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Yankees catcher Austin Wells goes viral with hilarious breakfast burrito reviews

Mashable Tech

It's like being a hockey goalie — you've got to be a little unhinged and odd to choose that job. Frankly, it might just take the brain of a catcher to get to that place in 2025. There's a reason catcher's gear has long been dubbed the Tools of Ignorance. It's distinctly catcher behavior. “What inspired me?

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Upgrade your brain: Programming resources for coding newbies

The Next Web

Steve Jobs Anyone who’s paying attention these days has probably figured out that computer programming is fast becoming the new standard of literacy in our technology-driven economy. Everybody in this country should learn to program a computer, because it teaches you how to think.”—

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10 Ways Nonprofit CEOs Get Creative

TechImpact

The next time you and your team sits down to brain storm ideas, let them know before you start that “nothing is out of line.” The act of pulling a thought out of your brain and making it physical and tactile could be just the beginning of something astounding. Bend the rules. The results might just surprise you.

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Driving the Polestar 2, the first electric car with a brain by Google

The Verge

It’s the first electric car — or really the first of any kind of car — to have a brain exclusively powered by Google. The advanced driver assist system was no Tesla Autopilot, but it got the job done. Of course, once I was able to switch cars and get behind the wheel of a Polestar 2 with a working brain, the real fun began.

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5 ways employers can prevent employees from ‘revenge quitting’ in 2025

Fast Company Tech

This phenomenon, on the rise since the 2000s, sees employees leaving their jobs not just for better opportunities, but as a form of protest and self-preservation against unfair treatment. Recognition activates the brains reward system, which reinforces motivation and increases engagement.

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How managers can reassure employees amid the threat of layoffs

Fast Company Tech

While not as rewarding as certainty, this sense of clarity sets peoples expectations, which creates a calming sense of predictability in the brain. For instance, even if people dont know if theyll have a job next month, having the clarity theyll find out in two weeks is easier to deal with than waking up each day wondering if todays the day.

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Gloat raises $57M to reinvent the internal job board

TechCrunch

A lot of the focus in recruitment these days has been on better technology to connect people to job opportunities at new organizations, but that also leaves a wide opening to focus on one of the other big funnels for finding work: internal transfers. “Look for new jobs outside the company, or try to look internally.

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