly seen as one of the most unlucky days of the calendar year. This year will see the date occur twice, with the next one in December. Friday the 13th is known to be a day of bad luck, but how it got its “spooky” reputation dates back centuries, although an exact time frame isn’t clear. WorkWhat happened to Nate SilverIndependent 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. WorkWorkWorkWorkWorkWorkWorkOpinion | America's Role in the World Is Hard. It Just Got Much Harder.In Syria, you have a Syrian government in charge in Damascus, and the rest of the country is a patchwork of zones controlled by Russia, Iran, Turkey, Hezbollah, and U.S. and Kurdish forces. The Hamas network in Gaza could be reached only via Qatari and Egyptian mediators. And even Hamas had a military wing inside Gaza and a political wing outside Gaza. WorkWorkWorkExploding pager attack in Lebanon is another blow for US peace hopesWith both Hamas and Hezbollah under extraordinary pressure, the US has now warned the groups’ backer Iran against escalation. “We would urge Iran not to take advantage of any incident to try to add further instability and to further increase tensions in the region,” said the state department spokesperson, Matthew Miller. WorkWorkPrukalpa Sankar on why empathy is her company's greatest assetElsewhere in the interview, she talks about the importance of empathy, why the company hit a wall while scaling, and of course, about that Taylor Swift music video announcing her fundraiser. The video was called “The Tortured Data Department,” a cheeky play on Swift’s last album “The Tortured Poets Department.” As for what “Era” Sankar loves best, well, you are going to have to listen to find out (and hint, it’s not TTPD). WorkWorkWorkWorkWorkWorkWorkWorkExpress Scripts sues FTC over a 'biased' report about pharmacy benefit managers“The FTC stands by our study,” an agency spokesman wrote us. “Just three companies control nearly 80% of the market that millions of Americans must use to purchase necessary drugs at high costs. This is a complicated and opaque market, and the FTC is committed to using its clear authority to help the public and policymakers understand it.” WorkA decade after 'lean in,' progress for women isn't trickling down - WSJ (No paywall) That’s one of the central findings of a new, 10-year study of the roles and promotion rates of millions of women and men at major North American companies. After all the public efforts to advance women at work, most C-suite promotions put women in positions, like human-resources and marketing, that don’t lead to the CEO job. Now as company programs designed to diversify workforces face questions about fairness, sustaining the progress could get tougher. WorkThe Oscars for the Deep State - The New Yorker (No paywall)Lately, I’ve been thinking about all the wonderful investments that I, a taxpayer in the United States of America, have made. I’m not just talking about my obvious support of the common good—the almost five billion free lunches each year for schoolkids who might otherwise go hungry, the health-care coverage for sixty-seven million seniors and disabled people, the four-hundred-plus national parks, the hundred and sixty thousand miles of national highways. I’m talking about stuff you’ve never heard of, stuff that does not spring to mind alongside the phrase “Your tax dollars at work”: the rescue of more than a hundred children illegally employed in meat slaughterhouses across eight states; the removal of hundreds of tons of hazardous materials from the wreckage of the Maui wildfires; the design of the world’s first tornado-resistant building codes, which address a kind of natural disaster that kills more Americans annually than earthquakes and hurricanes combined. WorkHow Work Has Changed for Women in Corporate America Over the Last 10 Years - Harvard Business Review (No paywall)Despite progress in the past decade, gender equity still remains uneven in U.S. companies. Coupled with recent political attacks on the very concept of DEI and declines in corporate commitments to racial and gender equity, there’s concern that the next decade may not bring as much progress as the last one — which is why we need to keep our foot on the accelerator when it comes to achieving gender parity at work. According to the latest Women in the Workplace report from Lean In and McKinsey, many of the tactics experts and scholars have been recommending to company leaders for years have been paying off and yielding progress for women in the workplace. WorkVote for Kamala Harris to Support Science, Health and the Environment - Scientific American (No paywall)In the November election, the U.S. faces two futures. In one, the new president offers the country better prospects, relying on science, solid evidence and the willingness to learn from experience. She pushes policies that boost good jobs nationwide by embracing technology and clean energy. She supports education, public health and reproductive rights. She treats the climate crisis as the emergency it is and seeks to mitigate its catastrophic storms, fires and droughts. WorkFor Presidents, Golf Is a Refuge. For the Secret Service, It Can Be a Headache.Most recent American presidents have embraced golf as a bipartisan tradition — a head-clearing, backslapping escape where a president is just as likely as anyone else to be betrayed by a putter. But just as the Reagan episode prompted the White House to rethink whether presidential golf rounds invited unnecessary risks, Sunday’s apparently thwarted assassination attempt on former President Donald J. Trump has sparked questions about the perils that come with navigating 18 holes across wide-open spaces. WorkBiden Administration Extends Review Period for Nippon Takeover of U.S. SteelThe move by CFIUS came on the same day that David Burritt, the chief executive of U.S. Steel, offered a forceful defense of the proposed merger, saying the tie-up would strengthen America’s national security. Mr. Burritt also expressed confidence that the federal government would allow the deal to close despite bipartisan calls to block it. WorkRutgers President Announces Resignation After a Year Rocked by ProtestsA strike by thousands of unionized university workers in 2023, which ended after five days with the help of the New Jersey governor, Phil Murphy, was rancorous. Protesters supporting the unions gathered outside of Dr. Holloway’s home, requiring campus police to post a squad car out front. He now has a police escort when he appears in public. He hadn’t bargained, he said, for that level of rancor. WorkWorkStarbucks just made another big leadership changeStarbucks has faced declining sales over the past year, which has been largely driven by the lessened demand for its high-priced beverages, as well as public boycotts for its stance over the Israel-Hamas war. WorkHome sales are growing faster than they have in 2 yearsThe housing market may remain sticky, however, with most Americans waiting for mortgage rates to drop below 6% (or more) before deciding to move, according to a Bankrate survey. Mortgage rates could continue to drop once the Fed begins its rate cutting campaign, but a sudden rush of activity could continue to push prices up. Work$50 Billion in Aid to Ukraine Stalls Over Legal QuestionsThe solution was intended to provide Ukraine with a large infusion of funds without providing more direct aid from the budgets of the United States and European countries. 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