By Elizabeth Grace Saunders March 06, 2023 Email can take up a massive amount of time. Americans spend about 172 minutes checking their personal emails, and around 149 minutes checking their work emails, per day on average. By reducing how long it takes you to write an email, you could open up hours … Continue reading 6 ways to spend less time writing emails
By Michael Grothaus February 27, 2023 It’s been another brutal month for workers in the tech and media industries. The month started with Disney announcing 7,000 job cuts and News Corp. announcing 1,250 of its own. Tech company job cuts also piled on in early February with the likes of Dell, eBay, Zoom, Yahoo, … Continue reading Mass layoffs continue in tech, this time led by Ericsson and Twitter
By Rob Walker February 24, 2023 Branded is a weekly column devoted to the intersection of marketing, business, design, and culture. What is social media worth? Not to investors—we know the market valuations of the most familiar social media companies can reach hundreds of billions, even despite recent weakness among tech stocks—but to … Continue reading Why social media companies picked a very tricky time to start charging users
12 Time Management Tips When Working in Different Time Zones Calendar / 17 Feb 2023 It can be challenging to keep track of time zones. Even though we’ve tried to reinvent time zones, we still can’t agree on a universal system. However, it’s usually not a problem since everyone knows their region’s time zone. For … Continue reading 12 Time Management Tips When Working in Different Time Zones
When Some[thing] Shows You [What It Is], Believe [It] The First Time by Joe Mandese @mp_joemandese, February 17, 2023 Fun fact: I actually struggle with headlines. But when I began drafting this column after reading The New York Times column about one of its writer’s conversations with Microsoft’s new AI-powered chatbot “Sydney,” this one just came … Continue reading When Some[thing] Shows You [What It Is], Believe [It] The First Time
Ad automation startup proves that ChatGPT’s potential is no longer theoretical—it’s practical. Fluency on February 10, 2023 The news is awash with articles about how ChatGPT might disrupt countless industries—including advertising and marketing. Yet despite all the theorizing and (often trivial) demonstrations, there have been few—if any—tangible examples of ChatGPT (and GPT-3) at work … Continue reading Leveraging ChatGPT to save advertising professionals’ time by Fluency
By Chris Morris January 12, 2023 There’s no denying that the Consumer Electronics Show has produced a number of truly revolutionary products. But for every success there are dozens—possibly hundreds—of gadgets, apps, doodads, and whatchamacallits that are bound to never be seen again. It’s not just startups that fall short. Even some of the … Continue reading Lessons from 8 of the biggest tech product failures of all time
The best gifts for grads under $50Give them something useful without breaking the bank. Valentina Palladino|@valentinalucia Gifting can be difficult at any time, but it’s been particularly hard over the past couple of years. You may still be working with a tight budget, but you also want to give that grad in your life … Continue reading Tile discounts a bunch of Bluetooth trackers in time for Black Friday
By Jared Lindzon November 21, 2022 The last few weeks of the year tend to see a dramatic drop in hiring activity, but this year might be different. Despite inflation, rising interest rates, and mass layoffs at large tech firms some experts believe hiring activity will actually remain relatively strong through the holiday … Continue reading This holiday season might be an unusually good time to apply for a job
By Sam Becker November 15, 2022 Though the latest CPI numbers showed promise in the Fed’s battle against inflation—prices rose 7.7% year-over-year during October, a drop compared to previous months—it may not be of much comfort to the millions of Americans struggling to contend with escalating costs. That may be particularly true for … Continue reading The recession is squeezing Gen Z more than other generations: Nearly 75% can’t pay their bills on time
