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☆ Millionaire founder: This is the No. 1 skill young people need to thrive in the AI era—it's not coding
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-08 | by ( Megan Sauer | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

There is one skill all young people need to thrive in the workplace — today and in the future — and it's been around for thousands of years. The type of storytelling may not matter, because the platforms people use to communicate can rapidly change. IT business consultancy Gartner reportedly bought L2 Inc. for more than $130 million in 2017, according to regulatory filings. The importance of storytelling is particularly why young people shouldn't rely solely on generative artificial intelligence tools like ChatGPT — not now, not ever, said Galloway. Management experts agree — understanding AI is important, but it isn't the sole skill needed to succeed at work.

Persons: it's, Scott Galloway, Galloway, Oliver Wyman Organizations: CNBC, SXSW, New York University Stern School of Business, L2 Inc, Gartner, ChatGPT, Management Locations: Galloway

☆ Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade Shuns Boycott Demands From Hate Group
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-17 | by ( Stefanos Chen | More About Stefanos Chen | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

group is organizing a boycott of Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade over performances by nonbinary Broadway actors, in the latest attempt to force companies to reverse course on social issues that some far-right groups consider too liberal. But the parade has long had close ties to Broadway, one of the most L.G.B.T.Q. The group, which is called One Million Moms, says it has drawn about 33,000 signatures in support of its boycott. But it appears to have overplayed its hand, said Scott Galloway, a professor of marketing at New York University Stern School of Business. “I think this is the easiest ‘no’ in the history of Macy’s,” Mr. Galloway said.

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☆ Whoopi Goldberg is criticized online for saying Gen Z and millennials can't afford a house because they 'only want to work four hours' a day
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-14 | by ( Sawdah Bhaimiya | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Whoopi Goldberg suggested that young people can't afford a home because they don't work hard enough. "If you only want to work four hours, it's going to be harder for you to get a house," she said. AdvertisementActress and TV personality Whoopi Goldberg is getting flak online for suggesting that Gen Z and millennials are unable to afford a home because they don't work hard enough. And some younger workers say they have taken on a second job to boost their income, a recent Deloitte survey found. AdvertisementStill, there are plenty of younger workers who say they're actually rejecting corporate culture in favor of work-life balance.

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☆ Young people who work remotely are 'probably not going to become CEOs' and make tons of money, an NYU business professor says
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-04 | by ( Sawdah Bhaimiya | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Gen Zers choosing remote work and work-life balance may face consequences further down the line. That's according to NYU professor Suzy Welch who spoke with Insider about Gen Z's work habits. NEW LOOK Sign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . She said: "There's never really been a time where you could just sort of show up at work, work nine to five and have wild success.

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☆ An NYU professor with 560,000 followers says he's been locked out of his X account for over 2 weeks after declining to meet with Elon Musk
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-16 | by ( Pete Syme | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

NYU professor Scott Galloway said he's been locked out of his 564,000 follower X account for 17 days. Galloway said a mutual friend told him Elon Musk felt "unfairly attacked" and wanted to meet him. Scott Galloway, a marketing professor at NYU who's also known as an author and public speaker, said he was locked out of his X account after a quarrel with Elon Musk. "A mutual friend reached out and said Elon feels 'unfairly attacked,' by me, and wants to meet," Galloway posted on Threads. He said that two days later he could no longer access his X account, which has over half-a-million followers.

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☆ Opinion: The shattering aftermath in Maui
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-13 | by ( Richard Galant | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +16 min

CNN —The Polynesian demigod Maui was so powerful he could raise islands up from the ocean floor and capture the sun to slow it down. We know Lahaina will be rebuilt, and the government response — city, state and federal — will be a huge part of that. “You can beat the drum of ‘women’s rights’ and defend tooth-and-nail women’s sports, so long as you only do so to denigrate trans women.”For more on the World Cup:Shaista Aziz: This Women’s World Cup has been unlike any other. That’s a great thingAmy Bass: The US loss at the Women’s World Cup sends a clear messageBill Bramhall/Tribune Content AgencyLet’s make a deal? In a country where federal prosecutors overwhelmingly win their cases, Trump’s odds of going to trial and winning both federal cases are slim — and he may face similarly daunting odds in the other cases.

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☆ Opinion: All the speculation about a grand Trump deal is far-fetched
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-08 | by ( Opinion Jill Filipovic | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

CNN —Will former President Donald Trump accept a plea deal, potentially sparing himself prison and sparing us all a repeat of his presidency? It’s a compelling argument, and one that would certainly be better for the nation than Trump winning in 2024 and pardoning himself; it would be better for Trump than winding up behind bars. Trump has been embroiled in thousands of lawsuits; he’s the first former president to face federal charges. Betting on a 2024 win is a big gamble for Trump, especially if the consequence of that loss isn’t just humiliation, but a jail cell. Join us on Twitter and FacebookThere is also the question of whether prosecutors would even offer a deal Trump might consider.

