Mad in America

APRIL 27, 2025

From The Guardian. Across the country, a troubling trend is accelerating: the return of institutionalization rebranded, repackaged and framed as modern mental health care. From Governor Kathy Hochuls push to expand involuntary commitment in New York to Robert F Kennedy Jrs proposal for wellness farms under his Make America Healthy Again (Maha) initiative, policymakers are reviving the logics of confinement under the guise of care.

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Go Burrows

APRIL 27, 2025

Matt Oden is the CEO of Execify.ai , the first AI-powered executive operations platform. With over 20 years of experience driving technology adoption, Matt is dedicated to solving the unique challenges faced by executive support teams. In this episode, Matt talks about his experience working with executive assistants, improving the productivity of executive operations teams, and leveraging AI technology to scale our work.

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Success

APRIL 26, 2025

Most people imagine that entertainment lawyers spend their days negotiating recording contracts or reviewing movie deals. But for Dallas-based attorney Levi McCathern , the job is much more straightforward: He solves problems. Big ones. The kind that could cost Jerry Jones the entire Dallas Cowboys franchise or that stripped a Heisman Trophy from one of college footballs greatest running backs.

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Work Life

APRIL 27, 2025

Greg Walton, PhD, is the co-director of the Dweck-Walton Lab and a professor of psychology at Stanford University. Dr. Waltons research is supported by many foundations, including Character Lab, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. He has been covered in major media outlets including The New York Times , Harvard Business Review , The Wall Street Journal , NPR, The Chronicle of Higher Education , The Washington Post , San Francisco Chronicle , and L

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Speaker: Frank Taliano

Documents are the backbone of enterprise operations, but they are also a common source of inefficiency. From buried insights to manual handoffs, document-based workflows can quietly stall decision-making and drain resources. For large, complex organizations, legacy systems and siloed processes create friction that AI is uniquely positioned to resolve.

Decision Making

Mad in America

APRIL 26, 2025

S purred on by narratives that street problems are caused by mental health issues rather than by worsening economic inequities, new bills expanding powers to involuntarily commit people have been leapfrogging each other in recent years from California and New York to Oregon , Oklahoma , Indiana and beyond. Around the country, small, underfunded organizations and scrappy volunteer groupsoften brought together by peers, survivors and users of the mental health systemstruggle to mount campaigns to

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Work Life

APRIL 26, 2025

Getting your tax refund is the only fun part of filing your taxes every yearwhich can make it especially galling when Uncle Sam takes his sweet time sending your money. Waiting for a refund in 2025 has some added stress, considering the recent IRS layoffs , the departments plans for a 25% reduction in force , and the heartburn-inducing game of acting director musical chairs that played out during this years tax season.

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Work Life

APRIL 27, 2025

If the tariff-triggered drop in your 401(k) balance has got you sobbing into a pint of Ben & Jerrys, youre not alone. U.S. and global markets have yo-yoed in reaction to the current administrations inexplicable tariff wars. And since this market downturn is a direct result of American foreign economic policy, we may not be able to just wait for a recovery in the next few months (or years).

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