As shopping malls empty, Baby Boomers who once shopped at the mammoth meccas continue aging. The logical answer: Redevelop the malls to include senior living communities. https://t.co/B4VIOQABa6
A study has revealed that thinking too hard causes chemical changes in the brain, which present behaviourally as fatigue. Discover the science behind why thinking too hard makes your head hurt https://t.co/wkMe9CgNCr
TEMU is a BIG DEAL. A large amount of profit for small and large businesses in US and Europe is made by exploiting the gap between consumer and mass overseas manufacturing rather than manufacturing their own products. If this app closes the gap in a reliable way …
Many of my professors in undergrad and grad from China used to warn/explain this very thing. I was always amazed at how readily they were ignored by US government and business leaders.
So excited to announce that my book "Beijing Rules: How China Weaponized Its Economy to Confront the World," is now available for pre-order on Amazon!
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Every action you do changes you, making it easier to do it again next time. Eventually, it becomes so natural that you cannot rest until you are doing it. 'Sow a thought, reap an action; so an action, reap a habit; sow a habit, reap a character.'
Accreditation agencies, professional standards groups, etc have more power than most are aware of. Even things like Chicago Manual of Style and APA can have an outsized influence on the use of language and therefore the evolution of society.
From @WSJopinion: Is college accreditation constitutional? Congress has given these private agencies virtually unchecked regulatory authority, write Shannen W. Coffin and George Leef https://t.co/N5ZBFNlb8G
Turning silver into coins catalysed the overthrow of the oligarchies of dozens of ancient Greek city states and their replacement with versions of the idea that all free men should share in governing https://t.co/nZ8abK2qqN
Researchers in America have found that the faster religious attendance falls in a state, the more “deaths of despair” rise. These include drug overdoses, alcohol-related illness and suicides https://t.co/un9XtcIkyG
What if we gave everyone the benefit of a doubt and assumed every statement has the best possible meaning instead of the worst. What if we let people own the meaning of what they said - even to the point of correcting and clarifying. Wouldn’t that be a loving way to listen?