Here is something I have been turning over for a while. Most of us, given the choice, will give up real money to work from home — not metaphorical money but actual salary, the kind that pays rent.
In a...
I have a bad habit I am not proud of. When the work is going badly, I keep going anyway. The screen stays on, the cursor stays blinking, and I sit there past the point where anything good is...
A Vancouver-manufactured battery technology could help utilities across Canada add more long-duration energy storage to the grid.
Invinity Energy Systems has announced a strategic collaboration with the First Nations Utility Batteries Partnership, an Indigenous-led and Indigenous-owned development corporation focused on...
Carl Jung wrote that loneliness does not come from having no people about you, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to you, or from holding views that others find inadmissible. It’s one of his...
Around 26.5 billion euros in revenue in 2024, about 200,000 employees, and a description, from its own lenders, as the most integrated group in the optical market. That is EssilorLuxottica, a French-Italian conglomerate that most shoppers have never heard...
Studies of organizational conflict have found that apologies delivered in person are perceived as more sincere and more effective at restoring trust than the same content delivered through text or email. Research into mediated communication points the same direction:...
She was nine years old, standing in the upstairs hallway of a house in 1973, listening. The front door had just opened. She could not yet see her father, but she did not need to. The keys went down...
The first mistake in thinking about AI and jobs is to imagine that machines climb the labour market in order of difficulty. Simple work first. Complex work later. Manual work before professional work. Routine jobs before skilled ones.
That is...
There is a quick, ungenerous way to read a person who reaches midlife with few close friends. People assume they are aloof. Or difficult. Or too proud to need anyone. Sometimes that is true. But often the story is...
Here is the rewritten reliability is a hardware problem, when in fact the unsolved part is autonomy in a world the engineers do not control. The Skild AI round makes the point unusually cleanly. A two-year-old company with around...
