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September 18, 2025
Here's what cognitive, emotional, and compassionate empathy mean.
By Annie Reneau
Is empathy a real thing? Is it even possible to feel what another person feels if you've not experienced what they are going through? What differentiates it from sympathy or compassion?Annie ReneauWhile sympathy and empathy are often interchanged and overlap in meaning, the way the words are used differs. If we're looking dictionary definitions, Merriam-Webster sums up the differences:
Sympathy is a feeling of sincere concern for someone who is experiencing something difficult or painful. Empathy involves actively sharing in the person’s emotional experience.
Some of these are even challenging for other Americans to understand.
By Annie Reneau
When you think about "American English," what comes to mind? The way we us a hard "r" compared to British English? The way we pronounce "aluminum" and "herbs"? How we say "cookies" instead of "biscuits" and "fries" instead of "chips"?
What about our different accents? While we often marvel about how many accents there are in the U.K. for its size, the U.S has a lot more diversity of accents than people might think. Most of us group American accents into large regional groupings like Northeast, Southern, Midwest, etc., and the people from each of those regions know that there are distinct accents within them (like Boston vs. New York, Tennessee vs. Mississippi). But there are even more hyper-localized accents and dialects that many of us are not exposed to, and some of them are hard even for other Americans to understand.
Language expert Olly Richards shared seven of these accents that are difficult to emulate and explained how they came to be. It's a fascinating celebration of the diversity that many of us aren't aware exists within our language.
When your neighbor becomes your new favorite barista 🏡
"Your social media is for your self-expression."
It isn’t trading on the Nasdaq or the NYSE... But major investors are already buying stock in this private company.
These are some of the same players who backed some of today’s leading names at their earliest stages. Companies like… Uber… Venmo… eBay…
There are plenty more. But there’s something unique about the company they’re investing in. Everyday investors like you can become a shareholder too. The company is called Pacaso.
And even though they are a private company, over 12,000 everyday investors already own the stock. Why the excitement from early investors?
Founded by a former Zillow executive, Pacaso uses the same model that companies like Uber and Airbnb used to disrupt their markets.
Except Pacaso takes it even farther. And the market is massive. We’re talking $1.3 trillion in size. Unlike previous innovators that let people share a ride or a place to stay.
Pacaso’s platform lets people buy a share of a vacation home instead of the whole thing. And it’s been wildly successful.
It has already moved over $1 billion in real estate transactions and service fees in less than 5 years.
2,000+ people have owned a home through the platform.
That’s good for over $110 million in gross profits to date.
The growth keeps coming too. Now they're expanding globally to meet demand. It’s busy adding listings in elite travel destinations. Italy… The Caribbean… Mexico…
Pacaso even reserved the Nasdaq ticker $PCSO and secured a $100M private credit facility.
And you have a limited time opportunity to be part of their growth. Everyday investors like you can claim your stake for just $2.90 per share. But this private opportunity ends soon.
Become a Pacaso shareholder before the opportunity ends on 9/18.
This is a paid advertisement for Pacaso's Regulation A offering. Please read the offering circular at invest.pacaso.com. Reserving the ticker symbol is not a guarantee that the company will go public. Listing on the Nasdaq is subject to approvals.
Why do we say "out of sight, out of mind" if absence makes the heart grow fonder?
By Heather Wake
While idioms and proverbs have their differences—mainly that proverbs convey a bit of common wisdom, whereas idioms do not have to have that component—both aim to make sense of the world in concise, easy-to-understand ways.
But both can completely fail at this since both tend to contradict themselves. For instance, there seems to be very differing schools of thought when it comes to hurrying versus being patient, as is indicated by these contrasting phrases:
The early bird gets the worm.
Haste makes waste.
All good things come to him who waits.
A stitch in time saves nine.
Look before you leap.
He who hesitates is lost.
Slow and steady wins the race, but time waits for no man.
Like…huh? Clearly the only idiom that’s actually true in this regard is hurry up and wait.