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At the Aysaita Refugee Camp in northeastern Ethiopia’s Afar region, there are about 40,000 Eritreans struggling to meet their basic daily needs. For the 10,000 children younger than 10 who live in the camp, that includes one often overlooked resource: play.At many refugee camps around the world, play can, understandably, become an afterthought as humanitarian organizations focus on delivering essentials like housing and food. But studies show that play is critical for helping kids develop executive motor function and relational skills. It’s also a key therapeutic tool for children who have experienced trauma. These insights inspired Playrise, a U.K.-based charity…

Published April 17, 2026 03:28AMPhilip Henderson has told his Mount Everest story hundreds of times, but he’s not done repeating it—not by a long shot.“This is a lifetime of work I’m talking about,” Henderson, 63, recently told me. “I’ll never turn anyone down who wants to hear about it.” Four years ago, Henderson was the leader of Full Circle Everest, the first all-Black team to attempt the peak. Black climbers, historically, have been a stark minority on the mountain, even as mountaineers from India, China, and Central and South America have flocked to Everest. The project generated a glut of…

I tend to write about AI from the perspective of the bleeding edge, looking at how journalists and media companies are using the technology to change the way they work, reach new audiences, and transform their organizations. But the reality is that there’s a stigma around using artificial intelligence in the journalism community. In conversations I have with working reporters and editors, there’s clearly still a lot of reluctance, if not outright disdain, for using AI in almost any part of their work. Looking at recent coverage of journalists using AI, however, you might think some of that disdain is…

Technology is making it easier for everyone to move faster. The important question is who will move in the right direction? New technologies—including AI and automation—are quickly becoming indispensable teammates that can draft, summarize, analyze, and accelerate the work that keeps organizations moving. I see most individuals on my team using AI and automation to complete some tasks in a fraction of the time, allowing them more time to focus on relationship-building, innovation, and value creation. When the use of AI and automation becomes widespread, it will stop being a performance differentiator. Differentiation will come instead from the people that…

Errands, Target runs, tennis games, and even flying to Europe—these are just some of the things employees have done while taking “soft off days.”  The idea of taking soft off days, in which you use a work day to do just about anything else, has become a phenomenon. Videos across social media instruct employees on the best way to take a soft day while assuaging any guilt. While employers might see it as wasting company time, many people believe soft off days are harmless—even needed. So-called “time theft,” the practice of running errands or doing personal matters on the clock,…

Professional workdays are full, fast, and designed for productivity, not recovery. In Microsoft’s 2025 Work Trend Index, 80% of global workers said they don’t have enough time or energy to do their work, and workers were interrupted about every two minutes during the day. That’s the experience of modern work: back-to-back meetings, endless emails and chats, and constant task-switching. The day doesn’t pause for you. We know breaks matter. But for most of us, the problem in taking them isn’t desire or discipline, it’s that the workday doesn’t seem to have room. The good news is you can build short,…

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As Jennifer Harris, director of the Economy and Society Initiative at the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, has recently pointed out, we are at a particularly fraught moment. Rising inequality means that fewer people have spending power, creating incentives that sharpen the affordability crisis for everybody else. But there are remedies that don’t require draconian taxes and are proven to work—at their core is ownership.  Since 1984, worker productivity in the United States has risen by 80%. Real wages have risen by 20%. The stock market, in the same period, has risen by roughly 9,000%. Now comes artificial intelligence—poised, in…

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways AI adoption without shared standards creates fragmented systems that limit real transformation. Speed alone doesn’t drive value; alignment, governance and consistency determine outcomes. Leadership ownership is essential to turn AI from a tool into a scalable advantage. Nearly 80% of organizations have already flipped the switch on AI. Teams are racing to experiment, hacking their workflows, and hitting speeds that were impossible a year ago. But moving fast doesn’t mean you are moving in the right direction.Most of the time, what’s actually happening beneath that momentum is AI being adopted…

A tariff refund program will open next week following the invalidation of President Trump’s tariffs by the Supreme Court. But consumers shouldn’t get too excited—the program is aimed only at companies, not individuals.  On Friday, the program was introduced by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), which said the tool, Consolidated Administration and Processing of Entries (CAPE), will open in phases, with the first one beginning on April 20. “CAPE will simplify International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) duty refund requests made pursuant to court order and in accordance with appropriate statutory authority by providing an electronic pathway to submit valid…