India's jobs vs education conundrum needs a deeper fixThis youthful workforce has the potential to drive economic growth, innovation, and productivity. However, the recent India Employment Report 2024, jointly published by the International Labour Organisation and the Institute of Human Development, paints an alarming picture.
Is ‘Fake It Till You Make It’ Good Advice or a Setup for Failure?Imitating confidence, competency, and drive may work for some, but what are the long-term professional implications?
Could romanticising your career be the key to getting through tough work days?Identifying a toxic workplace is important for maintaining good mental health, but is it beneficial for us to be romanticising our careers?
Harvard Research Reveals the Best Way to Describe YourselfWhen I met Mark Cuban some years ago, I overheard him talking about sales, a subject he feels strongly about. Once, when asked what he would do if he had to start over, Cuban said, "I would get a job as a bartender at night and a sales job during the day, and I would start working.
How do I deal with an annoying coworker?Hell may be other people, but we’ve all got to deal with them. Here’s some simple advice to make your workday less miserable. 2 minute ReadWelcome to “Pressing Questions,” Fast Company‘s mini-advice column.
The Best Google Docs Keyboard Shortcuts for Boosting Your ProductivityKnowing your way around some keyboard shortcuts—whether for Windows, macOS, or individual programs—is perhaps one of the best time-saving productivity hacks there is.
What Is Really Going On at Columbia University?It was a tumultuous weekend on the campus of Columbia University. The arrest of more than 100 pro-Palestinian students from an encampment on the university’s South Lawn has only emboldened protesters, and it’s led to fears of more action by the New York City Police Department.
Ottawa's plan to expand access to halal mortgages could lower high borrowing costs, providers sayFederal budget references to mortgage products aimed at Canadian Muslims have members of the community celebrating, along with the mortgage providers that look to serve them, despite a lack of detail from the government on what is to come.
This solar-building robot is designed to solve one of the industry’s biggest problemsThree years ago, robotics engineer Banks Hunter drove deep into the Mojave Desert to see a solar farm under construction. Cardboard boxes with around 2 million solar panels were scattered over tens of thousands of acres.
A freelancer who used Fiverr to leave a bad office job explains how she knew it was time and the pros and cons of the lifestyleRose Almond was over her 9-to-5 job as a mechanical engineer. Plus, Almond said working a nights-and-weekends side hustle of freelance gigs was exhausting. So she quit her day job in 2015.
The Psychology of Getting High—a LotFamous rapper Snoop Dogg is well known for his love of the herb: He once indicated that he inhales around five to 10 blunts per day—extreme even among chronic cannabis users.
“I wanted to work on something that didn’t exist”In 2017 Polina Anikeeva, PhD ’09, was invited to a conference in the Netherlands to give a talk about magnetic technologies that she and her team had developed at MIT and how they might be used for deep brain stimulation to treat Parkinson’s disease.
Google workers arrested after nine-hour protest in Google Cloud CEO's officeNine Google workers were arrested on trespassing charges Tuesday night after staging a sit-in at the company's offices in New York and Sunnyvale, California, including a protest in Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian's office.
A Harvard Medical School professor with ADHD shares how he retrained his brain for deep work and reached peak productivityAs a professor at Harvard Medical School and MIT, I am very lucky; I get to learn from and collaborate with some of the most innovative minds in the world of medicine, science, and technology. But I was not "supposed" to be here. No one would have predicted this for me.
US finally breaks ground on its first-ever high-speed railBuilders have officially broken ground on a new $12 billion train that could zoom travelers between Las Vegas and Los Angeles in just under two hours by the end of the decade.