This post is an aggregation of recent articles that I have collected over at Flipboard on my magazine there. It captures great sense making from others, in other words, great articles from other sites I thought worth capturing and sharing. Curating good articles is a discerning process and I’ve automated the delivery of it in WordPress using a Power Automate Flow to achieve this – more on that here.
Communicating with chatbots
Posted on January 6. The old saying “work smarter not harder” takes on a new meaning for communicators in 2023, thanks to A.I. text generators. Why it matters: Advanced …
What trends will define the world of work in 2023?
Posted on January 5. Business leaders could be forgiven for hoping that when the pandemic receded as a driving, all-consuming force, the world of work would return to …
How to know if your inner voice is a liar
Posted on January 4. Sometimes trusting your gut is a good call. But it can also steer you wrong. Going with your gut is a tactic a lot of us use to make decisions, but have you ever wondered where that intel comes from? Dr. Jim Loehr and Dr. Sheila Ohlsson Walker, coauthors of Wise Decisions: A Science-Based Approach to …
Life Is Short: An Appropriately Brief Guide to Making It More Meaningful
Posted on January 4. Dean Rickles is a professor of history and philosophy of modern physics at the University of Sydney in Australia. Below, Dean shares 5 key insights …
9 tech predictions for 2023 from seed investor in Uber, Pinterest, and other top companies
Posted on January 4. Every year I ask myself, “How will work and life change in a material way over the next three to five years?” As a founder myself (Behance), Adobe’s …
Secrets to Revolutionizing Enterprise Sales Growth with End-to-End RevOps with Calendly CRO Kate Ahlering (Video)
Posted on January 4. In the current economic climate, investors weigh profitability over growth. There’s a trend toward transitioning from growth at all costs to paths to …
“Lifetime value” is US technology companies’ new mantra
Posted on January 2. In context: Silicon Valley companies live and die by buzzwords. After decades of unregulated growth, both technology giants and promising startups …
3 Great Reasons to Sharpen Your Writing Skills in 2023
Posted on January 2. Good writers save time, stand out, and get ahead. Recent surveys find that the future workplace will look much different than it did pre-pandemic. Although many businesses struggle to find the right combination of hybrid work policies, remote work will be part of the mix. The rise in remote work and …
Bring back personal blogging
Posted on January 1. In the beginning, there were blogs, and they were the original social web. We built community. We found our people. We wrote personally. We wrote frequently. We self-policed, and we linked to each other so that newbies could discover new and good blogs. I want to go back there. The Web 1.0 landscape …
Technology Is Preventing Profound Boredom. It’s a Problem
Posted on December 31. The constant distraction of social media could be preventing our minds from settling into a deeper, more complete feeling of boredom, according to a …
What is the future of work? 10 articles from the Forum on the working world
Posted on December 30. 1. Are you suffering from digital exhaustion? Microsoft survey finds tensions over remote work A new survey from Microsoft reveals that managers and …
Tech’s latest controversy? The return of the five-day, in-person work week
Posted on December 18. Welcome to Startups Weekly, a nuanced take on this week’s startup news and trends by Senior Reporter and Equity co-host Natasha Mascarenhas. To get this in your inbox, subscribe here. May the earnest among us rise up: Techies, it’s prediction season. It’s my favorite time of the year, not because I’m …
Why creativity is the top skill you need for guaranteed career success
Posted on December 17. Innovation and creativity are key to workplace resilience, this art school leader says. AI is a growing force. Between face recognition tech securing our devices, algorithms driving us to spend hours scrolling social feeds, and armies of autonomous robots managing our supply chains, it’s not hard to …