Society

Many people have a to-do list so long that it’s not clear that there’s an end to it, and when important tasks linger unfinished, it’s easy to start feeling guilty or ashamed about what you have not yet completed. But are those useful emotions? The answer is: it depends. Shame is almost never a useful emotion. In fact, it likely hurts your productivity. Guilt, on the other hand, can motivate you to get something done, but only if you’re in a position to take action. You’re probably better off avoiding these emotions altogether, especially when you’re away from the office. How? Exercise self-compassion. Focus on what you have been able to achieve. And practice acceptance. Failing to get some work completed does not make you a bad person. It just makes you a person.

The pharmaceutical market is in turmoil. On the one hand we have what looks like a golden age of medicine with millions of lives saved by COVID vaccines, a leap in mRNA technology, excellent new obesity and blood sugar drugs, breakthroughs in cancer treatments and more. On the other hand, the Inflation Reduction Act includes […]

Japan wants to learn how to code. Over the past 15 years software development in Japan has changed from low-level clerical work to a mission-critical skill, and the Japanese government and industry as scrambling to find programmers and develop new talent. Yan Fan came to Japan on a mission to teach everyone how to code.

Time Warner confirms sale of its Warner Music division for about $2.6 billion to investor group led by Seagram heir Edgar Bronfman Jr and investment firm Thomas H Lee; sale is pivotal point in Time Warner's recovery from disappointing aftermath of its merger with American Online in 2001; with proceeds from sale, which is expected to close in two months, company will have whittled its nearly $30 billion in debt down by about $10 billion; sale fulfills pledge by Time Warner chairman and chief executive Richard D Parsons that he will to trim company's debt by $8 billion by end of 2004; EMI has been trying for years to merge with or acquire major record company; analysts question whether EMI is big enough to compete on its own; photos (L)

AT&T’s acquisition of Time Warner marked the end of a once sprawling media empire. Here are the deals that built AOL Time Warner and the asset sales that unwound it.

European digital identity (eID): Council and Parliament reach a provisional agreement for an EU digital wallet.

I learned a lot from this episode of Throughline about an invasion that happened when I was just 9 years old. It provides a ton of context and backstory of what was happening on the island in the d…

At Future of Freedom Foundation, Jacob Hornberger writes: “America’s welfare state way of life is based on the notion that the federal government is needed to force people to be good and caring to others.”  Um, no. America’s welfare state way of life is based on the notion that, since the capitalist state redistributes massive...

I built a trading bot that buys stocks that are being bought by politicians. It is up 20% since it launched in May 2022. The market has been flat during the same time period. Here are some of the strategy’s most successful moves:

Banking, trading, and capitalism found their roots in medieval Europe. As a new exhibition shows, people were just as divided over them as we are now.

Information control has replaced infection control, and that does not bode well for the near- and medium-term future of the human species on planet Earth.

Did you ever wonder why the 21st century feels like we're living in a bad cyberpunk novel from the 1980s? It's because these guys read those cyberpunk novels and mistook …

He’s playing a very particular model minority card.

History doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes Mark Twain I could not have anticipated that what I wrote on the 22nd anniversary of the 9/11 attacks regarding how this country really trea…

On a particularly bad day for digital media, a thought about where we should go next. Hint: Let’s stop talking about scale.

With housing prices on the rise, more and more young people are being priced out of the market. Unfortunately, most politicians are too afraid to tell them what’s really behind the affordability crisis.

On a recent afternoon in LA’s Boyle Heights neighbourhood Christian Benitez and Eric M. Wood stood outside a corner liquor store searching for birds. The researchers spotted a house sparrow and pulled binoculars to their eyes. “They’re all over the shrubbery in Boyle Heights,” said Wood, an associate professor of ecology at Cal State Los Angeles. Among the most ubiquitous and abundant songbirds in the world, house sparrows are urban creatures that thrive where people do. They’re resilient, adaptable and aggressive, and are found around buildings and streets, scavenging food crumbs or nesting i...

Here's the second section of my paper on electrification that was published last week by the Alliance For Responsible Citizenship

Americans are broadly united in support of laws to make the internet safer for kids. So why doesn’t Congress act?

Even as geopolitical tensions rise, Western elites are still sabotaging our industries and energy security.