This author, Scott Sumner, is skeptical. “One would think that there are public policies that would substantially accelerate the pace of innovation. I’m not so sure.” | learn more
“Healthy friendships offer far more than a reliable person to share a beer with. Research shows they can make us healthier, wealthier, happier and overall more successful.” | learn more
The speaker in this TED talk, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, doesn’t have the best stage presence but his content makes up for it. | learn more
Another case of fake it ‘till you make it going wrong. “[Ellie] Cachette had said publicly that her firm had already committed over $100 million to various funds, but so far hardly anyone had received any money.” | learn more
Neil Constable is the new Chief Investment Officer of a firm that’s pioneering quant investing in private markets. They started as a marketplace for venture fundraising, but eventually developed such a great dataset that they closed the marketplace and started […]
“Illinois has 1,428 of them — a big reason we lead the nation in number of taxing bodies.” | learn more
The author found the original AIM creator and a handful of designers and developers to learn their stories. “It might have started out as something purely functional—a live out-of-office, if you will—but the away message was much more than that.” […]
“A dying Irishman went for one last big score in Nigeria. The project failed, but a London tribunal says his company’s owed $9 billion and counting.” | learn more
That’s pronounced Pot-8-Os. Yep. | learn more
“…Synthetic Media … is a new-ish, still-to-be-defined term that covers everything from virtual influencers like L’il Miquela, natural language generative text like talktotransformer, deepfakes, the AI-generated painting that sold at Christies for $432,500, and any other media created purely by […]