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· Nov 12
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Experts say the tools already exist; now it’s just a matter of time. f-st.co/4HBRRYY
How close is the first solopreneur unicorn?
Experts say the tools already exist; now it’s just a matter of time.
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November 29, 2025 at 4:59 AM
Experts say the tools already exist; now it’s just a matter of time. f-st.co/4HBRRYY
Hint: Video is king. f-st.co/6FCkBKD
The most popular social media platform isn’t TikTok or X
It’s YouTube—by a wide margin.
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November 28, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Hint: Video is king. f-st.co/6FCkBKD
The Equinox Group has recovered from COVID, claiming that 2025 will be a record year from a profitability perspective.
Harvey Spevak, executive chairman and managing partner of Equinox, discusses the company’s expansion into the Middle East.
Full podcast episode: https://bit.ly/4itb7yj
Harvey Spevak, executive chairman and managing partner of Equinox, discusses the company’s expansion into the Middle East.
Full podcast episode: https://bit.ly/4itb7yj
November 28, 2025 at 9:13 PM
The Equinox Group has recovered from COVID, claiming that 2025 will be a record year from a profitability perspective.
Harvey Spevak, executive chairman and managing partner of Equinox, discusses the company’s expansion into the Middle East.
Full podcast episode: https://bit.ly/4itb7yj
Harvey Spevak, executive chairman and managing partner of Equinox, discusses the company’s expansion into the Middle East.
Full podcast episode: https://bit.ly/4itb7yj
Amazon workers say AI is being used to justify layoffs and impossible quotas. “Arbitrary metrics” are pushing them to exhaustion. f-st.co/xeDACnq
Amazon workers warn 'warp-speed' AI push threatens democracy and the planet
Employees across engineering, product, and warehouses say AI justifications are eroding job security and accelerating output demands.
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November 28, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Amazon workers say AI is being used to justify layoffs and impossible quotas. “Arbitrary metrics” are pushing them to exhaustion. f-st.co/xeDACnq
Makeup asbestos testing? The FDA is about to kill the rule that would require it. f-st.co/2vW7Zr6
U.S. pulls back on asbestos protections again—this time in your cosmetics
The proposed testing rule aimed at protecting makeup users from toxic asbestos is now set to be withdrawn.
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November 28, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Makeup asbestos testing? The FDA is about to kill the rule that would require it. f-st.co/2vW7Zr6
If you’re weary of the barrage of holiday gift guides and looking for options less likely to wind up in a landfill before we even hit Valentine’s Day, check out Emily Guy Birken’s anti-junk gift guide. f-st.co/QGavfhf
The anti-junk gift guide
If you’re tired of buying presents that will end up in a landfill before next Christmas, this is the gift guide for you.
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November 28, 2025 at 5:26 PM
If you’re weary of the barrage of holiday gift guides and looking for options less likely to wind up in a landfill before we even hit Valentine’s Day, check out Emily Guy Birken’s anti-junk gift guide. f-st.co/QGavfhf
A power bank that just keeps going. A phone wallet that doesn’t make you dig for cards. And the first book light I’m willing to use. f-st.co/v7DMTgD
3 tech products that quietly made my life better in 2025
A power bank that just keeps going. A phone wallet that doesn’t make you dig for cards. And the first book light I’m willing to use.
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November 28, 2025 at 1:58 PM
A power bank that just keeps going. A phone wallet that doesn’t make you dig for cards. And the first book light I’m willing to use. f-st.co/v7DMTgD
While automation will reshape the majority of work, the skills that make humans essential are increasingly important, new McKinsey report reveals. f-st.co/fAe8rWg
The new rules of work: How AI is reshaping human value
A new McKinsey report reveals that while automation will reshape work, the skills that make humans essential are increasingly important.
