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If youre on the way to the office this morning and want to pick up some treats for your colleagues, you may want to swing by a Krispy Kreme. The donut chain is offering customers a great deal today: the chance to purchase a dozen Original Glazed donuts for less than a buck. Heres what you need to know about Krispy Kremes 88-cent dozen donuts deal. Krispy Kreme celebrates 88th birthday with 88-cent dozen donuts deal Krispy Kreme, the chain that is notorious for seemingly finding any excuse to give away its donuts, is celebrating its 88th birthday today. In honor of that birthday, Krispy Kreme is offering customers the chance to buy a dozen Original Glazed donuts for just 88 cents, with an additional purchase. Krispy Kreme, which now operates in more than 40 countries, was founded in July 1937 by Vernon Rudolph. Rudolph, the company says, began selling his donuts to grocery stores, but when passersby crossed his kitchen, they smelled the scent of the sweet treats drifting across the sidewalk. Rudolph reportedly then cut a hole in the kitchens wall so that he could sell to these pedestrians directly. Eighty-eight years later, the companys name is synonymous with donuts. And today, you can get a great deal on a dozen of them. Heres how to get a dozen donuts for 88 cents For one day only today (Friday, July 18), Krispy Kreme is offering customers the chance to buy a dozen Original Glazed donuts for just 88 cents when they purchase any dozen donuts at the regular price. There are two ways to get your dozen Original Glazed donuts for just 88 cents today: Go to any Krispy Kreme shop and buy a dozen of any variety of donuts and tell the cashier you also want to pick up a dozen Original Glazed donuts for just 88 cents. Buy a dozen of any variety of donuts from Krispy Kreme online for pickup or delivery and enter the code BDAY to redeem the option to grab a dozen Original Glazed donuts for just 88 cents. The full terms of the 88-cent deal can be found here. Free donuts are great, but maybe not for the stock While Krispy Kreme fans may cheer the companys 88th birthday deal, investors certainly arent cheering Krispy Kreme’s (Nasdaq: DNUT) stock price this year. In early May, DNUT shares plummeted nearly 30% after the company suspended its dividend payments. At the same time, Krispy Kreme also announced that it was reassessing its partnership with McDonald’s, which saw Krispy Kreme donuts sold in McDonalds locations across the country. A month later, the two food giants announced that their partnership was indeed ending this July. The companies cited cost issues that made the partnership unsustainable. The McDonalds news came after Krispy Kreme reported poor first-quarter 2025 financial results in early May. For the quarter, it posted revenue of $375.2 million, while previously forecasting revenue of over $385 million. In fact, shares in Krispy Kreme have been trading lower for a while. Year to date, the companys stock price is down over 68% as of yesterdays close. On Thursday, DNUT shares closed at $3.11. That share price is a far cry from the $17 per share at which the companys stock debuted in its initial public offering in July 2021. Since then, DNUT shares have declined more than 80%. But if investors are looking for a little icing on the cake, they can at least take heart in DNUTs recent stock price movement. Over the past month, Krispy Kreme shares are up over 14% as of yesterdays close.
