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For platforms, the idea is simple: use company revenue to fund a Universal Creative Income program for emerging creators on the platform. For instance, companies like Facebook or YouTube could carve out a fund to support creators on the platform and send them a monthly check to cover basic living expenses, regardless of skill, training, or... See more

Slow growth or no growth means the profits have to come from our being more efficient every year. Unlike the government, we cannot rely on an expanding economy to “burn the fat away." It's easier for a company to make a profit when it's growing at 10 percent or 15 percent a year. We have been profitable in years when we grew only a few percent by... See more

Many people want to be the first person to discover a new trend, a new brand, or a new artist (“I liked them before they were cool”). Why not seed-invest, but into things other than tech startups? Think scouts, spotters, agents, A&Rs, VCs, etc.

Getting to zero won’t be easy. Harmful emissions are caused by many things that we’ve come to take for granted. Electricity, heating, transportation, large-scale agriculture, and fundamental construction tools like iron and cement – all of these areas will require serious rethinking if we’re to reach the goal.

But this is changing: there is a new status game brewing between companies concerning who has the fewest number of employees, centered around who is engineering greater amounts output with less staff.

Nadia Eghbal: It’s not just the discovery of knowledge (i.e., learning new things) that’s easier now, but also the validation (where your peers, rather than an accredited institution, decide whether your insights are worth discussing) and distribution of knowledge. Sharing new ideas previously required working with centralized gatekeepers, like a... See more

Challenge #1: Lack of comprehensive and centralized health data, inhibiting potential for personalized care. Most EHR systems can’t exchange information between providers. And patients are less likely than ever to establish a consistent relationship with a primary care physician. With patients increasingly switching between providers and health... See more