An early March batch of links
Note: I didn’t put an audio recording in this week. Do you miss hearing my voice in this spot? Let me know if you’d like for this feature to return in subsequent weeks.
Since the most recent batch of links went out, paying subscribers received a reflection on acceptance, then an essay about body changes. This coming weekend, they’ll enjoy an interview with a veteran community builder.
Below, you’ll find a batch of links that represent the themes of this newsletter, which are career development, community building, and self care.
Do You Know How Much Your Spouse Makes? Some Couples Are Clueless.
Anticipating conflict sometimes has as much to do with each partner’s prior experiences — say, if their own parents argued a lot about the family’s finances or a former partner constantly criticized their spending habits — as with the present day.
She’s a Foot Soldier in America’s Losing War With Chronic Disease.
Southwest Airlines Promised to Take Care of Employees—Until It Couldn’t. “Many who remain are rattled. For a few days, headquarters was a somber scene. Offices and cubicles were still decorated with memorabilia. When the company packed them up, some desks had enough swag to fill several boxes.” This detail is an excellent one to include in the story. What will you take with you when you exit?
If You Use Loud White Noise For Sleep, We've Got Some Bad News For You.
Millennials have a terrifying new role. We grow up and we grow old faster than we’d like to, and being in the middle of your life means that while you still aspire you have people coming up behind you looking up at you for guidance. In past generations, that outlet wasn’t available because people refused to help. Will millennials take those calls when their predecessors didn’t?
I was unemployed for 300 days. I often had sleepless nights and panic attacks because of it.
Fired by a bot? What happens when AI takes over performance reviews and layoffs. I agree with the final take in here, that if we outsource all of something to AI, we’re liable to lose, but that we can use AI to take care of some of the areas of HR that aren’t people-facing.
Why employees have shifted from AI fear to ‘AI fomo’.
Robot Recruiters: How AI is Helping Decide Who Gets Hired. I had no idea that these tools went back to 2018 (or earlier). It may have only hit the mainstream of late, and what I think can be true is that these AI tools are best when they’re not known to be used, even if they should be presumed to be powering the backend.
Here’s how much you need to make to afford a $1 million house today.
What if the people caring for American children get deported?
The political crusade against immigration may score political points, but on the ground, it’s setting up a chain reaction that could cascade through the entire economy — from parents forced to cut back work hours to businesses losing productive employees to a generation of children without supportive care at their most formative age.
How to Tell If Your Job Candidate Is an AI Deepfake.
Why Do I Keep Having Recurring Dreams? “The content of the recurring dream can also affect how you feel. After having one that’s neutral or simply odd, you might wake up feeling perplexed or puzzled about why you’ve had this dream again, Zadra says. On the other hand, positive recurring dreams about mastering a dance move, say, can leave you feeling inspired, hopeful, or exhilarated.” Some people have dreams about mastering a dance move?
Why HR experts say Musk’s ‘5 things’ emails won’t work.
It took Anu Duggal 700 meetings to launch Female Founders Fund. Now she’s investing in women with a ‘chip on their shoulder’ to deliver outsized returns. I love how she took her own struggles to help the next wave of people. This is the way. Not to say because it was hard for you that it must be hard for the next person. Rather, the opposite, deliberately so.