Your Mac Can Save You HOURS — If You Know These Tricks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ogd7WIYQM2U

Mike Johnson boasts about Congress' productivity despite its lack of productivity

 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/FoAbIWTPM_w

 

The AI jobs apocalypse probably isn’t coming anytime soon

Spending on datacenters is going through the roof, for sure, but productivity has not been experiencing the galloping gains that the technorati’s epochal prognostications lead one to expect. Labor productivity was, in fact, slower in the first three years of our AI era than during the information technology boom that began in the mid 1990s. 

Even OpenAI’s Sam Altman, AI’s most public face, says he now doubts its job-killing potential. “I don’t think we’re going to have the kind ​of jobs apocalypse that some of the companies in our space advocate or talk about,” he said in May. As Massachusetts Institute of Technology economist David Autor noted: “A lot of people have noticed that the world is not changing as fast as they predicted.”

 https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jul/25/ai-jobs-apocalypse-human-labor

Apple Notes, Reminders & Calendar: The ONLY Productivity System You Need

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLu1dWCvyZM

 

 

Master Apple Notes: 10 Hacks for Ultimate Productivity!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqzSEF82Rcs

 

10 iPhone Productivity Tips I Wish I Knew YEARS Ago!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00Q9FiL3DLY

 

10 AWESOME iOS 18 tips to BOOST your productivity!

Might want to keep handy for when iOS 18 comes to your iPhone in a few weeks…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJDPBWGKG58

10 MacOS tips & tricks most people DON'T know!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rz_MqyeQyw0

Amazon Is Fined Nearly $6 Million Over Warehouse Work Quotas - The New York Times

"If you don't scan enough items you will get written up," said the worker, Carrie Stone. "This happened to me. I got written up for not making rate. They said I missed by one point, but I didn't even know what the target was."

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/18/business/economy/amazon-california-productivity-quota.html

12 iPhone Productivity tips I wish I knew YEARS ago!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEwKYREokrA

America Is on the Right Track - The Atlantic

"Streeter observes that it's not the poorer members of the conservative coalition who are pessimistic; it's the affluent white Republicans who watch Tucker Carlson and believe the nation is on the verge of total destruction. Many of them believe that radical action, even violence, may be necessary to save it..."

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/01/american-optimism-productivity-innovation-rise/672714/

Rapid global heating is hurting farm productivity, study finds | Climate change | The Guardian

Research shows rising temperatures since 1960s have acted as handbrake to agricultural yield of crops and livestock...

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/apr/01/climate-crisis-global-heating-food-farming-agriculture

We’re the makers, they’re the takers: Billionaires only exist because we let them

During the 2012 Republican National Convention, the GOP hit on a novel strategy for winning over voters. Because their presumptive nominee was the warm-blooded vertebrate equivalent of low-sodium pretzels and day-old O’Doul’s backwash, party leaders decided a good way to rouse their base was to lie their asses off about Barack Obama..... https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/3/28/1931619/-We-re-the-makers-they-re-the-takers-Billionaires-only-exist-because-we-let-them

A productivity scorecard for the 115th Congress: More laws than before, but not more substance - Pew Research Center

The last Congress was the first one in more than a decade in which Republicans controlled both the House and Senate while a president of their own party sat in the White House. And while the 115th Congress was more legislatively active than its recent predecessors, the proportion of substantive to ceremonial legislation was much the same....
http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/01/25/a-productivity-scorecard-for-115th-congress/