“They stayed a little back, a little off the front lines.”
That’s what Trump said at Davos about America’s NATO and NATO-aligned allies in Afghanistan. Two decades of sacrifice dismissed with a casual lie.
Here’s what “a little back” looks like:
“I asked AI to produce a summary infographic for me… I find these easier and quicker to get initial concepts.”
My friend Steve F posted this alongside a visual breakdown of Celeste Headlee’s TED Talk on better conversations. Not a link to watch later. Not a recommendation I’d forget. A compressed, scannable summary he’d created in minutes.
A sharp piece on how today’s velocity-driven media rewards speed over substance. Om shows how fast shares and memes increasingly crowd out slower, higher-quality journalism. Velocity Is the New Authority. Here’s Why
Watching USA from Melbourne, Australia it’s hard to escape the sense that something foundational has broken. Each day brings another shock. For much of the democratic world, trust is fraying fast, and the loss feels personal, because the United States once mattered enormously to us.
Paul Krugman - Nobel Prize winning Economist telling it how it is with US economic prospects. Great insights in plain English.
In the past strong orators could move a nation and rally people to noble causes. When Churchill delivered his famous “On the beaches” speech to the British Parliament - 4 June 1940 it was a weighty 2,656 words. Would a ‘tweet’ work as well?
I’ve recently started using Feedbin — a US$5/month service that consolidates both RSS feeds and email newsletters into one clean interface: an RSS reader. Reduces email clutter and makes my info consumption more productive.
A new analysis from the Institute for Progress underscores a striking truth about America’s AI leadership: immigrants aren’t outliers in the tech sector — they are the backbone. According to the study, 60% of the top privately held AI firms in the U.S. — including OpenAI and Databricks — were co-founded by immigrants, many from India, China, and beyond.
Failings of mass media
Tesla sales crash in Australia as Musk impact has consumers looking for another brand