Essays

In response to accusations of fraud by an investment firm, a huge Indian business conglomerate called the Adani Group issued a 413-page rebuttal. That’s about 113,000 words… …or 112,977 too many. [...]

CERN scientists collaborated with sci-fi writers on stories that explore the speculative implications of their work. It's a brilliant idea.

Rolls-Royce’s new CEO told his employees that the company is a “burning platform” and that they should be prepared for an aggressive efficiency and optimization program (i.e. job cuts). Why? [...]

Millions of homes possess technology that can involve users as co-creators and participants in deeply nuanced immersive experiences, and all we get are games that let us shoot things or play [...]

The world’s ruling elite are going to gather in Davos in a few days “to address the state of the world and discuss priorities for the year ahead.” It’s deja-vu all over again, to quote noted [...]

There’s been much reported on the aggressive efforts Big Oil made at the recent COP27 to obfuscate the issue of climate change and delay any action on it. Today’s “Big Read” in the Financial [...]

The fact that technology is changing the jobs landscape is nothing new, and government and social norms have learned to moderate the sharpest edges of such changes in the past…as well as adapt to [...]

I was struck by Mark Zuckerberg and Sam Bankman-Fried’s recent mea culpas for driving their respective companies into the ground, like it was sincere or that it mattered. Zuckerberg’s apology [...]

My name is Jonathan and I’m an Amazonaholic. It’s taken a while for me to admit my addiction because it was years in the making. As a book lover, the premise that I could get pretty much any [...]

The world’s leading ad groups are forecasting increased spending on consumer branding as economies slow and costs go up. They couldn’t be more wrong. The claims, articulated in a recent Financial [...]