Story provided by Black Enterprise – If you are a small business owner or thinking about launching a Start-up and worried about protecting your intellectual property, you should be. Your IP, often, is your most valuable asset. It should be treasured, protected and insured. Now, ideally to protect your brand you’ll need a trademark, copyright … Continue reading
Story provided by The Muse – Whether you love your job or not, you’ve probably given at least some thought to your next career move. (And if you haven’t, well, here are a few good reasons why you should.) Problem is, a lot of us stop there. After all, if you don’t have a set … Continue reading
Story provided by The Atlantic – It’s a relatively new invention—is it time to shave another day off? “Seven days,” wrote Witold Rybczynski in the August 1991 issue of The Atlantic, “is not natural because no natural phenomenon occurs every seven days.” The year marks one revolution of the Earth around the sun. Months, supposedly, … Continue reading
Story provided by LinkedIn (Written by Walter Chen) – The exemplary manager is often shown delivering a rousing speech that inspires her troops to achieve ever greater heights. But the truth is a lot less exciting than that. To three highly effective and successful executives, a boring, often-overlooked ability is one of the most vital … Continue reading
Story provided by Pacific Standard – Many night workers get “shift-work sleep disorder.” And no one knows how to treat it. Maintaining a regular circadian rhythm is crucial for human health. But almost 15 percent of full-time salaried workers in the United States work the graveyard shift, making them susceptible to sleep-cycle issues that, according to a new study, … Continue reading
Story provided by The Muse – How many times have you had this conversation go down? Co-worker: “Did you get x task done? We need the report now.” You: “Uh, no. When did you tell me about that?” Co-worker: “Oh, I emailed you about it 30 minutes ago. Did you not get it?” Obviously, it’s … Continue reading
Story provided by Harvard Business Review – If you’re reading this while on a conference call — perhaps even in the loo — you’re not alone. It turns out many U.S. employees would rather do just about anything rather than listen intently to their coworkers from a remote location. According to InterCall, the world’s largest conference call … Continue reading
Story provided by Slate – Kids. They’re expensive. The Department of Agriculture has released its latest report on what families spend raising their children, and it’s full of all sorts of statistics to make you think long and hard about adopting a dog instead. The headline figure: A middle-income married couple can now expect to … Continue reading
Story provided by FiveThirtyEight – Maurice Brown has spent the summer doing something that’s increasingly unusual for American teenagers: going to work. Brown, 17, works 25 hours a week as a fry cook at a McDonald’s down the street from where he lives in Holyoke, Massachusetts. While classmates were at the beach or the … Continue reading
Circa is an atomized approach to digesting the news. Its focuses on breaking down the story into core elements (facts, stats, quotes, media, etc.) versus a simple summary. Circa’s news stories are always short in the moment, but that’s only the beginning. Circa invests its time on singular storylines that evolve and build them up over … Continue reading