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At the beginning of a dev career, you focus on improving your technical skills, which is perfectly natural. But people don’t pay for code, they pay for solutions to problems. Once you understand this, you will adapt the way you … Read more

Jay Newman was a senior portfolio manager at Elliott Management and is author of the finance thriller Undermoney. Richard Carty was managing director of Morgan Stanley Principal Strategies and CEO of Bonanza Creek Energy. No one blinks when Argentina, Venezuela, … Read more

In early 2021, Dr. Michael Ombrello, an investigator at the National Institutes of Health, received a message from doctors at Yale about a patient with a novel genetic mutation—the first of its kind ever seen. A specialist in rare inflammatory … Read more

The title of my blog today is a quotation from an email I received yesterday from Noemi De Santis of RECEPTIO, the Research Centre for European Philological Tradition (website here). It comes at a very opportune moment, because this week … Read more

CBDCs are on the march. From China to the UAE, the Bahamas to Nigeria, countries around the world have started trialling the use of central bank digital currencies as a way to translate their national fiat currencies into a means … Read more

I’ve been seeing some absolute nonsense online recently, nonsense showing some actual real-world car features, and I’ve realized it’s my duty to take a moment and let the whole world know what’s going on here is very much not okay. … Read more

Everyone I know is scheming for the future. They’ve got big goals and get up every day and work like mad to try to achieve them. I’ve always found something odd about that: Despite all this effort, people don’t seem … Read more

In the middle of the Great Mall in Milpitas, California, a shiny, brand-new, blue 2018 Acura TLX (MSRP $33k) sits ready for the taking. Surrounding the vehicle are 10 screens, where mall-goers can enter their personal data — full name, … Read more