Zahid Bahij

  What is inflation? Inflation is the rise in prices compared with what they were earlier, such as a year ago. Aren't prices always rising? Nearly always. The price of a good depends on several things: the prices of materials, rent and labor. These prices can rise for many reasons, and when they rise, the prices we pay go up. Why does that become a problem? It's a problem when prices rise too fast when the cost of your groceries is more than it was last year - but your pay didn't go up. Inflation becomes your enemy because retail prices don't always fall when prices of production fall. Today's high prices become the basis for future inflation. How does inflation happen? Many factors can lead to higher inflation. War is one example. The war in Ukraine is fought by Russia and Ukraine, but the war affects most of the world. Primary reasons are the costs of food and energy. Russia supplies most of Europe's energy. Both Russia and Ukraine provide a lot of the grains ...

  “Think Different,” said the famous 1997 Apple advertisement. Excellent advice, obviously, to all creators, innovators, and entrepreneurs. But, along with thinking differently in order to come up with revolutionary new ideas or products, there is also seeing differently. Great creators, innovators, and entrepreneurs look at the world in ways that are different from how many of us look at things. This is why they see opportunities that other people miss. The story of Velcro is well known. A Swiss engineer, George de Mestral, decided to look more closely at the burrs (seeds from plants) he found clinging to his clothing after a walk in the woods. He took out his microscope and saw that nature had designed hooks on the burrs, which had then attached themselves to looped fibers in his clothing. The famous hook-and-loop alternative to the zipper, under the name Velcro, was born. (Today, there is a whole field, called biomimetics, devoted to imitating nature in order to solve human prob...

  How To Make Homework Less Stressful  Homework. It’s the bane of all students’ existence, and for a good reason. We are often subject to unnecessarily grandiose amounts of after-school agony, hindering our personal lives and passions. It feels like a hopeless situation — being confined to the grasp of the nonchalant school system for the remainder of our education. However, there is resistance to be found. Sit up straight and pick up your pencil because here are five simple strategies to power through your homework with ease. Less Thinking, More Doing Writing notes is an undoubtedly tedious task, but it doesn’t have to be. Whenever you need to copy large blocks of text the following strategy will help you save time and assist your memorization. First, skim over the sentence you’d like to write, and ensure that you remember at least half of it. Then, write it out without glancing at your book or screen until you are on the last word you can recall. At this point, you should re...

  Man asks Google CEO Sundar Pichai to help him reset Gmail password. Has he seen it? A man took to Twitter to request Google CEO Sundar Pichai to help him reset his Gmail password after he forgot it. Google CEO Sundar Pichai Losing or forgetting your Gmail password can be very irritating. But in this age of YouTube, where all the solutions are available, often these little setbacks don’t create such a huge problem. In case YouTube videos don’t provide a solution, we often text the customer care services. Right? However, have you ever considered tweeting Google CEO Sundar Pichai directly when you face any issue with your Gmail account? Well, if this seemed a little too much for you, then you should meet Twitter user @Madhan67966174. The Twitter user recently took to the micro-blogging site to request Sundar Pichai to lend a helping hand when he couldn’t figure out how to reset the password. The user tweeted, “Hello sir. How are you? I need one help in my Gmail ID password I forgot ...

  B2B Marketers, Why Aren’t You Leveraging LinkedIn Analytics? LinkedIn analytics has a lot of potentials to tap in. Do you know? B2B marketing has a new fuel to run its machine, LinkedIn analytics. LinkedIn is a professional social media platform where businesses and individuals can network and connect. It has over 30 million companies and a target-rich environment which is ideal for  B2B marketers. To tap into the goldmine of usable data on LinkedIn, we need to understand what LinkedIn analytics brings to the table.   The Two W’s – What And Where? According to LinkedIn’s internal research, approximately 63 million users scroll their feed every month. That is a ton of leads for B2B marketers.  LinkedIn analytics  consists of a set of metrics that can help you measure your company page’s performance and how well the content posted on the page is working. This feature is nicely tucked inside a company’s feed in the profile section, on the left-hand side. There ar...

Chris Westfall Contributor Careers As unemployment claims jump to over 1 million  this week , job seekers are looking for new solutions.  Forbes  reports that continuing unemployment claims are hovering around 15 million, with 28 million people receiving some form of aid in these difficult times. With stats like that,  looking for a job  might be a source of discouragement for many – so how can you find the self-confidence needed to get back into the market, explore new opportunities and – ultimately – interview with assurance? Time to tackle the two questions that can cause you to fumble, every time, if you’re seeking unstoppable self-confidence. Do you know what they are? Anyone who has ever played a sport of any kind knows that there’s one way you  can’t  play the game. You can’t play the game looking at the scoreboard. If you’re running a race, you can’t be looking over your shoulder at the clock – or at the  person next to you . Where do you ...