I think it's fair to say that most humans are stressed out at the moment. In most countries, life has changed almost overnight and no matter how strong you think you are, managing transformation is challenging at the best of times.

I&ve identified a few solutions that may help you push through that growing sense of fatigue to get things done.

Take work home

It seems that fewer than 50% of pupils in some U.S. schoolsare taking part in online learning sessions. This means they aren&t logging in, they aren&t completing assignments and they aren&t learning. This is particularly the case among low-income students for whom access to technology may be difficult.

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When any technology sees its popularity increase quickly, the number of bad actors taking advantage of new and untrained users also grows. The world is seeing this now with videoconferencing services and applications, as reports about the popular Zoom app being hijacked — known as &Zoom-bombing& — have surfaced.

With multiple reports of conferences being disrupted by pornographic and/or hate images and threatening language, the FBIBoston office recently issued a warning for users of videoconferencing platforms about the incidents. Security expert and investigative journalist Brian Krebs provided details on Zoompassword problems and how hackers were able to use &war dialing& methods to discover meeting IDs and passwords for Zoom meetings.

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Let's face it: Email is inherently a bit of a pain. And while Google's Gmail service is generally pretty pleasant to use, it certainly has some room for improvement— especially on the mobile front.

But as is so often the case with Google products, what you see isn'tentirely what you get. The Gmail Android app has some super-useful hidden touchesyou've probably never noticed lurking beneath its surface — easily overlooked features that can make your mobile email experience more powerful, efficient, and effective.

Here are seven such options worth uncovering — or maybe just remembering.

1. Advanced email formatting commands

The Gmail Android app's email composing screen seems like a pretty bare-bones affair, but long-press on any open space whilst writing a new email — and by golly, goodness goshness, look what you'll find:

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Jack Dorsey announced in a series of tweets today that he is shifting $1 billion in his Square equity to create a fund dedicated to COVID-19 relief. The Twitter and Square CEO is calling the fund Start Small and posting a tally of disbursements and recipients in a public spreadsheet.

Dorsey said in his announcement that the new initiative will shift the focus to other causes at some point.

The first Start Small contribution listedis $100,000 to AmericaFood Fund — an effort led by Leonardo DiCaprio and Laurene Powell Jobs dedicated to providing meals to vulnerable populations disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Other top backers of AmericaFood Fund include Oprah Winfrey ($1 million) and Apple ($5 million), according to the organizationGoFundMe page.

Thatwhat we know so far from a tweet posted Tuesday afternoon by the American tech entrepreneur who co-founded and leads not one, but two publicly listed companies.

Therestill a lot to learn about Dorseynew initiative, including how it will be managed, whether it will make investments (along with donations) and how to apply for funding. TechCrunch has asked Square for additional details and will update this post when we hear back.

This pilot fishis an engineer setting up control systems for power plants, and one day he has a disagreement with an IT manager at one of his clients.Topic: complex passwords. Therea push on throughout the IT world to make passwords more complex.

But fishpoint is that that advice isn&t valid when you have an air gap betweenthe control systems and any other network.In fact, fish tells the manager, when it comes to internal hacking, complex passwords are more risky than no password at all because people never remember complex passwords and have to write then down on sticky notes.The manager says that would never happen at his plant — people know better.

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American equities closed down today, with the major domestic indices all losing ground after a wild trading cycle. After starting the day up sharply higher after strong Monday gains, those gains were erased as the day closed. It was a day of confusing movement; the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite, to pick an example, had a range on the day of more than 3%, despite closing off just a tenth of that figure.

Divining the correct reason for movement in the stock market is a foolerrand most days. Today, however, it isn&t hard to point to at least part of the reason for the reversed gains: a possibly record-setting one-day domestic death toll from COVID-19. Per collected data, deaths for the day as of the time of writing came to 1,690, with several high-infection states yet to report.

Here are the dayresults:

• Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA): -26.13, -0.12%
• S-P 500: -4.27, -0.116%
• Nasdaq Composite: -25.98, -0.33%

Shares of SaaS and cloud companies dropped more sharply, with the Bessemer cloud index falling 1.88% on the day. Oil also fell, with WTI crude dropping more than 7% as of the time of writing.

Are you a bit sandblasted by all the volatility? Letupdate you on how the major indices have performed since their recent highs:

• DJIA change from 52 week highs: -23.4%
• S-P 500 change from 52 week highs: -21.63%
• Nasdaq Composite change from 52 week highs: -19.83%

And for good measure, the Bessemer cloud index is off 24.09% from recent highs. So everything is in bear market territory at the moment — even after Mondayhuge gains — except for the Nasdaq Composite, which remains merely in deep correction. Not great news for anyone with a 401k balance, but the numberswere worse on Friday.

Today the market tried to go up again and failed. Letsee what tomorrowCOVID-19 data shows us. It just may drive the markets yet again.