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Jade Rubick - How to build silos and decrease collaboration (on purpose)
 Although counter-intuitive, it can be beneficial to build silos and decrease collaboration between teams. Balance the need for collaboration, coordionation, and communication with these tips.
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Editor's Note: "Breaking down silos" is an exhortation rather than a diagnosis or prescription of how to improve the situation. "Breaking down silos" blames individuals for not having a big enough vision and working across boundaries, instead of looking with curiosity at the system and asking why they are doing what they're doing. It's expecting people to have your level of perspective without figuring out why they don't.
WorkWorkDoctors Say AI Is Introducing Slop Into Patient Care Sharp picks a patient query at random. It reads: "Ate a tomato and my lips are itchy. Any recommendations?" The AI, which uses a version of OpenAI's GPT-4o, drafts a reply: "I'm sorry to hear about your itchy lips. Sounds like you might be having a mild allergic reaction to the tomato.
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WorkWorkThe Paper Passport Is Dying Smartphones and face recognition are being combined to create new digital travel documents. The paper passport's days are numbered--despite new privacy risks.
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WorkWorkSevere Storms Cause Travel Delays Across the U.S. as Tornadoes Threaten the South Travel out of Texas was particularly challenging. At the Dallas-Fort Worth airport, one of the country’s busiest and the largest hub for American Airlines, the scheduling problems continued from earlier this week, when bad weather and a technical glitch briefly grounded the airline’s flights. Dense fog and storms in the days since have caused more delays.
WorkState Dept. Designates American Teacher Held in Russia as 'Wrongfully Detained' “We have long called for his humanitarian release and tried to include him in the Aug. 1 deal, but were unable to,” the statement said. It added that Mr. Fogel had been designated in October as “wrongfully detained.” It was unclear why the department had waited until this week to announce the change in classification. WorkInterior Dept. Is Caught Between Tribes in Casino Battles Scotts Valley and the two other tribes seeking casinos — Koi Nation in Sonoma County, Calif., and the Coquille Indian Tribe in southwestern Oregon — lost their land in the 1950s and 1960s when the U.S. government terminated the federal recognition of many Native American tribes. In more recent decades the government reversed course and recognized the three tribes, but their federal land was never restored.
WorkWorkWorkElon Musk Doubles Down on Support for German Far-Right AfD Mr. Musk’s commentary was printed in the Sunday edition of the Welt, a conservative daily owned by the Axel Springer media group, which also owns Politico in the United States. Many of the paper’s journalists protested the printing of the commentary, according to reports. Eva Marie Kogel, who had been the paper’s head of opinion, resigned from her post after the printing, she confirmed on X. WorkWorkWhy DeepSeek's new AI model thinks it's ChatGPT Earlier this week, DeepSeek, a well-funded Chinese AI lab, released an "open" AI model that beats many rivals on popular benchmarks. The model, DeepSeek V3, is large but efficient, handling text-based tasks like coding and writing essays with ease. It also seems to think it's ChatGPT. WorkHealthcare organizations in the US may soon get a cybersecurity overhaul “From 2018-2023, reports of large breaches increased by 102 percent, and the number of individuals affected by such breaches increased by 1002 percent, primarily because of increases in hacking and ransomware attacks,” according to the Office for Civil Rights. “In 2023, over 167 million individuals were affected by large breaches — a new record.” WorkLabour donor Dale Vince urges a??rigorous financial scrutinya?? of Sizewell C costs A government spokesperson said: "Nuclear and carbon capture are key to our ambitious target of delivering clean power by 2030. The £2.7bn settlement for Sizewell C provides the required funding for 2025-26, and work will begin this coming year on major carbon capture, usage and storage projects in the north-east to harness this gamechanging technology - helping to protect bill payers and secure thousands of good, skilled jobs across the country." Worka??Dubiousa?? use of the Freedom of Information Act stopping access to files on Prince Andrew, researchers say She added that the legal framework for access to information had changed over time. "This can mean that in a collection of over 15m records, there may be instances where information has been opened under an earlier access regime - for example the Open Government Initiative in the 1990s - but if it were to be considered now, since the introduction of legislation such as the Freedom of Information Act 2000 and the Data Protection Act 2018, it would not be released." WorkWorkWorkWorkHow Donald Trump Went From Calling for a TikTok Ban to Backing Off The Biden administration and members of Congress argue that the platform’s Chinese ownership compromises U.S. security because of the vast amount of user tracking and data collection it performs, and because of the risk that Beijing could use the app to spread propaganda. Work1 Person Killed and at Least 4 Injured in Texas Tornado A tornado warning from the service’s office in Lake Charles, La., was in effect until late Saturday afternoon for northwestern Cameron Parish, just east of Texas in southern Louisiana. It warned area residents that they faced “a life-threatening situation” in which flying debris could turn deadly. WorkWorkThe Speed of Human Thought Lags Far Behind Your Internet Connection, Study Finds Dr. Meister realized that he could estimate that flow by looking at how quickly people carry out certain tasks. To type, for example, we look at a word, recognize each letter and then sort out the sequence of keys to press. As we type, information flows into our eyes, through our brains and into the muscles of our fingers. The higher the flow rate, the faster we can type. WorkWorkWorkNetanyahu to Have Prostate Removal Surgery Mr. Netanyahu is also in the midst of testifying in his own corruption case, in which he is accused of bribery, fraud and breach of trust in three separate but related cases that have divided Israeli citizens and caused years of political turmoil. WorkSyria's New Government Steps Up Pursuit of Assad Loyalists On Wednesday, an attempt to arrest Mohammed Kanjou al-Hassan, the former director of military justice under Mr. al-Assad, set off deadly clashes in the Tartus area — part of the heartland of Mr. al-Assad’s Alawite minority. Security forces were ambushed by loyalists of the former government in the area, according to the Britain-based war monitoring group, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. WorkParker Solar Probe survived its close approach to the sun and will make two more in 2025 The probe’s current orbit takes it closest to the sun about every three months. It’ll swing back around for two more close flybys in 2025, on March 22 and June 19. The probe is expected to transmit the data from its latest close approach soon, once it’s in a better location to do so. “The data that will come down from the spacecraft will be fresh information about a place that we, as humanity, have never been,” said Joe Westlake, the director of the Heliophysics Division at NASA Headquarters. “It’s an amazing accomplishment.” WorkWorkWorkWorkWorkWorkWorkWorkWHO a??appalleda?? by Israel attack on northern Gazaa??s last functioning major hospital "My working assumption is that in the foreseeable future, only we can ensure our security," he said, rejecting the possibility of a foreign peacekeeping force. "I doubt there will be an effective entity that can provide security in Gaza, which is why I believe Israel will need to remain the controlling force from the Mediterranean to the Jordan River, west of the river," Sa'ar said. WorkWorkWorkWorkToddler wanders within feet of 400ft cliff near rim of KA Explosive eruptions carry the risks of ash fall, the potential for landslides and rockfalls, as well as pyroclastic flows - fast-moving and lethal clouds of hot gas and volcanic matter that cause severe burns, fatalities and destruction of anything in their path - volcanic blasts and volcanic mudflows. WorkWorkServiceTitan initiated with an Outperform at Baird Baird initiated coverage of ServiceTitan (TTAN) with an Outperform rating and $117 price target Profitability will likely inflect higher as the residential and commercial repair software company expands its total addressable market, says the analyst, who adds that to the extent that revenue growth continues to track in the 20%-plus range, “we expect our investment framework to prove conservative.” |
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