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The Gift of Conversation In Any Language
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Zuckerberg names communication as 'one area' to improve as Meta guts workforce
3+ mon, 3+ week ago (605+ words) employee performance, he noted that the lack of communication about the tech came down to protecting Meta’s...
David Malcolm discusses building lasting trust through small actions
7+ mon, 3+ week ago (741+ words) Content oversight provided by Studio 1847 To real estate mogul and Cal West Apartments president David Malcolm, a core tenet in business relationships is building trust. And trust is not just built through large actions but also through what some call…...
Letters: Social media’s tactics, not its content, are in question
6+ mon, 3+ week ago (627+ words) Re: “Big tech isn’t liable for addictive platforms” (Page A7, Feb. 18). No, social media algorithms are not speech; they are products. No social media platform is being held liable for the content of any particular posting; it is rather the classification…...
Miss Manners: Nobody talks to you? Well, what did you expect?
8+ mon, 2+ week ago (414+ words) DEAR MISS MANNERS: When did people become so insecure that they take offense at pretty much everything? I’ve noticed a huge shift. Compliments given by strangers are now considered an insult or an attack against their feelings. A mom is…...
Miss Manners: Another shopper told everyone in earshot what a Grinch I was
8+ mon, 3+ week ago (509+ words) DEAR MISS MANNERS: I was in line at a busy cosmetics store. The line wasn’t moving very fast when the woman behind me asked me to save her place: She said an employee had forgotten to give her something, and…...
Writer Orlean to discuss new memoir ‘Joyride’ next week in Oakland hills
10+ mon, 3+ week ago (634+ words) Everyday commonalities and the anomalies burrowing within them are like catnip to best-selling writer Susan Orlean. The author of 12 award-winning books (among them, “The Orchid Thief,” “The Library Book,” “Saturday Night” and her new memoir “Joyride”) is a regular columnist…...
Dear Abby: Would the woman in the gym want to know what her pants are doing?
11+ mon, 3+ week ago (493+ words) DEAR ABBY: My fitness center has three rows of treadmills and ellipticals. One particular woman usually selects the front row. Like many in the gym, she wears tight leggings, which is fine. However, hers are stretched so thin across her…...
Family of Lafayette teen who died after spinal injury at Stinson Beach points finger at Walnut Creek hospital
10+ mon, 4+ week ago (409+ words) The family of a 17-year-old Lafayette resident believes he could’ve survived the catastrophic injuries he suffered four days before his death if not for the actions of the hospital where he was treated, according to a lawsuit they have filed…...
McCloskey: Too many kids can’t read. Blame a lack of spelling tests.
9+ mon, 3+ week ago (703+ words) This month, I went to school for parent-teacher conferences. My second-grader’s self-evaluation form listed several categories: “I follow directions,” “I understand math,” “I like to read,” and one we hadn’t been asked about before: spelling. In fact, over the summer,…...