Futurism

MARCH 8, 2025

It's compelling evidence that big tech's endless push toward an AI-powered future will continue to be a one-way street in our current labor environment. Whether freelance or full time, control of AI will ultimately fall to those who rule the current labor environment but it doesn't have to.

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.orgSource

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Create a Comfortable Environment. People who laugh together are better equipped to meet challenges and solve problems as a group. The concepts can range from technology tools to work environment and process improvement, but the request must be specific. Volunteer for a task or chore that no one else wants. Bring treats.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 22, 2025

A typical closet is loaded with plastic , woven into polyester activewear, acrylic sweaters, nylon swimsuits and stretchy socks and it’s shedding into the environment nonstop. Even natural fabrics shed fibers and have chemicals that can leach into the environment. What to do? Nearly 1,500 fabrics have been tested.

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Singularity Hub

APRIL 11, 2025

Although some of todays models can generalize a skill across similar problems, they struggle to transfer those skills across more complex tasks requiring multiple steps. This is a notoriously hard problem and the results are fantastic. Learning From Experience Children naturally soak up their environment.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 31, 2025

It’s a problem that has long littered the landscape in Kampala, the capital, where buveera are woven into the fabric of daily life. And most of the world’s plastic goes to landfills, pollutes the environment or is burned. Can agriculture escape the plastic problem? Plastic is ubiquitous.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 28, 2020

By Alan Tyson , CEO of DATABASICS – a software product that enables nonprofits to report, approve, and track employee hours, activities, and spending from anywhere, something that is especially important in an increasingly decentralized environment. 4) Internal Communications Tools. 5 Online Calendar. Recommendation ? Google Calendar.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

The nonprofit sector is already a high-pressure environment, and when boards meddle in daily operations, it creates chaos, demoralizes leadership, erodes culture, and derails mission-critical activities. The problem of micromanagement is quite prevalent. One of the most common complaints of executive directors is board micromanagement.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 21, 2025

The problem with modern stress for so many people is that the rattlesnake never leaves the path. The problem is that weve denuded life of most Paleolithic stressors, says Krasno. We generally spend most of our time sedentary and inside temperature-regulated environments, removed from nature.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 18, 2025

In a business environment where innovation dictates success, curiosity serves as the catalyst for breakthroughs and industry reinvention. The best leaders dont just seek answers; they reframe problems. Encourage iterative brainstorming and test small ideas before scaling them, creating a low-risk environment for experimentation.

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Towards Data Science

MAY 19, 2023

Data Entropy — More Data, More Problems? Source: [link] “It’s like the more money we come across, the more problems we see” Notorious B.I.G In a broader context, Entropy is the tendency of things to become disordered over time and for general disorder and uncertainty to increase in a system or environment.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 18, 2025

Managers need to create environments where employees thrive because they feel that they are enough, exactly as they are. The problem? They encourage employees to blend in, conform, and play the game rather than create environments where people feel safe enough to be real. But fitting in at work? Care isnt just about being nice.

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.orgSource

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Focus on Agility : In a rapidly changing environment, a rigid strategy can hinder growth. Cross-functional projects can bring fresh perspectives and innovative solutions to complex problems. Set Clear Goals and Metrics : Define what success looks like in terms of member engagement, satisfaction, and retention.

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Wired

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Torrential rain is expected this week in Los Angeles, which risks producing flash flooding and landslides in areas stripped of vegetation by the recent wildfires.

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.orgSource

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Cultivate Innovation and Problem Solving Whether entrepreneurs inherit a gene for invention or not, once they are thrown into the business shark tank, they quickly learn to swim. leaders imagine the next problem before it surfaces and are willing to test, experiment, and iterate until they find the solution. Association 4.0

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 1, 2025

Use this time to tackle complex problems, review long-term strategies, or explore innovative ideas. Changing your environment can also enhance deep thinking; a walk, a quiet room, or a retreat space can be instrumental in shifting your mindset from reactionary to strategic.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 8, 2020

Clarity refers to the nonprofit’s ability to concisely and effectively integrate the four storytelling framework elements referred to above (problem – solution – impact – ask), preferably in multiple formats such as audio, video, images, and text.

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VQ Strategies

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Adapt and Overcome: How 2020 Brings Innovation and Flexibility for Volunteer-Led Programs For the US Marines, the concept of “Adapt and Overcome” is central to their philosophy of innovation and problem solving to address all challenges, unexpected situations, and chaotic environments. It’s not about us, it’s about the group.

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Blue Avocado

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

. — Dawn Darby from The Therapy Place People-Oriented Board Members Can Better Support EDs Board members are most effective when they engage in high-level thinking and generative conversation rather than problem-focused rehashing of minor issues and problems.