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☆ iPhone Photography Awards 2023: Winners unveiled
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-03 | by ( Christy Choi | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —Organizers announced the winners of the 2023 iPhone Photography Awards on Monday. Scott Galloway/iPhone Photography Awards"Palazzo della Civiltà Italiana,"Rome, Italy, by Leon Wang (United States) won 3rd place in Architecture. Sofia Ershova/iPhone Photography Awards"Duet," Zhejiang, China, by Zhang Xiaojun (China) won 3rd place in Children. Zhang Xiaojun/iPhone Photography Awards"Kapkungkap Tadau" Phuket, Thailand by Juan Castaneda (United States) won 2nd place in Series. Juan Castaneda/iPhone Photography Awards"Bi Mo," Zhaojue County, China, by Jian Wang (China) won 2nd place in People.

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☆ Younger workers may find it 'harder to be successful' if they don't go into the office, Slack co-founder says
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-12 | by ( Sawdah Bhaimiya | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Slack's co-founder Cal Henderson shared his thoughts about remote work in an Insider interview. He said young people in some industries may struggle if they're not with colleagues in the office. Salesforce, the software company that owns Slack, recently mandated workers come to the office. It's a very different experience if your VP isn't there in the office with you as you work overnight on something." In regard to Musk's comments Henderson said: "Elon Musk isn't in the office every day because he's the CEO of three companies.

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☆ A prominent venture capitalist said remote work ‘fooled’ leaders because it worked initially
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-12 | by ( Sawdah Bhaimiya | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Y Combinator co-founder Paul Graham said remote work "fooled" leaders at the start of the pandemic. Major firms including Amazon, Meta, and Apple have ordered workers back to the office recently. Partly I think because remote work does work initially, if you start with a system already healthy from in-person work ... And partly because it seemed to solve recruiting, which is always a bottleneck." Graham's comments come as a number of major companies reverse their flexible working policies including Amazon, Apple, and Goldman Sachs. Graham joins a list of influential figures who are taking a stand against remote work including Elon Musk who has famously waged a war against the practice calling it "morally wrong."

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☆ Apple's Vision Pro has a familiar fatal flaw: They are nerd goggles that will make most people look uncool
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-05 | by ( Alistair Barr | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

This is the reality for Apple's Vision Pro mixed-reality headset: It's another pair of nerd goggles that will make most people look decidedly uncool. For now, the Vision Pro has failed to do pull this off. Its hard to imagine Apple Vision Pro ever becoming cool. Would she be impressed by a guy wearing a $3,499 Apple Pro Vision headset? The ultimate goal is probably to pack all the prowess of the Vision Pro into a cool slim pair of glasses.

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☆ Why AI Will Make Our Children More Lonely
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-29 | by ( ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Tech gives us replacements for relationships, says Scott Galloway. ‘And in the short term it fills a void. But it’s empty calories, and I think you end up more depressed.’ Photo: John Scrivener for The Wall Street JournalScott Galloway, a founder of companies, board member of others, business-school professor and author, is outspoken in his criticism of today’s Big Tech-driven society. At the recent Wall Street Journal CEO Summit in London, he shared some of his views, along with an array of data points, in a wide-ranging, animated talk with Nikki Waller, coverage chief for life and work at The Wall Street Journal. Edited excerpts follow.

☆ The US housing market is in recession - and the pandemic has created a unique economic headache, elite strategist Liz Ann Sonders says
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-08 | by ( Theron Mohamed | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Sonders touted stocks that can weather inflation, recession, and higher interest rates. "You've got recessions in areas like certain segments of consumer goods, certainly in housing," Sonders said during a recent episode of "The Prof G Pod with Scott Galloway." Recession, inflation, and winning stocksSonders sounded the recession alarm during the interview. She singled out the housing market as particularly vulnerable, given valuations and mortgage rates are closely tied to interest rates. She suggested they look for companies that can thrive during periods of inflation, recession, and elevated interest rates.

☆ Sam Altman's big problem? ChatGPT needs to get 'woke' if he wants cash from corporate America
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-03 | by ( Hasan Chowdhury | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

ChatGPT, like other AI tools, suffers from a bias problem that could impede corporate adoption. OpenAI's CEO, Sam Altman, admitted on Wednesday that ChatGPT has "shortcomings around bias", though he didn't go into detail. Unfortunately for OpenAI, ChatGPT has already had several cases of bias emerge. "You don't have to think very hard to realize there's an enormous quantity of toxic content of absolutely every variety imaginable that's present in that training data." Though OpenAI has found success so far, Wooldridge could see a scenario where the firm is pushed by customers to reveal its training data.

