• Taxes and Freelancers, American Segregation & AI Inventing (Read More)

    How To File Your Taxes If You’re A Freelancer Tax experts weigh in on how to file taxes as a freelancer so you can avoid common mistakes. American segregation, mapped at day and night The racial makeup of neighborhoods changes during the workday. See how yours changes. AI is reinventing the way we invent The biggest impact…


  • JPM Coin, Data Science & 21 Lessons (Amazon)

    JPMorgan Has a Coin Now It’s a stablecoin that is entirely limited to JPMorgan customers doing JPMorgan transactions. Data science is different now As many blog posts point out, you won’t necessarily land your dream job on the first try. As a result, the market can be very hard, and very discouraging for the flood of…


  • The Half-Life Of Knowledge, New Globalization & TikTok

    How Top Freelancers Stay Up To Date: Overcoming The Half-Life Of Expertise  Whatever your professional background and expertise, it will erode and be supplanted, almost always faster than you think. The Next Era of Globalization Will Be Shaped by Customers, Technology, and Value Chains With both industry structures and the global economy in flux, this…


  • Insects and Earth, Artificial Intelligence Jobs & Eurasia’s Future (5 Trends)

    Insects are dying at an alarming rate – and this is terrible news for life on Earth Given insects’ importance for sustaining plant and animal life—by pollinating plants and serving as a food source—that’s as dire a prediction as they come. The Jobs That Artificial Intelligence Will Create A global study finds several new categories…


  • Flow and Creativity, Venture Capital & Tinder Algorithm

    The ‘flow state’: Where creative work thrives Many of us know what it’s like to be in a state of creative flow. Do you have to wait for inspiration to strike, or can you hack ‘the zone’? How To Get a Job In Venture Capital Today the market is quite different and people from a…


  • NYC Tech Cities, Digital Urban Planning & Singapore Innovation Hub

    New York Beats Out San Francisco to Be World’s Best Tech City New York pulled ahead thanks to its volume of venture capital cash, large pool of talent — both homegrown and people attracted to the city — and the opportunities that exist for them. Digital urban planning: twins help make sense of smart cities…


  • Most Innovative Companies, Urban Latin America & The Rise of Asia

    Visualizing the Most Innovative Companies in 2018 Innovation is messy, and as it turns out, expensive. Medellin Becomes A Fourth Industrial Revolution Network’s Affiliate Center As part of the global Industry 4.0 strategy, the Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution Network has selected cities to be hubs and some additional ones to function as affiliate centers. The latest…


  • Calculators and AI, Circular Economy & Automation

    Calculators didn’t replace mathematicians, and AI won’t replace humans AI re-allocates low-level, repetitive tasks to machines, allowing workers to focus on higher-level functions. Circular economy: Ancient populations pioneered the idea of recycling waste But for most of the past, most things were not in abundance, and so a core practice of a circular economy was adopted. This…


  • Venture Capital, Gig Economy & Innovation

    From Alibaba to Zynga: 40 Of The Best VC Bets Of All Time And What We Can Learn From Them These venture bets on startups that “returned the fund,” making firms and careers, were the result of research, strong convictions, and patient follow-through. Here are the stories behind the biggest VC home runs of all…


  • Data Economy, Wealth Geography & U.S. Intervention

    Which Countries Are Leading the Data Economy? Data is the fuel of the new economy, and even more so of the economy to come. A woman who studied 600 millionaires discovered where you choose to live has 2 effects on your ability to build wealth If you live in a pricey home in an affluent…