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ARC Reads: October 2024 Edition

This Month: 7 Things AI Can Do For You, How a Playful Mindset Can Boost Creativity, The Most Effective Negotiation Tactic and New Forms of Steel for Stronger, Lighter Cars & More

In this spooky October 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

Wondering what AI actually is? Here are the 7 things it can do for you - You know we’ve reached peak interest in artificial intelligence (AI) when Oprah Winfrey hosts a television special about it. AI is truly everywhere. And we will all have a relationship with it – whether using it, building it, governing it or even befriending it.  But what exactly is AI? While most people won’t need to know exactly how it works under the hood, we will all need to understand what it can do. In our conversations with global leaders across business, government and the arts, one thing stood out – you can’t fake it anymore. AI fluency that is.

How a Playful Mindset Can Boost Creativity on Your Team - Once, during a workshop, I asked people to close their eyes and recall where they were when they had their best ideas. Over 80% of participants said they were in the shower, in bed, jogging, or playing with their children — anywhere but work. Out of 15,000 people, not a single person said they get their best ideas on the job. This isn’t a coincidence; it’s a symptom of how traditional work environments stifle creative thinking.

The Five Health and Fitness Numbers That Actually Matter - Ever since the first FitBit was released back in 2009, activity trackers have steadily been making their way into the mainstream—today, brands like Whoop, Garmin, and Apple are competing for real estate on our extremities in an industry worth over $13 billion.  As these devices have evolved to serve up increasingly diverse data about our bodies, however, they’ve inadvertently made it more challenging to discern which metrics are actually worth our attention.

The Most Effective Negotiation Tactic, According to AI - Imagine knowing a negotiation tactic that could boost your earnings by 20%, takes less than three minutes to prepare, and only a few seconds to implement. This powerful approach isn’t a well-guarded Phoenician trade secret or a complex strategy devised by tacticians in hidden war rooms — it’s simply the act of

New forms of steel for stronger, lighter cars - Such materials can reduce the weight of a vehicle by hundreds of pounds — and every pound of excess weight that is shed saves roughly $3 in fuel costs over the lifetime of the car, so the economics are hard to deny. The new maxim, Taub says, is “the right material in the right place.”  Find out more here.

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ARC Reads: October 2024 Edition

This Month: 7 Things AI Can Do For You, How a Playful Mindset Can Boost Creativity, The Most Effective Negotiation Tactic and New Forms of Steel for Stronger, Lighter Cars & More

In this spooky October 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

Wondering what AI actually is? Here are the 7 things it can do for you - You know we’ve reached peak interest in artificial intelligence (AI) when Oprah Winfrey hosts a television special about it. AI is truly everywhere. And we will all have a relationship with it – whether using it, building it, governing it or even befriending it.  But what exactly is AI? While most people won’t need to know exactly how it works under the hood, we will all need to understand what it can do. In our conversations with global leaders across business, government and the arts, one thing stood out – you can’t fake it anymore. AI fluency that is.

How a Playful Mindset Can Boost Creativity on Your Team - Once, during a workshop, I asked people to close their eyes and recall where they were when they had their best ideas. Over 80% of participants said they were in the shower, in bed, jogging, or playing with their children — anywhere but work. Out of 15,000 people, not a single person said they get their best ideas on the job. This isn’t a coincidence; it’s a symptom of how traditional work environments stifle creative thinking.

The Five Health and Fitness Numbers That Actually Matter - Ever since the first FitBit was released back in 2009, activity trackers have steadily been making their way into the mainstream—today, brands like Whoop, Garmin, and Apple are competing for real estate on our extremities in an industry worth over $13 billion.  As these devices have evolved to serve up increasingly diverse data about our bodies, however, they’ve inadvertently made it more challenging to discern which metrics are actually worth our attention.

The Most Effective Negotiation Tactic, According to AI - Imagine knowing a negotiation tactic that could boost your earnings by 20%, takes less than three minutes to prepare, and only a few seconds to implement. This powerful approach isn’t a well-guarded Phoenician trade secret or a complex strategy devised by tacticians in hidden war rooms — it’s simply the act of

New forms of steel for stronger, lighter cars - Such materials can reduce the weight of a vehicle by hundreds of pounds — and every pound of excess weight that is shed saves roughly $3 in fuel costs over the lifetime of the car, so the economics are hard to deny. The new maxim, Taub says, is “the right material in the right place.”  Find out more here.

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