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By Linda Fisher Thornton It’s the season of giving and gratitude and celebration, and today I’m sharing a sampling of this blog’s best seasonal messages. Each is meant to inspire us to become our best. As leaders we can promote unity or divisiveness, but of those two, promoting unity is the only ethical path. sourceContinueContinue reading “Tis The Season”

It’s been a rough year for American workers. Unfortunately, 2026 isn’t looking all that much better. The year began with tariffs—just as inflation was finally starting to cool—followed by AI anxiety and headline-grabbing layoffs, before ending with America’s longest ever government shutdown. Surveys suggest many American workers didn’t get a raise in 2025, and mostContinueContinue reading “American workers had a rough 2025. Will 2026 be any different?”

AI is not your friend, and that needs to be made clear before it becomes your enemy source https://www.inc.com/joe-procopio/opiate-for-the-masses-you-can-now-tell-your-openai-chatbuddy-to-be-less-mean-to-you/91282068

JetBlue’s new BlueHouse lounge, now open at JFK airport, is designed as a hyper-local respite for the airline’s most loyal travelers. source https://www.inc.com/fast-company-2/jetblue-adds-lounge-access-how-it-compares-to-competitors/91282476

As AI data centers spring up across the country, their energy demand and resulting greenhouse gas emissions are raising concerns. With servers and energy-intensive cooling systems constantly running, these buildings can use anywhere from a few megawatts of power for a small data center to more than 100 megawatts for a hyperscale data center. ToContinueContinue reading “Google is betting on carbon capture tech to lower data center emissions. Here’s how it works”