WaPo: “Just a half-hour of weight training can make you stronger.”
FT: “Is it time for us to redefine what we mean by career success? Rutger Bregman thinks so, and his new book, Moral Ambition, makes a brisk and persuasive case for ditching “mind-numbing, pointless, or just plain harmful jobs” and doing something more meaningful instead. He’s aiming this book squarely at the “idealistic and ambitious” person of any age who works in consulting, law, finance and other well-paid sectors.”
Bloomberg on multi-level marketing: “Let’s say you have a product you want to sell. It could be anything: make-up, clothes, jewelry, cleaning products, meal kits, weight-loss plans, maybe vitamins. Maybe you have a background in science and nutrition and have carefully crafted something to help people meet a known nutritional deficiency. Or maybe you just want to make a buck. There are two ways to persuade people to buy your vitamins. You can sell them in a store and hope customers come to you, or you can take your vitamins to potential customers, either by going door-to-door or, as is more likely these days, selling them online. This is known as “direct selling.” Both of these methods are labor intensive and require significant upfront investment. If you opt for the store, you’ll have to pay rent, stock the shelves, and hire a clerk or two, with no guarantee that you’ll attract enough customers to break even. If you opt for direct selling, you’ll spend your days ringing doorbells or posting TikToks, usually with nothing to show for it. But there is a third way. You could convince other people to do the work for you.”
Jaspreet Bindra: “With AI agents increasingly handling the technical “how-to” of tasks, the human edge will lie in the “why” and the “what next”. The humble subjects of humanities like language, philosophy, grammar and the arts are the ones that provide us the critical frameworks for understanding context, ethics, human motivation, creativity and critical judgment —skills that are inherently difficult for AI to replicate meaningfully. Logic and grammar teach us the principles of clear thinking and communication; arithmetic becomes less about rote calculation and more about understanding quantitative reasoning and data interpretation. Language gives us the superhuman ability to mould words to express the right thoughts. Thus, do not be surprised to see our children preferring humanities to the inevitable computer science or engineering education, and parents rethinking their child’s future education.”
