Friday, November 13, 2026

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Researchers studying leaderless groups found that the single strongest predictor of who got nominated as leader wasn’t intelligence, experience, or personality — it was...

In an unstructured meeting, the person who talks most often begins to look like the person leading it. A 2020 paper in The Leadership Quarterly tested this pattern with 256 university students placed into 33 temporary groups. Speaking time was...

Crime, Climate, Cost: EstateBlock Shines Light on More Data for Homebuyers

A real estate agent based out of Vancouver has launched a listings platform that shows more data than the rest. “Real estate sites all show the same thing,” laments Dan Marusin—a set of photos and some basic listing information. But there’s...

Your MVP might be lying to you: what founders should measure

We hear much less about how these terms came to be and the market forcing functions around how they came to be understood as viable gauges for a successful startup. You can hear them at any pitch night event...

Opposition calls Labor’s AI data centres renewable energy rules ‘unrealistic’

Australia is being warned against imposing unrealistic conditions on AI data centres or risk turning away investors. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announced plans to introduce legal requirements governing AI use and data centres in July. He will convene a meeting of...

Every card payment appears instant, but the money can travel through several companies and decades-old settlement systems before it actually reaches the merchant

A card terminal can approve a purchase before the receipt has finished printing. Online, the confirmation page often appears in less than a second. It feels as though money has moved straight from the customer to the merchant. Usually, it...

A three-year randomised trial of the much-hyped MIND ‘brain diet’ found it did no better than a sensible control diet, and omega-3 pills show...

The brain-food article is a fixture of the internet. Eat blueberries for memory, oily fish for focus, dark chocolate and walnuts and a fistful of supplements, and your mind will run sharper by lunchtime. The genre is soothing because...

Economists tracked US jobs from 1980 to 2012 and found the ones demanding social skills grew by about 12 percentage points as the maths-heavy,...

Every few weeks another version of the same post goes round: master these five, or seven, or ten social skills and watch your career take off. The advice is usually a mix of the obvious and the unfalsifiable, but...

Strangers who watched sixty seconds of silent footage guessed people’s income and social class better than chance: the dining habits we read as ‘poor’...

There is a particular kind of business dinner where the deal is not the only thing being assessed. Someone orders the second-cheapest wine, or the most expensive. Someone holds a fork like a pen, or cuts everything up first,...

Why Vancouver Won’t Let Its Best Ideas Get Away

Two BC innovators on retaining tech talent and what’s at stake as AI raises the bar. Canada trains some of the best AI and technical talent in the world. The key is connecting these exceptional people with companies to help...

World Cup Sent Vancouver Matchday Spending Up 12.7%

The FIFA World Cup delivered a measurable matchday boost to Vancouver businesses, according to new Visa data that found in-person spending rose by as much as 12.7% compared with the same period in 2025. Vancouver’s largest increase came on June...
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What Huang’s resignation means for chipmakers and AI

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang announced his resignation after it was reported that he had an affair with a businesswoman...
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