How to stimulate your thinking to be “future-ready”

How to stimulate your thinking to be “future-ready”

“Pessimism is a luxury for a less urgent time,” observed Amanda Ravenhill, the Executive Director of the Buckminister Fuller Institute, speaking about Urgent Futures: Climate Change. At last week’s Institute for the Future’s Ten-Year Forecast 2020 virtual conference,...
How to improve your writing: partner with a robot

How to improve your writing: partner with a robot

Read any blog posts or articles by Liam Porr, Adolos, or GPT-3 lately? GPT-3 is a robot working with Porr, a computer science undergraduate student at UC Berkeley, and his pseudonym Adolos. More formally, GPT-3 is Generative Pre-trained Transformer 3, an...
Do you care if you have no summer memories?

Do you care if you have no summer memories?

What do you think you’ll remember from the summer of 2020 – other than the weirdness? This isn’t a trick question, but it could be.  This summer may end up being a black hole for your memories – especially if you’re still working at home and keeping a low social...
How to work smarter when your brain is fatigued

How to work smarter when your brain is fatigued

If you’ve got a brain and live on Planet Earth, face the facts: you’ve got to deal with “Covid-19 brain” for the foreseeable future. Covid-19 brain is real, according to Dr. Hilke Plassmann, a neuroscientist at INSEAD. She coined the term to call attention to how the...
Want to improve yourself? Get a coach!

Want to improve yourself? Get a coach!

What’s the most honorable profession? Coaching, according to Tony Stubblebine, the founder of Lift, a technology-based habit-tracking company. In early 2015, he pivoted Lift into Coach.me to help ambitious people work with coaches to start and sustain the...