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Lessons From Past Recessions

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The most recent recession was in 2020 and only lasted a couple of months, whereas the 2008 recession lasted about 18 months. What are my basic monthly living expenses (including food, shelter, health insurance, utilities, phone, transportation and childcare)? Consider your skills and upskill. What is a recession?

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Finding Joy and Friendship in a Pandemic-Induced Hobby

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Skilled needleworkers mix decorative stitches, thread types and even beads to create intricate handheld works of art. I needed something to do—a hobby—that would force me to put my phone down and redirect my attention and my thumbs. We exchanged phone numbers and Instagram handles. It’s a sophisticated paint-by-numbers of sorts.

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The Vanishing Executive Assistant—NOT!

Office Dynamics

I would like to address the recent article that appeared in the Wall Street Journal on January 18, 2020 by Rachel Feintzeig regarding The Vanishing Executive Assistant. And yet assistants help file digital documents and manage calls through their cell phones, so the skills required for these tasks haven’t completely gone away.

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Best of the Best: How to Create a Personal Brand Like DJ Khaled

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Was it actually a phone notification plugged into a loudspeaker? Khaled was about 16 and DJing a party in Orlando, Florida where he spent his formative years, when his phone rang. It was from the phone line inside his little makeshift studio in his parents’ house. Khaled, Nicole and the boys graced the cover of Parents in 2020.

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Are You Ready to Hire a Virtual Assistant?

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In its fourth quarter of 2020 and first quarter of 2021 financial reports—while many other companies were experiencing layoffs and frantically downsizing—BELAY announced record-breaking numbers. The choice to send workers home felt temporary in 2020. Virtual assistants, it appears, are part of the new normal.

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Airbnb Co-Founder Joe Gebbia Talks About the Art of Making Accommodations

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I later would come to understand [this] is an incredible life skill for entrepreneurship. It’s the clothes we wear, the phones we talk on, the lights we see with and the cars we drive. Asylum for evacuees Just a few months after Airbnb.org was established in December 2020, evacuees started arriving in the U.S.

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Workplace piffle, humane design and throwing away the blank slate

Workplace Insight

Lots is said about the skills we’ll need to cope with the challenges of the current Century, but this is perhaps one of the most important. Today, Apple’s products violate all the fundamental rules of design for understanding and usability Take the screen design for Apple’s phones. Originally published in 2020.