There is a particular kind of desk that looks as if it belongs to two eras at once. A smartphone handles messages, maps, calls and appointments. Beside it sits a paper calendar, open to the whole month, with crossings-out,...
Stand like a superhero for two minutes before a job interview, and your body chemistry shifts to make you braver. That was the promise of one of the most-watched talks in TED’s history. The trouble is that the claim...
There is an oddly revealing moment in modern life: someone needs to remember something, reaches past the phone already in their hand, and looks for a pen.
Maybe it is a shopping list. Maybe it is the three things that...
Marcus Aurelius wrote one of his clearest warnings about ambition in the fourth book of the notes now called Meditations. A person longing for fame after death, he argued, forgets that everyone preserving the memory will also die. Their...
Turning university research into a company is rarely as simple as finding a promising technology and assembling a founding team.
Before a UBC researcher can commercialize an invention developed at the university, the new company needs the rights to use...
Burnaby’s General Fusion has gone public.
Shares in the energy firm, which now trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol GFUZ, popped 15% on launch.
General Fusion enters the public markets with approximately US$150 million in cash, according to a...
It’s hard to see how he announces anything meaningful without first resolving the festering copyright question, because under our current settings nobody, local or foreign, can train a meaningful AI model in Australia without taking on enormous legal risk....
The pitch is usually the same: implement these tools, automate these workflows, reduce this headcount, improve that margin. The spreadsheet looks great. The board and your investors love it.
There’s just one problem. The economics underpinning those spreadsheets aren’t real.
Let’s...
Resilience is often misread as speed. The person who seems strongest is assumed to be the one who recovers fastest, stays calmest, smiles soonest, and returns to normal before anyone has had time to notice the damage.
That is a...
A person can reach their 60s with only a few close friends for reasons that have little to do with being bad at relationships.
That is the first correction worth making. A small circle is not always evidence of social...
