Category Archives: Business

The CEO of the ‘world’s biggest recruiter’ appears to be suggesting this. But don’t believe the dystopian hype. source https://www.inc.com/joe-procopio/should-former-tech-industry-employees-turn-to-trade-jobs/91287187

Sitting on a coffee table in his Chelsea office in New York City and surrounded by framed wedding invitations on the walls, Justin McLeod is worrying about AI. Specifically, the cofounder and CEO of dating app Hinge is concerned that his users—many of whom have asked him to their weddings over the years—might fall inContinueContinue reading “How Hinge became the dating app for people who hate dating apps”

It’s a little-known fact that Columbia University, in Manhattan, was home to the first mining school in America—the School of Mines—founded in 1864.  For the past three decades, the university’s program has been mothballed. Parts of its curriculum were subsumed into the more fashionable subjects of earth and environmental engineering.  But next fall, Columbia UniversityContinueContinue reading “The next hot career: Mining engineering”

As utilities struggle to keep up with surging energy demand, they’re starting to turn to an unexpected tool: windows that insulate like walls. “Think of it like a thermos bottle in your walls,” says LuxWall CEO and founder Scott Thomsen, who worked in the semiconductor and flat-panel display glass industry before taking on the challengeContinueContinue reading “These super-insulating windows are as energy-efficient as walls—and could help save the power grid”

I had to submit my résumé for a role. Then I went through three interviews, with nearly identical questions each time.  The problem? The role was for a freelance writing position. Not to become a company employee. I got all the way to the third interview only to learn that the role paid a fractionContinueContinue reading “The biggest client red flags solopreneurs face”