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November 28, 2025 at 9:06 AM
While automation will reshape the majority of work, the skills that make humans essential are increasingly important, new McKinsey report reveals. f-st.co/fAe8rWg
Annoyed by a ‘New York Times’ headline? It seems like that’s increasingly the Gray Lady’s goal f-st.co/SCtiyL0
Annoyed by a New York Times headline? It seems like that’s increasingly the Gray Lady’s goal
What’s the paper’s excuse for producing headlines that seem scientifically engineered to cause a nuclear meltdown on Bluesky?
f-st.co
November 28, 2025 at 5:32 AM
Annoyed by a ‘New York Times’ headline? It seems like that’s increasingly the Gray Lady’s goal f-st.co/SCtiyL0
"Fewer than a fourth of the countless leaders I’ve worked with have a dedicated crisis plan or team in place to help them navigate a crisis." f-st.co/aQBcaNz
The most ignored leadership skill? Crisis readiness
Leaders must be ready when the ever-turning wheel of misfortune lands on their spot—because it will.
f-st.co
November 28, 2025 at 12:28 AM
"Fewer than a fourth of the countless leaders I’ve worked with have a dedicated crisis plan or team in place to help them navigate a crisis." f-st.co/aQBcaNz
Here’s what went into the design of what’s been dubbed the Littlest Float, which measures just 14 Goldfish crackers long and 8 inches tall. f-st.co/79F8WrP
Goldfish joins Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade with the tiniest float ever
Spectators usually look up to watch giant balloons pass by during the Thanksgiving Day Parade. You'll have to look down to see this one.
f-st.co
November 27, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Here’s what went into the design of what’s been dubbed the Littlest Float, which measures just 14 Goldfish crackers long and 8 inches tall. f-st.co/79F8WrP
From Whole Foods to Walmart to Trader Joe's, here's a list of places that will and won't help you out during your missing cranberry sauce crisis. f-st.co/YEPVAQs
What stores are open on Thanksgiving Day 2025? Holiday hours for Walmart, Whole Foods, Costco, and more
Here's a list of places that will and won't help you out during your missing cranberry sauce crisis this year.
f-st.co
November 27, 2025 at 5:11 PM
From Whole Foods to Walmart to Trader Joe's, here's a list of places that will and won't help you out during your missing cranberry sauce crisis. f-st.co/YEPVAQs
From Whole Foods to Walmart to Trader Joe's, here's a list of places that will and won't help you out during your missing cranberry sauce crisis. f-st.co/GYDlPFs
What stores are open on Thanksgiving Day 2025? Holiday hours for Walmart, Whole Foods, Costco, and more
Here's a list of places that will and won't help you out during your missing cranberry sauce crisis this year.
f-st.co
November 27, 2025 at 4:46 PM
From Whole Foods to Walmart to Trader Joe's, here's a list of places that will and won't help you out during your missing cranberry sauce crisis. f-st.co/GYDlPFs
There will be conversations about AI at Thanksgiving this year—and they'll most likely be bad. Have the discussion anyway.
Not because you’ll form a consensus, but because these long human conversations—at their best—come with love and tension. AI provides neither.
https://bit.ly/43R3eg5
Not because you’ll form a consensus, but because these long human conversations—at their best—come with love and tension. AI provides neither.
https://bit.ly/43R3eg5
November 27, 2025 at 3:48 PM
There will be conversations about AI at Thanksgiving this year—and they'll most likely be bad. Have the discussion anyway.
Not because you’ll form a consensus, but because these long human conversations—at their best—come with love and tension. AI provides neither.
https://bit.ly/43R3eg5
Not because you’ll form a consensus, but because these long human conversations—at their best—come with love and tension. AI provides neither.
https://bit.ly/43R3eg5
The discussion has largely revolved around white-collar workers. That's a mistake. f-st.co/KZ8IuHQ
While AI targets corner offices, hourly workers are left behind
The discussion has largely revolved around white-collar workers. That's a mistake.
f-st.co
November 27, 2025 at 2:15 PM
The discussion has largely revolved around white-collar workers. That's a mistake. f-st.co/KZ8IuHQ
Women who are the breadwinners still do twice as much cooking and cleaning as their lower-earning male partners—winning the bread and baking it too. f-st.co/CBRM4LC
5 mindset shifts to utilize your time better as a working mom, according to a Wharton professor
If you look at time usage over a lifecycle, you see women’s time use on kids and housework swells to a mountain in our thirties while time on leisure and career investments goes down.