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If you ask a doctor about ADHD, they will tell you that its a developmental disorder characterized by traits of forgetfulness, impulsivity, and disorganization. However, there are so many great qualities associated with ADHD that dont get discussed, just some of which include creativity, resilience, problem-solving, and hyper focus. Neurodivergent people are the worlds best problem-solvers. We have had to practice it for our entire lives. From a very young age we have had to find unique solutions to really difficult problems because we are intrinsically a little bit different. We are also great at reading other people. We can hyper focus on peoples micro communications, pick up on tiny fluctuations in tone of voice, and little changes in facial expressions that neurotypical people miss. We can recognize patterns in peoples mannerisms, which enables us to judge someones character extremely effectively. Rejection Sensitivity Dysphoria People with ADHD people are criticised around 20,000 more times than your average child. We have heard things like, why are you being lazy, stop fidgeting, and be normal. This means that as adults we are often more sensitive to rejection, and might experience something called Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria, which causes intense pain triggered by real or perceived rejection. For example, if you dont explicitly invite an ADHD person to a social event, we will assume you dont actually want us there. If you say, “come if you want,” we will think that our presence at that social event is a nuisance, and might even think you hate us as well. Similarly, if you dont tell someone with ADHD that you explicitly like them, we will assume that you tolerate us. And as a manager, if you ask an ADHD person for a quick chat, we might assume you want a quick chat so you can fire us. Carefully consider your wording and make sure to balance any feedback with positive comments. Be explicit and intentional when sending invitations to work events and briefly explain what any quick chats will cover. Integrating regular breaks When RSD hits us, it hits hard. We might need a minute to remove ourselves from any situation, whether thats going to get some fresh air, or pacing up and down the street for a while. Allowing for breaks and not questioning it will help put space between the stimulus and reaction, allowing our brain time to regulate itself again and not be influenced by intense feelings. The pause also allows us to practise self-compassion and not react impulsively in the moment. If someone asks for a minute, it might be the break they need to return back fully focussed. Burnout and vulnerability Its common for ADHD employees to overwork, stay up late into the night, and push ourselves to the limit. They have spent their whole lives feeling as if theyre not good enough, so its no surprise they might feel like they have something to prove. The early warning signs are unique to all of us and we all need to be aware of our own, but its sometimes possible to spot it in other people as well. Some of these early signs might include: becoming easily agitated, forgetting things that would usually be remembered, becoming less patient, and neglecting self-care. One way leaders can help is by creating culture of psychological safety, where your employees feel able to speak out if they are struggling. If your culture is about purely celebrating wins then you are not really creating an environment where other people feel safe to ask for help if they need it. Its important to set the tone from above that its okay to be vulnerable and speak out about anything that might be causing stresswhether its social interactions, difficulties with tasks, or deadline difficulties. Remember that everyone is unique Many leaders think that a blanket accommodations policy will be beneficial to everyone. You often see companies say that they will integrate movement breaks, adopt flexible working, and normalize fidget toys and noise-cancelling headphones. These are great, but leaders need to recognize that everyone has a brain as unique as their fingerprint, and everyones needs will be different. It’s more important to create a culture of psychological safety, where people feel empowered to speak up and ask for the specific support they need to perform their job well.
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This is an edition of Plugged In, a weekly newsletter by Fast Company global technology editor Harry McCracken. You can sign up to receive it each Friday and read all issues here. Hello and welcome back to Plugged In. We at Fast Company are uncommonly fond of the year 1995. After all, it’s the year we officially began ongoing publication, after putting out a test issue in 1993. But there’s a more straightforward reason why we decided to publish a series of stories this week about some of 1995’s most significant products and developments. Last year, we produced a package paying tribute to 1994, and it turned out so well we decided to continue the tradition of 30-year-old flashbacks. Here are the seven stories that make up our 1995 Week: How Sega’s surprise Saturn launch backfiredand changed gaming forever ‘Johnny Mnemonic’ predicted our addictive digital future This IBM ThinkPad was astounding in 1995and still is 1995 was the year the internet grew up Windows 95’s look and feel are more impressive than ever How Newgrounds accidentally became one of online culture’s defining sites The AOL hacking tool that invented phishing and inspired a generation Until we began work on these stories, I’d forgotten that in 2015 we published a similar roundup of articles timed to 20 years post-1995 (I told you it’s a special year to us.) The topics were entirely different from what we picked this time, so what the heckhere are those pieces, too: 1995: The Year Everything Changed What it Was Like to Build a World Wide Web Site in 1995 What it Was Like to Attend Hacker High When They Filmed