What will we allow the future of creative work to be, in the face of artificial intelligence? The scope of the question seems massive. And yet, at its very core, it is simply about empathy — or the lack thereof. Art is not about the look and feel of the…

I love writing. But what happens to that passion when everything I produce is soulless? All I write are endless social media posts and articles conveying how yet another startup is the next big thing; the big disruptor doing things “differently”. The type of content the algorithms love. The dangers…

A few weekends ago, I was at a soccer game (which, let’s face it, describes most of my weekends). I saw a woman with a hotdog in each hand, trying to navigate the crowd to hand them over to her sullen kids. She had probably waited a while in line…

Sam Bankman-Fried, the man behind FTX, with a name that shames even J.K. Rowling’s best character-naming efforts, lost over 90 percent of his net worth in a week as his crypto platform was unable to escape what can only be described as a classic “bank run”. For a long time…

When I was a boy, I loved this song called “Opa, opa” by the Swedish-Greek pop group Antique. As it was entirely in Greek, I didn’t understand a word. And yet, it was so good, and so memorable. …

“Hey, hey — what are you guys laughing about?” I breathlessly blurt out the words, winded from running straight across the playground to get to them before “the funny” had stopped. “Haha, just something they said! You wouldn’t get it.” As children, when we start our search for belonging, we…

Learning is vital to human development — and don’t we know it; looking around our society, it becomes abundantly clear. Learning is institutionalized from kindergarten through university, but that’s also where it ends. …

Nothing I do is ever good enough to me. The small victories are too insignificant, the big steps just mile-markers on the longer journey I imagine for myself. It’s a sort of personal perfectionist vendetta I have; a lifelong catch-22 in which I can’t feel satisfied if I’m not progressing…

In scientific research, there’s something called observer bias. The concept is simple: the one observing something makes the mistake of assuming that observation to be the only correct one, because how could it not be? Sounds pretty basic, right? …