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☆ The Worst Part of a Wall Street Career May Be Coming to an End
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-10 | by ( Rob Copeland | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Finessing the language on esoteric financial documents that may never be read by another soul. Such grunt work has long been a rite of passage in investment banking, an industry at the top of the corporate pyramid that lures thousands of young people every year with the promise of prestige and pay. Generative artificial intelligence — the technology upending many industries with its ability to produce and crunch new data — has landed on Wall Street. And investment banks, long inured to cultural change, are rapidly turning into Exhibit A on how the new technology could not only supplement but supplant entire ranks of workers. can do much of that work speedily and with considerably less whining.

☆ Florida Man Chases Poachers
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-11 | by ( Lydia Millet | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Though Babauta was a law-enforcement officer, Renner recounts, he often felt a kinship with the poachers he was tasked to bring in. Or the developers and politicians who cater so eagerly and profitably to that voracious demand. Rather, they crawl toward us out of the dark ooze, slowly opening long jaws lined with sharp teeth. They lurk in the murk like primordial fear and sometimes find themselves on the wrong side of a golf course fence. GATOR COUNTRY: Deception, Danger, and Alligators in the Everglades | By Rebecca Renner | Flatiron | 277 pp.

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☆ The SEO world is up in arms after a story said they're 'ruining the internet.' Here's the spicy drama.
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-06 | by ( Katie Notopoulos | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

AdvertisementAdvertisementAre your Google search results increasingly irrelevant — worthless, even? The Verge article, written by Amanda Chicago Lewis, is 8,000 words and starts with an anecdote about attending a search-engine optimization industry event that featured a live alligator. It seeks to answer a question many of us have thought: Why does it seem like Google search sucks now? AdvertisementAdvertisementDespite The Verge's headline (which, as far as I can tell, isn't even good SEO), Lewis doesn't really say that SEO experts ruined the internet. Spammy and misleading SEO are noticeable; good SEO, the kind the people in this article do, is unseen.

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Now she shares her wealth-building tips with other Black women. One of her coworkers was a "Tesla bull," an investor who believes in Tesla's aggressive growth in the future, who kept pushing her to buy Tesla shares. Now she's teaching Black women everything she knows about the stock market by starting a community called Modern Blk Girl (MBG). James believes that the stock market was designed to seem "scary or unattainable," especially for Black women and people of color. "It's motivating, having a big-sister, little-sister moment where Black women who have been trading for a while can mentor younger investors," shares James.

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For Love & Money is a biweekly column from Insider answering your relationship and money questions. This week, a reader writes they lost their job a month ago and are too embarrassed to tell their husband. Write to For Love & Money using this Google form. You didn't want to tell your husband and risk him seeing you as the failure that you fear you are. So I'm going to give you the same advice my therapist gave me: tolerate the anxiety, and tell the truth.

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☆ CEO shares the No. 1 question to 'never ever' ask at a job interview—'wait until you're called back'
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-13 | by ( Matt Higgins | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

If you're a job seeker, here's a piece of advice you likely won't hear from anyone else: Never ever ask an employer what their remote work policy is during the job interview. ", know that I'm actually a firm believer in hybrid and remote work. Taking it one step further, following their mass layoffs, Meta has paused offering remote work options for new hires. Imagine this scenario: You close your interview with a question about remote work and get a chilly reception. But there is a real chance that the other job seeker will be perceived as more committed.

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