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.

Entrepreneurs often limit their vision by focusing on achievable goals instead of transformative ones. This "practical thinking" is often fear disguised. To break free, question the origins of your ...

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 ...

Organizations that have implemented agentic AI successfully have started by focusing on their organizational culture first.

I have a need to organize the world. Four years in as an angel investor and one as a VC, I realize the world of startups and venture investing is pretty noisy and ambiguous… very hard to organize! But ...

Experience is the best teacher, but not if school is canceled. Stocks fell sharply Monday and again on Tuesday after President Trump said there was “no room left” for Canada or Mexico to avert steep ...

Every evening our eyes tell us that the sun sets, while we know that, in fact, the Earth is turning us away from it. Astronomy taught us centuries ago that common sense is not a reliable guide to ...

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 ...

Great-grandmothers. We all have them. But most of us will never know them except through glimpses of fading bits of paper: sepia photographs, recipe cards, letters in handwriting traced by a fountain ...

The lessons of Socrates have never really gone out of style, but if there’s ever a perfect time to revisit the ancient philosopher, now is it. In “How to Think Like Socrates: Ancient Philosophy as a ...