A Foolproof Guide For Handling Condescending Coworkers
If someone’s trying to provoke you, the worst thing you can do is show them it’s worked.
Recently, a marketing firm called to solicit my business. They wanted me to sign up for their services, which included an online forum to produce and market classes based on my content. The young marketing rep was explaining all the features and benefits to me. Among them was a commitment to help produce social media posts, he explained, asking me in a rather condescending tone, “Do you know what social media is, Lea?” Could he have been more patronizing—or less informed about his potential customer?
Why It’s Better To Work With Someone Who Is Your Polar Opposite
Working with people who think like you can feel supportive and safe, but it’s also limiting.
When it comes to love, opposites attract, but in business, the tendency can be to gravitate toward people who are similar. Having others agree with and support you feels energizing, but it can also be limiting, says Peter Arvai, CEO of the presentation software provider Prezi.
Why So Many Doctors Are Advising Startups
It’s less about the money than trying to solve the right problems.
Ethan Weiss, a cardiologist at UC San Francisco, spends long hours at the hospital treating patients. But between shifts, he takes calls with health-technology entrepreneurs to offer them advice and feedback.
Apple’s First CareKit Apps Are Here
Developers can use CareKit to build apps that track patients’ health between doctor’s visits.
How often do you visit your doctor’s office? Three, four times per year? For most of us, our health is really about what happens between these visits: It’s the medications we take, our changing moods, or that decision to hit the gym more regularly.
Samsung Shows Off A New Attitude In San Francisco This Week
The company’s executives shed some of the buttoned-up formality they’re know for at its developer conference.
Call it a makeover. Samsung has long had a reputation in America for being businesslike, mechanical, and inscrutable. At the tech giant’s annual developer conference, the presentations are usually led by older Korean men in business suits who tout its products like hype men at a 1950s auto show.
These Are The 10 Best Sustainable Buildings Of 2016
From labs to museums to libraries, these buildings all save enormous amounts of energy and water—and are better to work in, too.
Every year, the American Institute of Architects Committee on the Environment scours the country for the best new green buildings—which, as they point out in a new report, can be built for the same amount or even less than standard architecture. They just happen to be much better at saving energy and water—and nicer to work inside, thanks to better light, materials, and cleaner air. Here are the 10 that won this year.
Meet The Ex-Architect Building Chatbots At Microsoft (Including That Racist Jerk, Tay)
Lili Cheng, who has spent 20 years building human interfaces at Microsoft, says risk is part of her job.
It was late March, and just four days before Microsoft CEO Satya Natella was due to announce the company’s new focus on “conversation as a platform,” Lili Cheng woke up to discover that one of her chatbots had gone rogue.