Tuesday, September 8, 2026

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Economists tracked US jobs from 1980 to 2012 and found the ones demanding social skills grew by about 12 percentage points as the maths-heavy,...

Every few weeks another version of the same post goes round: master these five, or seven, or ten social skills and watch your career take off. The advice is usually a mix of the obvious and the unfalsifiable, but...

Strangers who watched sixty seconds of silent footage guessed people’s income and social class better than chance: the dining habits we read as ‘poor’...

There is a particular kind of business dinner where the deal is not the only thing being assessed. Someone orders the second-cheapest wine, or the most expensive. Someone holds a fork like a pen, or cuts everything up first,...

Why Vancouver Won’t Let Its Best Ideas Get Away

Two BC innovators on retaining tech talent and what’s at stake as AI raises the bar. Canada trains some of the best AI and technical talent in the world. The key is connecting these exceptional people with companies to help...

World Cup Sent Vancouver Matchday Spending Up 12.7%

The FIFA World Cup delivered a measurable matchday boost to Vancouver businesses, according to new Visa data that found in-person spending rose by as much as 12.7% compared with the same period in 2025. Vancouver’s largest increase came on June...

Beedie Capital Acquires 50% Stake in Vistara Growth, Anchors New $500M Fund

Vancouver-based Beedie Capital has acquired a 50% ownership interest in Vistara Growth and will anchor the investment firm’s next major fund. The Vistara Growth Structured Opportunities Fund is scheduled to launch this fall with a target size of US$500 million....

Canva cuts revenue forecast by a third as it tackles high AI costs

In her Q2 CY2026 update to shareholders, Perkins said the “average cost of serving an AI task was too high” – an issue companies such as Atlassian, which recently capped employee spending on AI, are dealing with as they...

The inspirational founder and other myths your customers don’t care about

Michael is an over-achiever who has written 10 books about change, the future and human behaviour. I’ve written one, and it was mostly about gin.  I invited Michael onto my new podcast, StoryWork, because I always leave our conversations thinking...

A meta-analysis of 75 longitudinal studies found loneliness stays essentially flat from adolescence to old age, which means the midlife version people describe in...

People often report arriving, somewhere around their forties, at a distinction between being alone and being lonely. It tends to get described as a stage: something you reach once the noise of early adulthood settles down. The stage part is...

A 2006 field study found people paid nearly three times more at an anonymous coffee station when a photo of eyes, not flowers, hung...

Everyone has met someone whose kindness seems to switch on the moment an audience appears. The compliment paid loudly in a meeting, the charity post shared right after the donation, the warmth that thins out the moment nobody useful...

A meta-analysis of 136 samples and more than 23,000 workers found that adapting behaviour to the social situation, not acting the same way in...

“Have fun and be yourself” is the kind of line that shows up in onboarding decks and culture pages, usually paired with a photo of people laughing around a whiteboard. It carries two separate claims folded into one piece...
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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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