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Most people you meet while networking aren’t immediately useful to you, but they may work with people who are.

Most people you meet while networking aren’t immediately useful to you, but they may work with people who are.

Usually, you go to a networking event, shake a few hands, hear other people’s elevator pitches or career backstories, share your own, then leave with a fistful of business cards. The next day you look at them, mentally pin a few faces to a few names (but not all)—and still don’t really know how to use that stack of cards to grow your business or advance your career.

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Sometimes work-life balance takes getting your work-work balance right first.

Sometimes work-life balance takes getting your work-work balance right first.

If you’re in your first or second job, chances are, your starting salary isn’t exactly blowing up your bank account. Rather than live on Nutella and hand-me-downs forever, maybe you’ve decided to pick up a side-hustle—or maybe you’re just thinking about it. Smart thinking, you go-getter, you.

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The company’s machine-learning engines are providing tennis fans with real-time analytics of matches—including predictions of who will win.

The company’s machine-learning engines are providing tennis fans with real-time analytics of matches—including predictions of who will win.

Tennis fans watching the U.S. Open at home or in person this year will get some extra insights delivered by IBM’s machine learning technologies.

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Serenbe, a planned sustainable community, is a new village designed to help its residents gracefully age in place.

Serenbe, a planned sustainable community, is a new village designed to help its residents gracefully age in place.

Fifteen years into an unplanned second career as a real-estate developer, Steve Nygren has timed his latest project perfectly. Nygren is the cofounder and developer of Serenbe, a visionary New Urbanist community in Chattahoochee Hills, outside Atlanta. Since breaking ground in 2004, Serenbe has grown to include two villages of about 500 residents. Praised by urban planners, architects, and sustainability geeks alike, Serenbe is, by most accounts, a nice place to live. (You do have to be comfortable with a certain Truman Show vibe, though.) Homes, priced from $300,000 to more than $1 million, sell briskly. Now, with construction of Serenbe’s third village—or “hamlet” in the local parlance—Nygren aims to make Serenbe a great place to grow old. And maybe a model for a new kind of retirement community.

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And seven jobs that will grow, according to design leaders at Frog, Ideo, Artefact, Teague, and more.

And seven jobs that will grow, according to design leaders at Frog, Ideo, Artefact, Teague, and more.

Organ designers, chief drone experience designers, cybernetic director. Those are some of the fanciful new roles that could be created by the global design industry in the next few years.

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Upending the interview process lets employers see beyond candidates’ best behavior to see whether they are a good fit for the work.

Upending the interview process lets employers see beyond candidates’ best behavior to see whether they are a good fit for the work.

Hiring is a lot like dating: Both parties are often on their best behavior during the interview process, and you often don’t know if the candidate and company are a good match until several months later. Unfortunately that can cost an employer time and money.

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