Author Archives: Veterans Support Syndicate

Revolutionary France may seem like a strange place to find a life hack, but in the 1790s, the French satirist Nicolas Chamfort offered some stark advice to cope with our daily travails.  “One should swallow a toad every morning, so as not to find anything disgusting for the rest of the day,” he wrote. In other words, startContinueContinue reading “‘Eat the frog’: How getting unpleasant things out of the way makes for a fulfilling day”

Yes, attending through an AI tool is a time saver, but there are serious tradeoffs.  source https://www.inc.com/jessica-stillman/the-problem-with-sending-your-ai-agent-to-meetings-according-to-neuroscience/91274286

Achievement and power barely registered, showing up in less than a quarter of obituaries. Here’s what did matter. source https://www.inc.com/bill-murphy-jr/a-massive-new-study-of-38-million-obituaries-says-this-is-how-americans-want-to-be-remembered/91277524

Unsexy is the new sexy, and a misfit army of techies are building unsexy tech for customers again. source https://www.inc.com/joe-procopio/how-tech-industry-castoffs-are-building-tech-that-actually-sells/91277971

Imagine the scene: Your plane just landed late. You’ve barely got enough time to catch your connection, but first you’ve got to convince the other passengers to let you off before them. Good luck. Recently, though, a Delta Air Lines flight attendant flipped the script, according to Kathrin Peters. Peters, co-founder of consulting firm Withiii Leadership, saysContinueContinue reading “A Delta flight was landing late and passengers were anxious. What the flight attendant did next was brilliant”