Overwhelmed by chaos at home? Try these tips from parents of big broods for maintaining order and calm.
One child can introduce chaos into your daily schedule. So it seems like large families would never make it anywhere on time. Yet talk to parents of big broods and you find that their households often function quite well. Their secret? These 10 time management tips that help them do more and stay calm.
Want to nail that next presentation? Use these seven tips.
Whether it’s a keynote speech for thousands or a sales meeting for a dozen, we’ve all seen speakers who keep the audience hanging on every word—and those who have their audiences counting the minutes until they can leave the room. Some folks at the front of the room are charismatic and engaging while others leave us dreading the next time we have to listen to anyone speak.
Risk takers aren’t reckless, they pore over the details and study their situations inside and out because they have so much at stake.
While most successful careers and businesses require a certain amount of risk, few business leaders would likely compare themselves to high-stakes poker players or BASE jumpers plummeting off a cliff. But these professional risk takers may have more in common with you than you think, says science journalist Kayt Sukel, author of the new book The Art of Risk: The New Science of Courage, Caution, and Chance.
Big-data platform Paysa provides market insight to ease the often awkward, sometimes emotional, conversations about compensation.
Employees are usually in the dark about salaries other than their own. Even discussions with close friends and family members can get a little squirrely when paychecks are brought up. But it’s tough to effectively negotiate either a raise or a new compensation package without really knowing what other people are earning. So it’s no surprise that Chris Bolte, cofounder/CEO of Paysa, says that the spark for the new platform that provides market salary data was literally to shed light on a shadowy aspect of the workplace.
You might want to check in, or maybe you’re looking forward to completely unplugging, but you’ll probably end up somewhere in the middle.
The two ends of the spectrum on maternity leave are what I like to call “full blackout” (whereby you’re completely offline and unreachable except in case of true, dire emergency) and staying 100% online (plugged in to your office via the various devices you rely on).
In the early days of the World Wide Web, this mystery novel dealt with computer hacking, designer poisons, and email surveillance.
Late last year, while working on a story about the early days of Match.com, I heard a lot of reminiscing about the days just before the web took off.
Thirty-seven percent of Americans telecommute, and it has its perks—but also downsides. Such as: You might actually miss your commute.
Last year, I quit my day job to work from home, for myself, full time. By doing so, I joined a growing crowd: From 1995 to 2015, according to a 2015 Gallup poll, the percentage of U.S. workers who say they have telecommuted for work has grown from 9% to 37%.
If you want to know if your local taco place got a D on its health inspection, or how vacant homes affect crime, you have Socrata to thank.
Want to know what the state of Connecticut has spent money on in almost real-time? Or maybe you’d find visualizations for the White House’s recently released 2017 federal budget useful. Maybe you’d be into seeing health reports for every restaurant entry on Yelp, instead.
Scientists and companies like Google and Mars are using figuring out how to breed Africa’s traditional crops to be more nutritious and easier to grow.
Across Africa, some of the most nutritious crops are the indigenous, traditional foods that grow in the wild or in backyard gardens. People have eaten foods like amaranth, okra, and breadfruit for centuries, but most of them have never been grown in formal agriculture systems and their seeds never bred for qualities like yield or higher nutrient content. The continent’s major cash food crops are far less healthy grains, mainly corn and rice.
Canvas ads mimic the features of Facebook’s Instant Articles platform.
Facebook has officially rolled out its Canvas ad platform. Canvas has been in testing since last year and has often been referred to as “instant ads” because of the way it mimics Facebook’s Instant Articles platform for publishers.
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