Laura Pike Seeley
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Laura Pike Seeley
In the past few years, museums across the US, Europe, and Australia are trying to tackle the challenge of decolonizing their institutions. Museums are taking on this important work to try to make their museums reflect the diversity and the voices of the people within their collections and around them.
Museum Next • What does it mean to decolonize a museum?
Nowadays, whenever I feel scared in the face of a decision and yearn for the safety of an optimizing formula, I try to remind myself that there’s another way of feeling safe. It’s not about perfection, about invulnerability, about control. It’s about leaning into the fact that we are imperfect and vulnerable creatures and that even when we’re... See more
You can’t optimize your way to being a good person
In the early years, WeWork's primary focus was on providing desk space for small-scale entrepreneurs. More recently, it has shifted towards serving larger businesses and organisations.
Dezeen • "No one wants a sea of desks anymore" says WeWork's global head of design
Educating girls is seen as one of the most effective ways of fighting the climate emergency, with Project Drawdown listing “educating girls” at number six out of 100 of the top 100 activities that would halt rising emissions.
The powerful link between educating girls and fighting the climate crisis
Writing is important, of course, and hopefully, the dialogue, anti-description, and subtext I created illustrates the enormous chasm between a human’s turn of phrase and that of a machine. But even so, if that chasm were to close — years or decades into the future, if ever — I hope every copywriter reading this finds solace in the fact that writing... See more
Eddie Shleyner • This Writing Technique Turns Your Copy Into a “Mind Movie”
While there’s no way to uninvent the nuclear bomb or the genetic engineering tools that can juice pathogens, catastrophic AI has yet to be created, meaning it’s one type of doom we have the ability to preemptively stop.
The case for slowing down AI
On the latest episode of the Most Innovative Companies podcast, Irving Fain, founder and CEO of the vertical farming company Bowery, explains how being an outsider to agriculture has helped him come up with new ideas.
These smart farms are 100 times more productive than traditional agriculture
Sometimes, it’s really hard to be happy. And there’s a reason for that: The human brain isn’t hard-wired for happiness. Why? Because happiness isn’t essential for survival.