Former journalist, now full time reader, part time writer. A little crazy, and embarrassingly honest.
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Fun, bizarre fact:
There have been more stories about AI published worldwide so far this week (13,841) than there were in the entire 1990s (13,221).
Source: My analysis of LexisNexis data
"Work is mostly mundane. It's mostly maintenance. It's mostly local improvement and iteration. Work is mostly... Work. Any innovation is an outlier, nearly a rounding error."
world.hey.com/jason/innovati…
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This is awkward...(and important)
Today, @Forbes is hosting an Equal Pay Day forum on the importance of pay equity. But a recent study we conducted found Forbes underpays its female journalists. Here are just some of the alarming statistics:
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It is extra special when your company's CEO is quoted in a well-researched, well-written article by your former team member. @aiharla - good one
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Health, Wealth, and Contentment - that's our trica for this new year! ✨✨✨
May 2023 bring you hope & courage to achieve everything you want! 🎉🥳🥂🎊🎇
#NYE2023 #Welcome2023 #goodbye2022 #newyear #HappyAndProsperousNewYear
Check out #MyYearInBooks @goodreads to discover the 85 books I read in 2022! goodreads.com/user/year_in_b…
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what a cool story, @bhura_sneha ! 🥰
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Excited to share that @wefuzz_io has raised seed #funding from Florida-based investor @DruidVentures which counts @POKTnetwork, @Passage3D, and @mintlayer in its portfolio.
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Wealth inequality in India peaked during Covid, says report livemint.com/news/india/weal…
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The current #recession may last a while; but we have survived worse. Here, I analyse how things are different from the current recession and the #financialcrisis of 2008 and #dotcomburst of 2000, and the way forward for private market #investments.
trica.co/capital/blog/are-we…
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Rahul Gandhi was born into great privilege, political and financial. Yet he's worked hard to make himself accessible, mixing freely & easily (& not noticeably fakely) with ordinary Indians. Modi, by contrast, born into poverty, is India's most aloof PM ever, always on a pedestal.
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If the government decided to release the rapists of Bilkis Bano, they're morally obligated to provide her security. Or send them back to jail. She must not be re-traumatized.
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Has the world become less colourful?
(This graph shows the colour of objects over time)
ALT Colour of objects over time (Cath Sleeman, PEC, Nesta, Science Museums Group Collection)
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#ThrowbackThursday
Did you know that the initial months after launching #Airbnb were financially so hard that the founders sold cereals branded as Obama O's ? The profit from selling the cereals gave time for the founders to build a sustainable business out of Airbnb.(1/2)