Plus, THRIVING + Lossless Leader + Juneteenth
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| | | | This could have been an email Hey Baltimore. Your work week's almost over. But maybe you still have a meeting tomorrow that you wish wasn't on the calendar. So, I ask you these questions, which are inspired by our new Lossless Leader column: What was the most pointless work meeting or task you've ever had? How did you handle it? How do you avoid things at your job that are pointless and take time? Moreover, how do you maximize doing the things that aren't urgent but important at work? Let us know by replying to this email or sending a note to baltimore@technical.ly, anytime. —Technical.ly reporter Donte Kirby (donte@technical.ly) P.S. We’re just over the hump of our Racial Equity in Tech Month, which has been our June editorial calendar theme since 2020. That’s also when Technical.ly began recognizing Juneteenth as a company holiday. Many Black Americans observed this holiday, which commemorates the 1865 date when enslaved peoples of Galveston, Texas were finally informed of their freedom from bondage, for over a century before it became a federal holiday in 2021. But despite that federal recognition, the vast majority of American professionals' employers still don’t grant Juneteenth as a paid holiday. Because we do, and since it falls on Sunday, we will not be publishing new content on Monday, when all Technical.ly employees will be off. United Way of Central Maryland improves lives for residents of Greater Baltimore and the surrounding counties by promoting equity and increasing access to education, health, employment, and housing. Learn more about United Way’s innovative work in Greater Baltimore at uwcm.org. | | | | | Top Stories | | By Plus, Baltimore Corps promotes staff to COO and CFO, Facet Wealth has a new head of investment, and Prometric finds a chief assessment officer. Read more » By There are two obvious options: Suggest the meeting just be canceled, or be proactive and seek an agenda ahead of time. Engineer manager Leemay Nassery advises on both in this edition of The Lossless Leader. Read more » By The Microsoft Innovation Acceleration Awards gave money to startups detecting wildfire, identifying rectal cancer and developing antibody therapeutics through machine learning and AI. Read more » By Community College of Baltimore County's Center for Business Innovation hosted the conference to recognize regional entrepreneurship, and raised over $1,600 to support relief efforts in Ukraine. Read more » | Blast from the past Baltimore is an outlier on population trends. Can the city also approach changing neighborhoods differently? Read more » | Your Job in Tech Search all open jobs and hiring companies Featured Jobs Overview Guru is on a mission to reinvent the way people connect with information at work. Our knowledge management solution provides teams with expert-verified information where they work and...Find out more » Technically Media, a digital media company best known for its local tech economy news site Technical.ly, is hiring a beat reporter for its Pittsburgh site in tandem with the Report for America...Find out more » The Product Owner (PO) is a member of the Agile Team responsible for defining stories and prioritizing the team backlog to streamline the execution of program priorities while maintaining the...Find out more » This Week in Jobs The moon! Now 30% pinker. Read more » SUBSCRIBE to TWIJ Post a Job Get a Job | Events View all events Promote your event | | |
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