Hackers at My High School How Match.com Has Helped Us Hook Up and Find Love Since 1995 Submerged as we are in a never-ending deluge of news about AI and other pressing subjects, it’s always nice to have an excuse to briefly press pause on concerns of the day and look back. At the same time I get nervous about growing too nostalgic. Any objective assessment of tech circa 1995 should acknowledge that in many ways it was terrible. For starters, the PCs were disastrously crash-prone and prone to eating your work in a way that’s far less common today. Sans modern conveniences such as USB and Wi-Fi, they made tasks as fundamental as adding a printer into a bit of a science project. Online search tools were rudimentary, digital photography wasn’t yet capable of competing with film, and downloading software such as Netscape Navigator over a dial-up connection took so long that it was borderline impractical. In short, I don’t want to go back. Yet thinking about the period as we worked on our new series, I also developed a new appreciation for what we’ve lost. Many of the ways technology has changed everyday life for the better were yet to comebut so were most of its downsides. In case you’ve forgotten the state of computing in 1995or weren’t around to experience ita study from October of that year provides some helpful context. Conducted by the Times Mirror Center, it reported that only 32% of Americans used computers. Of them, only a subset went onlinetypically a few times a week. They typically sent three email messages per day and received five. Just 32% of those online said they would miss it “a lot” if they couldn’t do it anymore, a far lower percentage than the newspaper readers and cable TV subscribers who deemed those media essential. In other words, the digital world didn’t matter all that much, even to most of the relatively few Americans who were online. It’s tough to have an unhealthy relationship with a technology if you use it only occasionally and can easily see yourself living without it. Nobody checked their smartphone a jillion times a day in 1995: Smartphones barely existed and weren’t yet connected to the internet. Even laptops were a rarity, owned by only 18% of people who had a PC, according to the Times Mirror study. Instead, computing was still nearly synonymous with desktop PCs, and going online was a conscious decision involving a dial-up modem and a phone line. Unless you had two lines, you couldn’t even check your email if someone else in the house was making a call. Compared to a modern computer or phone with a persistent internet connection, a 1995 PC on dial-up was a Fortress of Solitude. Hackers were already wreaking havoc when they couldread Alex Pasternack’s story on “AOHell” for proofbut with e-commerce and online banking still rare, there was a limit to how much damage they could do. Being overrun in notifications was unknown, because there was no practical way to deliver them to a computing device. (Even Pointcast, the famously bandwidth-sucking alert system that pioneered “push” technology, didn’t arrive until 1996.) The business models that powered access to technology in 1995 also feel healthier than those of 2025. Online advertising was already getting rollingWired.com ran the web’s first banner ad in October 1994but the days of tech giants collecting vast amounts of personal data and using it to target adertising were still in the future. People paid for tech products with money, not by sacrificing some of their privacy. In retrospect, it all seems downright Edenesque. But the consumers of 1995including medidn’t look at it that way, because we didn’t know what was to come. The Times Mirror survey says that 50% of respondents were already concerned about computers being used to invade privacy. Some 24% considered themselves “overloaded with information,” though perhaps they were more stressed out by an excess of cable channels than anything they were doing on a computer. The Times Mirror Center later changed its name to the Pew Research Center and continues to survey Americans about their attitude toward technology. In April, it reported that twice as many adults thought that AI’s impact over the next 20 years would be negative than those who expected it to be positive. I can’t help but think that the past three decades have left us more jaded than we were in the 1990sand that it’s a fair reaction to what the tech industry has given us. Will the tech of 2045 or 2055 prompt reveries for the simpler times of 2025? It’s a scary thought. I repeat: I have no desire to return to the tech of 1995. But understanding it better can help gird us for what’s next. That was among our goals for 1995 Week, and I hope it shows in our stories. More top tech stories from Fast Company Slack expands AI features with enterprise search, translation, and smart summariesNew offerings will be able to draft documents and answer questions based on knowledge housed in Slack and linked cloud systems.Read More How to launch a great product: Advice from a Google execIt comes down to balancing the three Ps: people, politics, and product.Read More YouTube Shorts algorithm steers users away from political content, study findsResearchers say YouTube’s algorithm downplays political topics in favor of viral entertainment to keep users watching.Read More This beloved retro gaming computer is making a comebackand it’ll cost you $299A reimagined Commodore 64 is now available for preorder, offering nostalgia with updated specs and support for classic games.Read More Inside the redesign that will make you actually want to use NextdoorThe hyperlocal app is moving away from its message board layout with a new focus on local news, real-time alerts, and AI suggestions.Read More Gmail’s new ‘Manage Subscriptions’ tool could change email marketing foreverGoogle is rolling out a powerful unsubscribe feature in Gmail that gives users more controland marketers a reason to rethink their strategy.Read More
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