Society

A collection of conflict resolution tips from personal experience in customer service.

Offices are more “open” than they’ve been in the last two years. Do workers care?

In an era of rampant inflation and price gouging, one constant has remained unmoving for 30 years: the 99-cent tallboy can of Arizona Iced Tea. But how has this incredible soft drink managed to res…

In our textbook, Modern Principles, Tyler and I discuss India’s small scale reservation laws which for decades made it illegal for large firms to produce many manufactured goods: …traditionally most Indian shirts were made by hand in small shops of three or four tailors who designed, measured, sewed, and sold, all on the same premises. […]

“We use a lot of quotes at Tedium, but we’ve never done an issue of Tedium ABOUT quotations,” Ernie said when writing this piece. “Let’s fix that.”

The UK has created a new visa for High Potential Individuals. Under the HPI visa any graduate from a top university as defined by “in the top 50 of at least two of the following three ranking systems: (1) Times Higher Education World University Rankings, (2) Quacquarelli Symonds, (3) The Academic Ranking of World Universities” […]

This work futurist predicts new waves of worker unrest are on the horizon—especially as some companies press a return to the office.

Spotify’s first hardware product is both a seamless way to play music in the car and an expensive way to keep you locked in.

It’s the perfect tool for digital nomads.

OpenAI’s GPT-3 and other neural nets can now write original prose with mind-boggling fluency — a development that could have profound implications for the future.

1600 SAT is about 135 IQ if you were wondering

Frustrated by the limitations of Ethernet, Google has taken the best ideas from InfiniBand and Cray’s “Aries” interconnect and created a new distributed

Every year in the spring, small towns throughout New England host their annual town meeting. Town meetings take place in high school gyms or town halls, and anyone can come. In fact, in Vermont, Town Meeting Day is a public holiday. Everyone gets the day off work to make sure they have the chance to

A new law will require employers to post more pay and benefit information in job ads. A similar effort in Colorado is being met with mixed results.