Posts by Kim Browne
8 ways to balance job searching and starting a side business
If you’re job hunting while trying to build a side business, you’re probably familiar with a unique kind of mental tug-of-war. One hour you’re tailoring resumes and preparing for interviews. The next, you’re brainstorming product ideas, reaching out to potential customers, or tweaking your website. Both pursuits demand energy, optimism, and persistence. Both can feel…
Read MoreVideo: Elon Musk’s Big Bet for SpaceX
Elon Musk is taking SpaceX public and keeping almost all the power. Ryan Mac, a technology reporter for The Times, breaks down why the company’s record I.P.O. is both a big bet on Musk’s vision and a risk for investors. By Ryan Mac, Nour Idriss, Nikolay Nikolov, Stephanie Swart, Rafaela Balster and Sam Rosenthal June…
Read MoreStop Saying AI Replaced Your Brand Strategy
Let’s kill a lazy myth: AI didn’t make brand strategy obsolete. The idea that designers or strategists are “going out of business” misses what brand work actually is. A brand isn’t a logo factory. It’s a system that ties your promise, your product, and your purpose together—and then shows up the same way across every…
Read MoreThe National Opera Company Just Sued the Trump Administration
“They had agents all across the state going to civil rights leaders’ and community leaders’ doors intimidating them, coming and demanding that they talk about literally anything they would ask,” Prentiss Haney, an OOC board member, told MS NOW. The agents “asked them if they’re committing voter fraud, just on their doors, in front of…
Read MoreWhat Trump’s Vanity Projects Reveal About His Mental Health
“They had agents all across the state going to civil rights leaders’ and community leaders’ doors intimidating them, coming and demanding that they talk about literally anything they would ask,” Prentiss Haney, an OOC board member, told MS NOW. The agents “asked them if they’re committing voter fraud, just on their doors, in front of…
Read MoreBalancing Human and AI Workers and What Niche Industries Can Teach Us
You’ve seen the headlines about companies attributing layoffs to AI. As the adoption of AI accelerates, the common assumption is that fewer workers are needed. Technology-driven automation can effectively replicate human capabilities with better efficiency and accuracy. But as AI is attributed as the driving force behind layoffs, it’s also raising several questions. Is the…
Read MoreBuying a New Home? Here’s How to Know What You Can Afford
Most homebuyers, especially first-timers, begin their search the wrong way. They fall in love with the neighborhood, look around for sales, and then decide if any options are feasible. And more often than not, that’s where budget trouble begins. The emotional investment enters the homebuying process pretty quickly. And when it does, having an honest…
Read MoreWhat Businesses Should Know About Secure Cloud Compliance
When businesses migrated to the cloud, they expected everything to become much easier. And for many enterprises, it has worked out this way. However, moving their processes to cloud providers also introduced a new type of risk that the organization might have overlooked: cloud compliance. For every enterprise that processes financial transactions, stores personal data…
Read MoreTranscript: Trump Hits Shocking Poll Low as Aides Leak: He’s “Furious”
They’re trying to expand the House map by really going into some very difficult districts traditionally for Democrats—ones that lean Republican by four or five, six, seven, eight, that kind of thing. And some of these are in North Carolina, some of them are in central Pennsylvania, some are in Iowa. But they really are—it…
Read MoreDOJ Agency Has No Record of Trump’s Shady IRS Settlement
The division of the Department of Justice that was supposed to have handled President Trump’s lawsuit against the IRS—and the subsequent settlement that created a slush fund for his allies—claims to have no communication records related to it. Citizens for Ethics and Responsibility in Washington, a progressive watchdog organization, filed a Freedom of Information request…
Read MoreRubio Signs New Deal With UFC Ensuring Trump Gets Even Richer
Axios, citing unnamed sources, reported that Iran and Qatari mediators believed they had come up with a written agreement Wednesday that the U.S. would accept. Those sources said that Iran told different countries on Thursday that an agreement was reached in principle but was still waiting for Iranian leader Mojtaba Khamenei’s final approval. Trump announced…
Read MoreTrump Cancels Iran Strikes Just as Abruptly as He Started Them
“Discussions and final points have been, in both concept and great detail, approved by all parties involved, including the United States, Israel, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar, Turkey, Pakistan, Bahrain, Kuwait, Jordan, Egypt, and others,” Trump wrote. “The Naval Blockade will remain in full force and effect until this Transaction is finalized—Time and place of the…
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