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.orgSource

MAY 23, 2023

And, in the current volatile environment, you need the best governance you can get. If you represent the American Bankers Association, financial acumen probably isn’t a problem. A director who can’t read your balance sheet, can’t be a great leader.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 25, 2025

Positive team environments end up saving the leader time in the long run, because what’s supposed to be happening is functioning more smoothly, and leaders are not constantly putting out fires, says Sawyer. One of the problems that broader wellness initiatives have is that they take a blanket approach, says Sawyer.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 21, 2025

Junie Joseph (D-Boulder), a sponsor, testified at a House Energy & Environment Committee hearing on March 6. An amendment added on the House floor would provide retailers with 45 days to fix a problem with a label. Colorado is actively working to reduce emissions to comply with the Clean Air Act and state climate targets.

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.orgSource

JANUARY 2, 2024

Chances are your problems stem from focusing too much on technology and not enough on behavior. They make the cultural shifts that enable thinking and problem-solving in ways that are compatible with rapid change. Building these skills helps teams to be comfortable in environments that are characterized by change.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 24, 2020

Virtual reality does this by creating a digital environment that you can explore with a headset and headphones. To start, bring the problems your organization wants to fix into the light. Augmented reality, however, takes virtual items and projects them on the real world. How can you use VR and AR as a tool for nonprofit donations?

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The NonProfit Times

DECEMBER 23, 2024

They have been operating in silos, independently solving the same problems and rebuilding the same systems over and over. The contribution of GivingTuesday Data Commons has made to increasing sector collaboration and improving the enabling environment for nonprofits has been significant. We just have to embrace that possibility.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 25, 2025

Its a huge problem. There was a real opportunity here to take this modern American institution and help it thrive in a new media environment. An environment where we need satire more than ever. So I [posted on Bluesky], Who wants to buy The Onion ? I think I have $600. I had no idea how to buy a company.

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.orgSource

AUGUST 7, 2023

Culture revolves around personalities and a positive environment depends on understanding the needs of individual players and their interaction as a team. The willingness to treat your colleagues with respect and the ability to collaborate creates a healthy environment. Today folks are collaborating to solve problems.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 8, 2025

If a worker has impaired wayfinding, mapping apps can be tailored to working environments and live location data can be used to guide staff around complicated sites. Simply forcing every person into work is a surefire way of turning challenging situations into real problems. This is hardly futuristic tech.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 8, 2025

Microplasticsa global problem The term plastic refers to a wide variety of artificially created polymers. When scientists collect samples from the environment to study microplastics, they usually want to know more about the chemical identities of the microplastic particles found in the samples.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 8, 2025

The reinforcement learning problem in AI is how to design agents that achieve their goals by perceiving and acting in their environments. Understanding intelligence and creating intelligent machines are grand scientific challenges of our times. The ability to learn from experience is a cornerstone

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.orgSource

MARCH 25, 2024

The right environment will encourage their growth. In the current political and cultural environment trust is at a premium. I kept asking what was wrong with my staff, and I understood that they were not the problem, it was my fault. And business as usual can’t survive in an environment where lifelong learners live.

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.orgSource

JANUARY 30, 2024

Although technology problems were urgent and frequently mission critical. The most challenging problems centered around culture. Relationships that had been tenuous in the office became untenable in the remote environment. As the tech problems subsided, people became better at communicating through the small screen.

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TechSpot

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

The problem only impacts companies and managed IT environments, so those using Windows 11 Home or Pro on personal devices need not worry. Microsoft is investigating an error that causes Microsoft Office applications like Word and Excel to crash after users upgrade to Windows 11 24H2. Read Entire Article

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Mashable Tech

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

With Black History Month upon us, and a very different industry environment than a year ago, Mashable caught up with Mancini to discuss the latest with her organization and how she stays optimistic during this strange time. That being said, addressing the gaps in representation isn’t a technology problem, it’s a human problem.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Venture capitalists have a role to make people feel welcome and included in what can otherwise be a cliquey and closed environment. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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.orgSource

MAY 28, 2024

I was eager to hear Sue’s ideas about the importance of focusing the board on qualities like empathy, self-knowledge, and strong social skills to build a productive environment. Collegiality and teamwork among directors are critical to effective problem-solving.

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.orgSource

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Wikipedia offers this one : Intelligence has been defined as the capacity for abstraction, logic, understanding, self-awareness, learning, emotional knowledge, reasoning, planning, creativity, critical thinking, and problem-solving. While AI does involve logic and problem-solving, it does not think. It calculates.

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.orgSource

MARCH 11, 2024

Then you need an environment that maximizes individual talents while allowing groups to work successfully together. Hiring employees who are the right fit for this positive environment is a top priority. Hire for Fit Don’t rely on games, group lunches, or happy hours to turn incompatibility into excellence. Trust me, it’s worth it. “As

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