Fri.Apr 28, 2023

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Designing A Better Future For The Workplace

Allwork

In most cases, it’s much more cost-effective for organizations to initially put infrastructure in place to reduce and track all emissions. Increasingly, it will be up to designers, architects and other experts to help organizations work through energy efficiency requirements and metrics. Hopefully, this will be to the benefit of the planet and humanity, with significantly reduced carbon emissions.

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Community and Financial Literacy with Kiersten & Julien Saunders

Success

Kiersten and Julien Saunders’ story spans nearly 10 years, from meeting at the company where they both worked to breaking up and making up, and beginning a career together in the very field that had ended their relationship in the first place—and that was only the beginning. The path to their current careers began with a blog in 2017, which transitioned into video content and their YouTube series Money on the Table.

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Economist Believe New Wage And Employment Data Will Lead The Federal Reserve To Raise Interest Rates

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What’s going on: Policymakers at the central bank received new data on wages and personal consumption ahead of the Federal Open Market Committees (FOMC) May 2-3 meetings. The updated inflation and wage data leads experts to believe that the Federal Reserve will raise interest rates once again. Movement within interest-rate futures now suggests a 92% chance that the Fed will raise interest rates by a quarter point at its meeting next week, according to Barron’s.

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Why AI is incredibly smart -- and shockingly stupid | Yejin Choi

TED Talks

Computer scientist Yejin Choi is here to demystify the current state of massive artificial intelligence systems like ChatGPT, highlighting three key problems with cutting-edge large language models (including some funny instances of them failing at basic commonsense reasoning.) She welcomes us into a new era in which AI is becoming almost like a new intellectual species -- and identifies the benefits of building smaller AI systems trained on human norms and values.

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The Memory Edge: Outlearn, Outperform, Outlast

Speaker: Chester Santos

Forgetfulness is costing you time, money, and a ton of missed opportunities. In the age of automation, it’s easy to underestimate the power of a well-trained human mind. But memory isn’t just a parlor trick, it's a strategic edge. Human memory is one of the most underrated business skills. Whether you’re managing people, leading sessions, or having high-stakes conversations, remembering names, details, and concepts can be transformative in building trust, absorbing knowledge, and driving perform

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Around 30% Of San Francisco’s Commercial Office Space Is Now Vacant

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What’s going on: San Francisco’s commercial real estate market is receiving the full force that comes with a lack of physical office workers. The city’s renowned corporate tenants – including tenants like Meta Platforms Inc and Salesforce Inc – are now deciding to sublet office spaces rather than waiting around for their commercial leases to expire, according to WSJ.

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The Benefits of Being a Generalist & Learning New Skills

Success

Pro tip: Have friends who send you emails that go something like this: I represent the company putting on one of the biggest pickleball tournaments in the country. Would you like to fly out to Atlantic City, New Jersey, get taught to play by an all-time great and enter the tournament the next day? Though I had never played, I of course said yes. I always say yes.

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