Our World in Data
Technology over the long run: zoom out to see how dramatically the world can change within a lifetime
4 min · · It is easy to underestimate how much the world can change within a lifetime. Bringing to mind how dramatically the world has changed can help us see how different the world could be in a few years or… · Shared by 105, including Ines Bieler, Harold Sinnott, Mirko Lorenz, AXSChat, Danielle Fong 🙋🏻♀️, Dr. Marcell Vollmer 🇺🇦 #StaySafe #VivaTech, Future of Life Institute, Kirk Borne, Antonio Vieira Santos, Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻, Dion Hinchcliffe, Vala Afshar, Yves Mulkers, Meghan M. Biro ⚡️, Prof. Sally Eaves, John Hagel, John Nosta, Max Roser, Nico Müller 🇺🇦
TED Talks
Rasmus Ankersen: How to outthink your competition
· Does success come from luck or skill, and how do you tell the difference? One way to find an answer: think like a pro gambler does, says football executive Rasmus Ankersen. Using sports analytics to… · Shared by 278, including Memen Isimo, Elena Neira, Ines Bieler
Big Think
9 astonishing ways that living standards have improved around the world
8 min · · Despite the constant stream of bad news we see in the media, the reality is that living standards have improved dramatically across time. · Shared by 1039, including Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Rick Powell, Max Roser, Yann LeCun, Brian Ahier, John Hagel, Ines Bieler, Cyril Coste #DigitalTransformation, Howard Getson, Ross Dawson, Steven Pinker, Gerd Leonhard
Boston Review
The New Moral Mathematics
18+ min · · Philosopher William MacAskill contends that humanity’s long-term survival matters more than preventing short-term suffering and death. His arguments are shaky. · Shared by 815, including Brian D. Earp, Ph.D., Jesse Baer (moved to mastodon), Ines Bieler, Nigel Warburton 🇺🇦 #FreeUkraine, Robin James, Anita Leirfall, Agnes Callard, David Owen, David V. Johnson, William MacAskill, Guy Longworth
Ness Labs
The arrival fallacy: why we should decouple our happiness from our goals
5 min · · “When I achieve this goal, then I will be happy.” We often mistakenly believe that achieving our goals will make us happy. That tendency is called the arrival fallacy. · Shared by 2516, including Neil Hart 💙, Lali, Touche Theories, Ines Bieler
nextbigideaclub.com
Do Hard Things: Why We Get Resilience Wrong and the Surprising Science of Real Toughness
6 min · · Performance coach Steve Magness shares 5 insights from his book, Do Hard Things: Why We Get Resilience Wrong and the Surprising Science of Real Toughness. · Shared by 1943, including Ines Bieler, Martin Soorjoo
National Science Foundation
New hybrid machine learning forecasts lake ecosystem responses to climate change
2 min · · Through the middle of the 20th century, phosphorus inputs from detergents and fertilizers degraded the water quality of Switzerland's Lake Geneva, spurring officials to take action in the 1970s to… · Shared by 34, including Ines Bieler
Quanta Magazine
The Computer Scientist Who Parlays Failures Into Breakthroughs
8 min · · Daniel Spielman solves important problems by thinking hard — about other questions. · Shared by 962, including 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Howard Getson, Pascal Sulser, Nico Müller 🇺🇦, Brian Laung Aoaeh, CFA, Ines Bieler
Longreads
Tomorrow Isn’t Over: A Reading List About Brighter Futures
9 min · · Hope may seem to be in short supply these days, but these stories dare to chart a course toward something better. · Shared by 455, including Christo Meid, Katja Evertz, Pascal Sulser, Ines Bieler
Collab Fund
Staying Put
3 min · · A lot of good ideas are ignored because they’re only occasionally useful. No one wants to bring them up because there are so many counterexamples of times they were wrong. One I thought about recently… · Shared by 193, including Nir Eyal, Morgan Housel, Mark Kaigwa, Ines Bieler, Kevan Lee 👋
Freethink
Michio Kaku makes 3 predictions about the future
4 min · · Michio Kaku predicts, among other things, how we'll build cities on Mars and why cancer will one day be like the common cold. · Shared by 180, including Gerd Leonhard, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Ines Bieler
Dezeen
European Commission prioritises cyclists and pedestrians in cities for "first time in history"
3 min · · The European Commission has proposed an overhaul of urban infrastructure to encourage more walking and cycling as part of the EU's aim to become a net-zero continent by 2050. · Shared by 56, including Ines Bieler, Dan Hill
Aeon+Psyche
A history of disruption, from fringe ideas to social change
14+ min · · Major disruptions in world history follow a clear pattern. What can upheavals of the past tell us about our own future? · Shared by 879, including Marylin Delgado (@marylindelgado@zirk.us), 🧠 Larry G. Maguire, Ines Bieler, Tactical Tech, Jason Silva
ZDNET
Remote working jobs: 5 problems we need to solve in 2022
6 min · · Remote working, flexible working and hybrid working are all here to stay. We've demonstrated that they can work - the task now is to make sure they do. · Shared by 104, including Ines Bieler, Thomas Power, Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻, Glen Gilmore #MWC23, James Gingerich #B2B #Technology #Influencer
Eric Holthaus
The era of 'rapid' climate change has begun
8 min · · Here's what the new IPCC report says, and what it doesn't, about the most important moment of our lives. · Shared by 465, including Thomas Power, Brian Laung Aoaeh, CFA, Tim, Ines Bieler, Ferit (at 🏠) 🌙
Datawrapper
Data Vis Dispatch, June 22
9 min · · The best of last week’s big and small data visualizations · Shared by 44, including Mirko Lorenz, Lisa Charlotte Muth, Ines Bieler