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FOCUS, Physics in 21st Century & Women of the Mexican Revolution
How to Actually, Truly Focus on What You’re Doing Tired: Shallow work. Wired: Deep work. When Past Becomes Future: Physics in the 21st Century The article concludes with a look at the presence and importance of physics in a scientifically interdisciplinary world. The Real History of Las Soldaderas, the Women Who Made the Mexican Revolution…
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Blockchain and GDP, Algorithms & Time Management
Cisco Report: 10% of the World’s GDP Will Be Stored on Blockchains by 2027 Cisco’s report starts off by explaining just how big the innovative technology of blockchain really is, and what the future of this industry is shaping up to be. How to control algorithms that want to run your life Do you pick…
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Freelance in Japan, 4-Hour Workweek & Creativity
The Freelance Revolution Comes To Japan Japan is beginning to welcome the freelance revolution and the flexible blended workforce. Slowly, carefully, but it’s happening and will grow. It’s Been 11 Years Since Tim Ferriss’s ‘4-Hour Workweek’ — Are We Any Closer to Achieving It? But since 2007, the economy has made a 180-degree turnaround, with…
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Hedge Funds, Artificial Intelligence Ideas & Tencent
How Hedge Funds Get Rich No matter what initial capital you give the hedge fund to start with, the hedge fund will become richer than you since its real talent is transferring your wealth into its coffers. There’s no such thing as a “tech person” in the age of AI We need to stop perpetuating the…
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Alternative Finance, Jewel Burks Solomon & China’s Creative Economy
Alternative Finance: The Fine Balance Between Innovation And Regulation Regulators have to leave room for fresh ways of doing things in their legislation. I Quit Google, Started a Company, and Sold It to Amazon. Ditching Silicon Valley for Atlanta Was Huge Inc. spoke with her about starting the company, deciding to sell, and transitioning from owner…
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Global Urban Cities, Attention Economy & Time in Business
The Real Powerhouses That Drive the World’s Economy It’s not nation states or even cities, but mega-regions—combinations of multiple metro areas—that are the real forces powering the global economy. The attention economy is dead The problem is attention doesn’t scale. There is only so much time in the day to be advertised to; ads themselves…
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Self-Motivation, UN Global Goal & Learning and Development
How to Keep Working When You’re Just Not Feeling It Effective self-motivation is one of the main things that distinguishes high-achieving professionals from everyone else. So how can you keep pushing onward, even when you don’t feel like it? The Power of Aligning Your Business to a Global Goal Consider that a strong purpose in…
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Education’s Gilded Age, Nondisruptive Creation & Civilization Collapse
Is This Higher Education’s Golden Age, Gilded Age, Or Beginning Of A Gentle Decline? In a recent issue of the Chronicle of Higher Education and in a new book, Steven Brint argues that higher education has entered a “golden age.” Graduation from college is widely believed to be a prerequisite for financial and vocational success, American…
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The WeWorking Class, 2019 Innovative Companies & Human Creativity
The Rise of the WeWorking Class The co-working giant’s real product isn’t office space — it’s a new kind of “corporate culture.“ The 2019 World’s Most Innovative Companies Read on to learn how these 50 companies are creating the future today, plus see our top-10 lists of the Most Innovative Companies by sector, from advertising…
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Smart Global Cities, Ideas Economy & Ericsson Mobility Report
Top smart cities are global cities, new research reveals The full paper – “The Smart City as Global Discourse: Storylines and Critical Junctures across 27 Cities”—is published in the Journal of Urban Technology. How to Measure the Economic Value of Ideas Creativity drove the boom, but there was no good method for measuring innovation’s impact on productivity…