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Ray Dalio was a ‘below average’ student who got into investing by caddying for Wall Street traders: Now he hires talent who have experienced hardship
“What I find quite often is the case is that that student who did really, really well—and in remembering all the things that they’ve learned and so on—hadn’t gone through anything like that, [and] may not be the most inventive, may not be the most determined.”
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‘Humanity has chosen to become idiots’: This Brown professor switched to take-home exams after a mass shooting and discovered mass cheating
Roberto Serrano literally wrote the book on game theory, but he’s befuddled: “Why are you at a university if you refuse to learn, you refuse to work hard?”
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The most reassuring argument about AI and jobs quietly explains why Gen Z can’t get one
It’s not just the Jevons Paradox—it’s also the lump of labor fallacy. But there’s no God-given right for entry-level work to exist.
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Ford on why it hired 350 ‘gray beard’ engineers: you need their mentorship for younger workers — and to drive huge AI productivity gains
“These engineers carry the hard-earned wisdom of decades of design,” Ford told Fortune, adding that AI is important to quality gains.
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Burnham’s Middle England challenge on devolution
A boost for town centres and cities against the suburbs could come back to bite him
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Burnham’s radical localism alone won’t fix the UK economy
His speech hits the right political notes but fails to offer a clear roadmap for growth