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Eric Kutcher, a senior partner at McKinsey, talks to the leaders of two of Indonesia’s largest telecommunications providers—Ririek Adriansyah, president director of PT Telkom Indonesia Tbk (Telkom), and Vikram Sinha,
Continue readingHow Digital Technologies in Indonesia are Bringing Inclusivity to 17,500 Islands
Doug Stowe in The Hedgehog Review: A few years ago, when my daughter was a freshman at Columbia University, one of only a few from Arkansas, I had the audacity
Women (in the West) are aspiring to a “softer life”, away from that of “mid-2000s ‘girlboss’ hustle culture”. Writes Julia O’Driscoll in The Week: “The girlboss era is decidedly over,” Vanity
Lucas Chancel in Nature: As radical as they might seem, calls for limits on wealth are as old as civilization itself. The Hebrew Bible and Torah recognized years during which
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The Line, which is at the heart of Saudi Arabia’s mega-project Neom, is a $500bn eco-region–part of Saudi Vision 2030 strategy aimed to diversify the kingdom’s economy away from oil.
Judson Vereen at Poetic Outlaws: My encounters with critics are minimal, yet explosive. They will rip everything apart if they can. Right off the bat, they want what they want,
Our brains are like a jungle, writes Shelly Fan at Singularity Hub: Fan reports that “scientists just published the most detailed map of a cubic millimeter of the human brain.
Continue readingGoogle and Harvard Map a Tiny Piece of the Human Brain With Extreme Precision
“In order to help improve my students’ mental health, I offered a course on the science of happiness. It worked – but why?” Bruce Hood in Aeon: In 2018, a
Jennifer Szalai in The New York Times: As the historian Nell Irvin Painter has learned over the course of her eight decades on this earth, inspiration can come from some unlikely
Continue readingShe Wrote ‘The History of White People.’ She Has a Lot More to Say.
“Interest in the work matters”. “No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it” -Albert Einstein
John Arlidge at the Air Mail: Britain does a good line in scandal. The Profumo affair, the abdication of King Edward VIII, and Prince Andrew’s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein are
Continue readingHow One Man Brought Down the Leading Members of the British Establishment
Lisa Abend at Afar: Since the 19th century, large numbers of villagers in the poorer parts of Italy have migrated to more prosperous regions and countries. The migration continues; in
Continue readingSicily Sold Homes for One Euro. This Is What Happened Next.