American’s do a lot of online shopping. $1.2 billion per day, to be exact. With that in mind, it might come as a surprise that the web’s financial infrastructure is old and slow. The explosive growth of e-commerce has outpaced the underlying technology but in 2010, Patrick and John Collison began to debug this process. Their company, Stripe Inc., built software that businesses could plug into websites and apps to instantly connect with credit card and banking systems and receive payments. Now their on a quest to partner with Amazon & to increase the GDP of the internet.

Need to send a file to a friend without fear of it being stored on a company’s servers? Mozilla has launched a new website that makes it really easy to send a file from one person to another. The site is called Send, and it’s basically the Snapchat of file sharing.

One CEO explains how surprised he was to find the remote teams he hired reshaping his company’s in-office work culture for the better.

Working remotely puts a person in control of where they will be most productive. Although remote work has certain challenges, the pros outweigh the cons for most. The positions are out there, if you know where to look. Here, Deekit shares their top tips for finding the remote job of your dreams!

Uplift is looking for people with technical skills! Are you open to 5-20 hours per week of remote contract work? Do you know React, Python, node.js or Ruby? Or if you happen to come across any large projects open to those (or any) technologies, we’d love to know!

One in two people admit to leaving a job to get away from a bad manager. Yet, when managers are interviewed, they routinely assume they’re not the problem. So what does it take to be a good manager and how can a good manager make sure good employees don’t leave?

Develop rare and valuable skills. Invest in yourself, your relationships, and your dreams. Be a giver, not a taker, once you’ve invested yourself in the right relationships. Make the right asks — and get above the line of “super credibility”. Benjamin P. Hardy breaks down these 4 steps so that any one of us can achieve our goals and live our best life by getting exactly what it is we want.

The lifelong concept of being a “criminal” is a big haunting label that can keep worthy people from integrating back into society. Maybe you know someone with this unfortunate story. If so, share this thread with them! And if you haven’t watched 13th on Netflix, do that too. Many people commit small crimes, pay their debt to society, and then just want to get on with their lives. On behalf of those folks, let’s help them find jobs!

Fraudulent reviews on Amazon are probably more prevalent than we think. Third party meta review sites like Fakespot will identify problems for us, so why doesn’t Amazon? Imagine how great our shopping experience would be if we could actually trust each review!