MONEY & PERSONAL FINANCE

The real cost of not wearing makeup at the office (Fast Company)

These are the 3 times when you need a financial therapist (Fast Company)

Meet the people making the ‘financial independence, retire early,’ or FIRE, movement more inclusive by challenging norms around saving, debt, and living frugally (Business Insider—Paywall)

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PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT, PSYCHOLOGY, WELLNESS

These are the hidden biases in mainstream productivity advice (Fast Company)

What happened when I ate the best brain foods for a week (Fast Company)

How burnout affects mental health workers (BBC)

How to confront bias without alienating people (Fast Company)

How to be creative in isolation (BBC)

How I got a promotion, ran a marathon, and saved 20% of my income this year (Fast Company)

Why you react the way you do in a crisis, according to a former navy psychologist (Fast Company)

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CAREERS, LEADERSHIP, THE WORKPLACE

4 former interns look back at exploitation, power dynamics, and ultimate career payoff (Fast Company)

Could micro-credentials compete with traditional degrees? (BBC)

The challenge of a job that doesn’t meet your needs (BBC)

The downsides of using personality tests for hiring (Fast Company)

New graduates, these are the unspoken rules of the workplace that no one tells you (Fast Company)

What would an HR department that works for employees look like? (Fast Company)

Why it’s so hard for you and your partners to both have successful careers (Fast Company)

Why these CEOs think that transparency is crucial for workplace success (Fast Company) 

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TECHNOLOGY

These apps try to make sexual harassment reporting less of a nightmare. Do they work? (Fast Company)

The mobile alternative to Reddit is going international (The Verge)

These companies are turning off Slack notifications, and their employees are happier and more productive for it (Business Insider—Paywall)

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PROFILES, FEATURES, Q&A

Former Goldman Sachs employee on the motherhood penalty (Fast Company)

Thanks to General Counsel Dev Stahlkopf, contractors at Microsoft will now get 12 weeks of paid parental leave (Fast Company)

Men, emotional labor is your problem too (Fast Company)

A corporate lawyer-turned-traveler shares the 7 biggest misconceptions people have about her 8 years on the road (Business Insider)

Learning new languages with OKRs (What Matters)

Prioritizing your life purpose—How a COVID-19 diagnosis reminded a doctor of what really matters (What Matters)

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RACE & CULTURE

Crazy Rich Asians, is indeed, Asian enough for us  (Fast Company)

Asian-Americans on being “likable” in the modern workplace (Fast Company)

I was skeptical of group life-coaching, until I tried one geared at WOC (Fast Company)