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The Digitialization of Jobs

Small Business Labs

  The report: " presents a detailed analysis of changes in the digital content of 545 occupations covering 90 percent of the U.S. workforce in all industries since 2001. Brookings recently released an interesting study on Digitalization and the American workforce.  The analysis categorizes U.S.

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What MLB Pitcher Jon Lester and 4 Other Professional Athletes Teach Us About Overcoming Obstacles

Success

“It’s how you deal with the challenges the disability presents you with.”. ‘Be But just three years later, in 2001, she was struck by a car on her way back to school from swim practice, and lost her left leg at the knee as a result. Be everything you want to be’.

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Create Your Own Free Lunch and Learn Sessions

Ian's Messy Desk

Today I ate my lunch in front of the computer and watch Guy Kawasaki’s presentation, “ The Art of the Start” from TiECon 2006 : a useful 40 minutes. Presenters at the annual TED conferences give talks that are generally no more than 20 minutes; they are a good length for lunch and learn sessions.

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Memories of the Office Age 

Workplace Insight

Granted, Florence didn’t have Zoom or the cloud, but so far both of those have fallen short in the present crisis. The past year has presented us with many such images. History’s creative hubs have been ephemeral — when Florence declined in the 16th century, it was not replaced by another concentration of artistic genius.

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Millions of tons of plastic are trashed every year. But what if we used it to pave our roads?

Ideas.Ted

In a small nation like Ghana, where only 23 percent of roads are presently paved, waste plastic could go a long way. India’s plastic road technology grew out of experimentation done in 2001 by R. Plastic roads “offer an opportunity to absorb hundreds of thousands of tons [of plastic], almost overnight,” says one advocate. “We

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5 Challenges and Mistakes Faced by Every Solopreneur

Office Organization Success

One of the questions I seem to get asked a lot when I present on Telesummits is to talk about some of the biggest challenges and/or mistakes I’ve faced during my business journey, and how my experiences and learnings can help other business owners. How will you handle it? And to also know that you are not alone.

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Where does consciousness come from? And how do our brains create it? A look at one of life’s biggest mysteries

Ideas.Ted

Does it emerge at birth, or is it present even in the womb? For me, these questions evoke the uncanny sympathy I felt when watching Dave Bowman destroy HAL’s personality by the simple act of removing its memory banks, one by one, in the film 2001: A Space Odyssey. When does consciousness begin in development?

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