WSJ: “Welcome to the life of a beta mother. After decades where the dominant expectation for high-achieving parents was to intensively helicopter, a new generation of moms is saying “enough.” They’re reclaiming date night, saying no to schlepping to 17 different after-school activities and making peace with dirty dishes in the sink. These acts of giving up—or giving in—are beginning to add up to something of a feminist revolution, albeit a very low-key one.”
Christoph Schweizer [BCG Newsletter]: “AI agents can observe, plan, and act with defined goals, making them especially useful in complex but lower-risk workflows. They can accelerate work in many areas, including HR, finance, IT, customer service, engineering, supply chain planning, and product development. But they need the right use cases, human oversight, and clear guardrails…To generate meaningful value from AI, leaders need to link those improvements to bottom-line impact. This requires a clear business plan with specific metrics, timelines, and projected ROI. Moreover, teams need to make strategic decisions for how freed-up staff time can be reallocated.”
Daniel Yu: “A successful commercial firm does something no NGO can: it issues “cash transfers” to a large group of people every month, indefinitely, funded by the market rather than donor whims. Indeed, private sector growth is the key to the structural transformation required to create hundreds of millions of jobs. No rich country today has become wealthy through the intervention of NGOs.” [via Arnold Kling]
Ben Sasse: “Help your kids build the character to make the most of technology rather than becomes a slave of it…Character, whether of an individual or of a nation, is molded by habits and by time. This republic requires men and women to do long-form deliberation, serious thinking, honest humility and daily striving. What good is it to gain the whole world if we forfeit the souls that we’re supposed to form? We can’t expect to remain free without being virtuous, we can’t be bold without being rooted, we can’t be great without aiming first to be good. To stave off Huxley’s dystopia, we must deliberately shape our children’s souls so that they can be creators, doers and thinkers embracing the next frontier.”
