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Too scared to quit? An agency will do that for you - FT (No paywall)
A wave of activism is coming from a quarter Japanese companies did not expect
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The real science behind the billionaire pursuit of immortality
Longevity research may not let us live forever — but it could still make our lives better in smaller ways.
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Pulitzer prize winner for feature photography 2024 â in pictures
Associated Press photographers have been awarded a Pulitzer prize for their work chronicling the arduous journey of migrants and asylum seekers from central and South America to the US
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What Happens When a Happening Place Becomes Too Hot
City officials worked to make Milan attractive to visitors, but now that some neighborhoods are overwhelmed by rowdy crowds and noise, they’re trying to scale back.
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Can a 50-Year-Old Idea Save Democracy?
The economist and philosopher Daniel Chandler thinks so. In “Free and Equal,” he makes a vigorous case for adopting the liberal political framework laid out by John Rawls in the 1970s.
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Could Equinox’s New $40,000 Membership Really Help You Live Longer?
Blood tests and “biodata” have entered the fitness space.
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How to Present to an Audience That Knows More Than You - Harvard Business Review (No paywall)
What happens when you have to give a presentation to an audience that might have some professionals who have more expertise on the topic than you do? While it can be intimidating, it can also be an opportunity to leverage their deep and diverse expertise in service of the group’s learning. And it’s an opportunity to exercise some intellectual humility, which includes having respect for other viewpoints, not being intellectually overconfident, separating your ego from your intellect, and being willing to revise your own viewpoint — especially in the face of new information. This article offers several tips for how you might approach a roomful of experts, including how to invite them into the discussion without allowing them to completely take over, as well as how to pivot on the proposed topic when necessary.
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Using Data to Design Your Hybrid Work Policies - Harvard Business Review (No paywall)
We’ve seen how fully remote work can lead to a loss of connection and development opportunities, particularly those that require observational learning, or learning by watching someone else do it. However, people still want to work from home at least some of the time because of the greater work-life balance and personal productivity that they experience. But what is the right amount of time to be in person? How can corporate policymakers and team leaders get the best of both worlds? The authors discuss how Ernst & Young LLP (EY U.S.) has taken a data-driven approach to questions around hybrid work. Their data comparing the performance and well-being of hybrid employees with their fully in-person and remote counterparts has yielded (often surprising) insights from which other organizations may benefit.
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Millennial vs. boomer budgets: How spending has changed for young adults in the last 30 years - Business Insider (No paywall)
Young adults are spending less on alcohol, beef, and mortgage interest and more on fresh produce, rent, and healthcare.
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How Ahrefs gets a Billion dollar-worth infrastructure with a 90% discount - Medium (No paywall)
The buzz around our $400 million savings over three years at the Singapore data center article was hard to ignore. The article laid out how 850 identical servers stacked up against their AWS counterparts based on a single month’s spending. Now, let’s zoom out and consider what the total cost would have been if Ahrefs had shifted its entire on-premise infrastructure to the cloud from the start of its colocation journey.
Historically, Ahrefs started with colocation, then moved to using hosting providers like OVH, SoftLayer, Hetzner and others. In 2017, the company returned to colocation and has since expanded this approach. This review covers actual colocation-related expenses over a six-year period from July 1, 2017, to June 30, 2023. We have compiled all the expenditures from our data centers, grouped them by month, and created a graph of our historical monthly spending.
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