Posts by Marcellino Nehme
Is It Still Possible to Hope?
There’s no doubt that the past few months have been among the most traumatic in recent memory.Few people would use the word “hopeful” to describe the state of our world. On the contrary, words like tragic, heart-breaking, and painful come to mind. In a 2016 article in The Guardian, essayist and activist Rebecca Solnit wrote,…
Read MoreA collection of 23 years of Jeff Bezos’s writing to be published in November
Jeff Bezos is the most important business leader of our time, and if you want to know how he got that way, you can find it in the very first letter he wrote to shareholders in 1997. Focus on the long term; obsess over customers; make bold not timid choices; set a high bar in…
Read MoreWHO hopes for hundreds of millions of vaccine doses this year, 2 billion next year
The World Health Organization hopes hundreds of millions of doses of coronavirus vaccine can be produced this year and 2 billion doses by the end of 2021, chief scientist Soumya Swaminathan said on Thursday. The WHO is drawing up plans to help decide who should get the first doses once a vaccine is approved, she…
Read MoreThese are the World Economic Forum’s Technology Pioneers of 2020
The World Economic Forum announces its 20th cohort of 100 new Technology Pioneers. This year’s cohort includes leaders in carbon capture, alternative meat, circular economies, food security and financial access, to name but a few. Technology Pioneers are also contributing to COVID-19 responses through testing, diagnostics and more. Learn more about the Technology Pioneers here.…
Read MoreHow to Persuade People to Change Their Behavior
Directives aren’t particularly effective in driving sustained behavior change because we all like to feel as if we are in control of our choices.Why did I buy that product, use that service, or take that action? Because I wanted to. So when others try to influence our decisions, we don’t just go along, we push back…
Read MoreBoston Dynamics starts selling its Spot robot — for $74,500
Boston Dynamics today opened commercial sales of Spot, its quadruped robot that can climb stairs and traverse rough terrain. Boston Dynamics will also be selling Spot payloads, and customers will get software updates when available. Boston Dynamics highlighted how Spot has helped a few early adopters: 1- Saved approximately 20 hours of work per week…
Read MoreMay sees biggest jobs increase ever of 2.5 million as economy starts to recover from coronavirus
Nonfarm payrolls rose by 2.5 million in May and the unemployment rate fell to 13.3%. Wall Street estimates had been for a decline of 8.3 million and a jobless level of 19.5%, which would have been the worst since the Great Depression era. Much of the gain came from those classified as temporary layoffs due…
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