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Our self-domestication is just the start of our humanity. We are self-domesticated apes, but more important, we are apes that have invented ourselves. Just as the control of fire came about because of our mindful intentions, so did the cow and corn arise from our minds. Those are inventions as clear as the plow and the knife. And just as domesticated animals were inventions, as we self-domesticated, we self-invented ourselves, too. We are self-invented humans.

While hiring rates remained steady for those who earned less than $55,000 annually, it reached new lows for those who make over $96,000 according to a 2024 report from Vanguard. In 2023, hiring for middle- and top-third earning employees dwindled so much that the latter group reached the lowest level of hiring since 2014.

“While we don’t believe that there will be a massive upswing in demand for mid-level professional talent in the near future, we do believe there will be a steady stream of turnover and new additions driven by prolonged postponements and pent-up growth initiatives slowly being implemented,” adds DiStefano.

In the meantime, he suggests that middle-aged adults in the white-collar workforce stay fresh by networking, always having a contingency plan, and being up-to-date on their skills. The demand in this current market is for experts, not generalists, he adds.

Rust is a fast, reliable, and memory-efficient programming language. It's been voted the most loved programming language six years in a row (survey). Created by Mozilla, it's now used at Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, and Google for systems infrastructure, encryption, virtualization, and more low-level programming.

Today, our online accounts accumulate small stones, facets of our connected lives. In our lifetimes, we will see an ever-increasing number of online accounts representing the dead, each cairn frozen in time. One day, our own profiles will become a part of that landscape.

Have you ever looked at a map and thought, "You know what Denmark needs? More sunshine, palm trees, and roller skates." Well, we have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to make that dream a reality.

Let’s buy California from Donald Trump!

Yes, you heard that right.

California could be ours, and we need your help to make it happen.