Diffcult things that make me ponder

At that moment, the prime minister was forced to choose between the chance of a truce and his political survival — and Netanyahu opted for survival.

It was April 2024, long before Netanyahu mounted his political comeback. The proposal on the table would have paused the Gaza war for at least six weeks. It would have created a window for negotiations with Hamas over a permanent truce. More than 30 hostages captured by Hamas at the start of the war would have been released within weeks. Still more... See more

When Wellington Lytle checked into a Milwaukee hotel after the 1929 stock market crash, he was down to his last four cents and emptied of hope.

But before he put a revolver to his head, he took out a pen and left the following note:

“My body should go to science, my soul to [Secretary of Treasury] Andrew W. Mellon, and sympathy to my creditors.”

We should be getting ready for the moment when the physical and virtual worlds swap places, where everything happening in the former may well feel tangible and real only from the perspective of those unable to climb to the higher virtual plane. Virtual war is not a war between soldiers, tanks or airplanes, but a clash between algorithms. Here victo... See more

if internet years were like "dog years," AI development is moving at machine speed — faster than humans can adapt.

Rising tensions between China and Taiwan, coupled with U.S. military commitments, mean that any escalation could cripple global chip supply chains overnight

Over the last 30 years, Taiwan has become the undisputed global hub for semiconductor manufacturing. Ninety-two percent of the world’s most advanced chips are produced there. The Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) alone represents over half of the global semiconductor foundry market. If TSMC’s operations were to be disrupted — whethe... See more

Can you utilize AI’s potential without surrendering judgment, creativity, or a leader’s core values?

Will you remember humanity?