When someone strikes us as classy, the first explanation that arrives is usually money. Good schools, a certain ease, the right clothes, parents who could afford all three. Class, in the everyday sense, gets treated as something you either...
I’m not sold and neither should startups. At first glance, it looks like the government listened as they’re keeping the 50% CGT discount for startups.
They’ve proposed the Innovative Business CGT Concession (IBCC) to preserve the 50% discount for...
A baby-prediction app takes two adult photographs, runs them through a generative model trained on faces, and returns what is, mechanically, a weighted composite nudged toward whatever its training data treats as a normal, healthy, appealing infant. It is...
Two numbers from McKinsey’s 2025 survey sit awkwardly next to each other. The first is 88 percent, the share of organisations now using AI in at least one part of the business. The second is 39 percent, the share that...
In the British Museum’s Mesopotamian collection sits a palm-sized rectangle of baked clay, catalogued as UET V 81. It is roughly the size of a modern smartphone, densely incised with cuneiform on both faces, and dated to around 1750...
I typed it out plainly:
“Based on everything you know about me, why does reaching my goals still leave me feeling flat? Be detailed. Don’t flatter me.”
I was expecting to be told what most articles about ambition tell you. Set...
I let my phone die one Friday evening and, on a whim, decided not to charge it again until Monday. No grand digital-detox announcement, no warning anyone I was going off-grid. I simply let it run flat and left...
I’m not a psychologist, an economist, or a labor researcher. This is one writer noticing a pattern and reading around it. The figures below come from particular surveys and company reports, not from settled science or universal law, and...
Ask most managers what makes for a good day at work and you’ll probably get a predictable list. A bonus. A bit of recognition. A new title, a better chair, a free lunch on Friday. These feel obviously right,...
The surging cost of memory and storage chips “has become unsustainable” and “unfortunately, price increases are unavoidable”, Cook reportedly told The Wall Street Journal.
“We’re doing our best to mitigate the huge increases that are being passed to us, and we’ve...
