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Andy Weir’s novel blends humor, scientific rigor, and human ingenuity to make science fiction feel believable and thrilling.
The great investor instinctively knew that humans are much smarter than computers in volatile environments. So he bet on common sense.
Why the link between understanding customers and retaining them is forged from emotional connection.
The actor learned control, endurance, and focus on-set. Those lessons became the foundation of his real-world fight with addiction and self-hatred.
The case for why AI systems are not merely "stochastic parrots."
The deep study of friction and surfaces — so crucial to industrial manufacture — emerged from a mid-century engineering conference.
Our algorithmic age encourages us to over-index on probabilities — but we should instead exercise our “storythinking brain” and focus on possibilities.
Time blocking is a remarkable technique for ensuring your daily actions are guided forward by your overarching goals and intentions. Here’s how to supercharge it.
As technology advances, more opportunities for cheating arise. Large language models aren't posing a new problem; they're how students cheat themselves.
AI has brought a reckoning to the consulting industry — and the death knell will quickly sound for those who fail to adapt.
The greatest companies navigate change at speed and make it stick at scale. Here’s how IBM started that journey in 2012.
In this excerpt from "The Shortest History of AI," Toby Walsh explores the history of the Logic Theorist, the first AI to prove mathematical theorems.
How did Jobs revolutionize tech, not once but continually? Aspiring innovators — and today's Apple — should look to The Bard and seek out singularity.
In most organizations, contradictions are treated as problems to be fixed. But what if they’re actually the point?
When making any tough decision, the key is not to be overly exploratory or exploitative.
What happens when your boss decides to weaponize positivity in the workplace?
Trailblazing isn’t limited to the executive suite: Cultures of disruption happen when people at every level step up to lead change.
Alexis Ohanian didn’t treat his relationships with the media as purely transactional — and his star rose in spectacular fashion.
Strategyzer CEO Alex Osterwalder on why entrepreneurs should take a leaf from Amazon’s innovation playbook.
Strengthen your focus like a muscle.
MIT Sloan’s Nelson P. Repenning and Donald C. Kieffer outline their tried-and-tested solution for stubborn workflow blockages.
To navigate a heavyweight corporate quandary, take a leaf out of Intel’s brilliant playbook — walk out, and return as your own successor.
When your head is full of information, how can you actually make use of it?
Harvard Kennedy School professor and author Arthur C. Brooks guides us through the give-and-take of feedback — even when it is negative.
You might love your leadership role and inspire fierce loyalty — but what if that comes at the expense of a disastrous balance sheet? Here’s a way forward.
The host of the Money with Katie Show has some priceless advice for women on how to approach pay-rise negotiations.
From Apple to Airbnb to OpenAI the generalist mindset has been an invaluable source of advantage — and we can all learn from these successes.
By inviting players to tackle real scientific problems, games can offer a hand in solving medicine’s toughest challenges.
If your world-beating idea is not working you might need to change direction — and Instagram cofounder Kevin Systrom provides the perfect case study.
Creative thinkers are unafraid of the ambiguous spaces where innovation often resides — and this trait is vital when navigating change.