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Are We Getting AI All Wrong? with Sangeet Choudary
Business strategist and best-selling author Sangeet Paul Choudary joins Greg to discuss why AI is such a big deal for corporate structures and platforms. Thanks Kimberly!
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Dec 19, 20251 min read
Jobs Could Soon Replace Prices as Focus of Anxiety
Inflation has been top-of-mind for years. That could change.
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Dec 19, 20251 min read
Spooked by AI and Layoffs, White-Collar Workers See Their Security Slip Away
Office workers are hanging on to their jobs for dear life
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Dec 18, 20251 min read
How innovation happens
Innovation is like a garden — you need to create an environment where it can flourish.
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Dec 18, 20251 min read
How Warren Buffett Did It
The most successful investor of all time is retiring. Here’s what made him an American role model.
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Dec 18, 20251 min read
What I Wish I’d Known When I Was Younger
The three reasons old people are happier that work for any age
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Dec 18, 20251 min read
Resilience is a skill that’s just as important as tech know-how
Amid significant changes to how people work and live, the ability to persevere is critical.
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Dec 18, 20251 min read
We Let AI Run Our Office Vending Machine. It Lost Hundreds of Dollars.
Anthropic’s Claude ran a snack operation in the WSJ newsroom. It gave away a free PlayStation, ordered a live fish—and taught us lessons about the future of AI agents. Thanks Kimberly!
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Dec 18, 20251 min read
The boomer-doomer divide within AI
Here are two sides to the AI debate, and both are perpetuating the idea that AI is “inevitable, all-powerful, and deserves to be controlled by a tiny group of people,” says the Empire of AI author.
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Dec 18, 20251 min read
Nomadic Modernity
“The whole of modernity,” Bauman wrote, “stands out from preceding epochs by its compulsive and obsessive modernizing—and modernizing means liquefaction, melting and smelting.” Relationships have become provisional. Anxieties are no longer concrete and local but diffuse and global. Products are designed for obsolescence. Even identity itself is consumable—you “try on” selves like clothes, discarding them when they no longer serve you. Gender is merely an expression, and love
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Dec 17, 20251 min read
Stop Trying to Make the Humanities ‘Relevant’
For humanities departments to continue to matter, they must challenge the modern world rather than accommodate it. Excerpt: "As a humanities professor myself, the biggest danger I see to the discipline is the growing perception, fueled by the ubiquity of large language models, that knowledge is cheap—a resource whose procurement ought to be easy and frictionless. The humanities, which value rigorous inquiry for its own sake, will always be at odds with a world that thinks thi
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Dec 17, 20251 min read
Meet the High School Kids Cutting $25,000 Venture Checks in Silicon Valley
The Harker School, a magnet for the children of tech luminaries, has a venture pool for students. ‘It’s always a little weird when you’re pitching a 17-year-old,’ says one founder.
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Dec 17, 20251 min read
Work Etiquette Quiz Stumped Most Readers. Overachievers Have Their Own Tips.
The Quiz The test stoked much debate over what makes for good manners in today’s workplace
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Dec 17, 20251 min read
Why ‘shift sulking’ may be 2026’s next big work trend
This phenomenon afflicting hourly employees is only expected to grow in today’s 24/7 gig economy, according to experts.
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Dec 17, 20251 min read
‘Commuting Is Bad’—Particularly for Women
A growing body of research shows how longer travel times affect moms’ ability to work.
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Dec 17, 20251 min read
Will Creative Work Survive A.I.?
It’s a perilous moment for creative life in America. While supporting oneself as an artist has never been easy, the power of generative A.I. is pushing creative workers to confront an uncomfortable question: Is there a place for paid creative work within late capitalism? And what will happen to our cultural landscape if the answer turns out to be no?
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Dec 16, 20251 min read
Is AI About to Empty Madison Avenue?
Smart advertisements from Google, Meta, and Amazon sideline agencies and creative workers.
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Dec 16, 20251 min read
‘Imperfect Oracle’ Review: A Question of Autonomy
Humans tend to trust their intuitions over rational calculation. Can artificial intelligence help us overcome cognitive biases?
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Dec 16, 20251 min read
Become excellent. Be unreasonable!
Explore Will Guidara’s approach to a hospitality mindset that engenders customer loyalty in this week's Big Think Class.
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Dec 16, 20251 min read
The Entry-Level Hiring Process Is Breaking Down
Grade inflation and the rise of AI are making it impossible for employers to evaluate recent graduates.
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Dec 16, 20251 min read
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