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SWC’s Fast Five – February 25, 2022

SWC’s Fast Five

February 25, 2022

Fast Five is not talking about THAT, but is about bugs, because we need them and it will take your mind off of THAT, as will something interesting but not scary that China is doing – bossing AI so companies can’t use personal info to offer users different prices for the same product of service. Also, why RTO RT ain’t, how the four-day work week has arrived and the real deal on home office pajama wear

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SWC’s Fast Five – February 25, 20222022-02-25T09:28:32-06:00

SWC’s Fast Five – February 18, 2022

SWC’s Fast Five

February 18, 2022

So, Disappointment(s) of the Week – chances are grim of finding a rental home or buying a garage door. Very specific we know but if you are in those markets, bummer! Redeeming News of the Week – there are ways to promote your brand online that sidestep the noxious humble brag syndrome, headlight technology is coming that doesn’t blind you so others can see the road and, eggs, did you know they are fighting for your attention?

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SWC’s Fast Five – February 18, 20222022-02-17T17:01:57-06:00

SWC’s Fast Five – February 4, 2022

SWC’s Fast Five

February 4, 2022

The population available to work is on a long-term downward trend, which gets us more robots, pizza joints paying us to pick the pie up ourselves and meds zipping to your doorstep via drones. If you are in the workforce, here are some tips for sorting out what it really would be like to work for Company X. For cool news – an electrified roadway to keep your EV charged. So would you just wave your credit card out the window?

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SWC’s Fast Five – February 4, 20222022-02-03T14:23:37-06:00

SWC’s Fast Five – January 28, 2022

SWC’s Fast Five

January 28, 2022

There might be some goodies lurking in your spam folder, not a bad idea to take a squint, and to do also with your recovery email addresses. When is the last time you checked those? Resumes are still a thing but no one is putting “manager” goals on there. And if you are among those bringing back in-store shopping, retailers are working on your care and comfort.

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SWC’s Fast Five – January 28, 20222022-01-27T15:26:49-06:00

SWC’s Fast Five – January 21, 2022

SWC’s Fast Five

January 21, 2022

Is this new 3D tech the answer to bringing cheap manufacturing back to the U.S.? It’s happier tech news than that of AT&T/Verizon jolting air traffic due to its genius 5G handling. Other tech goodies – laptops are cool again, Ford and ADT got your back in theft prevention and, in analog news, find out what the fastest growing gigs are for us working stiffs.

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SWC’s Fast Five – January 21, 20222022-01-20T15:59:26-06:00

SWC’s Fast Five – January 7, 2022

SWC’s Fast Five

January 7, 2022

Change, change, change… self-operating tractors, a foreign automaker tops American auto-sales, mid-level staff lead the great resignation, goodbye “GMO – hello “bioengineered” and just in time for our holiday bills to come due, regulatory scrutiny sets its claws in the buy now, pay later industry.

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SWC’s Fast Five – January 7, 20222022-01-07T15:24:03-06:00

SWC’s Fast Five – December 17, 2021

SWC’s Fast Five

December 17, 2021

It’s back to the drawing board on back to work, you’ll find a super random list of career paths with the highest wage growth (insurance broker anyone?), grim news for youngsters as 60-year careers are forecast for them, good news for the four-eyes among us as eye drops claim to replace glasses and, if you want to forget all that and contemplate the universe – a spacecraft has driven right into the sun. On purpose.

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SWC’s Fast Five – December 17, 20212021-12-16T12:10:14-06:00

SWC’s Fast Five – December 10, 2021

SWC’s Fast Five

December 10, 2021

Futurists are saying the 2022 work world means the death of hustle and the rise of looking out for yourself, school buses are tracking your kids, business is calling all you retirees to unretire, some next-year changes are this-year ready from cities running on crypto to manufacturing reshoring and what’s really cool – your kid’s plastic Chatter Telephone works on Bluetooth.

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SWC’s Fast Five – December 10, 20212021-12-10T12:47:27-06:00