Tuesday, September 8, 2026

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ProcurePro secures shot at $1.4 million Startup World Cup prize

Tim will join the winners of the Sydney and Melbourne finals, travelling to San Francisco in November to compete against startups from around the world for the Startup World Cup title and its US$1 million investment prize. The Australian group...

Attraction behaves less like a fixed physical fact than a running judgement: in one study an unpleasant personality made people rate the same face...

The genre of advice about killing attraction treats it as a fixed asset you can squander: be too keen, too available, too anything, and you drain a fund of desire the other person arrived with. It is a tidy...

People who seem naturally composed are usually doing one of two different things: rethinking the situation, which genuinely calms them, or just hiding the...

Every office has one: the person who takes bad news without a flinch, fields a hostile question without heat, and generally seems built from calmer material than the rest of us. We tend to file them under temperament, as...

The Myers-Briggs test is described everywhere as being based on Carl Jung, but its two authors had no training in psychology, one of its...

Ask almost anyone where the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator comes from and you’ll get the same answer: it takes Carl Jung’s theory of personality types and turns it into a proper test.  That framing is everywhere, in corporate training slides, career...

Researchers studying leaderless groups found that the single strongest predictor of who got nominated as leader wasn’t intelligence, experience, or personality — it was...

In an unstructured meeting, the person who talks most often begins to look like the person leading it. A 2020 paper in The Leadership Quarterly tested this pattern with 256 university students placed into 33 temporary groups. Speaking time was...

Crime, Climate, Cost: EstateBlock Shines Light on More Data for Homebuyers

A real estate agent based out of Vancouver has launched a listings platform that shows more data than the rest. “Real estate sites all show the same thing,” laments Dan Marusin—a set of photos and some basic listing information. But there’s...

Your MVP might be lying to you: what founders should measure

We hear much less about how these terms came to be and the market forcing functions around how they came to be understood as viable gauges for a successful startup. You can hear them at any pitch night event...

Opposition calls Labor’s AI data centres renewable energy rules ‘unrealistic’

Australia is being warned against imposing unrealistic conditions on AI data centres or risk turning away investors. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announced plans to introduce legal requirements governing AI use and data centres in July. He will convene a meeting of...

Every card payment appears instant, but the money can travel through several companies and decades-old settlement systems before it actually reaches the merchant

A card terminal can approve a purchase before the receipt has finished printing. Online, the confirmation page often appears in less than a second. It feels as though money has moved straight from the customer to the merchant. Usually, it...

A three-year randomised trial of the much-hyped MIND ‘brain diet’ found it did no better than a sensible control diet, and omega-3 pills show...

The brain-food article is a fixture of the internet. Eat blueberries for memory, oily fish for focus, dark chocolate and walnuts and a fistful of supplements, and your mind will run sharper by lunchtime. The genre is soothing because...
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A new study suggests the person who left your message unanswered tends to feel worse about it than you imagine, and worse still when...

“What do you think of this?” That is the last message in one version of an experiment funded by the...
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