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November 27, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Women who are the breadwinners still do twice as much cooking and cleaning as their lower-earning male partners—winning the bread and baking it too. f-st.co/CBRM4LC
There’s potential danger in placing too much importance on your career, research shows. f-st.co/Pw4PSSa
The case for not loving your job
There’s potential danger in placing too much importance on your career, research shows.
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November 27, 2025 at 8:46 AM
There’s potential danger in placing too much importance on your career, research shows. f-st.co/Pw4PSSa
“RealPage was replacing competition with coordination, and renters paid the price." f-st.co/oVtHQaX
RealPage barred from using real-time data to set rents under new DOJ settlement
Under the terms of the proposed settlement, RealPage can no longer use that real-time data to determine price recommendations.
f-st.co
November 27, 2025 at 6:45 AM
“RealPage was replacing competition with coordination, and renters paid the price." f-st.co/oVtHQaX
"A healthcare proposal circulated by the White House in recent days is running into the reality of Republican divisions on the issue." f-st.co/ipBqno6
Trump's plan for extending healthcare subsidies is running into a divided GOP. Here's why
Republicans have been debating among themselves whether to overhaul the Affordable Care Act, tweak it, or simply let the subsidies expire.
f-st.co
November 27, 2025 at 5:18 AM
"A healthcare proposal circulated by the White House in recent days is running into the reality of Republican divisions on the issue." f-st.co/ipBqno6
Grab your keys and some tissues. Chevrolet's new holiday ad is a tearjerker. f-st.co/baNsUj5
Grab your keys and some tissues. Chevrolet's new holiday ad is a tearjerker
Grab the tissues. It’s time for another tale of family, the passing of time, and classic cars.
f-st.co
November 27, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Grab your keys and some tissues. Chevrolet's new holiday ad is a tearjerker. f-st.co/baNsUj5
Supporting staff through menopause isn’t a “nice thing to do.” It helps your company too. #FCImpactCouncil f-st.co/nasHtFM
Menopause at work is an equity issue
Rethink your company’s approach to this prominent health issue and support your workforce.
f-st.co
November 27, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Supporting staff through menopause isn’t a “nice thing to do.” It helps your company too. #FCImpactCouncil f-st.co/nasHtFM
New MIT study says AI can already replace 11.7% of U.S. workers — or $1.2T in wages. And the biggest exposure isn’t in tech. f-st.co/3uv2zXm
MIT study finds AI is already capable of replacing 11.7% of U.S. workers
Researchers say the tool is not a prediction engine but a granular snapshot of what today’s AI models can already do.
f-st.co
November 26, 2025 at 9:37 PM
New MIT study says AI can already replace 11.7% of U.S. workers — or $1.2T in wages. And the biggest exposure isn’t in tech. f-st.co/3uv2zXm
"We had orders that have reached the customers and they're in shock about the fact that they have to pay." f-st.co/fM7HgbA
As the holiday shopping season kicks off, these overseas sellers struggle to keep U.S. customers
The Trump administration ended the de minimis exemption on Aug. 29, as a way to curb drug trafficking and low-quality goods.
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November 26, 2025 at 9:10 PM
"We had orders that have reached the customers and they're in shock about the fact that they have to pay." f-st.co/fM7HgbA
It has long been a signal of soft professionalism. f-st.co/TFLi5ud
Here's why Gen Z is obsessed with the humble quarter zip
It has long been a signal of soft professionalism.
f-st.co
November 26, 2025 at 6:36 PM
It has long been a signal of soft professionalism. f-st.co/TFLi5ud
"This is an important first step to securing the integrity of the global town square. We plan to provide many more ways for users to verify the authenticity of the content they see on X." f-st.co/kHgD939
X's new feature revealed many popular U.S. political accounts are located in other countries
It’s now clear that the owners of these X accounts are located in regions such as South Asia, Africa, and Eastern Europe.
f-st.co
November 26, 2025 at 6:05 PM
"This is an important first step to securing the integrity of the global town square. We plan to provide many more ways for users to verify the authenticity of the content they see on X." f-st.co/kHgD939