Players work every angle except the one that will most quickly help the city and its leaders to fix fundamental issues.
Read More 10 Habits of Well-Liked Bosses
What does it take to become one the those bosses that people love? Here are 10 traits those popular leaders have.
If you’ve ever had a truly great boss, you know how important they can be to a company’s success. In fact, Gallup’s 2015 report, “State of the American Manager: Analytics and Advice for Leaders,” chalks up 70% of the variance in employee engagement scores to the quality of the respondents’ bosses.
Tech Companies Lash Out At Supreme Court’s Warrant Rule Change
The rules change could make consumers around the world feel less comfortable storing sensitive data on cloud services.
Today, law enforcement can’t get a warrant to hack into a computer if it doesn’t know the computer’s physical location. That will change on December 1, as a result of yesterday’s decision by the Supreme Court.
How I’ve Learned To Thrive With The Loneliness Of Self-Employment
Working solo can make you feel rudderless, without any skeptics or cheerleaders. But with these five tips, it can also be invigorating.
One of the questions I get most as an independent creative is, “Don’t you get lonely?” Frankly, not often—I happily spend most of my days working alone, save when I ask my dog whether a font choice is too sassy or sterile or whatever (he often falls asleep during these conversations).
The Supreme Court May Have Just Derailed Europe Safe Harbor Agreement
The new rules won’t help assure Europeans their data is safe from surveillance on the servers of U.S. companies.
On Thursday, the Supreme Court gave federal agencies far wider latitude to hack and search into computers around the world, and the decision could have a chilling effect on digital trade relations between the U.S. and Europe.
The Democrats’ Favorite, Nobel-Winning Economist On How To Reduce Income Inequality
“We should be using those scarce resources to preserve the planet. But we don’t give innovators any incentives.”
The message of Joseph Stiglitz’s book—The Great Divide: Unequal Societies and What We Can Do About Them (out now in paperback)—is positive, in a way. He shows how growing income and wealth inequality is the function of choices we make, not ineluctable forces—globalization, technology, capitalism—that we can’t control. Although we don’t have policies in place to create more equality, we could design them if we wanted. After all, other countries are buffeted by exactly the same forces (that’s why it’s called globalization), yet, they don’t have anything like our gaps between rich and poor.
How UNESCO Is Crowdsourcing The Preservation Of World Heritage
The United4Heritage initiative is part of a team creating a digital backup plan for threatened cultural monuments.
In recent years, we’ve seen a shocking number of historic sites around the world—some dating back thousands and thousands of years—destroyed. Sometimes it’s vandalism—think the Temple of Baalshamin, which stood from 131 AD to 2015, until it was destroyed by ISIS after the Syrian Civil War. Sometimes it’s just bad luck, like the 5th-century Buddhist and Hindu temples destroyed in Nepal by last year’s earthquake. Other times, of course, the vandalism comes from developers, as when a Belize construction company in 2013.
Are Chatbots Really The Future Of Web Design?
Here’s what working designers think of the conversational interface trend.
Adrian Zumbrunnen was terrified of what conversational interfaces meant for him as a UX designer. “The conversational interface is scary,” he says. “Will I still have a place in this industry when pushing pixels around is no longer the thing that designers do?”
How Beyoncé Is Redefining The Future Of The Music Industry
The release of Lemonade proves again that innovating in the industry means changing the way music is created, distributed, and promoted.
Beyoncé’s new visual album Lemonade, released last weekend, is a masterpiece of a short film. It’s also the new pinnacle of popular music—a multi-genre epic full of anger, heartbreak, and power. It is a perfect culminating moment for how we make, distribute, and consume popular music.
How Nest Is Trying To Keep The Connected Home Secure
Alphabet’s own Internet of Things outfit is working to stay one step ahead of hackers—and ahead of shifting consumer privacy expectations.
If you use Nest’s home automation products, you can have them automatically detect when you’re home or away. If you are out, your Nest Thermostat can automatically turn down your heat to save you money while you’re out, your Nest Cam can start monitoring your house for movement when you’re not there, and your Nest Protect smoke detector can test its alarm when nobody’s home to be disturbed by it.
