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January is here! A new year brings fresh perspective, renewed energy, and opportunities to build on what we've learned. In this edition of ARC Reads we continue to share the latest tech and business articles that have piqued our interest.

What We're Reading This Month

‍60 Mindful New Year's Resolution Suggestions To Start 2026  -Take a deep breath. Resolutions don’t have to be this big set up for failure that feel impossible to keep. They can be as big or as small as you want them to be. We’ve put together a list of 60 mindful resolutions that are less about striving for perfection or making huge changes in your life, and more about slowly helping you to grow and build better habits in an achievable way. Sounds nice, right? This must read article is posted here.

5 Ways Organizations Can Pivot with Purpose - Unpredictable. That is the defining condition of the world today. Leaders, especially CEOs, are grappling with the hard truth that the models, forecasts, and strategic assumptions they once relied on no longer apply. Today’s most urgent leadership challenges are fast-changing, interconnected, and largely shaped by human behavior. Pivot with purpose.

Three Essentials for Making Better Choices - Making effective strategic decisions in today's business world is difficult. It’s an environment that is messy, fast-moving and unpredictable: whether you’re entering a new market, responding to geopolitical shocks, pursuing innovation or trying to adopt a new technology like AI. Faced with such challenges, it’s no surprise that many firms use decision analysis to help them accelerate and simplify the decision-making process. By utilizing concrete tools, leaders can better weigh risks, quantify trade-offs and bring structure to complexity, helping businesses solve complicated and pressing problems in a swift, objective and effective way.

All Gas, No Brakes: Tech Predictions For 2026 - In 2025, AI became the race of the century. What felt like a sprint in January is a full-speed chase today, and with no signs of slowing down. Here are five predictions for the road ahead.

AI Tools Make Coders More Important, Not Less - Of all the possible applications of generative AI, the value proposition of using it to write code was perhaps the clearest. Coding can be slow and it requires expertise, both of which can be expensive. Moreover, the promise that anyone who could describe their idea in plain text could create apps, features, or other value-adding products meant that innovation would no longer be limited to those with the skills to execute, but could be done by anyone with an idea. The strength of this promise has created a $7.37 billion market for these tools.

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