Marc Rowan: “[India is] just an incredible labor pool. We have a place that grew up as a back office for everyone, where it’s now just become another office. The English-speaking, the time zone, the work ethic, quality of people, and we’re scaling almost every business in India. Professional businesses, risk businesses, technology businesses, and what you would consider traditional back office — it’s all happening…The biggest obstacle is just capital markets. I’m not sure we’re going to deploy all that much in India.”
WSJ: “Ask people where they met their best friends, and many will have the same answer: at work. It makes sense: We traditionally spend much of our lives in the office, so it’s only natural that’s where we have met many of the people closest to us. The rise of remote work has upended all that; the less time we are in the office, the less time we have to form and cement the bonds of friendship. That’s true for all remote or hybrid workers. But the impact is being felt most strongly for people with the least time working—Gen Z. With few experiences to draw from, young remote workers increasingly don’t even think of the office as a place to make friends. The impact—on people’s personal and professional lives—could be profound. Removing the social aspect of work further encourages remote workers to keep their jobs at arm’s length. This detachment could have the twin effects of maintaining a better work-life balance, but leave workers lonelier than they would be had they made office friends.”
Inverse: “Like all roguelike deck-builders, Balatro is run-based, meaning that whenever the player fails to complete a blind (the game’s term for rounds), they have to start the entire game over. New cards and card types are unlocked between each run and can be used to modify your base deck to be more effective. Where other deck-builders will start you out with 15 or 20 cards, Balatro begins with a familiar 52-card deck (unless you’re using the Ancient Deck, you freak). The game is extremely simple at first blush. Each run is broken up into eight antes in which you’re presented with three “Blinds,” each requiring a certain score to pass. To score points you’ll draw eight cards at a time and choose from those to play various poker hands like a full house or a flush (each have their own point values) until you either beat the blind and move on or run out of hands, ending your game. But this simplicity is a trick because Balatro has some of the densest deck-building I’ve ever encountered thanks to its understanding of combos, the feature that makes roguelike deck-builders so uniquely satisfying.”
WaPo: “A much-debated theory holds that 4 billion years ago, give or take, long before the appearance of dinosaurs or even bacteria, the primordial soup contained only the possibility of life. Then a molecule called RNA took a dramatic step into the future: It made a copy of itself. Then the copy made a copy, and over the course of many millions of years, RNA begot DNA and proteins, all of which came together to form a cell, the smallest unit of life able to survive on its own. Now, in an important advance supporting this RNA World theory, scientists at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, Calif., have carried out a small but essential part of the story. In test tubes, they developed an RNA molecule that was able to make accurate copies of a different type of RNA. The work, published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, gets them closer to the grand goal of growing an RNA molecule that makes accurate copies of itself.”
