Author: Benstirk

[ad_1] This post is part of a series sponsored by AgentSync. AgentSync’s partially humorous take on industry prognostication It wouldn’t be December without a new crop of industry prophecies for the coming year, now would it? While we appreciate the effort that each company, analyst, and thought leader puts into crafting their 2024 insurance industry forecast, we also know that trends can change with the wind and no prediction is written in stone. Take the “Y2K crisis,” for example. Sometime in 1998, people started predicting a huge computer meltdown when the clock struck midnight on Jan. 1, 2000. Companies around…

[ad_1] It can be tempting, amid the chaos of modern life, to look backwards – to yearn for simpler times when smartphones didn’t exist and no one had ever uttered the word “microplastics”. Some turn to Freud, others to the stoics. For one week, I turned to one of the most famous physicians of the ancient world: Galen.A second-century Greco-Roman physician and philosopher, Galen served as court physician to Marcus Aurelius’s son Commodus. He was also a prolific writer (his texts account for an estimated 10% of all existing Greek literature from before AD350) whose theories shaped western medicine for…

[ad_1] It’s time for your daily dose of Quordle hints, plus the answers for both the main game and the Daily Sequence spin off. Quordle is the only one of the many Wordle clones that I’m still playing now, around two years after the daily-word-game craze hit the internet, and with good reason: it’s fun, but also difficult.What’s more, its makers (now the online dictionary Merriam-Webster) are also keeping it fresh in the form of a variant called the Daily Sequence, which sees you complete four puzzles consecutively, rather than concurrently. But Quordle is tough, so if you already find yourself searching…

[ad_1] This post is part of a series sponsored by IAT Insurance Group. There’s much wisdom to be extracted from Aesop’s timeless fable “The Tortoise and the Hare” when it comes to driver speeding. As the Hare discovered, speeding doesn’t save time or resources. Instead, studies show that while drivers only gain mere minutes when they exceed the speed limit by 10 miles per hour,[1] speeding increases both the likelihood of a crash and fatalities occurring.[2] In 2021, speed was involved in 29% of all traffic-related deaths, and an average of 33 people in the U.S. were killed each day…

[ad_1] Baking shouldn’t mean a really lovely cake is only possible after hours of serious questing for a list of esoteric ingredients. I love fresh yuzu but use the bottled yuzu juice if needs must. I believe most ingredients should be within everyday reach, and that your baking budget should determine what you buy. If you can bake with lavish amounts of vanilla bean, enjoy. If you use can only afford imitation vanilla essence, sure, it will taste different, but it will still be a wonderful bake you made.I am obsessed with ingredient labels, using the nutritional panels to provide…

[ad_1] Intel’s Core i9-14900KS has appeared in another leak – one of a few pieces of spillage seen recently – and this time we have a purported spec sheet showing the rumored boost speed.Tom’s Hardware picked up on a post by @momomo_us on X (formerly Twitter) which shared the details, and the mentioned boost of 6.2GHz, a new height for Intel’s desktop processors.Remember, that’s the speed of the supercharged flagship CPU out of the box, before any overclocking shenanigans.The other specs revealed show that the Core i9-14900KS is exactly the same as the existing 14900K in other departments, which is…

[ad_1] This post is part of a series sponsored by AgentSync. The insurance industry has been slow to adopt digital-first frameworks for doing business, and the part of the business that deals with compliance and regulation change management even more so. But, day by day, we’re seeing that trend change. Someday this trickle of early adopters of insurance compliance and producer management tech will find itself a whole flood as internal stakeholders and state regulators alike stop buying a shoulder shrug and a “that’s how we’ve always done it” as a convincing reason for noncompliance. With a variety of tech-based…

[ad_1] In 1967, Dior was the first Paris haute couture house to embrace the racy new idea, dreamed up the previous year by the whippersnapper Yves Saint Laurent, of “ready to wear” designer fashion. Marc Bohan, then the designer of Dior, correctly judged that the generation of women coming of age in the 1960s were of a different mindset from their mothers. He dispatched with individual fittings and the traditional three-month wait, and gave this new generation boutiques – named Miss Dior – where fashion could be bought off-the-peg.The Dior show that opened this year’s Paris fashion week, staged in…

[ad_1] Finding the right smartwatch can be a challenge, especially when you’re on a budget. But if you’re looking for a deal on the best smartwatch currently available, you’d be hard pressed to find a bargain better than this one.The Samsung Galaxy Watch 6 has picked up a massive AU$230 discount, and it’s the lowest price we’ve seen on Amazon for the 44mm version. This means that right now, you can score the larger display for an even better price than its 40mm counterpart.After swapping my phone from Apple to Samsung, I’ve been keeping an eye out for a new…

[ad_1] This post is part of a series sponsored by AgentSync. There are as many ways to “do business” as there are businesses. That is to say, no two organizations are the same. However, broadly speaking, some companies prioritize doing all of their operations in-house; others prefer to outsource everything except their core functions, and a majority of companies fall somewhere in between the two extremes. Within the insurance industry, companies span from as small as a single-person independent agency to as large as a global insurance carrier with hundreds of thousands of employees. It goes without saying that the…