Investing is about more than just crunching numbers. It’s also about observing the world around us, recognizing trends, and understanding what those trends will ultimately mean in terms of dollars.

In January, the computer scientist Geoffrey Hinton gave a lecture to Are We Doomed?, a course at the University of Chicago. He spoke via Zoom about whether artificial intelligence poses an existential ...

As an educator, I firmly believe that nurturing the critical thinking skills of the students is one of the most important aspects of what teachers do. Critical thinking has been cited as allowing ...

My recent article on creating a “Map of Paris” to help your organization get unstuck generated a lot of positive feedback, including a few inquiries as to how managers can more generally improve their ...

Consider this moment in history from a teenager’s perspective. The world inflamed by wars, hatred, and conflict. Social media platforms that encourage individuals to affirm one correct answer to every ...

Writing during the COVID-19 pandemic, and amid another wave of hype about the potential of new technologies to solve humanity’s biggest problems, our goal for How to Think About Progress: A Skeptic’s ...

This post is Part 1 of a series. In my previous post, I discussed the conundrum we face regarding artificial intelligence (AI) today: On one hand, we’re told to use it or get left behind; on the other ...

Following his defeat at the Battle of Actium in 31 BCE, Marc Antony heard a rumour that Cleopatra had committed suicide and, in consequence, stabbed himself in the abdomen—only to discover that ...

It is a long-standing habit of military historians to describe changes in warfare in terms of two biological paradigms: more or less steady evolution on the one hand and punctuated equilibrium on the ...