by Liz Guthridge | Sep 22, 2020 | Blog
“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,...
by Liz Guthridge | Sep 15, 2020 | Blog
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...
by Liz Guthridge | Sep 5, 2020 | Blog
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...
by Liz Guthridge | Aug 24, 2020 | Blog
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...
by Liz Guthridge | Aug 18, 2020 | Blog
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...