Last year, I wrote a post in which I noted some of the early observations that Millennials were increasingly tuning into socialist rhetoric and ideas. The blame for this phenomenon lies squarely with modern capitalism, I noted, and we should expect this trend to continue: “capitalists, and I count myself among them, need to get […]
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The FT has an amazing piece by Yuan Yang on the China’s crackdown on its young Marxists, who are deeply unhappy with the Communist-in-name-only capitalist nation into which they were born. Some highlights: After a series of kidnappings and arrests both on and off China’s most prestigious campuses, a total of 42 people remain in detention, including […]
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Each week, I share some of the most interesting articles I’ve come across in the past seven days. Here is this week’s selection. -Carlos World & Politics Four decades after its revolution, Iran is still stuck in the past Yet the regime acts as if the revolution were only yesterday. The judiciary recently banned walking […]
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“The fortunate man is seldom satisfied with the fact of being fortunate. Beyond this, he needs to know that he has a right to his good fortune. He wants to be convinced that he ‘deserves’ it, and above all, that he deserves it in comparison with others … good fortune thus wants to be legitimate […]
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Each week, I share some of the most interesting articles I’ve come across in the past seven days. Here is this week’s selection. -CA World & Politics The Italian Government’s Latest Sport? Bashing France A popular myth has resurfaced on Twitter in these fractious daysabout how both haute cuisine and humble utensils were introduced to […]
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There is no shortage of advice about innovation these days, so it’s refreshing to come across a really well-thought out (and well-written) set of recommendations on the topic of innovation culture. So many executives want an innovative organization, yet so few either know or are willing to do the hard things that are required to […]
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Don’t miss Issie Lapowsky’s interesting profile of David Carroll on WIRED, the professor who has spent years trying to get his personal data from Cambridge Analytica. Some excerpts: For more than two years, Carroll, a professor of media design at The New School in Manhattan, has been on an obsessive, epically nerdy, and ultimately […]
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Each week, I share some of the most interesting articles I’ve come across in the past seven days. Here is this week’s selection. -CA World & Politics A new initiative aims to modernise global trading rules An agreement could include regulations covering spam emails or rules helping digital purchases zip through customs. It could reach […]
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Last week Kevin Roose wrote an interesting piece on Davos and the reticence of most Western CEO’s to talk about their automation efforts and these efforts’ (very much intentional) elimination of human labor. The CEO’s at Davos, noted Roose, got very nervous when asked about AI-driven job destruction, so they prefer to use terms such as “the […]
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Karen Hao writes MIT’s “The Algorithm” newsletter, and in the latest edition she has some very interesting results of an analysis she completed of 16,625 AI research papers from the website arXiv. In her analysis she finds three major trends: “a shift toward machine learning during the late 1990s and early 2000s, a rise in […]
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