☆ Twitter alternatives like Mastadon see downloads plunge
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-09 | by ( Kali Hays | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

Long before Elon Musk came along, Twitter users bemoaned the service yet remained addicted to it. It is a text-based social platform, or "microblogging" site, home to independent servers, or "instances." In early November, the hashtag TwitterMigration was trending on Mastodon for several days as Twitter users set up accounts amid Musk's chaotic takeover. Daily users have held steady though, at 1.4 million, a major increase from its usage prior to Musk's takeover of Twitter, which typically hovered around 20,000 daily users. Downloads of the iOS app have grown 290,000% to 1.5 million since Oct. 24, with daily users up 660,000% to 321,000, according to Apptopia data.

☆ Twitter alternatives that got traction after Elon Musk takeover are suddenly seeing downloads plunge. Which has staying power and who is the next Clubhouse?
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-24 | by ( Kali Hays | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

Long before Elon Musk came along, Twitter users bemoaned the service yet remained addicted to it. It is a text-based social platform, or "microblogging" site, home to independent servers, or "instances." In early November, the hashtag TwitterMigration was trending on Mastodon for several days as Twitter users set up accounts amid Musk's chaotic takeover. Daily users have held steady though, at 1.4 million, a major increase from its usage prior to Musk's takeover of Twitter, which typically hovered around 20,000 daily users. Yet, it has maintained more than 500,000 daily users.

☆ Scott Galloway looked at 100 charts on US inequality for his new book. America is adrift, but here's why he's optimistic.
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-21 | by ( Paul Constant | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

NYU professor Scott Galloway spoke to Paul Constant about his book "Adrift: America in 100 Charts." Galloway says we need to bring back the middle class, but there's still hope for the US. This process offered him several important new insights into the decaying of the American middle class — and a surprising sign of optimism for the future. Galloway believes America has been its own worst enemy, with outsized political division keeping us from solving the problem of inequality. "First you have to acknowledge that the middle class is an accident, and it's not self-sustaining," Galloway said.

☆ Elon Musk idea to charge for Twitter verification draws critics
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-01 | by ( Eli M. Rosenberg | Eli Rosenberg Is An Investigative Tech Reporter For Nbc News. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +8 min

Critics of Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover say any plan to charge users for identity verification could make information on the site less trustworthy and more vulnerable to manipulation — devaluing the company. The idea of a monthly fee for the blue verification checkmark by users' names was reported Sunday by Casey Newton’s tech-focused newsletter Platformer. Musk hasn't confirmed a charge will be added but on Sunday tweeted, “The whole verification process is being revamped right now,” on his own verified account. Jeff Jarvis, a prolific Twitter user and journalism professor who studies how information travels in the digital age, worries such a plan could backfire. “Twitter has had many, many people working on issues like user interface design and innovation, testing it with user groups, and people who specialize in working with VITs — very important Twitter users,” she said.

☆ Analysis: For Twitter boss Elon Musk, now comes the hard part
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-28 | by ( Sheila Dang | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +6 min

The long term potential for Twitter in my view is an order of magnitude greater than its current value." "Buying Twitter is an accelerant to creating X, the everything app," Musk tweeted earlier this month. Twitter permanently suspended Trump for risk of further incitement of violence after the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. Tesla's expanding business in China, where it generated $14 billion last year, could also put Twitter at risk, Goldman, the former Twitter board member, said. Twitter is staffed with experts who review data requests from governments, but Musk has shown his contempt of these experts, he said.

☆ Explainer: What is an 'everything app' and why does Elon Musk want to make one?
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-05 | by ( Sheila Dang | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

Oct 28 (Reuters) - Why is Elon Musk suddenly thinking about creating an "everything app," and what does that even mean? WHAT IS A SUPER APP? Chinese super app WeChat has more than 1 billion monthly users, according to one estimate, and is a ubiquitous part of daily life in China. Grab, a leading super app across Southeast Asia, offers food delivery, ride-hailing, on-demand package delivery and financial services and investing. REUTERS/Mike BlakeWHY DOES MUSK WANT TO MAKE A SUPER APP?

☆ Opinion: The metaverse holds great promise — and great risk
▼ + stars: | 2022-04-12 | by ( Opinion Scott Galloway For Cnn Business Perspectives | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

But the metaverse could be so much more than one man’s quest for control over our virtual lives. Like the real world (at least in any capitalist society), it has to incentivize individuals to participate in and grow the economy. The metaverse needs to be a reasonable facsimile of the real world, where I can spend my money and wear my Adidas where I want. Just as in the physical world, freedom is easily lost and our lives easily manipulated. No metaverse built by humans is going to be void of the human instinct to want power, and that power could be enormous.

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