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1. Article · Aug 27, 2026 · Maria Colacurcio

   We laid him off. Then we hired him back | Fortune (opens the original)

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   In May, we eliminated a number of roles at Syndio as part of a company redesign. One of the people we let go was Jonathan Vidales, a labor economist who had been with us for five years.Around the same time, we redefined other jobs and asked those employees to take on more responsibility and a quota. We assumed they wouldn’t blink. These were leaner times. Jobs were harder to come by and the pendulum had shifted back toward employers. For those employees, we assumed, staying in a beefed-up role w

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2. Article · Aug 18, 2026 · Maria Colacurcio

   The most important AI habit I have is making one phone call a day | Fortune (opens the original)

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   Once a day now, I force myself to make an old-fashioned phone call. Not a Zoom. Not a Teams meeting. Not a recorded conversation with an AI notetaker quietly humming in the background. I do it because afterward I have to reconstruct the conversation from memory. I have to remember what was said, identify the themes, connect the dots, and then summarize it for my AI agents. In other words, I make myself do the work first. The technology comes second. It’s a small habit, but one I’ve adopted becau

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