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Having rejection sensitive dysphoria, or RSD, is physically painful, all-consuming, and disproportionate to the event that triggered it.While a neurotypical person is able to recognize rejection, rationalize it, feel bad about it, and then move on with their day fairly quickly, RSD feels like a bull has charged at you and headbutted you in the chest, and it comes with a tremendous amount of shame.RSD is defined by the Cleveland Clinic as “severe emotional pain because of a failure or feeling rejected,” and is a symptom of the emotional dysregulation often seen due to the extra criticisms a person with…
Here’s a story you’re probably familiar with: You buy the reusable coffee cup. It’s beautiful, ethical, made from recycled ocean plastic, and you feel good about your purchase. But then it leaks in your bag, ruins a notebook, and by week two it’s sitting in a cabinet while you’re back to disposable cups and a vague sense of guilt.Or maybe it’s the “eco mode” on your washing machine that takes three hours instead of one. The sustainable packaging that requires scissors, sweat, and a YouTube tutorial. The electric vehicle charging app with six steps when a gas pump has one.We’ve…
Most people use AI like a search engine: type a question, get an answer. It’s an easy, well-understood use case for tools like Claude, Gemini, and ChatGPT. But for solopreneurs, the real value is in setting up dedicated projects with a lot of background information about your business. Most AI tools let you create project workspaces where you can add context about who you are and what you do. You can attach relevant files, and keep the conversation focused on one specific idea or area of your business. I have 23 AI projects in Claude for everything from strategic planning to building…
Trust hasn’t disappeared from business. It’s been renegotiated.As artificial intelligence moves from novelty to infrastructure, people are changing how they decide who deserves credibility. In Mission North’s 2026 Brand Expectations Index, we surveyed more than 1,500 U.S. adults and knowledge workers to understand what builds trust today, and what quietly undermines it.Some of the results run directly against conventional thinking. Here are five rules for 2026.1. Visibility alone doesn’t build credibilityFor years, executive communications equated presence with power: more interviews, more panels, more posts. But only 24% of respondents say frequent CEO visibility increases their trust.That doesn’t mean leaders should disappear.…
When leadership trends become corporate wallpaper, they risk losing the very edge that made them useful in the first place. That’s where psychological safety risks finding itself today. It’s plastered on slide decks, plugged into engagement surveys, and whispered in HR circles as the answer to “Why don’t people speak up?” but it’s rarely connected to what happens after someone actually does speak up.This distinction between permission to speak and protection from consequences matters more than leaders often realize.Psychological safety tells you that people feel comfortable raising questions or concerns and that they believe they won’t be overtly sanctioned for…
Finding additional memory for your PC is already a challenge. Now, connecting to the internet could get tougher, too.The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) released a notice Monday that will prohibit all new consumer-grade routers that were not made in the United States. Routers made in other countries, the alert read, “pose unacceptable risks to the national security of the United States or the safety and security of United States persons.”At least 60% of the routers in U.S. homes are made overseas, with the majority coming from China. Officials fear China could exploit those devices to launch attacks on critical infrastructure…
The best leaders share a few predictable traits: They’re curious, self-aware, and genuinely invested in their team’s growth. But there’s a big difference between having these traits and developing new leaders to embody them as well.A 2022 study published in the journal Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes found that when leaders visibly act with curiosity—by questioning, learning, and exploring—they signal to team members that the environment is safe for interpersonal risk-taking. In turn, employees feel more confident speaking up, sharing ideas, and contributing meaningfully.In a new book, The Power of the Learning Mindset, authors Lilian Ajayi-Ore and Marshall Goldsmith…
As soon as new AI products are released, security researchers and pranksters begin probing them for weaknesses, trying to push systems to violate their own safety precautions and coax them into producing anything from offensive content to instructions for building weapons.After all, AI risks are not just theoretical. In recent months, various AI companies have faced criticism for their software allegedly contributing to mental illness and suicide, nonconsensual fake nude images of real people, and aiding hackers in cybercrime. At the same time, techniques for bypassing safeguards also continue to evolve, with recent methods including everything from malicious prompts disguised with poetry to surreptitiously planting…
As Q1 closes, CEOs must ask: are they truly building a strategy to scale, or just staying busy filling their calendars? Source link
Another day, another Ford Motor Co. recall. This time, the company is recalling 254,640 vehicles due to a potential issue with the rearview camera image. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), the affected cars all have an Image Processing Module A (IPMA) that might reset unexpectedly. This reset can cause people to lose the rearview camera image and their advanced driver assistance features. The latter includes tools such as blind-spot monitoring, lane-keeping assist, and pre-collision assist. The NHTSA warns that a person might have a greater risk of crashing without these features. Ford has not learned of any related…