For the past 10 years, Uber’s annual Lost & Found Index has provided a rather quirky anthropological snapshot of its riders — and even a few insights into society. The annual catalogue of millions of forgotten items ranges from mundane modern-day tools such as smartphones and laptops, to more eyebrow-raising objects like live fish, an … Read more
How Worry Shrinks You The most unremarkable thing leaders do is worry about themselves. Self-concern is natural. Self-obsession is destructive. Toxic Worry Anxiety turns people into threats. Feedback feels like attack. Disagreement feels like disrespect. Success in others feels threatening. Worry smells like fear. Fear makes you small. Life shrinks when self-protection becomes your goal. … Read more
Google parent company Alphabet said Monday that it plans to raise $80 billion to help pay for the massive AI infrastructure buildout it has planned. Alphabet will sell off that amount in stock and will then use the funds to pay for “general corporate purposes, including capital expenditures to scale AI infrastructure and global compute,” … Read more
Every founder who applies to Startup Battlefield wants the same thing: the Disrupt Main Stage. Six minutes to pitch and demo live, in front of top-tier Silicon Valley investors. A dedicated TechCrunch article published as you present. A shot at the $100,000 equity-free prize and the Disrupt Cup. And all of that could be yours, … Read more
So now you’ve thought about what you’re going to wear, the structure of your content, how great your topic is. Now you want to think about your delivery. This is where I feel like the most effective way of communicating is when you’re speaking from experience rather than trying to recall a script, which can … Read more
Environmental activist Erin Brockovich has a new mission: Bringing more transparency to data center construction and the impact those data centers have on nearby communities. Brockovich — who was famously played by Julia Roberts in a film dramatizing her legal case against Pacific Gas & Electric — recently launched a website with a map of … Read more
LeadershipNow 140: May 2026 Compilation Here is a selection of Posts from May 2026 that you will want to check out: See more on Twitter. * * * Follow us on Instagram and X for additional leadership and personal development ideas. Posted by Michael McKinney at 11:53 AM Permalink | Comments (0) | This … Read more
SoftBank Group announced today that it plans to spend up to €75 billion (around $87 billion) to expand data center capacity in France. The goal, the firm said, is to develop and operate up to 5 gigawatts of additional data center capacity. The first phase of the plan involves building data centers in Dunkirk (Loon-Plage), Bosquel, … Read more
Mastering Accountability Less than half of leaders excel at creating accountability.* Don’t confuse accountability with intimidation. Pressure produces compliance but drains vitality. Real Accountability Accountability is drawing out the best in others. #1. Align desires. Help people excel where they want to excel. Line up personal goals with organizational objectives. Remove or reassign those who … Read more
For years, the SEO playbook was straightforward: earn backlinks, climb rankings, capture clicks. But as AI reshapes how traditional SEO works, a different mechanism is determining which content gets seen — and it’s not backlinks. It’s citations. The role of citations in AEO is fundamentally different from link-building: instead of other publishers vouching for your page, AI answer engines are selecting your content as the direct source behind their generated answers.