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☆ A personal trainer helped her mom start strength training for longevity at age 58. 4 things have helped her stick with the habit for 5 years.
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-10 | by ( Rachel Hosie | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

At the age of 58, Grace Lee began strength training with her daughter, Sohee Carpenter, a personal trainer. With the help of her daughter Sohee Carpenter, a personal trainer based in Orange County, she started lifting weights at age 58. In fact, Lee doesn't want to know how much she's lifting, Carpenter simply hands her the weights. "Everyone should be lifting weights," Carpenter said. "There's no one right way to be lifting weights.

Persons: Grace Lee, Sohee Carpenter, Carpenter, —, Lee, She's, she's, Lee doesn't, overcorrect, she'll, Sohee Carpenter Carpenter, she'd Organizations: Service, Sports, Fitness Industry Association, Navy Locations: Orange County

☆ A Columbia psychology professor says Gen Z should accept that stress and anxiety at work are normal life experiences: 'We should all feel stressed sometimes'
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-16 | by ( Sawdah Bhaimiya | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Gen Z workers are losing sight that feeling stressed or sad are "normal life experiences." download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . Gen Z being open about mental health issues is a "watershed moment" in the workplace and sparking meaningful change in the long term, according to Pike. AdvertisementFeeling stressed out when you have a deadline or feeling sad, disappointed or anxious are "normal life experiences." Pike believes the discussions around mental health and mental illness must continue and that Gen Z will eventually learn to cope with difficult feelings.

Persons: Kathleen Pike, —, Gen, Pike, Zers, Suzy Welch, Gen Z's Organizations: Columbia, Service, Columbia University, Deloitte Locations: Pike

☆ I landed a job at Google right out of college. Here are 10 things I wish I knew before starting my career.
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-07 | by ( Charlene Lee | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +15 min

Charlene Lee is a former product manager at Google who wishes she had a guide prior to starting her first job. Today, I'd like to share some of the lessons I wish I had learned before starting my career, lessons that I now teach my team. It's your job to find a good managerOne of my best managers, Paul, spent a lot of time with me early in my career. Things changed when the next box, like writing a book, started conflicting with things that weren't on the list. The start of your career is the beginning of your journey, and I hope that this guide helps you with yours.

Persons: Charlene Lee, she's, Lee, Google's, I'd, would've, Paul, wasn't, I've, didn't, Paul didn't, It's, Jon, Jon wasn't, wouldn't, —, hadn't, Carissa wasn't, Marty, Dan Gilbert, Inbal, Ralph Waldo Emerson Organizations: Google, Jon's, AngelList, Duke University Locations: Asia, New York, China, Singapore, Shanghai, —

☆ The Case for Journalistic Independence
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-15 | by ( David Leonhardt | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

The occasion is a new essay in the Columbia Journalism Review by A.G. Sulzberger, our publisher, in which he explains why The Times’s guiding principle is independence. Sulzberger writes:Independence is the increasingly contested journalistic commitment to following facts wherever they lead. Those may sound like blandly agreeable clichés of Journalism 101, but in this hyperpolarized era, independent journalism and the sometimes counterintuitive values that animate it have become a radical pursuit. Independence calls for plainly stating the facts, even if they appear to favor one side of a dispute. The idea of journalistic independence has many critics, he notes.

Twitter accounts that offer to trade or sell child sexual abuse material under thinly veiled terms and hashtags have remained online for months, even after CEO Elon Musk said he would combat child exploitation on the platform. The tweets reviewed by NBC News offer to sell or trade content that is commonly known as child pornography or child sexual abuse material (CSAM). The tweets do not show CSAM, and NBC News did not view any CSAM in the course of reporting this article. The problem has been pervasive enough to catch the attention of some Twitter users. In 25 tweets, users tagged Musk using at least one of the major hashtags to alert him to the content.

☆ Premarket stocks: Recession fears receded this earnings season
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-21 | by ( Nicole Goodkind | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

So can the United States avoid a serious recession? What’s happening: As the third-quarter earnings season wraps up, it appears that CEOs may think so. The past month has brought with it a solid earnings season and a bevy of encouraging economic data that shows a slowing pace of inflation. The United States will enter a “mild recession in the second half of 2023, they said. All regions of the United States saw month-over-month and year-over-year declines.

☆ Markets are worried the Fed is going too far
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-12 | by ( Nicole Goodkind | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

Wall Street is worried that yet another high reading on the Consumer Price Index will prompt another massive interest rate increase and inflict more pain on markets and the US economy. But this full-steam-ahead approach by the Fed, based on the notion that iron-clad data is protection enough, has given some economists pause. Last week’s nonfarm payroll report roiled markets, but job openings have now fallen by 1.8 million since their March peak. The IMF believes that global inflation will peak late this year, but will “remain elevated for longer than previously expected,” even as central banks work aggressively to bring it under control. ▸ The Consumer Price Index, a closely watched measures of inflation in the US is due to be released on Thursday.

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