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fromwww.businessinsider.com
52 minutes agoAfter a disappointing college experience, I was determined to make postgrad life better. Now I'm thriving.
Social anxiety and depression had other plans, leaving me in an ugly cycle of self-isolation and rumination. Terrified of rejection, I'd meet someone interesting during one of my English lectures and invite them out for frozen yogurt in my head.
Higher education
Fashion & style
fromEntrepreneur
18 hours agoThey Brought in $5K Per Weekend at Craft Fairs - Then $1.5M a Year - Thanks to an Unusual Business Model: 'Incredibly Fast Scale'
Chen and Wu launched Never Have I Ever, a beauty startup focused on wearable art, achieving $1.5 million in revenue and a 'Shark Tank' deal.
#entrepreneurship
Silicon Valley food
fromEntrepreneur
3 days agoThis 30-Year-Old Uber Employee Started a 'Scrappy' Side Hustle in Her Kitchen - It Hit $10K in 48 Hours: 'Never About Chasing a Trend'
Glabman created She's The Sauce to provide functional condiments while managing health issues, achieving $10,000 in revenue within 48 hours.
Silicon Valley food
fromEntrepreneur
3 days agoThis 30-Year-Old Uber Employee Started a 'Scrappy' Side Hustle in Her Kitchen - It Hit $10K in 48 Hours: 'Never About Chasing a Trend'
Glabman created She's The Sauce to provide functional condiments while managing health issues, achieving $10,000 in revenue within 48 hours.
Women in technology
fromFast Company
5 days agoAI isn't just reshaping productivity and threatening to kill jobs. It's changing how we lead, communicate, and treat each other. It's also creating a new gender gap
Generative AI is reshaping communication, trust, and cultural interactions beyond productivity and efficiency concerns.
Psychology
fromSilicon Canals
5 days agoThere's a specific kind of loyalty that keeps people in jobs, cities, and friendships years after the reason they stayed has disappeared. It's not inertia. It's that leaving would require admitting the time already spent wasn't building toward something, and that admission costs more than staying another year. - Silicon Canals
People remain in unfulfilling situations due to the fear of admitting past investments were unproductive, not because of passivity or fear of change.
Artificial intelligence
fromwww.theguardian.com
16 hours agoTech companies are cutting jobs and betting on AI. The payoff is far from guaranteed
Tech workers face job insecurity as AI investments lead to significant layoffs across major companies, despite AI's current limitations in replacing human roles.
fromInc
3 days ago5 Passive Income Business Ideas That Require Less Than $1,500 to Start
Short-term rentals offer a variety of options beyond traditional home rentals. Platforms like Swimply allow individuals to rent out pools, while Neighbor and Spacer enable the monetization of unused parking spots.
Bootstrapping
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Startup companies
fromBusiness Insider
3 weeks agoI've tried 100 side hustles. These 5 are the most lucrative that don't require any experience.
A 29-year-old YouTuber tested over 100 side hustles since 2014, eventually building a content business generating over $1 million in lifetime revenue before selling it and transitioning to full-time digital nomad work earning six figures.
Careers
fromFortune
1 day agoAI is about to send millions to 'professional identity purgatory.' Here's what I discovered after my 30 year career crashed to a halt | Fortune
Professional identity purgatory is a transitional phase where individuals grapple with losing their established roles and the uncertainty of their future.
#gig-economy
Remote teams
fromSilicon Canals
5 days agoGig workers in 50+ countries are filming themselves doing chores to train humanoid robots for $15 an hour - Silicon Canals
A new gig economy is emerging where workers film household tasks to train humanoid robots, highlighting economic disparities in compensation versus value extracted.
Remote teams
fromSilicon Canals
5 days agoGig workers in 50+ countries are filming themselves doing chores to train humanoid robots for $15 an hour - Silicon Canals
A new gig economy is emerging where workers film household tasks to train humanoid robots, highlighting economic disparities in compensation versus value extracted.
Remote teams
fromBusiness Insider
3 weeks agoHow much gig workers earn per hour across Uber, Grubhub, and similar apps
Gig work hourly pay varies significantly across apps, with TaskRabbit earning $38/hour, Spark $23/hour, Uber $22/hour, and DoorDash $11/hour according to Gridwise analysis of 1 billion tasks.
Higher education
fromBusiness Insider
4 weeks agoI moved 13 times over 15 years to advance my career. I would never wish this on anyone.
Frequent relocations for academic career advancement create emotional exhaustion and disconnection despite professional success, ultimately revealing the psychological cost of mobility.
Careers
fromBackyard Garden Lover
2 weeks ago12 High-Paying Jobs You Can Land Without A College Degree
High-paying careers increasingly require vocational certificates, associate degrees, or technical training instead of four-year degrees, offering competitive salaries with lower debt and faster entry.
fromArs Technica
1 month agoI spent two days gigging at RentAHuman and didn't make a single cent
After signing up to be one of the gig workers on RentAHuman, I was nudged to connect a crypto wallet, which is the only currently working way to get paid. That's a red flag for me. The site includes an option to connect your bank account-using Stripe for payouts-but it just gave me error messages when I tried getting it to work.
Artificial intelligence
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