Key Takeaways Stack Overflow conducted a survey of 30,903 software developers across 169 countries. Nearly half of the respondents said they were complacent in their jobs, a third were unhappy, and 22% were happy. AI’s impact is mixed: One developer now finds coding with AI less fulfilling, while another says he finds fulfillment in AI letting him tackle ambitious projects. The AI boom is pushing ahead as the software developers behind it are wearing down. Stack Overflow’s 2026 Developer Survey, released earlier this week, polled 30,903 developers across 169 countries. Nearly half said they were complacent in their jobs. A…
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The average 30-year mortgage has jumped to 7.49%, the highest since November 2023. This is happening while everyone continues to obsess over what the Federal Reserve will do at its next meeting as if the Fed chairman personally sets the mortgage rate at your local bank. He does not. Mortgage rates are tied far more closely to the bond market, particularly longer-term Treasury yields, and those yields have been rising because investors are demanding more to lend money long term. The US 30-year Treasury yield has now reached its highest level in 24 years. That is the part most real…
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways There’s a growing trend in the college admissions consulting business. Parents are asking consultants to guarantee outcomes, even when their children’s profiles make those expectations unrealistic. Many clients think paying for expertise means buying an outcome — but expertise doesn’t work that way. What expertise can do is improve decision-making and maximize the likelihood of a favorable outcome. Some clients want validation, not expertise. The trouble is that sometimes the most valuable thing an expert can tell a client is precisely what the client doesn’t want to hear. “Can you…
The bond market is beginning to expose what governments have desperately tried to hide. Britain’s 30-year yield has now reached 6.036%, the highest since 1998. The US 30-year yield reached 5.7041%, its highest level in 24 years, while France’s 10-year yield has pushed above 5%. This is happening across the developed world because governments borrowed endlessly when money was cheap and somehow convinced themselves that interest rates would remain artificially low forever. This is precisely how a sovereign debt crisis begins. It does not require a government to announce that it is bankrupt. Capital simply begins demanding more interest to…
Call it the Great Subway Robbery. Prosecutors say the woman buying supplies for Subway owners and her brother pocketed millions in kickbacks. A federal grand jury has indicted Janet Risi Field, 66, and her brother Steven Louis Risi, 70, in a scheme that allegedly cost Subway franchisees more than $80 million, according to NBC 6 South Florida. Risi Field founded Independent Purchasing Cooperative, the nonprofit that negotiates supply deals for Subway franchisees, and ran it from 1996 to 2021. Its whole job was getting owners the lowest prices. But prosecutors say Risi Field cut secret deals with vendor brokers who…
Key Takeaways Mullin seized the opportunity to focus on plant-based options and sustainable initiatives at Little Saint. She says its seven-day-a-week operations help it serve the community as a rare third place. “Food was very central to my life growing up,” Deborah Mullin, director of culinary at Little Saint, a plant-based restaurant in Healdsburg, California, says. Image Credit: Emma K Creative. Director of culinary Deborah Mullin. Mullin’s paternal grandfather owned and operated a restaurant in a small town in the Hudson Valley in New York. Her maternal grandparents were first-generation Americans with Italian heritage; her grandmother often prepared meals authentic…
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways Standard hustle-culture advice promotes the idea that how hard you grind measures your success, but leaders today show that success can be measured by sustainability and fulfillment. A growing number of authors have shared new perspectives on success. Other valuable forms of success authors share, such as finding purposeful meaning and building lifelong relationships, are what make their lives and careers feel worthwhile. What does success look like? Hustle culture would say put in more grit, grind things out, and you’ll succeed. But that view can feel outdated. And honestly,…
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways Rehearse in low-stakes environments: Create safe spaces (like Disney’s mock hotel rooms and lobbies) for employees to practice, make mistakes, and improve away from customer view. Connect daily tasks to a broader mission: Go beyond rigid job descriptions by giving employees a shared goal, so they can make smart judgment calls when unexpected situations arise. Test products in extreme conditions: Use your product where it’s most likely to fail (e.g., testing Florida park uniforms in heavy heat and humidity) and actively seek feedback from frontline users. Disney loves to use…
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Some people are natural conversationalists. I’m not one of them. Like many people, I’ve always felt awkward in conversation. That’s especially hard as an entrepreneur, where talking to people is half the job. Good conversations can drive our businesses and relationships. We like to buy from, work with, and collaborate with people who are easy to talk to. That’s why I spent the past two decades studying the patterns of master conversationalists for my latest book, Conversation: How to Connect with Anyone & Make Every Interaction Count. I learned that people who…
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways AI is helping creators turn ideas into prototypes and businesses without waiting for someone else to build them. The bigger opportunity isn’t to work faster, but to rethink how we create and what our workspaces should look like. As storytelling, product development and marketing come together, entrepreneurs can test more ideas with fewer resources. A few years ago, I wrote an article exploring something I have always found fascinating: how writers, filmmakers and producers have repeatedly imagined technologies decades before they actually existed. From holograms and intelligent machines to futuristic…