If your social media accounts disappeared tomorrow, would anyone miss them? I ask our team this question every year, not to challenge their work, but to assess whether we’re adding value for our audience. The brands that succeed on social media offer inspiration, education, or a genuine sense of community. They provide leadership when the world feels off course, and levity when it feels too heavy. A strong brand should be uniquely positioned to offer a distinct perspective or value for their audience, like providing expertise or teaching a new skill. At Intrepid Travel, we think about value creation in…
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At race speed, Liam Lawson is listening to his engineer, watching tire temperatures, managing energy use, and making decisions that can affect lap time. In Formula 1, the flow of data has become part of the driver’s workload. AI is now changing how quickly teams can process that data and turn it into usable information. “This year with our new regulations, the energy management that we have to look after is what makes us quite physically [and] mentally tired, because there’s a lot of things we have to think about,” says Lawson, whose Visa Cash App Racing Bulls F1 team…
Courtney Fahnhorst was looking for a way to supplement her income when she stumbled on a LinkedIn ad seeking medical experts to help train AI models. The mother of four was already working a full-time job as a wound care and hyperbaric medicine specialist but wanted to earn some extra income to put toward a private practice she plans to open in St. Johns County, Florida, later this year. “I really needed a job that was going to be flexible but also allowed me to build some income and capital to invest in my future,” she says. “This fit the…
When it comes to tech IPOs in 2026, it’s largely been a year of AI companies and other hardware firms of various stripes going public. But today marks a relatively rare occurrence: a software company public offering. That IPO is for the Italian tech firm Bending Spoons S.p.A. Yet despite its European roots, the company owns several well-known American brands, including the video-sharing website Vimeo and what remains of the legacy internet service provider, America Online. Here’s what you need to know about Bending Spoons’ IPO. What is Bending Spoons? Bending Spoons was founded 13 years ago in 2013. The…
One Monday morning a little more than a year ago, on her way to present at a board meeting, Sarah Davies, then-head of financial business services at a large U.K. food manufacturer, called her elderly father to check on him. Having not heard from him over the weekend like usual, she’d started worrying. The phone rang and rang. Finally, she got ahold of his neighbor, who then checked on Davies’s father and found that he’d fallen at home. While her neighbors sent for an ambulance, Davies stood in the office stairwell, crying. “What did I do? I went into the bathroom,…
The employment picture continues to soften despite every attempt to paint the economy as resilient. ADP reported that private employers added only 98,000 jobs in June, below expectations of roughly 118,000 and down from May’s 122,000. Nearly all of the hiring came from the service sector, particularly education and health services, while leisure and hospitality barely managed to add jobs despite the FIFA World Cup taking place across North America. Manufacturing remained weak, and natural resources and mining continued to shed workers. The report exposes an economy that is slowing rather than collapsing. That distinction is important. ADP Chief Economist…
You know the moment. Someone says something in a meeting, or fails to say it, and the room goes quiet. People study their notebooks. Someone reaches for their phone. The conversation moves on, a little faster than it should. Nothing happened. That is exactly the problem. Most leaders treat such silences as awkward gaps to be bridged. And they are gaps: something should be there, and isn’t. What should be there is the thing that everyone is avoiding. What we avoid does not leave the room. It settles into how people behave, what they will risk, how much of themselves…
People keep asking when World War III will begin. They are asking the wrong question. Europe is already behaving as though it is at war. I have warned for years that the politicians in Brussels would never allow peace because the sovereign debt crisis requires an external enemy. Every week, another European government announces more military spending, another mobilization plan, another emergency measure, another speech warning the public to prepare for conflict. This is no longer speculation. It is policy. Now Poland’s foreign intelligence chief, Col. Paweł Szota, has made one of the clearest admissions yet. He warned, “The level…
Red Lobster’s Everyday Endless Shrimp deal seemed too good to be true. In June of 2023, the promotion was turned into a permanent menu item, offering customers unlimited servings of shrimp for just $20. The move was a head-scratcher: How could a deal like that possibly be profitable? Turns out, it wasn’t—and a new lawsuit claims that may have been on purpose. The Red Lobster GUC Trust, a liquidation trust formed when Red Lobster filed for bankruptcy in 2024, is suing former majority stakeholder Thai Union Group, a Thai seafood company. The lawsuit alleges that Thai Union treated Red Lobster…
War has now entered the video game stage. Ukraine has placed a literal price tag on Russian lives, paying soldiers roughly $2,200 for capturing an enemy combatant and around $330 for killing one in close combat when confirmed by video. This is the monetization of death. What better way to entice the youth than to turn war into a video game? Call of Duty-aligned missions are provided, as the Ukrainian government is providing incentives for death and destruction. The new bonuses are part of Ukraine’s broader transformation of its military into a contract-based force with higher pay, clearer service terms,…